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  • Crop Protection Industry Supports Intellectual Property Day
  • Funding For USDA Program to Promote Sound Use of Pesticides Threatened; CLA Rallies Continuing Support
  • CLA Finds IAASTD Report "Seriously Lacking" Criticizes Failure to Recognize Modern Agricultural Practices
  • FUNDING FOR USDA PROGRAM TO PROMOTE SOUND USE OF PESTICIDES THREATENED; CLA RALLIES CONTINUING SUPPORT
  • CLA Applauds Farm Bill Progress, Underscores Urgency
  • New Secretary of Agriculture Meets with CLA Leadership
  • CLA President Jay Vroom Participates in First Meeting of EPA's New Agriculture Advisory Committee
  • CropLife America Members Meet with Congress to Discuss Key Crop Protection Issues
  • CropLife America, Informa Life Sciences, Agrow to Host Spring Conference
  • CropLife America Addresses Invasive Weeds Group
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Jay Vroom, President and CEO of CropLife America

Jay Vroom, President and CEO of CropLife America.

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  • Crop Protection Industry Supports Intellectual Property Day
    (4/29/2008) CropLife America (CLA) celebrated the 8th Annual World Intellectual Property (WIP) Day, Apr. 26, by issuing public statements and participating in local events to commemorate the occasion. CLA Executive Vice President Doug Nelson and Vice President Isi Siddiqui represented crop protection interests at an Institu....

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  • CLA Finds IAASTD Report "Seriously Lacking" Criticizes Failure to Recognize Modern Agricultural Practices
    (4/18/2008) CropLife President and CEO Jay Vroom today strongly criticized the release of a final report by the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), originally designed to examine agricultural practices worldwide and how they might be altered to increase the w....

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  • FUNDING FOR USDA PROGRAM TO PROMOTE SOUND USE OF PESTICIDES THREATENED; CLA RALLIES CONTINUING SUPPORT
    (4/18/2008) CropLife America (CLA) is attempting to rally support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform Extension and Education program. According to CLA President and CEO Jay Vroom the program, which grew out of the necessity to respond quickly to th....

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  • Funding For USDA Program to Promote Sound Use of Pesticides Threatened; CLA Rallies Continuing Support
    (4/18/2008) CropLife America (CLA) is attempting to rally support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform Extension and Education program. According to CLA President and CEO Jay Vroom the program, which grew out of the necessity to respond quickly to the discovery ....

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  • CLA Applauds Farm Bill Progress, Underscores Urgency
    (4/4/2008) CropLife America today applauded progress reports regarding completion of the Farm Bill by key leaders of the House, Senate and Administration. CropLife America President and CEO Jay J. Vroom stated, “U.S. farmers operate in a more competitive, global environment today than ever before. Uncerta....

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  • New Secretary of Agriculture Meets with CLA Leadership
    (3/21/2008) CropLife America (CLA) leadership met March 20, with new Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer on a variety of timely topics and developments crucial to the crop protection industry and related agricultural segments. “The U.S. crop protection industry is indebted to the long standing commitment of US....

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  • CLA President Jay Vroom Participates in First Meeting of EPA's New Agriculture Advisory Committee
    (3/18/2008) CropLife America President and CEO Jay Vroom participated in the inaugural meeting of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s recently created Farm Ranch and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC) on March 13-14 in Washington, D.C. Conducted across the street from CLA headquarters at the Madison Hotel, th....

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  • CropLife America Members Meet with Congress to Discuss Key Crop Protection Issues
    (3/4/2008) CropLife America (CLA) and more than 30 of its members met with several dozen Members of Congress on Feb. 27 to discuss key issues facing the Crop Protection Industry. The visits allowed policy makers to learn about CLA’s top priorities, which include the Endangered Species Act, issuance of a mandatory pest....

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  • CropLife America, Informa Life Sciences, Agrow to Host Spring Conference
    (3/4/2008) On April 8-9 CropLife America (CLA) will join Informa Life Sciences and Agrow in hosting the spring conference, “Regulation of Crop Protection Chemicals in the U.S.” “We are pleased and excited to partner with Informa to host the 2008 crop protection regulatory conference here in Washington, D.C....

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  • CropLife America Addresses Invasive Weeds Group
    (3/4/2008) CropLife America (CLA) President Jay Vroom addressed the 9th Annual National Invasive Weeds Awareness Week (NIWAW) sponsored by the Invasive Weeds Awareness Coalition and commended the group of several hundred experts for bringing their message to Washington DC. "Agriculture has never before faced a demand for ou....

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