MTI gets major grant to expand farm/ranch program

Mitchell Technical Institute has garnered a $147,542 federal grant to help it expand its Farm/Ranch Business Management Program statewide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant will help the newly named South Dakota Center for Farm/Ranch Management hire an instructor in Mitchell to replace Calvin Pietz, who is retiring next year, and hire a new one in northeast South Dakota, program instructor Roger DeRouchey said today.

By: Melanie Brandert, The Daily Republic