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March Profile:
Attitude is the Key       

Nichols Ag, Nichols, IA

By Ryan Conatti

Environmental respect is an attitude, not a task to be completed,” says John Hester, manager and owner of Nichols Ag, Nichols, IA. He claims that there are two types of environmental respect: There is perceptual environmental respect, which is simply freshly painted tanks and nice foliage around the facility, and real environmental respect.

This real, earned respect comes from going the extra mile: building monitoring wells, meticulously cleaning past and present spills, and taking proper precautions to guarantee that there are no future spills or contamination of any kind.

Through cooperative efforts with EPA, Nichols Ag has successfully cleaned all of the private wells in the small town and has put in a safeguard system in place to assure that nothing leaks or spills into the town and that it never has any other environmental issues.

According to Hester, Nichols Ag has “one of the cleaner facilities in the country” and it is very aware of the community and its responsibility to keep the land and water clean and healthy. “By keeping the right attitude about environmental respect, the people at Nichols Ag will be a contributing caretaker of the land, crops, and community,” says Hester.