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AGCO
AGCO is the largest pure play, full-line agricultural equipment manufacturer. Our tractors, combines and other farm equipment are sold in more than 140 countries and are led by these four core global brands: Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson and Valtra.
Technical diversity, multiple brands, and global distribution strength are the keys to AGCO’s growth strategy. Major market share positions in key agricultural markets of the world have been achieved by our strong focus on customer service, leading edge technology and an independent dealer network of 2,600 full service dealers – one of the largest distribution networks in the industry.
AGCO’s innovative products continuously receive recognition and awards at international exhibitions, but our most coveted award is the recognition of our wide-range of products by farmers and dealers across the globe.
Website: http://www.agcocorp.com/
AgEdNet.com
Agriculture curriculum materials:
AgEdNet.com subscribers receive online access to more than 1,250 classroom-ready lessons and coordinated activities across 20 agriculture topic areas. All lessons are matched to National AFNR standards. Extras include PowerPoints, vocabulary crossword puzzles and worksheets. Each subscription is a site license permitting access for all teachers and students at that school. AgEdNet.com curriculum materials can be easily adapted for classroom use, as substitute material and for independent study.
Daily agriculture news:
AgEd Today is part of each AgEdNet.com subscription. This daily agriculture news feature is a convenient way to cover agriculture news across the country and around the world. A weekly quiz reviews news events.
Website: www.agednet.com. Call 1-800-236-7862 for a free trial.
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CareerSafe Online
Every five days, one teen is killed on the job. According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety Health, there are about 70 work related fatalities per year among this youth population. More than 200,000 young workers are injured on the job, and 70,000 of them require emergency room or hospital treatment. Further, young workers continue to have the highest rates of work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses easily double and in some cases triple that for any other age category. Our mission at CareerSafe is to deliver Safety Education for America's Future. Through our interactive online training courses, we teach young workers how to reduce the risks associated with workplace hazards while providing useful information that will prepare these young men and women for a safe and prosperous future in their chosen career. By providing entry-level workers, particularly high school and college students, with fundamental safety knowledge needed in the workplace, our program brings the significance of safety to the forefront. CareerSafe is currently in delivered in all fifty US states and is in use by 1,100 high schools nationwide. We are now the largest provider of online OSHA 10 Hour courses by volume and the only program with a focus on training young men and women in the 16 to 24 year old age group. Website: www.careersafeonline.com |
CEV has more than 500 titles on topics such as animal and poultry sciences, judging, agronomy and crop science, environmental sciences, food and nutrition, agricultural mechanics, and human sciences. CEV videotapes emphasize content, are professionally produced, and contain state-of-the-art special effects and sound tracks. Homepage: www.cevmultimedia.com |
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Deere & Company, founded in 1837 (collectively called John Deere), has grown from a one-man blacksmith shop into a corporation that today does business around the world and employs approximately 52,000 people. The company continues to be guided, as it has been since its beginning, by the core values exhibited by its founder: integrity, quality, commitment and innovation. Homepage: www.deere.com |
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Delmar Cengage Learning is the leading provider of lifelong learning solutions for educational institutions, businesses, and professionals. We strive to provide the best in educational resources and training materials for your students and are confident that we can offer a complete teaching package to assist with all of your classroom activities. Our selection of instructor supplements shall always meet the student’s needs, the instructor’s needs and the needs of a changing curriculum. Homepage: http://www.cengage.com/delmar
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DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation, please visit |
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Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 163,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. Ford introduced F-Series Trucks in 1948, and began a relationship with FFA in the same year. A collegiate scholarship program for FFA members was developed in 1997 and is supported by Ford dealers across the country. To date, $6.06MM in scholarships has been awarded to FFA members. Ford continues to produce trucks that are dependable, genuine, authentic and tough. And F-Series is America’s best-selling line of trucks for 34 years running. Ford Trucks – Proud sponsor of the 2011 NAAE Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing significant contributions to agricultural education. Website: http://www.ford.com
Forrest T. Jones & Company
Forrest T. Jones & Company, Inc., an insurance administrator, was established in 1953 for the single purpose of serving as a partner with professional groups and associations. Over the past 44 years, FTJ has worked hand in-hand with its clients in adding value to member programs through quality insurance products. FTJ has grown from a major regional administrator to one of national scope. Licensed and admitted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, today, FTJ serves 140 associations, works with 300 insurance carriers and provides policies to 250,000 insureds. Website: www.ftj.com |
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Vocational training in Horticulture gives your students the key to a wide range of challenging and rewarding careers. Since 1946, it has been both a privilege and honor of our fourth-generation family-owned horticultural supply business to serve the Commercial, Institutional and Residential markets with quality greenhouses, shadehouses, equipment and supplies....both here in the USA and abroad. Many years ago, at the request of the US Office of Education, we developed a guidelines to assist educators in planning and acquiring effective, innovative and relevant comprehensive training programs in Horticulture. Our ‘Complete Horticulture Training Centers’ are designed for various levels of student enrollment and are available in phases allowing for future expansion. Today we offer many sizes and styles of greenhouse products from low cost cold-frame structures and mid-level environmentally controlled commercial greenhouses…to sophisticated high-end greenhouses suited for University and Research level applications. I invite you to visit our website to learn more about our company’s products and services. Website: www.GothicArchGreenhouses.com
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Hobar Publications - Finney Company Often referred to as the Ag, Ad Ed or FFA catalog, Hobar Publications provides a variety of materials for Agricultural, Industrial Technology and Career Education. Materials include: textbooks, annuals, workbooks, computer software, videotapes, transparency and worksheet masters, small engine and hand tools, electricity practice panels, plastic welding equipment, concrete molds, and personal protective/safety equipment. Call (800) 846-7027 for more information and to receive our FREE catalogs. Website: www.finney-hobar.com
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Since 1938, ITCS Instructional Materials (formerly known as
Vocational Agriculture Service) at the University of Illinois
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Lincoln Electric’s commitment to providing the most innovative, cost-effective, quality welding and cutting solutions is one that has guided our company for more than 100 years. This, coupled with our technological leadership and worldwide manufacturing and distribution resources, enables us to provide competent and reliable solutions for each of our customers.
Recognized as the welding experts®, the Company provides leading technology products and solutions. From its early beginnings, Lincoln pioneered technological advancements and improvements in arc welding consumables and equipment. Lincoln sustains the industry's most dynamic and comprehensive research and product development program. This effort is supported by the David C. Lincoln Technology Center, the most advanced facility of its kind.
The Company is famous for its productive and highly-skilled work force, as well as its unique compensation system, Incentive Management.
Incentive Management is widely studied in business schools and industrial management circles. The system compensates and encourages individual and team initiative and responsibility at all levels of employment within the U.S. subsidiary. Lincoln's other global operations have their own systems, where appropriate and practical. Lincoln has never experienced a work stoppage in its 100-plus year history.
Website: http://www.lincolnelectric.com/
LS Training System
LS Training System was started by Jay Murray, CLP, a 25-year (+) veteran of the landscape industry. After running a $8m landscaping business with 100 employees, he decided to change careers and help fill a gap that always existed in his own landscape business — create a modern, cost-effective training system.
About five years ago, as internet broadband access grew, we began to see a growth in flash streaming on the internet. This opened many doors and created the opportunity to deliver interactive online learning to the young workers typical of the landscape business. Employees can learn from home, on their own time, in a medium that they know and understand—the internet. They show up for work on day-1 ready to work safely.
Five years in the making, LS Training System is now a reality, offering landscape business owners and managers a smart, simple solution to the unique training needs of the landscape business. Call Jay and his team of Safety Advisors to discuss your training needs today. We can help.
We have now trained over 10,000 employees.
Website: www.landscapesafety.com/
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Milkwaukee Tool
Website: www.milwaukeetool.com/
Monsanto Monsanto could not exist without farmers. Billions of people depend upon what farmers do. And so will billions more. In the next few decades, farmers will have to grow as much food as they have in the past 10,000 years - combined. It is our purpose to work alongside farmers to do exactly that. We do this by selling seeds, traits developed through biotechnology, and crop protection chemicals. Website: www.monsanto.com
Mud Hole Custom Tackle is a fully stocking distributor of Rod Building, Lure Making and Fly Tying components and accessories. We have been in this business for over 35 years with a major focus on education. While we do distribute components and blanks available from all of the major manufacturers we also design and
manufacture a large selection of our own private label high quality parts. With over 100 years of rod building experience in our management and sales staff our customer service and technical support is 2nd to none.
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Founded in 1985, TTI is a leading marketer, manufacturer and supplier of home improvement and floor care products, employing over 20,000 people worldwide. TTI's global brand portfolio includes Ryobi®, Milwaukee® and AEG® power tools, DreBo® carbide drill bits, Homelite® and Ryobi® outdoor power equipment and Royal®, Dirt Devil®, Regina® and VAX® floor care appliances. The acquisition takes advantage of TTI and Milwaukee’s marketing and distribution networks and enhances Milwaukee’s ability to expand its markets and product portfolio worldwide.
Mud Hole Custom Tackle
The National Association of Conservation Districts
The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) is the nonprofit organization that represents America’s 3,000 conservation districts and the 17,000 men and women who serve on their governing boards. Conservation districts are local units of government established under state law to carry out natural resource management programs at the local level. Districts work with millions of cooperating landowners and operators to help them manage and protect land and water resources on all private lands and many public lands in the United States.
Website: www.nacdnet.org
Nutrients for Life
Nutrients for Life Foundation is an education foundation that provides free soil science materials and resources to educators. The modules for elementary, middle and high school classrooms provides hands-on applications to show how the challenge of feeding our world’s growing population can be solved with science. The program itself addresses key objectives from the National Science Education Standards and has been favorably reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution.
Website: http://www.nutrientsforlife.org
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PERC is dedicated to the research and development of new propane technology for use in agriculture, as well as training the agriculture industry on the safe use of propane. To meet these needs, PERC is interested in partnering with groups to improve existing and develop new propane-fueled equipment. By working together, PERC hopes to increase farmer knowledge of safe and environmentally friendly propane equipment. Areas of focus include thermal agriculture, nutrient management, crop/food conditioning, and power generation. Homepage: http://www.propanecouncil.org/ |
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Ram trucks are built, designed and constructed by a new breed of machinists, engineers, and truck fanatics who share the same unending passion for trucks as the people who drive them. They are the gear-heads, the master craftsmen, the guys who bleed gasoline and aren’t afraid to get a little dirt under their fingernails. Ram is composed of people whose mission is to revive the long-standing tradition of building trucks the way they were meant to be built, with legendary HEMI and Cummins engines, refined interiors, and ground-breaking features. That’s what makes Ram run. Guts. Glory. Ram. Ram is a proud sponsor of FFA and Agriculture Education, celebrating 59 years of support in 2011. Ram is the sponsor of the NAAE Teacher Turn the Key recognition program as well as several critical FFA programs. Website: ramtrucks.com
SteadyGROWpro SteadyGROWpro is the ideal media for hydroponics and soilless growing. It is an inert and sterile growing media available in sheets, plugs, blocks and slabs. SteadyGROWpro helps gardeners maximize results when germinating seeds, when propagating or cloning cuttings, and when growing plants to maturity indoors. SteadyGROWpro growth media is eco-friendly, and is a superior substitute to rockwool or coco coir. Website: http://www.steadygrowpro.com
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Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems Design, Cut and Weld with Torchmate CNC Plasma systems. Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems has been bringing affordable CNC plasma cutting tables and other automation solutions to educators, schools and manufacturers worldwide for over 30 years. Torchmate CNC introduced state of the art, affordable robotic metal cutting machinery to shop classes in schools across the country, giving teachers a real world tool to teach design and manufacturing skills to the next generation of airplane builders, automobile manufactures and engineers. Versatile, technologically advanced and backed by the most comprehensive technical support in the industry, Torchmate CNC machines are the perfect fit for high schools and colleges. Each machine has the most advanced technological features, like industrial repeatability, integration with CAD and CAM software, and USB port compatibility. Using the Torchmate CNC machine, students are able to grasp CAD and CAM design, as well as see the completion of their design into a final product. Parts cut on a Torchmate can be welded and finished allowing students the full educational experience in hands-on manufacturing. Students are able to put multiple skills together using a Torchmate machine, allowing them to graduate not as an entry-level worker, but as skilled CNC machine operator. My name is Susanne; please give me a call today at (866) 571-1066 x 153 and learn about the EDU packages and curriculum Torchmate has to offer. We would love to have you join the thousands that are already part of our Torchmate Family. Website: torchmate.com
Toyota Motor Sales Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. is the marketing, sales, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion. Established in 1957, TMS markets products and services through a network of more than 1,450 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers. Toyota directly employs over 35,000 people in the U.S. and sold more than 2.2 million vehicles in 2008. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.toyota.com/, http://www.lexus.com/ and http://www.scion.com/. Toyota’s support of FFA and NAAE: http://www.toyota.com/about/philanthropy/education/scholarships/national_ffa.html
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Tractor Supply Company Tractor Supply Company is the largest retail farm and ranch store chain in the United States. Founded in 1938 as a mail order catalog business offering tractor parts to America’s family farmers, today Tractor Supply is a leading edge retailer with revenues surpassing $3 billion.Tractor Supply stores are primarily located in rural areas and the outlying suburbs of major cities. Stores supply the unique products to support their customers’ rural lifestyle, from welders and generators to animal care products and men and women’s workwear. You can also find pet supplies, animal feed, power tools, riding mowers, lawn and garden products and more. Each store team includes a welder, a farmer and a horse owner who collectively provide an exceptional depth of knowledge and resources.Tractor Supply is committed to understanding and fulfilling the needs of those who enjoy the rural lifestyle: folks who frequently describe themselves as hobby farmers and hobby ranchers. Tractor Supply's involvement with the National FFA Organization has been a pleasure for over 20 years. TSC is proud to sponsor FFA because of the continued dedication to premier leadership, personal growth and career success. It is a great way to connect with our future customers, team members, and the unique communities we serve. FFA is important to our company, and the success of the overall American landscape. Website: www.TractorSupply.com |
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