Your Soy Checkoff, By Numbers
DECEMBER 2024 | VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2
Experts share tips for equipment, marketing and sustainability over the long winter months.
By IL Field & Bean Team
A new study commissioned by ISA examines why investing in Illinois' rural bridges is critical to maintaining our competitive role in the global marketplace.
By Todd Main
Why feed buyers love U.S. soy — and how to keep orders coming.
By Dr. Dominique Bureau, Stephen Gunther and Dr. Flavia M. Damasceno
Step inside the 2024 Soy Connext event, designed to position Illinois farmers to increase U.S. soy exports.
By Erin Worrell, Communications Manager, U.S. Soybean Export Council
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
By IL Field & Bean Team
By Stephanie Porter
ISA Perspectives
By Andrew Larson, ISA Director of Government Relations & Strategy
By Ron Kindred, ISA Chairman
By John Lumpe, ISA CEO
Don Guinnip, Clark County farmer, proposes that a sound, farmer-directed wheat program is good economically, environmentally, socially and politically.
By Don Guinnip
Recently, your Illinois soybean checkof was pleased to donate seven pallets - nearly ...
By IL Field & Bean Team
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
ISA’s Agronomy Team talks about what field trials can do for your farm — and why you shouldn’t wait to get started with the new On-Farm Trial Network.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Earlier this year, the ISA Market Development Committee traveled to Southeast Asia to explore soybean meal market opportunities for Illinois soybean farmers. Learn more about the team's eye-opening experience and the many ways ISA is tapping into international markets to increase demand for Illinois soybeans.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Earlier this year, the ISA Market Development Committee traveled to Southeast Asia to explore soybean meal market opportunities for Illinois soybean farmers. Learn more about the team's eye-opening experience and the many ways ISA is tapping into international markets to increase demand for Illinois soybeans.
By Eileen Pabst
By Stephanie Porter
By John Lumpe
By Bryan Severs
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
Join ISA Public Policy Manager Collin Cisco for an exploration of both federal and state estate taxes and learn how Illinois farmers should prepare.
By Collin Cisco
