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NAT'L ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT CROP CONSULTANTS ANNOUNCES ITS AWARD WINNERS
Source: National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants (NAICC )

Since the Consultant of the Year award was established in 1993, NAICC has sought to honor its members who have illustrated leadership within and outside the organization. Last year, the program was updated to honor three professionals with these awards: Crop Consultant of the Year, QA of the Year and Researcher of the Year.

NAICC is extremely grateful to our previous award winners for representing the organization well, and we congratulate the new recipients of these awards.

Consultant of the Year Award: Josh Erbes

Centrol Inc. | Argusville, North Dakota
Josh Erbes specializes in general agronomy, variety selection and resistance management on soybeans, corn, wheat, sugar beets, sunflowers and dry edible beans. He has been in the consulting business for 15 years in North Dakota and Minnesota and covers more than 5,000 acres.

Erbes has been an NAICC member for 10 years and is also a member of the Ag Consultants Association of North Dakota where he served as president. He is a certified Technical Service Provider and a Certified Crop Adviser. He also has been elected by his peers to a three-year term to the Centrol board of directors.

QA of the Year Award: Angela Barricklow-Dawson

Quality Assurance Manager | The Carringers Inc. | Boody, Illinois
Angela Barricklow-Dawson is an expert on EPA and OECD Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) regulations and has been an instructor for the NAICC basic GLP training for more than 10 years.

She conducts studies in agriculture and biotechnology and continues her education by attending NAICC meetings and has been presenting since 2010. She is a member of the research/QA education committee; QA education subcommittee, where she served as chair for four years; and CropLife America Working Group.

Barricklow-Dawson is a member, mentor, liaison and committee member of SQA; member of Midwest SQA; and member of GAIAC.

Researcher of the Year: David Moore

President, founder and research scientist | Southeast Ag Research | Chula, Georgia
David Moore specializes in conducting efficacy and GLP research on all Southeast-grown crops, including standard row crops, vegetable crops and orchard crops.

He places GLP trials handling MOR, decline and biotech or regulated seed and efficacy work including herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, nematicide, biostimulants, nutrition and variety trials.


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