The Future-Proofing Issue
FEBRUARY 2025 | VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4
Soil health mindset underpins efforts to boost productivity, sustainability and resilience.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Read more about your Illinois Soybean Association's project highlights, program developments and what's ahead in the FY24 Year End Report.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Rising costs on inputs like feed, fertilizers, fuel and labor, along with higher insurance premiums and inflated equipment prices, can make it difficult for farmers to make a profit. So what's a farmer to do?
By IL Field & Bean Team
For 50 years, NASA has helped farmers to boldly grow, bringing you innovations designed for space exploration that translate to field exploration.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Although it’s generally a growing part of every year’s crop budget, innovation is often an early exit from farmers’ wish lists in years when crop revenue slips and budgets tighten. Here's how to balance tech resources with reality.
By IL Field & Bean Team
By IL Field & Bean Team
ISA Perspectives
By Steve Pitstick, ISA District 2 Director
By John Lumpe, ISA CEO
The 2025 Soybean Summit is an expanded, two-day event designed to provide Illinois farmers with timely updates on a number of issues. Step inside!
By IL Field & Bean Team
Queen of the Field Meal, Deanne Frieders shares some of her favorite farmhouse holiday recipes.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Experts share tips for equipment, marketing and sustainability over the long winter months.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Join the ISA Agronomy Team at the Field Advisor Forum—a day dedicated to learning how your checkoff dollars are funding impactful agronomic research in Illinois and providing data-driven solutions for your farm.
By Stephanie Porter
ISA's newly updated Field Advisor platform brings the latest on-farm research together with weekly agronomic insights and news to help your operation improve yield and profitability.
By Jennifer Jones
This opinion piece authored by El Paso farmer, Rob Shaffer, explores our opportunity to build stable, reliable markets for Illinois crops that provide a sustainable return on our investments.
By Rob Shaffer
Get to know the members of the ISA Agronomy Team and how they're working on your behalf.
By Olivia Key
Join ISA Soy Envoy Eric Beckett, CCA, as he considers a rescue treatment of Liberty or glufosinate-containing herbicide to control waterhemp.
By Eric Beckett
Explore how St. Lawrence Seaway could get more Illinois soy to Europe.
By Eileen Pabst, ISA International Markets Manager, and Tim Rendall, ISA Domestic Markets Manager
By Jeff O'Connor, ISA At-Large Director
By John Lumpe, ISA CEO
By Eileen Pabst, ISA International Markets Manager
Learn what ISG is doing to ensure American tax dollars are invested in domestic industries that use domestic feedstocks - such as Illinois-grown soybeans - to ensure our energy independence.
By David Kubik
Corey Lacey, Ph.D., ISA Environmental Policy Manager, answers readers' top questions and breaks down the EPA's final herbicide strategy.
By Corey Lacey
Discover the many ways the Illinois Soybean Association has spent the last 60 years advancing biofuels, infrastructure and waterways transportation, and critical agronomic research - and what soybean farmers can expect in the coming years.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Hear from Stephen Censky, Chief Executive Officer of the American Soybean Association, about the ways ASA, ISA and other groups are working together to protect your farming freedoms.
By Stephen Censky
Get to know your ISA Government Relations Team, which is dedicated to advocating ...
By Olivia Key
Illinois Field & Bean Magazine spoke with select federal and state legislators ...
By IL Field & Bean Team
Jonathan Coppess of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign guest authors this perspective on the Farm Bill's impasse and the unlikelihood for reauthorization this year.
By Jonathan Coppess
The challenges farmers face every single day are tedious and time-consuming.
By IL Field & Bean Team