Showing U.S. Soy’s Sustainability One Farmer at a Time
Checkoff-funded project needs farmers’ help to tell sustainability story
Most U.S. soybean farmers know they operate sustainably, but some of our biggest customers don’t. The soy checkoff plans to change that trend.
A new example is an online tool developed through collaborative efforts of Midwest soybean farmers and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and vetted by the National Initiative for Sustainable Agriculture (NISA). It aims to compile information that could help maintain demand from customers who seek sustainably sourced food, feed, fiber and biofuel. University of Wisconsin Associate Professor A.J. Bussan ...
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 ...
Read MoreTelling 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 farmers have begun ...
Read MoreExtending 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 users in Japan ...
Read MoreTechnology 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 ...
Read MoreBiodiesel 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 the industry saw ...
Read MoreU.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 world population ...
Read MoreChanging 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 stay in business. U.S. soybean farmers ...
Read MoreNew 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 with prior studies that focused solely on individual ...
Read MoreJust 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 ...
Read MoreUSB Mission/Sustainability
To help improve the environmental footprint of the entire U.S. soybean industry, including raising awareness among farmers on why sustainability is important.
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