Quality U.S. Soyfood Beans: Planting Food-Grade Soybeans in Ohio
U.S. Soy produces high-quality soybeans for our customers. That includes the more than 4 million metric tons, or 148 million bushels, of food-grade soybeans the…
Ground Work 2021: Round-the-Clock Planting in Kentucky
It has been a strange spring. Much of April was cool and dry. However, by the last week of April, we started getting rains that…
Ground Work 2021: Planting Soybeans in Michigan
We are in full planting mode! We often have limited good days to plant our soybeans and corn, due to spring storms. That means when…
Ground Work 2021: Planters Rolling in Iowa
We are focused on planting both soybeans and corn right now. When we started planting, conditions were less than ideal. Soil temperatures were cooler than…
Ground Work 2021: Preparing New York State Fields
In mid-April, we received the rain we had been waiting for to provide some soil moisture. It came with cool temperatures. Our long-term forecast shows…
Ground Work 2021: Spring Preparation and Sustainability in Michigan
The unseasonably warm, dry March in our area of Michigan, in the eastern United States midwest, has us anxious to start planting, but it still…
Ground Work 2021: Working to Continuously Improve in New York State
New York state farmer Ralph Lott describes building custom strip-till equipment in a Ground Work 2021 update. He also shares how he makes soybean and…
Ground Work 2021: Meet New York Farmer Ralph Lott
Ralph Lott farms with his wife and two sons in New York State. He will share Ground Work 2021 updates on USSOY.org throughout the growing…
2020 Ground Work: Preparing for Next Season in Illinois
Illinois soybean farmer Elliott Uphoff shares his final 2020 Ground Work update about his cover crop experiment and preparation for the 2021 growing season.
2020 Ground Work: Ohio Weather Holds for Harvest but Limits Fall Fieldwork
Ohio soybean farmer Bill Bayliss shares a 2020 Ground Work update on finishing harvest and the impact of winter weather on fertilizing fields and seeding…