A national TV segment highlighting cutting-edge checkoff investments from the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) earned a bronze award during the 2020 Telly Awards. “It was a pleasant surprise to learn we won this award,” says MSR&PC Chair…
May 28, 2020
Negotiations between U.S. and U.K. trade officials have begun in the wake of the of United Kingdom (U.K.) formally exiting the European Union (E.U.) on Jan. 31, 2020, with food and agriculture being the primary focus for new trade deals.…
May 28, 2020
Even a global pandemic isn’t stopping the Ag Innovation Campus from continuing to push forward ahead of its upcoming groundbreaking. In April, Jim Lambert was tabbed as project manager and will serve as point person while the regional crush and…
May 27, 2020
Written by Brandon Wipf, a South Dakota farmer and director with the American Soybean Association Stress. Worry. Anxiety. Words with which many ag producers have become all too familiar over the years. With recent depressed prices, bad weather, trade wars…
May 26, 2020
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced May 21 additional progress in the implementation of the agriculture-related provisions of the U.S.-China “Phase One” Economic and Trade Agreement (The Agreement), which entered…
May 21, 2020
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is pleased to see the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) announce a final rule updating and modernizing its biotechnology regulations under the Plant Protection Act. The Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) rule significantly…
May 21, 2020
No two legislative sessions are created equal. That maxim has never been more true than in 2020, as a global pandemic upended business as usual in St. Paul. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA)…
May 21, 2020
