Continuous Improvement
Iowa Soybean Association Receives 2020 U.S. Water Prize
The Iowa Soybean Association recently was awarded the 2020 U.S. Water Prize for Outstanding Nonprofit from the U.S. Water Alliance, recognizing their watershed analysis and…
Exports
Delivery Process Helps Get U.S. Soy to Buyers
This piece explains the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)’s delivery process.
Family farms
Ground Work: Planting and Soybean Breeding in Arkansas
For the past month, it has rained almost every third day in our area of Arkansas, in the south-central U.S. That has been just enough…
Water
Saturated Buffer Design Research Improves Water Quality
U.S. soybean farmers continuously investigate ways to improve their sustainability. In tiled fields, saturated buffers are one management practice that prevents nutrient loss as excess…
Water
U.S. Soy Farmers Use Water Monitoring Systems for Continuous Improvement
U.S. soybean farmers use innovative technology to continuously improve the sustainability of their crops. With support from qualified state soybean boards (QSSBs), farmers learn how…
Conservation Tillage
Different Paths, Same Goal: Sustainability is Universal Priority For U.S. Soybean Farmers Nationwide
What’s good for Iowa soybean farms may not be so great for Georgia soils. But one thing is certain: Farmers embrace the importance and value…
Water
Bioreactor Offers Learning Experience For Students
Interest in bioreactors is growing in Iowa if the field day at the Roger and Louise Van Ersvelde farm is any indication. The late August…
Water
Irrigation Innovation — Emerging Technologies can Improve Water Use Efficiency
Crops are thirsty. They use water to take in nutrients and facilitate processes to grow, flower and yield. And they are finicky. Each crop demands…
Water
The Faces of U.S. Soy Farming: Water Management
Having a consistent supply of high-quality, sustainably produced soybeans is vitally important to international soy buyers, and U.S. soy farmers are up to the challenge.…
Water
Flooding Rocks Upper Midwestern United States
Over the past two weeks, U.S. farmers have faced a major challenge as the upper Great Plains region has endured catastrophic flooding. In parts of…
Water
U.S. Soy Farmers Employ Conservation Drainage as Sustainability Practice
Conservation drainage helps U.S. Soy farmers to increase yields, conserve water, and reduce nutrient loss, while cutting amounts of nitrates in drainage water. This video…
Water
Farmers Conserve Natural Resources
Linda Burrier discusses how her family farm's focus on nutrient management and conservation helps conserve water and wildlife.
Water
Wetlands: Nature’s Kidneys
Wetlands are part of a biologically diverse ecosystem that helps U.S. Soy farmers to improve water quality on agricultural lands. Working wetlands help to remove…
Water
U.S. Soy Farmers Say Less Water is used to Produce Today’s Crops
Nebraska soybean farmers explain how farmers today use less water to grow more. Today’s growers know that soils need a certain amount of water and…
Water
Bioreactors: Another Instrument in U.S. Soy Farmers’ Sustainability Toolkits
Wood-chip bioreactors work with tile drainage to help reduce the amount of nitrates in water leaving farms. Bacteria living in the wood chips convert nitrates…
Sustainability
Soy Sustainability: Managing Water Use and Quality
For soybean farmers, water management encompasses much more than droughts and floods that make headlines. “We only have a certain amount of fresh water available,”…
Water
Balancing Productivity and Stewardship
Irrigation is just one of the practices U.S. soybean farmers use to increase their yields - and their sustainability. The United Soybean Board spoke with an…
Water
Ohio Farmers Mindful of Water Quality
The Stickel brothers have always been mindful of the value and importance of preserving water quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Together, Andy who…
Water
U.S. Soy Farmers Strive to Reduce Water Use
Innovations in irrigation techniques help U.S. Soy growers to use less water. This story from Mississippi State University Extension Service highlights how the Row-crop Irrigation…
Water
Tiling is Important to U.S. Soybean Farmers’ Water Management Plan
All farmers know that rain is a good thing – in moderation. But what do we do when it rains too much? Many of us…
Sustainability
When it comes to Water Quality Protection, Delaware Farmers Take the Job Seriously
Many people think of the ground when they think about sustainability. But U.S. soybean growers are very aware of the important role that water also…
Conservation Tillage
Sustainable U.S. Farming Practices by the Numbers
Conservation and sustainable farming practices are practically as old as U.S. agriculture itself. Sustainability is, by its very definition, integral to the farmers who care…
Biotechnology
The Surprising Link Between GMOs and the Chesapeake Bay
The U.S. soy industry benefits when it promotes methods of innovation and sustainability, and the soy checkoff works to identify and address market access issues…
Cover Crops
Cover Crops Promote Soil Health and Environmental Benefits
U.S. soybean farmers employ various sustainability methods including cover crops. Some cover crop benefits include increasing soil microbes, increasing water infiltration, reducing the amount of…
Cover Crops
Precision Agriculture: Finding the Right Recipe for Sustainable Farming
Raising four boys on the farm means a lot of groceries and a lot of hungry kids to feed. Just as I carefully measure…
Water
U.S. Soy Farmers Prioritize Water Conservation
When it comes to sustainable farming practices, there’s no “one size fits all” solution. What works for one farm might not be a fit for…
End Users
10 Facts about U.S. Sustainable Agriculture
The United States has been practicing conservation and sustainability long before they became the issues they are today. Here are 10 facts about U.S. sustainable…
Water
Farmer Practices Protect Community Water
Water is on my mind constantly. I think about the streams and creeks that run through my community and carry water to our lakes and…
Water
Taking Water Management to the Fields: How We Manage our Greatest Resource
The sun is blazing. Sweat is rolling down your back. Your hair is sticking uncomfortably to your neck. So what do you do? Why, reach…
Water
Water Conservation Highlighted by National Geographic
Global magazine spotlights one of the production practices that make U.S. soybean farmers the most sustainable in the world U.S. soybean farmers are among the…