In this issue…
This growing season, soy is projected to overtake corn when it comes to acres.
The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) prospective plantings report, released March 31, estimates a record 91 million acres of soybeans will b...
Two organizers working to normalize mental health assistance for farmers across Indiana want you to understand that if you worry someone you’re close to might be considering suicide, but you fear asking about it might push them to do it – that is...
Dr. Scott Hutchins, Ph.D., who serves as the Sustainability and Value Creation Consultant for the Indiana Corn Marketing Council (ICMC) and the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA), was given the opportunity to share his thoughts in how he is guiding the s...
Indiana corn growers earned first place honors in three categories of the 2021 National Corn Growers Yield Contest. In all, six Hoosier farmers were among the top three finishers of the nine categories of the National Corn Growers Association’s ann...
Created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1975, the Indiana Grain Buyers and Warehouse Licensing Agency (IGBWLA) is established to administer the Indiana Grain Buyers and Warehouse Licensing and Bonding Law (IC § 26-3-7). IGBWLA’s responsibilitie...
Last year, U.S. soybean farmers grew nearly one-third of the soybeans in the global market. To ensure U.S. Soy retains access to a quickly changing, consumer-driven market, five state soybean checkoff groups jointly funded an effort designed to help ...
With the release of the U.S. Grains Council’s (USGC’s) Corn Export Cargo Quality Report taking place in the spring, let’s take a look back at Indiana grower and Council Vice Chairman Josh Miller’s role in a recent Corn Harvest Quality Report ...
Two Indiana farm leaders listened with interest to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack as he addressed farmers as the keynote speaker at the annual Commodity Classic in New Orleans, La., on March 12. Indiana Soybean Association Membership and Policy (M&P) Cha...
from Indiana Corn & Soybean Post - Spring 2022 by Indiana Soybean Alliance & Indiana Corn Marketing Council BY SUSAN HAYHURST Mike Koehne, a first-generation farmer, is committed to advocating for agriculture. He has sought...
Following a 2021 legislative session that commenced in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 session welcomed back a sense of normalcy. Legislators returned to their respective chambers in 2022 with virtually no pandemic-related restrictions....
It was like a scene out of a Hollywood movie. Just as it looked as though the oil industry had succeeded in ending consumer access to higher levels of ethanol – a biofuel that is environmentally friendly and cuts gas prices – during the summer mo...
It seems you can’t open a news outlet without reading about how the demand for U.S. soy is rising to record levels. While growers begin planting to meet this demand domestically and internationally, the American Soybean Association and its farmer l...
On April 12, President Biden visited an ethanol plant in Iowa to announce that he was approving a waiver to allow E15 gasoline – gasoline that uses a 15 percent ethanol blend – to be sold this summer. Without the waiver, regular U.S. gasoline wou...
Farming, like a lot of things in life, requires trust. We trust that there will be enough dry days in the spring to get a crop in the ground. We trust that our equipment will hold out long enough to get the job done. We trust that the seed varieties ...
The Indiana Corn Growers Association (ICGA) thanks President Biden for approving a waiver to allow E15 gasoline – gasoline that uses a 15 percent ethanol blend – to be sold this summer.
A soybean-based mulch and playground surface won the $20,000 top prize at the 28th annual Student Soybean Innovation Competition awards ceremony on Wednesday at the Purdue University Memorial Union.
As National Biodiesel Day approaches on March 18, the B20 Club of Indiana and the Indiana Soybean Alliance want to give special recognition to all the organizations that have made the choice to support cleaner air and a lower carbon footprint through...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture appointed Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) Board Chair Jim Douglas, a farmer from Flat Rock, Ind., as one of nine new directors to the United Soybean Board (USB) on Wednesday afternoon. Douglas replaces Mark Seib, a f...