Forty-seven ag retailers within the Great Lakes Basin (GLB) participated in the 2015 Ag Retailer BMP Products & Services Survey, and their voluntary efforts made a difference! Partnership for Ag Resource Management would like to thank them for their participation, and invite all GLB ag retailers to participate in this confidential survey right now! 2015 was the fourth year collecting data from and reporting back to ag retailers in the Sandusky River Watershed, and the first year for the entire Great Lakes Basin. Click here to see key takeaways from the GLB results.
This program is critically important for our industry to communicate ag retailer stewardship and what retailers are doing voluntarily to help solve water quality problems within the Great Lakes Basin – without additional regulations. By selling valuable products and services that are best management practices (BMPs), including soil sampling, precision ag and cover crops, ag retailers are making a difference!
By tracking and reporting the improvements of our industry, we can make regulators and the public aware of these voluntary efforts and how the power of the marketplace drives improvements.
Are you interested in joining this partnership? If you are an ag retailer located in the Great Lakes Basin, please take the short 2016 survey. Once results are collected and analyzed, you will receive a report including estimates benchmarking the impact of your product and service sales on water quality, plus estimates for the ag retail industry in your state and in the Great Lakes Basin.