The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) continues to keep a close eye on the latest legislative developments in St. Paul as the 2024 legislative session enters its final weeks. By being proactive and supporting a lobbying team that stays abreast…
April 11, 2024
Demand is high for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) new Soil Health Financial Assistance Grant. MDA recently awarded 81 grants to individual producers, producer groups, and local governments to purchase or retrofit soil health equipment. The grants, which are…
April 4, 2024
Bob Worth, the president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA), isn’t one who gets nervous often during meetings with legislators and regulators. Twenty years of farmer advocacy at the state and national levels has had a calming effect. But…
April 4, 2024
No one said supporting the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) must be all work and no play. Sometimes, supporting MSGA’s advocacy efforts is as simple as teeing up a golf ball and smashing it down the fairway. OK, well that…
March 27, 2024
For U.S. soybean farmers, the trade war with China that began more than five years ago does not seem so distant — especially with tit-for-tat tariffs levied during that time technically still in place. Josh Gackle, who grows soybeans in…
March 20, 2024
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced the recipients of its 2024 Noxious Weed and Invasive Plant Grant. Eleven projects totaling $150,000 were awarded though the grant. The money awarded to cities, counties, townships, conservation districts and tribal nations…
March 19, 2024
The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) is mourning the passing of former President Bruce Schmoll, a beloved farmer leader who died March 16, 2024, at the age of 70. “Bruce was such a good leader and friend,” MSGA President Bob…
March 19, 2024
While Minnesota farmers make final preparations for the 2024 planting season, a team of directors met with federal legislators in Washington, D.C., on March 14 to underscore the urgent need to pass a new Farm Bill. “The Farm Bill truly…
March 14, 2024
Farmer leaders from the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) met in the Governor’s Reception Room on March 8 to discuss MSGA’s policy priorities with Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) Deputy Commissioner Andrea Vaubel. Including biofuels in…
March 11, 2024
Apparently, the adage is true: Everything really is bigger in Texas. For the second consecutive year, Commodity Classic, the nation’s largest agriculture conference and trade show, posted record attendance. More than 11,000 farm families, industry professionals and advocates gathered in…
March 2, 2024