2020 Ground Work: Gradual Start to Growing Season in Minnesota
Minnesota soybean farmer Jamie Beyer shares a 2020 Ground Work update, focusing on crop scouting, haylage, water quality projects and honeybees.
2020 Ground Work: Soil and Water Management in Arkansas
Arkansas soybean farmer Brad Doyle shares a 2020 Ground Work update on planting for his farm and Eagles Seed Company, including soil and water management.
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…
2020 Ground Work: Spring Preparation in Minnesota
Minnesota soybean farmer Jamie Beyer shares a 2020 Ground Work update on planting preparation on her farm, focusing on fertilizing, rolling fields and crop planting…
2020 Ground Work: Meet Brad Doyle
Throughout the 2020 growing season, USSOY.org will provide regular Ground Work updates from several U.S. soybean farmers around the country. Learn about their farms and…
U.S. Rivers and Ports Receive Large Increase in Funding
The Gulf of Mexico and coastal ports are the ultimate location for U.S. imports and exports, and so those locations will consume dredging dollars reserved…
Six Basics to Protect Water and Improve Soil
U.S. soybean farmers adopt management practices to continuously improve sustainability. A Delaware farmer, from the U.S. east coast, describes basic practices that protect water quality…
Olmsted Lock and Dam Plans Proceeding
Well-functioning waterways are crucial to U.S. infrastructure and the timely, reliable delivery of U.S. soybeans. For the Olmsted Lock and Dam project, the next steps…
Rail Raised Tariffs
The theory often floated by opponents of investing in the Inland Mississippi River System is that barge volume can easily be shifted to rail. In…
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…