All members of the association receive a free listing in the annual membership directory - published each April. To be accurately listed, i t is important to inform AAI of changes. 

If you are a member that has yet to renew or have recently changed any information (location, phone, etc.), we request that you contact the office to update pertinent information on your membership by Friday, March 9, 2018. 

If not received by this date, non-renewing members will not be included and current  member listings will be printed as-is.

Please update member information here: 

https://www.agribiz.org/benefits-of-membership/update-your-membership/

Renew membership here: 

https://www.agribiz.org/membership-registration/

Deadline Friday, March 9, 2018

Joel Brinkmeyer, AAI CEO, addressing the attending membership during the annual meeting on Feb 13, 2018. 

Above: Partnership members of twenty-nine supporting and advising companies attended the AAI annual meeting to receive their founding member plaques.

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Pictured above: Students scholarship recipients and industry sponsors at the 2018 Agribusiness Career Day after scholarship awards on Feb 14, 2018, in Des Moines.

The Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI) Foundation awards 15 scholarships each year to ag students who attend an Iowa Community College in the spring of 2018. Scholarships were awarded during  the Agribusiness Career Day on February 14, 2018. Each $1,000 scholarship is sponsored by an industry member company. Launched in 2014, the ABC Day is celebrating its five year anniversary. The 2018 event set a record for attendance with more than 240 students. 

Doug Frodl of Northern Country Coop in Staceyville, Iowa, spoke to students on the importance of internships and being prepared when entering the job market. A panel of speakers discussing global agriculture, moderated by Agribusiness Report anchor David Geiger, included Charles Boateng - Monsanto Huxley  Learning Center; Tara Howell - Kent  Nutrition Group; and Rosalind Fox - John Deere Des Moines Works. Other speakers included: Joel Brinkmeyer, AAI CEO, and David Chaffin, Iowa CCA Program board member. 

John Cantwell, Monsanto, speaking at the afternoon plenary session Dicamba panel discussion to over 200 Iowa Certified Crop Advisers and industry professionals on Feb 13, 2018.

Dicamba has been used for decades, but with the new varieties, improper use caused thousands of complaints by neighbors last year. So new training requirements were announced. Applicators have to be certified and get dicamba specific training.

A dicamba discussion was held in Des Moines last week at the Agribusiness Showcase and Conference. John Cantwell with Monsanto explained there will be nearly two million acres of their variety on Iowa farm ground this year. They also have a good estimate of numbers - nine out of ten customers in the past had good weed control that did not impact neighbors. Read More

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced two agribusinesses and two Certified Crop Advisers as recipients of the Secretary's Iowa Ag Leader Award for outstanding leadership in improving Iowa's water quality. Northey recognized Farmers Cooperative Society from Sioux Center, CF Industries and CCAs Jason Gomes owner of North Iowa Agronomy Partners in Waverly and Joe Lally from Denison.

"Businesses like Farmers Cooperative Society and CF Industries, as well as certified crop advisers, like Jason Gomes and Joe Lally, have shown real leadership in advancing water quality efforts in our state," Northey said. Read More

U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland Co has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company's launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday.

ADM sued Syngenta four years ago for selling the corn variety known as Agrisure Viptera or MIR 162 before it was approved for import by China, an importer on U.S. grain. China rejected U.S. corn cargoes that contained the unauthorized strain, which caused financial losses for ADM, according to the lawsuit. Read More

Three years after President Barack Obama's administration finalized the waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in 2015, agriculture groups and states find themselves in a familiar position - back in court to block the rule.

In the latest move, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other agriculture groups petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Galveston for a preliminary injunction on the rule on Wednesday. The groups told the court they fear the rule could become law if a handful of states have their way. Read More

A new study brings to light the importance of investing in foreign ag export promotion programs.

U.S. Grains Council (USGC) CEO Tom Sleight says the analysis conducted by Informa Economics shows key competitors like the European Union, Australia, and Brazil have taken significant steps to ramp up spending while the U.S. puts fewer dollars into export promotion efforts.

"What it indicates is that competition continues to increase every day.  And we've been sort of fighting this battle with a static level of engagement for quite some time now." Read More