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ARA Debuts LaborLink: A Smarter Way for ARA Members to Find Workers
May 01, 2025
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) is pleased to announce the launch of LaborLink, a new member benefit designed to help agricultural retailers address one of their most urgent operational challenges: securing reliable labor. Through a partnership with másLabor, the nation’s leading provider of H-2 visa services, ARA members now have direct access to expert support in navigating H-2 visa processes.
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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.
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New Year, New Administration, New Priorities For Ag Retail (The Scoop)
Feb 15, 2021
The beginning of a new year brings the opportunity for ARA members to refocus the member-led organization’s policy priorities for the coming year. ARA’s Washington-based policy team has been working for months with the Biden administration transition team and staffers on Capitol Hill to bring them up to speed on the issues. As determined by the membership, ARA’s policy priorities for 2021 include the following.
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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.
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Provysol Fungicide Receives Label Updates
Feb 09, 2021
Provysol® fungicide, powered by Revysol® fungicide, the first and only isopropanol-azole on the market, has recently received EPA and state approvals for updates to its label including: reduced Pre-Harvest Interval (PHI) to seven days for sugarbeets, suppression of powdery mildew in sugarbeets, approval for use in-furrow in sugarcane, addition of fruiting vegetables and cucurbits, and reduced plant back interval restrictions to zero days for rotational crops including cotton, rice, sunflowers, alfalfa and onions. (Sponsored content)
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Latest in-plant innovations maximize variety, farmland potential
Feb 08, 2021
The first varieties providing resistance to reniform nematodes were recently released by PhytoGen® cottonseed, the U.S. cottonseed brand of Corteva Agriscience. Stacked with the PhytoGen Breeding Trait™ for root-knot nematode (RKN) resistance, these two varieties deliver the best in-plant nematode protection package in the cottonseed market. (Sponsored content)
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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.
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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.
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ARA Successfully Lobbied for an Exception for Certain H-2 South African Workers
Jan 29, 2021
ARA successfully lobbied Congress and the Biden administration on a national interest exemption for certain H-2 travelers from South Africa along with other national and state ag groups.
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The Scoop: Tradition Holds True For ARA Awards Recognition
Jan 22, 2021
As ARA ushers in 2021, we have taken a moment to reflect on the good that came of 2020—the year that will not be forgotten. For the first time ever, the ARA Conference & Expo was held virtually. As an association, we committed to bringing you the same top-notch content and experience that you would have expected of the in-person event. If you missed participating in the conference, then registration is still available to view all sessions’ recordings.
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ARA Works with Farmobile to Optimize Profitability in the Ag-Food Supply Chain
Jan 21, 2021
ARA today announced it is working with ARA member company Farmobile to further its mission — to support members in their quest to maintain a profitable business environment, adapt to a changing world and preserve their freedom to operate. The goal of the collaboration is to support agricultural retailers in getting the absolute most revenue out of one of the biggest line items in their P&Ls — their commercial fleet.
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