| Quick
Media Facts about the Croplife Ambassador Network (CAN) |
| CAN’s Mission: to provide scientifically-based,
accurate information to the public regarding the safety
and value of American agricultural food production |
| CAN places agricultural professionals
in classrooms across the Midwest to share positive messages
about American agriculture |
| CAN provides a series of presentation
tools which can be downloaded by CAN members and viewed
by the public at ambassador.maca.org |
| Current presentation topics are: Biotechnology
in Agriculture, American Abundance – A Thanksgiving
Lesson, Agriculture and the Environment, Careers in Crop
Protection, Water Quality and Food Safety |
| CAN receives hundreds of teacher requests
for Ambassador visits each year and reaches thousands
of school kids with a positive message of American agriculture |
| CAN consists of a network of over
300 active, informed Ambassador volunteers who are professionals
within the agricultural industry |
| CAN seeks to expand it’s membership
base of Ambassador volunteers so that every request for
agricultural education may be filled |
| CAN is a program of the Mid America
CropLife Association, a non-profit association of manufacturers,
distributors, and allied industry of crop protection products |
