Ag teachers in the CHS service region, including Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, are invited to apply for $50,000 in hands-on learning grants.

First prize is $20,000, second prize is $15,000, third prize is $10,000 and two honorary mentions receive $2,500 each.

Tera Stoddard, senior stewardship specialist at CHS, says that there’s a special purpose for providing these resources to ag teachers. 

“We know that oftentimes ag teachers are operating on small budgets, and they have really big ideas that are really creative and so CHS Foundation wants to help bring those big ideas to life in their classrooms,” Stoddard said. “If it’s planting crops or raising animals or learning ag technology or anything else that they have in mind that’s going to help students see agriculture as a future and not just as a class we want to come alongside them and… make that happen.”

To apply for the grants, teachers submit both a written and video application to share what their vision is for utilizing the funding, why it’s impactful and how it will benefit their students.

Applications are due September 1st. For more information visit Teacher grants | CHS Inc.