Meals, housing and transportation are provided. We depend on private, commodity, organizational and agri-business financial support to fund the remaining costs. The goal of SAI is to present current, factual, and scientific information about agriculture, and to provide educators with the means to incorporate that information into their classrooms. Our participants become knowledgeable consumers of information about agriculture so when they are faced with media stories they have what they learned at SAI to help them separate fact from fiction for their students. SAI shows how farmers and ranchers care for the land and use the water.
Teachers learn the procedures for ensuring consumers a safe food source.
They are exposed to the complexities of agricultural marketing and economics. The youth of today are the citizens of tomorrow. Teachers are the best way to get accurate information about the importance of agriculture into students' hands. We accomplish this by giving them a first hand experience of agriculture. We have lectures and hands-on labs taught by university professors and professionals from the agricultural industry.