When your farm resides in the far southwest corner of Minnesota, having a voice in St. Paul when you can’t always be there is one of the main reasons Lyle Rollag finds his Minnesota Soybean Growers Association membership valuable. “Having…
April 4, 2018
Following China’s announcement of a proposed 25 percent tariff on imported U.S. soybeans, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) is expressing its extreme displeasure about the escalation of a trade war with the largest customer of U.S. soybeans, and calling…
April 4, 2018
Karson Duncanson came back to his home farm in 2006 by creating a custom finishing hog enterprise, and formed a cash crop partnership with his brother, Kameron, in 2017.
March 27, 2018
Earlier this month, a couple of representatives of the Minnesota Ag Water Quality Certification Program traveled to the Skaug farm outside of Beltrami to present Mike and his son, Ryan, with a couple of signs signifying the farm’s compliance with…
March 22, 2018
Minnesota Soybean Growers Association directors took to St. Paul Wednesday to talk priorities with Minnesota legislators, including Section 179 allowance conformity, buffer compensation, biodiesel and the ever-popular Nitrogen Fertilizer Rule.
March 22, 2018
Minnesota Soybean Growers Association (MSGA) President Michael Petefish and MSGA Director of Public Affairs Joe Smentek testified before the Minnesota House Agriculture Policy Committee Thursday on the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) proposed Nitrogen (N) fertilizer rule.
March 18, 2018
American Soybean Association (ASA) and Minnesota Soybean Growers Association Director Joel Schreurs shared a flight from Minneapolis to Washington D.C. with Rep. Collin Peterson this week, and received a heads-up that 2018 Farm Bill talks were hitting a snag over funding for…
March 16, 2018