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Our Mission: “MCPR exists to promote the proper use, storage and application of crop production inputs in an environmentally safe and agronomically sound manner; and to support regulatory and legislative initiatives which benefit retailers, manufacturers, distributors and custom applicators of crop production inputs.”

2009 CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show
The 2009 CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show will be held at December 8th - 10th at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Look for more information in the coming months.

FRAUDULENT LETTERS MAKING ROUNDS AGAIN!
There has been another round of fruadulent letters issued to U.S. Department of Transportation contractors and potential contractors purporting to be issued by DOT. Download the bulletin sent by USDOT for more information.

Order the 2009 MSDS Book
MCPR invites you to review and consider the following special offer available exclusively through our affiliation with the Asmark Institute. There are many good sources of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for pesticides, however the unusual or hard-to-get items such as oxygen, acetylene, fuels, fertilizers, welding rods, micronutrients, paints, grain treatments, spray additives and cleaning supplies typically make maintaining a current MSDS File a real chore. The 2009 MSDS Manual, published by the Asmark Institute, is designed especially for agricultural retailers and contains 1,880 pages of information for more than 1,025 products. OSHA requires each employer to maintain a current file for the MSDS for the hazardous substances used or handled in the workplace. This manual is the best solution to help with this requirement. The 2009 MSDS Manual makes compliance easier and at less than $45, more economical than trying to update your file yourself.

Order the 2009 Applicator Manual Label Book
MCPR would like to invite you to review and consider the following special offer available exclusively through our affiliation with the Asmark Institute. EPA requires a label accompany every pesticide to the end user. For retailers providing custom application, this can be very difficult, especially when pulling from minibulk and bulk tanks. The 2009 Applicator Manual is designed to be placed in each piece of application equipment, and nurse or tender equipment, to provide operators and handlers access to label information. Just as each container of pesticide has a specimen label affixed to it, these handy little manuals with over 125 of the most common custom applied products, is an economical substitute for providing your applicators and other handlers with the label information. With 1,880 pages of information, the manuals sure beat making copies on a copy machine! The 2009 Applicator Manual makes compliance easier and at $18.40 each, more economical than any other alternative available.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Letter regarding Nurse Tanks
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has sent out a safety advisory that all anhydrous ammonia/nurse tank owners, fillers, transporters, users, repair stations, welders, inspectors and related associations should be aware of. The letter states that based on 8 recent enforcement investigations, PHMSA is greatly concerned with the lack of compliance and understanding of the minimum safety requirements for nurse tanks. In the advisory PHMSA lists the areas of non-compliance and safety problems they noticed frequently. If you deal with anhydrous ammonia please review the safety advisory letter from PHMSA.
Download the safety advisory letter from PHMSA.

Agricultural Chemicals Security Credit Update
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalized Form 8931, the Agricultural Chemicals Security Credit (ACSC), recently. The form will allow eligible agricultural businesses to claim a new general business credit, and is available both to businesses that sell retail agricultural products (predominantly to farmers and ranchers), and to manufacturers, formulators, distributors, and applicators of specified agricultural chemicals that have made certain security investments. MCPR worked with other Ag coalition members to get passage of the Ag Security Tax Credit as part of the '08 Farm Bill. Click here to read the story.
Ag Chem Security Credit Tax Form

"Minnesota Special" Nurse Tank Program
The US DOT has determined that the Minnesota Department of Agriculture "Minnesota Special" nurse tank registration program does not meet the federal requirements. All 1300 nurse tanks in Minneosta carrying the "Minnesota Special" registration will need to be tested. A program set up by TFI will assist you. Click here to learn more.
Click here for the MCPR/TFI/Asmark Institute nurse tank testing web site for more information on how you must proceed to insure your Minnesota Special nurse tanks are in compliance with the US DOT standards.
Click here to read the letter MDA sent to MCPR with the details of the USDOT decision, the MDA's response, and steps necesary in Minnesota to comply with the new USDOT position.

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