10-25 IAN Blair Eisenhower

 A chat with the winner of a prestigious agriculture award. I’m David Sparks and that’s next. Idaho Grain Producers Association (IGPA) member of the Board of Directors, Robert Blair, was recently named as an Agriculture Fellow for the  prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship program.  Blair was chosen as one of two farmers from a competitive nationwide pool of applicants for the 2011 program chaired by retired U.S. General Colin Powell.  His work to tout the benefits of precision technology as a new frontier in production agriculture caught the attention of the Eisenhower Fellowship. Blair is  a family farmer from Leland, Idaho and had the following comments: “I’m very honored to have that and I’m looking forward to making contacts in South America and future fellows from around the world. I’m looking at learning more about precicision agriculture remote sensing and UAV’s and trying to promote learning on a world scale.