Thanks to a bold advocacy effort from the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA), another step was made in the right direction toward a budding trade relationship between the United States and Uzbekistan. In November 2024, MSGA Executive Director Joe Smentek…
November 20, 2024
In a win for agricultural advocacy, a port strike at 36 containerized shipping and roll-on/roll-off terminals from Maine to Texas was called off Oct. 3 after just two days. For several months, the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International…
October 9, 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
What’s old is new again at the Port of Duluth. “You don’t see elevators like this anymore,” Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA), said during a look inside the port’s Hansen-Mueller Terminal A. “This facility is…
August 15, 2024
Jamie Beyer, a director with the American Soybean Association (ASA), participated in a Nutrition and Purchasing Conference in July 2024 in Bogota, Colombia, alongside industry leaders and Spanish-speaking buyers from Mexico, Central America and South America. Due to a busy…
July 24, 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
Minnesota farmers manage plenty of obstacles on the path to profitability. Weather issues, geopolitical strife, damaging legislation, just to name a few. But what they don’t have to deal with is getting killed while maintaining their crop. Bob Worth, president…
December 5, 2023
