Environmental respect award winners selecred. (FYI News & Notes).
Six top farm supply retail businesses joined the ranks of agriculture's leading environmentalists when they were presented Environmental Respect Awards on July 18 at the U.S. Capitol Building. The winners are: National, Colfax Grange Supply, Colfax, Wash.; Regional, Aero Applicators Inc., Sterling, Colo.; Regional, Liquid Ag Systems / a division of Douglass Fertilizer & Chemical, Ft. Myers, Fla.; Regional, Landmark Agronomy agronomy (əgrŏn`əmē), branch of agriculture dealing with various physical and biological factors—including soil management, tillage, crop rotation, breeding, weed control, and climate—related to crop production. Agronomy commonly refers to field crops, e.g. Services, Durand Durand, family: see Duran., Ill.; Regional, Rolling Hills FS, Inc., Winterset, Iowa; and Regional, Sunrise Cooperative, Inc., Norwalk, Ohio. The awards are the agricultural industry's highest recognition for environmental stewardship among U.S. agricultural retailers, those who serve farmers and ranchers with the nutrients, pest control and agronomic information critical to effective crop production.
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