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New Ivy Tech Agriculture Training Center Announced

Last updated on Thursday, September 17, 2015

(TERRE HAUTE) - Ivy Tech is making plans for a statewide precision agriculture center at its Terre Haute campus.

Ivy Tech is already offering agriculture technician courses, training students to become IT specialists for a new age of GPS-enabled farm equipment which lets farmers target the best spot in their fields to plant, spread extra fertilizer or use more herbicide.

Ivy Tech Terre Haute Chancellor Jonathan Weinzapfel says the school hopes to open the center in two years. Ivy Tech is raising money for the center, and is seeking two-and-a-half-million dollars from the state's new Regional Cities Initiative.

The school says a precision agriculture center on its Terre Haute campus would draw students from around the state and from Illinois.

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