Prairie CCA - How to Become a CCA

What do I need to do to maintain my designation?

There are 4 main Performance Objective categories for CCA's to earn CEU credits. They are:

Soil & Water Management (SW)
Nutrient Management (NM)
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Crop Management (CM)

Once a person becomes CCA certified, they will be required to maintain a minimum of 40 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits every 2 years with a minimum of 5 per category. CCA's can also earn a maximum of 5 CEU credits in the Professional Development cateogry per 2-year cycle; any number over the maximum 5 will not count. They are many events, workshops, magazine articles, etc. available to certified CCA's that they can attend to or read in order to attain their required number of CEU credits. If a CCA is short of the required number of CEU's by the end of their 2-year cylce, their designation will be revoked.

For example, to meet the minimum requirements, a CCA must earn 5 CEU credits in the NM, SW, IPM and CM category. Once completed, a CCA would have 20 CEU credits. They could then earn a maximum of 5 CEU's in the PD category for a total of 25 credits. The remaining 15 CEU's must be earned in one of the 4 primary CEU categories prior to the end of the 2-year cycle.

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