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WINTER 2016

PREsIdENT aNdChIEf ExECuTIvE OffICERBob Brown

vICE PREsIdENT OPERaTIONsLee Gardiner

vICE PREsIdENTChIEf fINaNCIaL OffICERDan Stone

dIRECTOR Of MaRkETINgAlice Inderbitzin

REgIONaL MaNagERNatalie Foss

dIRECTOR OfREguLaTORy affaIRsMartin Jeppeson

Board of directors

ChaIRMaN Of ThE BOaRd Case Van Steyn

Brad Baltzer

Joel Barker

Doug DeVaney

Alan Freese

David Martella

Darron Page

BoB Brown President/Ceo

Message To shareholdersDates have been set for the upcoming shareholder dinner meetings which are scheduled for the end of January and early February. Please check the dates and locations within this issue. If you have not had the chance to attend in previous years, we hope that you will take the opportunity to attend this year! We strive to make this an enjoyable evening, where members have the opportunity to visit with one another, as well as with CALAMCO staff and Directors serving on the Board. We look forward to seeing you there!

Product Use Reports have been processed, and we are currently working on calculating final year-end results. Even though overall sales have continued to decline due to the drought, we expect our dividend to be even greater than what was paid out in 2014 since total tons claimed by members have declined as well. As usual, patronage checks will be mailed to participating members around the third week in January. We continue to be encouraged by the increased number of members utilizing our on-line reporting feature. We anticipate that number will continue to grow significantly over the next few years. It has helped to speed up the accounting process considerably.

We would like to thank you, our customers and members, for your continued business and support. It is the reason CALAMCO continues to remain successful, returning healthy dividends back to participating members each year. We hope that you enjoyed a wonderful Holiday Season, and wish you a happy and prosperous New Year!

CALAMCO Offers $1000 Scholarship

Elections to be Held in District 2

Employees Honored in 2015

Sharing the Christmas Spirit

2015 Regional Shareholder Dinners

Safety in 2015

2 WINtER 2015

CALAMCO is offering a scholarship to our shareholders and their immediate

family (children), that are graduating high school seniors and plan to continue on to college or university, majoring in agriculture or an ag-related field.

this offer is valid to current high school seniors planning to attend a

college or university in the fall of 2016 or spring of 2017 (the scholarship would not apply at any later enrollment).

the application is available in PDF format on our website at www.calamco.com under the news/events tab.

Just print out the application and mail it back to our corporate office at: CALAMCO, 1776 West March Lane, Suite 420, Stockton, CA 95207. Applications must be postmarked by April 15, 2016. We will notify the recipient of the scholarship by April 29, 2016.

employees honored in 2015

Each year CALAMCO honors those employees that reach milestones in their years of employment. In 2015 we were pleased to honor the following employees:

Jose Rubalcaba 5 Years Alice Inderbitzin 30 Years Mike Jones 15 Years Dale Thigpin 30 Years Natalie Foss 15 YearsWe would like to congratulate these employees, and thank them for their many years of dedicated service.

CalaMCo offers $1000 scholarship

elections to be held in district 2Elections for the Director to serve on CALAMCO’s Board will be held this year in District 2, which encompasses the Central San Joaquin Valley. Proxies will soon be mailed to all members and are due back to our office by mid-February. Only Class A shareholders in District 2 are eligible to vote for the director in that district. the director in District 2 is Case Van Steyn, Chairman of the Board, who is seeking re-election.

Proxies will be mailed to shareholders in early January. Proxies are to be

returned to our office on or before our Annual Meeting, which is scheduled to be held in our corporate office on February 17, 2016

Please note that we do require a quorum so we ask that you sign and return proxies back to our office as soon as possible.

3WINtER 2015

Registration and cocktails will begin at 6:00 pm, and dinner will be served at 7:00 pm. the meeting portion of our program will begin at 8:00 pm. the evening will conclude with a variety of door prizes, which have been donated by various fertilizer dealers.

We look forward to seeing you at one of the above scheduled dinners this year! Please remember that guests are welcome and you are encouraged to bring a non-member who may be interested in finding out more about CALAMCO. this is always an enjoyable evening for all, so please mark your calendars!

Send in your reservations early! We strive to make this a fun and informative evening. So, if you haven’t attended one of these meetings in the past, make it a point to be there!

Please understand that we must guarantee the number of people attending. therefore, if you make a reservation and are unable to attend, please kindly inform us so that we may adjust our numbers accordingly. It costs your company to pay for those who reserve but do not attend.

2015 regional shareholder dinners

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Double LL Steakhouse, Visalia

thursday, January 28, 2016 the Growers Pub, Salinas

thursday, February 11, 2016 the Maxwell Inn, Maxwell

tuesday, February 16, 2016 Waterloo Gun & Bocci Club, Stockton

Please plan to attend one of our annual shareholder dinners. the dates are as follows:

2015 marks the 16th anniversary that CALAMCO, along with many of our fellow businesses located at the Port of Stockton, have been donating food baskets, which are distributed by the Boggs tract Community Center.

the baskets are given out a few days before Christmas to approximately one hundred families and individuals who are struggling to put food on the table at not only Christmas, but every day of the year. CALAMCO

feels that it is important to be good stewards to our neighboring community and we take that responsibility

to heart by donating and participating in this event on an annual basis.

CALAMCO has made a commitment to the community that surrounds our Stockton terminal and is happy to assist every year in bringing a little bit of comfort and joy to those in need. In that spirit, we are hoping that you will do the same and “pay it forward” within your own community, as there is such a great need during these difficult economic times. Have a safe and prosperous 2016!

sharing the Christmas

spirit

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Questions or comments can

be forwarded to CalamCoat (800) 624-4200

www.Calamco.com

P.O. Box 7275Stockton CA 95267-9901

In 20152015 has been another great year for CALAMCO from the Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Regulatory compliance perspectives. Customer training was shared with over seven hundred attendees, and included not only the end-users of our products, but also emergency responders, transporters, law enforcement and government agencies.

We were disappointed with the departure of our EH&S Manager late this year, but are in a serious search for a replacement and do not expect you to see any lapse in the services we provide you in the health and safety arena.

As always we are here to provide the added value of training and advice for your operations. If there are areas that we have not covered in the past where you may see a need please call on us and we’ll see what we can work out.

In a few months we will be starting the spring training process again and ask that whenever possible you invite your local emergency responders and CUPA

representatives to attend. the benefits to be derived from having them participate can not be overemphasized; they need to know how you are training your employees, and they also need to know about the products you use and how to manage them.