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2012 Calendar Highlights

Summer Education Week
July 16-20 – Des Moines, IA

Leadership Institute
September 8-14 – Washington DC

AgroNomics, Vision 2013 & 83rd Annual Meeting
October 29-November 2 – Indianapolis, IN.

 

 

ASFMRA News and Announcements

Time to Sort Through your Mental Rolodex

Take advantage of the opportunity to nominate a fellow member and/or co-worker for the 2012 ASFMRA Membership Awards. All ASFMRA members are invited to submit names of individuals who are standouts in the profession. This is your Society and no one knows better than you who deserves special recognition for what they bring to both the organization and to the profession. Who are the leaders? Who stands out as the go-to person? Which of your fellow members are outstanding in their community, their [More]

Graying of US farmers not so bleak after all

Richard Cornett, Director of Communciations, Western Plant Health Assocation - We have to ask ourselves the question: As our older food providers begin retiring, who’s going to fill the vacuum in feeding an exploding world population?

Produce farmers want seat at farm bill table

Western Growers - Farmers who produce the nation’s healthy fresh produce want a seat at the table for the major federal food and farm legislation — the farm bill. That’s the message Western Growers Chairman Mike Jarrard took to Congress. As president & COO of Mann Packing in Salinas, Calif., — a producer of fresh cut vegetables—he knows firsthand the food his industry produces goes hand-in-hand with a healthier eating lifestyle. That’s an important message for Congress to hear.

ASFMRA Joins Letter Urging Senate Farm Bill Consideration

By Stephen Frerichs - The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers joined over 100 national organizations calling on the Senate to consider the Senate Agriculture Committee passed farm bill as soon as possible.

House Bill would Prohibit Expansion of Clean Water Guidance

By Stephen Frerichs - The House Energy and Water appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2013 would prohibit funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop or implement new guidance to expand the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Lucas (R-OK) issued the following statement: “The new authorities granted in this guidance would allow the EPA and the Corps of Engineers the authority to regulate almost any body of water in the U.S.,” said [More]