The North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) seeks to inspire achievement at the highest levels of excellence. Recognizing and honoring individuals whose efforts represent the very best in research and writing of agriculture, environmental, natural, or life sciences at the post-secondary level are central to NACTA. At the same time, NACTA seeks to encourage academic research and writing of the highest standards. This year, NACTA is proud to have awarded 13 authors who showed excellence in writing content that was published in the NACTA Journal.