U.S. Soybean Farmers’ Voices Heard in Global Discussion

Aquaculture 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 (......

Hungry, 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 such a......

A 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 pr......

New 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, forec......

Exports 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 o......

Connecting 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 ......

Soy Demand is Growing All Over

Growth in demand for U.S. soybeans outpaces that of other major U.S. field crops, and the market promises to only get bigger. Some say the world will have to produce additional soybeans equivalent to the current production of Brazil, Paragu......

U.S. soy farmers poised for growth in global animal-feed industry

Livestock and poultry consume more than 70 percent of the soybeans worldwide, so understanding the global animal feed industry is vital to the soybean industry. That’s why the soybean checkoff’s Global Opportunities program funded a stu......

Milestones marked in China-U.S. trading relations

Much has been made of China’s seemingly insatiable demand for whole U.S. soybeans. Two key milestones passed in recent months that illustrate the strength of that ongoing relationship.

In November 2010 and January 2011, separate del......