Pictured above: Founding member accepting plaques at the 2018 annual member meeting in Des Moines, IA.
Sign on as a member of the Iowa Agribusiness Environmental Partnership today!
Who Are Our Current Members?
What do you need to know about the IAEP?
- It's free - becoming an IAEP Partner is a new member benefit, and only AAI members can join.
- You already support it - AAI launched the partnership to advance environmental progress and more clearly identify the important environmental principles in agronomic management – the same principles ag professionals use to help producers make informed decisions about how they manage their crops.
- Online signup is short and simple. Find that form at - https://www.agribiz.org/IAEP_signup
Agribusiness Association of Iowa members can sign on to the IAEP under one of two membership classes:
- Advising Members – Companies providing retail agronomy products or crop adviser services directly to farmer customers. An Advising Member works directly with farmers to implement the nutrient reduction strategy and agronomic advice principles of the Partnership.
- Supporting Members – Companies providing technologies and products for agriculture. Supporting Members typically do not provide retail agronomy products or crop adviser services directly to farmer customers. This category would include seed products, crop protection products, machinery products, insurance services, banking services, or other related agribusiness support.
IOWA AGRIBUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP - Full text of the agreement
MISSION STATEMENT
Build sustainable environmental stewardship by leveraging science and technologies upon existing and future plans, programs, processes, and procedures.
OUR COMMITMENT
As ag retailers and service providers to Iowa’s agricultural producers we will –
• Support our crop advisors and our farmer customers in promoting the awareness, education, and implementation of best management practices for nutrient stewardship.
• Support Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy and the Iowa State University Nutrient Science Assessment recommendations for nutrient management and soil and water conservation practices.
• Incorporate the following guiding principles in our business relationships with Iowa’s agricultural producers. Each principle is dependent upon achieving the end goals established in Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy.
• Consider agronomic, economic, environmental and social dimensions of nutrient management recommendations such as those illustrated in the national nutrient stewardship 4Rs program (right rate, right time, right product, and right placement).
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
As stewards of our soils, land, water we will –
• Incorporate science-based recommendations such as those from the Iowa State University Nutrient Science Assessment of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy in our recommendations to our customers.
• Recommend waiting until maximum daily soil temperatures at the 4-inch level fall to 50 degrees and trending lower before nitrogen materials are applied in the fall season.
• Recommend utilization of nitrogen stabilization products and technologies when applying nitrogen.
• Recommend managing nitrogen as a system, taking into account the nitrogen cycle; agronomic, economic and environmental factors; and available technologies.
• Recommend soil testing, at a minimum every 4 years, for analysis of phosphorus, potassium and pH levels to assist in developing sound recommendations.
• Encourage application of phosphorus when the ground is not snow-covered and frozen unless wet soils and soil compaction concerns dictate otherwise.
• Provide and convey to our farmer customers information on the 4R principles and the importance of following these guidelines of the Iowa Agribusiness Environmental Partnership to minimize environmental impact, optimize harvest yield and economic returns, and maximize agricultural input utilization.
ADVISORY SERVICES AND RESOURCE SUPPORT
We support the use of –
• Certified crop advisors as preferred advisory resources to agricultural producers.
• Continuing education requirements for certification of our crop advisors.
• Iowa’s agricultural organizations, associations, researchers and educators in supporting and assisting the adoption of nutrient reduction practices by Iowa’s agricultural producers.
• Local on-farm nutrient practice trials and comparisons to strengthen, enhance and assure continual improvements to our nutrient stewardship practices and recommendations.
