Growing Soy Markets Abroad
United Soybean Board (USB) International Marketing Chair Wants Checkoff to Sell More Soy Abroad
Illinois soybean farmer Sharon Covert, who chairs the national soy checkoff’s International Marketing (IM) program, says USB farmer-directors have been hard at work tackling big issues such as sustainability, biotechnology and how they impact market access for U.S. soy abroad. Covert, who farms soybeans and corn in Tiskilwa, Ill., says the checkoff continues to make progress maintaining and improving market access in key areas of the globe to support U.S. soybean farmers’ sales outside of the United States.
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Read MoreSoy Checkoff Helps Chinese Commit to Buying Billions Worth of U.S. Soy
Agricultural leaders from China committed to purchasing more than $6 billion worth of U.S. soybeans during signing ceremonies that the United Soybean Board (USB) helped host at the World Food Prize Center in Des Moines, Iowa, and Los Angeles. The Chinese ...
Read MoreU.S. Soybean Farmers’ Voices Heard in Global Discussion
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Read MoreAquaculture Around the Globe
Feeding fish around the world is big business. So it makes sense for the soybean checkoff to support different activities to help give U.S. soy an edge as an alternative protein source in aquafeeds. Through the U.S. Soybean Export Council ...
Read MoreHungry, Hungry Customers
A growing number of people around the world are eating more meat today than in years past. As the global population and individual incomes rise, so, too, does demand for meat, which translates into more demand for quality animal feed ...
Read MoreA World of Profitability
Your biggest customers are truly a bunch of animals. Here at home, the poultry and livestock sector represents your biggest customer, and outside of the United States it’s no different. The growth in international poultry and livestock production goes hand ...
Read MoreNew world frontiers
Every U.S. farmer’s investment to maintain and increase the profit potential of growing soybeans occurs well beyond the local elevator or soybean processor. U.S. soy exports have grown steadily for the past 10 years. This growth, forecast by exporters and importers ...
Read MoreExports Help as U.S. Meat Sales Drop
U.S. livestock farmers, with the help of organizations such as the checkoff, have found one way to combat the weak economy’s effect on domestic meat sales – exports. According to the Livestock Marketing Information Center, consumption of meat dropped one ...
Read MoreConnecting the dots between soybeans and energy
The Global Opportunities program update of the soybean meal market explains the linkages that have developed with energy markets. These relationships have altered price forecasting in the vegetable oil arena especially. A lot can change in four years, so the soybean ...
Read MoreUSB Mission/Exports
To increase demand and create new markets for U.S. soy across the globe.
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