Measuring Your Sustainability Performance Just Got Easier

Updated Tool Can Help You Meet Customer Demands for Sustainable Soy

Measuring Your Sustainability Performance Just Got Easier As it becomes more and more important for you to prove your sustainability performance to your customers, a newly updated tool makes it easier to measure that performance. The soybean checkoff supports Field to Market: The Keystone Alliance for Sustainble Agriculture and its updated Read More



Telling Our Sustainability Story

Telling Our Sustainability Story

Alabama soybean farmer David Wilson believes his fellow U.S. farmers have a great story to tell, and should tell it more often. Wilson, who chairs the USB Sustainability Initiative, recently ventured to Brazil and Argentina, where some farm......

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Extending a Helping Hand

Extending a Helping Hand

The United Soybean Board (USB) and the soybean checkoff continue to help those affected by the earthquake and resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan by assisting small businesses there in donating food to those in need. “Soy u......

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Technology Can Help You Save Fuel, Improve Farm Efficiency

Technology Can Help You Save Fuel, Improve Farm Efficiency

There’s a new generation of technology that can help you conserve fuel on the farm, and it has nothing to do with the engine in your tractors or combines. With diesel prices about 35 percent higher than a year ago, according to the U.S......

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Biodiesel back in business in 2011

To say the biodiesel industry faced challenges during the last two years would be an understatement, but the National Biodiesel Board’s (NBB) CEO, Joe Jobe, says things are moving in the right direction. The uncertainty and instability th......

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U.S. Aquaculture Guidelines Drafted

U.S. Aquaculture Guidelines Drafted

With more people learning about the benefits of including seafood in their diets, thanks in part to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2010 dietary guidelines, the demand for seafood is calculated to rise. In addition, a growing ......

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Changing Times on the Environmental Front

Changing Times on the Environmental Front

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has targeted agriculture in the mid-Atlantic in yet another attempt to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. With increased regulations come increased challenges for farmers in that area to s......

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New study shows benefits of rotating with soybeans

The study’s preliminary findings show corn-soybean rotations emit three times less harmful nitrous oxide (N2O) than continuous-corn rotations. One pound of N2O emissions is equivalent to 300 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. Compared......

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Just how sustainable are you?

Just how sustainable are you?

This spring, an updated version of the free Fieldprint Calculator will debut, helping farmers chart their sustainability footprint, or 'fieldprint,' with even more precision. The......

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How-to guide for on-farm sustainability

How-to guide for on-farm sustainability

In a recent soybean checkoff survey, 80 percent of farmers indicated they believe sustainable production will enhance their bottom-line profitability. The same survey showed farmers have made changes to their operating practices to do just ......

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