This story was first featured in the September – October 2018 issue of Soybean Business. Click here to read the online version of the magazine. Will a red wall hold back the blue wave? Once known as flyover country, political…
October 11, 2018
In early October, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) signed on to an Amicus Curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case for the petition for review of an order of the Environmental Protection Agency regarding…
October 11, 2018
The Office of Administrative Hearings issued its report on the proposed Groundwater Protection Rule, formerly known as the Nitrogen Fertilizer Rule, concluding that the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) may move forward with the proposed rule with a few required…
October 4, 2018
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Rural Finance Authority reminds beginning farmers to apply by Nov. 1, 2018 for the tax credit for the sale or lease of land, equipment, machinery, and livestock. To qualify, the applicant must be a Minnesota…
October 3, 2018
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this week launched the trade mitigation package aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to trade retaliation by foreign nations. The sign-up period for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) opened on Sept. 4…
September 6, 2018
Nearly two decades after the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association held its first meeting in a restaurant in Sleepy Eye, Minn., then-MSGA President Chris Tiegum hatched a plan. At the time, the American Soybean Association restructured its organization to accommodate state…
September 5, 2018
The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association appreciates President Trump and his administration for trying to ease the burden to farmers while his administration engages in a trade war with U.S. trading partners. “Right now, farmers are hurting, and this aid will…
August 27, 2018
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details regarding actions the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation by foreign nations. President Donald J. Trump directed Secretary Perdue…
August 27, 2018