A five-minute summary of AAI, regulation, and industry activities for members of the largest state agribusiness association in the nation. | |
EPA Herbicide Strategy Website Updated With Additional Mitigation Information for Endangered Species Act (ESA) Compliance | |
This week, EPA announced updates to its mitigation menu website to include all current measures to reduce exposure to nontarget species from pesticide runoff from agricultural uses. The updates give growers more options for reducing runoff under future pesticide labels, implementing EPA’s August 2024 Final Herbicide Strategy, and will only apply when the product label references the menu website.
Updates to the mitigation menu website include:
- Additional runoff/erosion mitigation measures and descriptions;
- A table describing the number of runoff/erosion points for each mitigation measure;
- Updates to the mitigation descriptions;
- A runoff/erosion mitigation points calculator to help applicators calculate the number of points earned for practices already in place on the field;
- Information to help applicators understand how voluntary participation in conservation programs can fulfill EPA label requirements; and
- An archive of previous versions of the mitigation menu for reference and enforcement purposes.
Full update information from EPA: Mitigation menu update overview
Additionally, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is registering a new active ingredient glufosinate-P to control weeds in conventional and glufosinate-resistant field corn, sweet corn, soybean, cotton and canola. Glufosinate-P is the first new active ingredient registration where EPA has used its Herbicide Strategy. A draft label is currently under consideration.
Bookmark this webpage for future use: EPA Mitigation Menu Website
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Showcase Exhibitor List
Contact Us With Questions
If you have any questions or need any additional information, email agribizshowcase@agribiz.org, or call the AAI Main Office - 515.262.8323.
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Visit AgribizShowcase.com for exhibitor and sponsor information. | |
Full Reimbursement Available to AAI Member Companies For ISU PCQI Training Class | |
The Agribusiness Association of Iowa will provide full reimbursement of class registration for member company employees who complete the Animal Food PCQI Training at Iowa State University. The reimbursement is made possible through grant funding provided to AAI for our members.
The in person portion of the class takes place on Nov. 20 in Ames, Iowa. Class is limited to 40 participants. Full class details and information are available on the registration site. AAI members can click below and enter code "AAI" when completing the registration.
ISU Animal Food PCQI Training Registration
Reimbursement is available only to member companies which have renewed dues for the 2025 membership year. Iowa State University will provide AAI with a list of qualifying participants once the course is complete.
Contact Ben Drescher at 515.509.0940 or bdresche@iastate.edu for class information and details. Contact Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director, for questions about reimbursement at 515.868.0311 or hdeyoung@agribiz.org.
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Thank You For Your Membership! | |
As a member of AAI, you support the industry that is Creating Opportunities In Ag. Thank you for your membership and your commitment to the success of agribusiness in Iowa.
The following companies have recently joined or renewed their membership for the 2025 Membership Year.
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- Advanced Crop Management
- Anfinson Farm Store, Inc.
- Calcium Products, Inc.
- Farm Credit Services of America
- Iowa Limestone Producers Association
- Nutrien
- Pro Cooperative
- Troy Elevator, Inc.
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Not currently a member? Send us an email so we can follow up with your company and help you get connected to AAI. | |
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Member and Industry Visits
- Iowa Ag Water Alliance (IAWA)
Visit by: Julie Kenney, CEO; Ben Gleason, INREC Executive Director
- Great Outdoors Foundation and CornerPost Marketing
Visit by: Julie Kenney, CEO; Ben Gleason, INREC Executive Director
Visit by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO; Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director
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October 28
Showcase Committee Meeting
3:00 PM - AAI Main Office Board Room
November 1
Attendee Registration Opens - Agribusiness Showcase & Conference
https://agribizshowcase.com
November 14
Agribusiness Career Day Committee Meeting
10:00 AM - Video Conference
December 4
AAI Legislative Committee Meeting
10:00 AM - AAI Main Office Board Room
December 12
AAI Board of Directors Meeting
10:00 AM - AAI Main Office Board Room
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published final guidance that will allow animal food manufacturers to continue using ingredients, previously reviewed for safety and published in the 2024 Association of American Feed Control Officials’ (AAFCO) Official Publication, in products sold in interstate commerce. The AAFCO Official Publication is the main resource state and international regulators use for ensuring domestic and global acceptance of safety for animal food ingredients, so without the FDA’s nod, the use of hundreds of ingredients could have been at risk for sale within the United States.
“We are encouraged by the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine’s decision to formally recognize the safety of hundreds of AAFCO-defined animal food ingredients, ensuring there is no question about their ability to be used or marketed within the United States and internationally,” said AFIA President and Chief Executive Officer Constance Cullman. “This decision is crucial for maintaining stability and confidence in our regulatory system, especially after the FDA recently ended its longstanding partnership with AAFCO on the review of new animal food ingredients.”
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Authentic.
That was dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2023. In a world where deep-fake and gaslighting (2022’s word of the year) have become commonplace, authenticity is a nice contrast.
For the providers of tanks and containment systems (and really any business), delivering an authentic experience for customers is critical. CropLife® magazine spoke with several providers to learn how they delivered solutions in 2024 and what they expect to happen next year.
“The market is still emerging from the post-Covid era,” says Salvador Villagran, President, Heartland Tank Services. “There were many unknowns throughout the COVID years, and we are just starting to see the dust settle.”
Despite variants delivering a resurgence in COVID in the back half of this year, many have put concerns over the illness behind them. Perhaps the 2024 word of the year will be “Post-COVID.” Whether or not the pandemic is at the forefront of concerns for business, there’s little doubt markets continue to adjust to the new normal.
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A new online dashboard brings together a variety of regularly updated fertilizer transportation data.
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service recently launched the Fertilizer Transportation Dashboard to help build resilience in the agrifood supply chain by providing needed visibility into transportation markets through publicly available data.
The dashboard offers indicators including fertilizer production, inventory and disappearance data for each primary nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium); U.S. fertilizer imports and fertilizer price data by region for key fertilizer commodities (ammonia, urea, UAN, DAP, MAP, and potash).
The dashboard also includes rail volume and shipment characteristics from the Surface Transportation Board’s public-use carload waybill sample, weekly rail carloads of fertilizer, a collection of rail tariff rates for key routes by fertilizer commodity and monthly barge volumes for key locks on the Mississippi River System.
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Drone technology is increasing in its applicability in improving farm operations. University of Illinois Extension Fulton-Mason-Peoria-Tazewell Unit Farm Management Educator Kevin Brooks uses drones to assist local farmers with issues and provides practical advice on how to efficiently and effectively use a drone on the farm.
Crop plant health varies throughout the growing season depending on conditions in the field. Driving or walking along a field edge shows what is going on where one can see, but it is not as helpful in monitoring what is happening further in a field. Drones, on the other hand, can help farm producers monitor an entire field.
In a particular field, there are many different soil types that can cause a crop variety to act differently in one area than another. Weed, pest, and disease pressures also vary across a field.
“The key to efficiently using a drone in the farm operation is to quickly identify problem areas in the field and then do a more in depth look at the situation,” Brooks explained. “In a 160 acre field area, doing a quick look from 200 feet in the air shows a lot about conditions. The pilot can then fly the drone lower and examine the crop more closely.”
In many instances, the closer look provides a good view of conditions. For example, if a small area of an invasive weed species or disease is noted, the pilot can mark the location using Real Time Kinematic position technology and go to the exact spot in the field. If using position technology, which is less precise than RTK, a general area of the field may be noted for spraying instead.
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