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University of Idaho requests viticulture specialist at Parma and maintenance funds for research dairy
Summary
Michael Perella, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Idaho, told the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee the college seeks legislative funding for a viticulture and small-fruits research and extension specialist at Parma and for maintenance funding at the Idaho Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment research dairy in Rupert.
Michael Perella, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Idaho, told the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee that the college is asking the Legislature to fund a viticulture and small-fruits research and extension specialist based in Parma and to provide building maintenance funding for the Idaho Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, a large research dairy in Rupert.
Perella said the college’s work flows from its land-grant mission. “When the Morrill Act was signed, we became a state. Automatically, we, the state received federal land that went into an endowment,” he told the committee, outlining the Morrill Act, the Hatch Act…
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