By Brenda Machin, PAg Roy Carver, PAg, AIC executive director, wrote an excellent article for e-Harvest explaining the role of a professional agrologist. It's reprinted here to remind us of why we should take pride in our profession. I wish you all a safe, prosperous and joyous 2000. The Profession of Agrology demands integrity, competence and objectivity in the conduct of its members while fulfilling their professional responsibilities to the Public, the Employer or Client, the Profession and other Agrologists. By providing professional standards to every facet of agriculture, professional agrologists are the backbone of an industry that reaches far beyond farming.
Agriculture is food processing, packaging, transportation and marketing.
It is protection of our soil, water and wildlife. It is communications, financial services, public service, education, consulting and scientific and economic research. The standards and science that professional agrologists apply are what keeps agriculture sustainable. Every agrologist is a professional in agricultural sustainability. And that means community strength in the long-term.