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ARA Leading in Carbon Credit Market Discussion

May 04, 2021

ARA’s newly formed Climate Stewardship/Carbon Credit Working Group met with staff of Senators Stabenow, D-Mich., and Braun, R-Ind., about S. 1251 - Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021. Learn more about what was discussed and what's next for ARA's Working Group.

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Recap of 2021 ARA Legislative Fly-In

Apr 09, 2021

The ARA staff and participating members completed 124 virtual meetings with their elected officials in Congress as part of the 2021 ARA Legislative Fly-In. Thank you to the more than 100 members for sounding your voice on issues that matter to you and your farmer-customers.

Follow the Basic Steps for Stewardship of Treated Seed

Apr 06, 2021

As planting season begins across the country, ARA reminds ag retailers to follow the basic steps for stewardship of treated seed.

ARA Stands Up for Grain Safety Week

Mar 23, 2021

ARA is proud to recognize Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week on March 29-April 2. During that week, OSHA will offer 2-hour educational sessions with a new focus and resources available to you.

Can your fleet manager see all the data?

Mar 11, 2021

Centra Sota Co-op, Buffalo, MN, and BRANDT, Springfield, IL, were both all too familiar with the challenges inherent to fleet management — their large commercial fleets could be operating miles apart from each other, making fleet logistics management difficult and costly. Learn how your fleet manager can see all the data needed to decision making.

Optimize fleet ROI

Mar 01, 2021

March is here and the clock is ticking in preparation for spring field work. What if you could do just one thing different this season to increase margins and add dollars to your fleet’s bottom line? You can — there’s time before the season hits.

ARA Remembers Ford B. West

Feb 16, 2021

The ARA family was saddened to learn of the recent passing of Ford B. West after his 34-year career at the helm of The Fertilizer Institute. Read more about his legacy among ag retailers specifically.

ARA Celebrates National Pesticide Safety Education Month

Feb 10, 2021

February is National Pesticide Safety Education Month to raise awareness for pesticide safety education and share best practices for safe pesticide use.

Snow ball Run! Stop lo$ing idle time

Feb 05, 2021

Agronomic and machine data collected across your entire fleet, in real-time, will start your own snowball effect -- first with logistics and then small wins like reducing an hour or two in idle time per day. And then watch it gain speed, because data will tell your own fleet performance story resulting in more acres covered in a week and a leaner, meaner fleet at the end of the year.

Fine tune fleet performance + ROI

Feb 02, 2021

Ag retailers now have the opportunity to not only monitor a full-fleet LIVE on a single screen, but they can derive detailed insights about the performance of their application and tender fleet and convert data into cost savings, operational efficiencies and potentially incremental revenue.