b'hotline and special email address for the submissionIn both cases, our recommended changes were of anonymous and confidential complaints regardingincorporated into the revised documents. violations of laws, rules, regulations or the Code, and questionable accounting and auditing matters.As directed by the 2018 Farm Bill, the USDA recently The hotline number and email address for thesereleased a draft new Irrigation Management Practice purposes are provided on our company website andStandard that specifically recognizes the conservation employees are reminded of this regularly throughbenefits associated with FieldNET Advisor cloud-ethics training. based remote telemetry system for irrigation scheduling. The USDA is expected to finalize the We address all reported known or suspectedstandard soon. Once finalized, the standard will set violations thoroughly and promptly. a benchmark for irrigation scheduling that may be used by states in determining Environmental Quality We do not tolerate retaliation for reports of illegal orIncentive Program cost share payments, which unethical behavior by others made in good faith byincentivize growers to adopt conservation measures employees, or the submission of good faith concernson their farms. regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters. This is true even if an investigation does not uncover any actual misconduct.POLICY ADVOCACYLindsay complies with all federal, state and local lobbying registration and disclosure requirements, and we do not engage in grassroots lobbying efforts. We do, however, engage in stakeholder consultations when bills or policies are being developed or updated, when we feel we have knowledge and expertise that would help shape the bill for theGETTING BETTERbenefit of all stakeholders. Moving forward, we are further enhancing the In FY19, we engaged in a consultation processautomation of our ethics and anti-corruption around updates to the U.S. Farm Bill, and discussionsscreening practices. In our current evaluations, front-around proposed changes to the U.S. Naturalline customer service and legal staff play a pivotal Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Waterrole in entering certain customer information into a Conservation Standard. We drew from the scientifictool which then screens against several watchlists. research to support the language in the AgriculturalThe new tool, which will be integrated in our newly Improvement Act of 2018, and advocated for specificlaunched Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, best management practices regarding use of remotewill automatically review all prospective partners telemetry, and recommended the following: against watchlists and funnel false positives through Remote telemetry data systems, as used forour Legal department for review. This automation will irrigation scheduling, combine the use of field,bring increased efficiency to our compliance process. weather, crop and soil data, which ensures thatWe expect this global automated solution to launch the precise amount of water is applied to cropsin FY21.to promote water and energy efficiency while alsoWe also are looking forward to publishing theincreasing crop yields. The Managers encouragenext edition of our International Transactions USDA to incorporate remote telemetry dataCompliance Manual in FY21 in collaboration withsystems as a best management practice under thean outside law firm. Environmental Quality Incentives Program.29'