|
• Home
• Events
• History
• News
• Officers
&
Board Members
• Scholarship
•
Conference
• Links
|
Purpose
The ACPA serves a dual purpose. The first is to promote
the
discussion, dissemination, and exchange of ideas related
to crop
protection products and their uses. The second is to
promote closer
coordination and understanding between the crop protection
industry,
agricultural business, and governmental, educational and
agricultural
agencies throughout Arkansas.
Services
- Annually provides four scholarships to agricultural
students at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville,
Arkansas State
University at Jonesboro and the University of Arkansas
at Monticello
- Monitors the Arkansas state legislature for pending
legislation which may impact the crop protection
industry and notifies
membership if action is needed.
- Responds to media and public questions concerning
pesticide
use safety.
- Provides training for speakers in the SACA Ambassador
program. Every year these ambassadors make presentations
to civic and
non-agricultural groups to provide agri-industry’s
viewpoint on crop
protection related issues.
- Distributes pesticide technical information to
hospitals,
doctors and other interested individuals.
- Funds special projects directed at improving Arkansas
agriculture.
- Provides a representative for the pesticide industry
and
agribusiness on the Arkansas State Plant Board.
- Encourages, in dealer workshops and seminars, proper
methods for pesticide application, mixing, dealer
licensing,
application certification, dealer liabilities, pesticide
injury on
crops and weeds, weed nursery identification and disease
identification.
- The conferences- Annual Conference, Technical
Conference,
Annual Herbicide Symptomology and Research Conference
- Provides four newsletters yearly
- To subscribe to our announcements, send an email to
listserv@uark.edu with "SUBSCRIBE ACPANEWS first-name
last-name" in the body without the quotes
|
