Use of this website for studying Precision Agriculture is available to all persons at no charge. Redistribution of web material is allowed under agreements similar to those used for the distribution of Linux. Our objective is to use the power of the Internet to help others learn about this exciting field of study.
If after studying the web material on your own, you find you would like support in your study of Precision Agriculture, there are a number of possibilities.
Support funded by grants
The USDA and ARI grants that fund these pages also provide for support for college instructors in the US and California agriculturists.
Are you a college instructor?
A USDA Challenge grant will fund class participation during Spring quarters 2000, 2001, and 2002 for sixty University, College or Community College instructors in the United States desiring to use the web material for their classes in following years.
Funding from USDA will provide staff support at a separate WebCT website to:
· Answer your individual Precision Agriculture questions
· Allow participation in class exercises and discussion groups
· Provide assistance to you in using the web material at your college
· Provide an opportunity to attend three one day laboratories
· Provide an opportunity to use videotapes of those exercises for your study or your students study