The American Soybean Association (ASA) needs your help identifying outstanding grower leaders for the 2017 ASA award and recognition program. If you know someone who goes above and beyond for the soybean industry and amplifies truly outstanding leadership –we want to hear about it and recognize them for their hard work! Three major awards are presented:

• Lifetime Achievement Award - Association focus: The Lifetime Achievement Award with an Association focus is designed to honor individuals who have, through many years of service, exemplified truly outstanding leadership through unselfish dedication to ASA and the soybean industry. Persons involved in soybean farming and/or soybean association related functions are eligible for this award. NOTE: Current members of the ASA Board of Directors are not eligible for this award. Former ASA Board of Directors must be off the ASA Board for at least three years to be eligible.
• Lifetime Achievement Award - Membership focus: The Lifetime Achievement Award with a Membership focus is designed to honor individuals who have devoted their sustaining commitment to strengthen ASA membership through avid recruitment, board involvement or state affiliation. NOTE: Current members of the ASA Board of Directors are not eligible for this award. Former ASA Board of Directors must be off the ASA Board for at least three years to be eligible.
• Special Meritorious Service: This award is designed to honor individuals who have served the soybean industry above and beyond the ordinary. This award may be presented to an individual who has devoted a major portion of his/her life to the soybean industry in any field.

Please submit a nominee for one or all three categories. All nominations must be received no later than Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. All nominations must be submitted online. No nominations sent by phone, email, fax or after Nov. 11, 2016 will be considered.

The awards will be presented at the ASA Awards Banquet during Commodity Classic in San Antonio, Texas. The ASA Awards Banquet is scheduled for Friday, March 3, 2017.

If you have questions, please contact Farris Haley at fhaley@soy.org or (314) 576-1770, Ext. 1284. Click here for all more details.