Quality

Quality U.S. Soyfood Beans: Planting Food-Grade Soybeans in Ohio

Jeff Magyar|May 17, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Round-the-Clock Planting in Kentucky

Caleb Ragland|May 10, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Planting Soybeans in Michigan

Laurie Isley|May 10, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Planters Rolling in Iowa

Tim Bardole|May 3, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Preparing New York State Fields

Ralph Lott|Apr 26, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Illinois Planting Underway

Daryl Cates|Apr 26, 2021

Mid-April brought spring rains and below average temperatures to my area along the Mississippi River, in the heart of the United States midwest. The Mississippi…

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Ground Work 2021: Making Progress Between Alabama Rains

Wendy Yeager|Apr 16, 2021

We have gotten quite a bit of rain this spring. That means our fields are wet, so getting them ready for planting is going slower…

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Ground Work 2021: Getting Kentucky Fields Ready to Plant

Caleb Ragland|Apr 9, 2021

March brought plenty of rain to our area of central Kentucky, in the southern United States. We have been repairing waterways in our rolling fields…

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Ground Work 2021: Spring Preparation and Sustainability in Michigan

Laurie Isley|Apr 8, 2021

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…

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Ground Work 2021: Iowa Planting Preparation Dictated by 2020 Derecho

Tim Bardole|Apr 1, 2021

On August 10, 2020, our farm was hit by a derecho, a fast-moving storm with straight-line winds that reached speeds over 160 kilometers per hour, or 100 miles per hour. It was described…