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January 20, 2012
Environmental Respect Award Entries Due March 16
Competition for the 22nd annual Environmental Respect Awards (ERA) is underway with a new, earlier deadline. Retailers, land management professionals and past winners will have until March 16 to submit an Environmental Respect Award Self-Audit.
 
Participation in the awards program has more than doubled in the last two years. In response, organizers made this year’s entry deadline more than a month earlier than past years and revamped their online entry process to make applying online easier. This year, applicants will be able to make an “Environmental Pledge,” examine their operations by using the Self-Audit Booklet and immediately show their commitment with a participation certificate.
 
The Environmental Respect Awards are sponsored by DuPont Crop Protection and CropLife magazine and considered to be the premier awards in ag retail stewardship. The awards serve to recognize and promote environmental stewardship from farm retailers who are operating their businesses in an environmentally sound manner, to the benefit of their customers, employees and community. 
 
Since 1990, more than 5,000 U.S. retailers have entered the Environmental Respect Awards and shared their stewardship initiatives. More than 300 businesses have earned state awards in that time, including two-time winner and NAAA member Tim Tyree of Tyree Ag Inc., Kinsley, Kan. Tyree Ag received a Kansas state Environmental Respect Award in 2009 and was one of only five U.S. farm supply retail businesses to receive a regional Environmental Respect Award in 2011. A video spotlighting Tyree’s stewardship practices is available on the Environmental Respect Awards’ website. NAAA Member Darrel Mertens of Aero Applicators Inc. in Sterling, Colo., is also a past winner.
 
“Our right to operate as an industry depends on our ability to work safely and effectively,” ERA Director K. Elliott Nowels said. “There are good things happening out there. The Environmental Respect Awards is about honoring those in our industry who are doing it right—and sharing that good news with the rest of the world.”
 
To enter, you must be a crop input supplier or distributor, or involved in vegetation management in one of the specified regions where the Environmental Respect Awards effort is being conducted. Your business must be a customer of DuPont Crop Protection in that area. Recognition is given to all who enter and there are several intermediary prizes. The national award is given to the business judged to be best out of regional winners. For more information about the Environmental Respect Awards, please visit www.environmentalrespect.com
 
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IN THIS ISSUE
NPDES Overview Available on NAAA Website
Testing Concludes LightSquared Incompatible with GPS; Congress Concurs
Research Shows Agriculture and Consumers Are Talking Past Each Other
Environmental Respect Award Entries Due March 16
Convention Surveys
Online PAASS Evaluations
Access Popular FAA Lookups on the Fly with FAA Mobile
New Year for NAAA Memberships
Southern Hospitality: Housing Bureau Open for Business for NAAA’s 2012 Convention
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January 24-25, 2012
Association of Montana AA
Heritage Inn
Great Falls, MT
Colleen Campbell (406) 463-2268
 
January 25-27, 2012
New Mexico AA Convention
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino
Ruidoso, NM 
Gaylon Stamps (806) 537-5143
 
February 6-8, 2012
Southeast Aero Cultural Fair (SEAF)
The Mulberry Inn
Savannah, GA
Linda Minton (772) 971-9980
 
February 10-12, 2012
NAAA, NAAREF, WNAAA Spring Board Meetings
Hilton Alexandria Old Town Hotel
Alexandria, VA
Peggy Knizner (202) 546-5722


Full Calendar of Events
Book your room for the Spring Board Meeting no later than Jan. 23 to receive the special discounted room rate
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