PARM Announces Our New Members!

“Estimated nutrient loss reduction based on sales of products and services is the greatest tool of all. I look at the whole membership idea as an advertising expense to our business and to PARM as a legitimate respected accreditation group.”

- Mark Gaerte, Gaerte Ag Service LLC

PARM Silver Member

"Growers that got started with VRT because of PARM’s cost share program have paid for additional VRT acres after seeing the benefits."

- Phil Bowsher, The Andersons Inc.

The Andersons Inc. is a participating Gold Member with the Partnership for Ag Resource Management

Read more on PARM's membership level benefits, and how we can best provide custom services to your retail location! Click the button below!

Stay Tuned for Our Next Webinar Airing June 7th!

Our topic will explore ag retailer perceived benefits and costs to offering cover crop products and services.

Grower customers are looking to cover crops to address issues in the field, and are looking more and more to their trusted ag retail advisers for answers. This webinar evaluates survey responses of ag retailers regarding cover crop sales, and will address the challenges, benefits and support needed to increase customer adoption.

Monica La specializes in food and agriculture research at DATU, an international consulting firm. Her recent research includes ag retailer and CCA barriers to offering cover crop products and services in order to inform agencies on how to best assist the ag industry with beneficial practice adoption.

Don't wait until the last minute, register now for the webinar airing June 7th at 10 a.m. CT! 1.5 Free CCA CEU's for attending!

Questions on content about our prior webinars? Email your questions to caitlin@partnershipfarm.org to get answers. We will use your questions to start a forum on the PARM website for collaborative learning!

Upcoming Events

Sustainable Agronomy Conference, June 26th-27th

Madison, Wisconsin

PARM's director, Dr. Thomas Green, will be co-presenting at the Sustainable Agronomy Conference, June 27th, along with crop consultant, Lee Orians from Heritage Cooperative and producer Neil Bair from Bair Family Farms. Topics addressed in the presentations include: ag retailer customer adoption of products and services that help retain nutrients on fields, precision agriculture and the effect on application rates, and a producer's perspective on cover crop trials.

There is still time to register! Take a peek at the exciting agenda below!

PARM and Clean Lakes Alliance are Working Together!

Clean Lakes Alliance has provided funding for PARM to gauge customer adoption of ag retailer products and services that retain nutrients on fields in the Yahara River Watershed. Through surveying, PARM will be able to identify areas where sales of these beneficial products and services can be increased, and provide resources to successfully achieve those goals.

PARM will offer educational resources and present at ag retailer meetings and field days to help support water quality in the Yahara River Watershed!

USDA Calling All Producers and Landowners to take 2017 Census of Agriculture!

The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is calling all producers, and/or landowners who lease to producers, to participate in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. If $1000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold in 2017, then NASS urges you or your grower customers to take the survey. The Census is the only comprehensive source of agricultural data, and is used to inform decisions on farm policy, rural development and new farm technologies. The Census also provides information to help create assistance programs, loans and insurance programs for producers. Please help the ag industry by filling this important document out!

Tips for the Spring Season!

It's that crazy time of year again! After the deluge of planting fields, it's important to think of ways to increase nutrient efficiency on customer fields. Our own Mark Adelsperger, resource management specialist, has a few tips to get on track!

All the best,

Partnership for Ag Resource Management