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Authored by Claire F. Martin, of Lehr Middlebrooks Vreeland & Thompson, P.C., H.R. Advisors to NALP members. This article appears in the September/October issue of the Landscape Professionals Magazine.Ā Many industries require their employees to drive, either their own vehicles or company-owned vehicles, as a part of their job duties. However, the landscape industry is […]
Author Tom Tracy is the Executive Director of the Virginia Turfgrass CouncilĀ Turfgrass, horticulture, arboriculture, environmental sciences, and other industry segments can operate in self-imposed isolation. Working towards achieving cohesiveness between different industry segments, Virginia Techās new School of Plant and Environmental Sciences conducted the second annual Lawn, Landscape, and Sports Turf Field Day on […]
Author: Alain Parcan, director of marketing forĀ Market Hardware, Inc., an NALP consultant. See him speak at a Power Session at LANDSCAPES 2018 in Louisville.Ā What’s trending up in web marketing and what’s trending down? Market Hardwareās team of Web Marketing experts put their heads together to come up with a comprehensive list of the 4 […]
Article AuthorĀ Lisa Perdue, is a Manager of Professional DevelopmentĀ forĀ LandOpt, an NALP Consultant Member firm. Thomas Fancher canāt hide his pride in his team members. The owner of Dallas-based The Plant Concierge knows his team is his most valuable resource, and he is committed to finding unique ways to keep them engaged. When Fancher and his […]
Marty Grunder, Inc. Frank Mariani and Pacific Landscape Management teamed up with the National Association of Landscape Professionals to host the third annual NALP Field Trip, this time in Portland, Oregon.Ā Record numbers of landscape pros joined us in Portland for the multi-day event. The education sessions started with Marty Grunder kicking drawing in an analogy […]
NALP is aggressively pursuing legislative fixes for our key advocacy issues; H-2B permanent cap relief and Pesticide Regulatory reform. But we need your help NOW, before a looming September 30Ā deadline.Ā September 30, marks the end of the fiscal year for the government and Congress is required to pass 12 appropriations bills to keep the federal […]
We want to tell the story of the the amazing careers anyone can have in the landscape industry. NALP’s Industry Growth Initiative is doing just that in a new national media campaign. We’ll be pitching stories to media such as: Does Your High School Graduate Need to Go To a 4-Year College? 10 Unusual College […]
Last Thursday, Senate and House Agriculture Committee leadership met officially for the first time to discuss the 2018 Farm Bill, prior to full Conference Committee discussions.Ā Leadership of the Committees that met includeĀ Ā Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-TX) and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Rep. […]
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives adjourned for their annual August recess.Ā The August recess is a critical in-district work period, especially in an election year.Ā The Senate will have an abbreviated August recess, currently scheduled for the first full week of August before returning to D.C. to handle confirmation hearings.Ā This is an […]
On Thursday July 26, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishedĀ Registration Review; Draft Human Health Risk Assessments for Atrazine, Propazine, and Simazine and Draft Cumulative Human Health Risk Assessment for the Triazines (Atrazine, Propazine, Simazine); Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.Ā Ā The publication serves as the draft human health risk assessment (DRA) to support the Registration […]
