The American Soybean Association (ASA) has submitted comments to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research regarding the impact of the indirect land use and renewable biomass provisions in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) expanded Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS-2). ...
The American Soybean Association (ASA) recently led a Commodity Roundtable in Washington, D.C., where representatives from 19 national agricultural groups discussed how organizations representing American crop and livestock producers can work together on potential climate change legislation and current animal welfare issues....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ask an American living in the city about U.S. agricultural subsidies and he or she is sure to go on and on and about how U.S. farm policy is destroying the livelihoods of poor farmers around the world....
Perry Thompson, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in South Carolina, has announced that producers can now elect and enroll in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Pollen movement could be a primary factor for the spread of resistant Palmer pigweed in the Southeast and Mid-South, although other factors such as equipment movement, gin trash and flooding can also spread the weed and its seed, according to research....
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has announced county loan rates for 2009 crops of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans and other oilseeds (sunflower seed, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mustard seed, crambe and sesame seed)....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Since soybean rust was introduced in the fall of 2004 in the United States, Kentucky farmers have seen no yield loss as a result of the disease. ...
The soybean checkoff takes its investment of farmer checkoff dollars very seriously and as a result is continuously reviewing its own programs to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. ...
Syngenta Crop Protection has announced that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Section 3 registration for the use of Flexstar GT herbicide in glyphosate-tolerant soybeans....
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service will conduct a Request for Referendum among eligible soybean producers beginning on May 4, 2009 and continuing through May 29, 2009, to determine if producers want a referendum on the Soybean Checkoff Program. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Maybe U.S. soybean farmers won’t be planting soybeans in every nook and cranny after all. ...
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
According to the recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture Prospective Plantings Report, Kentuckians will produce more corn and soybeans, but less wheat this season....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting record soybean exports and lower ending stocks for old crop soybeans and corn. ...
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is celebrating more than a decade of diligent and persistent work on behalf of U.S. soybean farmers to advance global acceptance of new biotech soybean traits after LibertyLink soybeans (A2704-12) from Bayer CropScience received food safety approval from the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA). ...
Using priority issues established by the entire soy industry and feedback from U.S. soybean farmers, the United Soybean Board (USB) and the soybean checkoff have evaluated the checkoff’s current programs and selected the most critical areas on which to focus in the near future....
In early March, Florida farmers indicated that they intend to plant more corn and soybeans, but less wheat, cotton, and peanuts in 2009 than in 2008. ...
Using state-of-the-art genomics techniques, a team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University and Brazil have identified a cluster of soybean genes that provide resistance to the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, which causes Asian soybean rust....
Hearts everywhere received good news recently as more potential heart-health benefits for soy were announced....
The numbers are in and according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the value of the state’s agricultural exports for 2008 increased more than 27 percent over the 2007 total....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Working in a hot spot for soybean diseases keeps University of Tennessee plant pathologist Melvin Newman on his toes most of the time....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If numbers tell a story, then the latest “book” from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) tells an unsettling tale. For 2009, FAPRI’s well-respected analysts expect to see reductions in both crop and livestock receipts as well as a “modest turndown” in cost of production....
By Ginger Trice
University of Tennessee
The Web site devoted to Tennessee’s major field crops has a new design and some added features that researchers say will help the state’s producers better manage their 2009 crops....
You can’t blame Pioneer seed customers for not being able to tell all the company’s players without a program this spring....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Each year, soybean producers spend countless hours preventing and combating diseases that annually result in a 14 percent yield loss to the crop in the United States. ...
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The crop budget numbers don’t lie, and they’re telling growers to plant soybeans in 2009. ...
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