During the 2024 legislative session, Minnesota lawmakers passed a supplemental bill in the second year of the biennium that will modify the definition of the state’s public waters. The bill also appropriated $8 million to the Department of Natural Resources…
October 16, 2024
If you can bet on anything at the 2025 MN Ag Expo, place your highest bid on hearing from a top-notch speaker who knows a thing or two about auction prices. Greg Peterson, better known as “Machinery Pete,” will take the stage Jan.…
October 2, 2024
In late September 2024, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) joined industry partners in submitting documents to EPA on its draft Insecticide Strategy, including a coalition comment letter and a grower/applicator petition, urging the agency to ensure the framework is…
October 2, 2024
In the wide world of advocacy, one meeting often leads to another. In September 2024, Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) Executive Director Joe Smentek and Kim Nill, director of Market Development with the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC),…
September 26, 2024
Applications for a new grant to help beginning Minnesota farmers purchase equipment and infrastructure through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will open later in September 2024. Farmers will be able to apply for up to $20,000 to reimburse costs…
September 12, 2024
The nation’s agriculture community is pulling together its resources to make another push to urge lawmakers to pass a new, bipartisan Farm Bill by the end of 2024. With the legislative calendar tightening up, leaders from the national soybeans, corn,…
September 11, 2024
Citing worsening economic conditions impacting the nation’s farmers, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) joined more than 300 national and state groups in sending a letter to congressional leaders on Sept. 9 calling on them to pass the Farm Bill before year’s…
September 10, 2024
In August 2024, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released new proposed modifications to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). In response to this proposal, which portends significant negative implications for soy-based biofuels, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) submitted…
August 28, 2024