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Whether here at home or across our borders and overseas, improving market access for biotech, conventional and identity-preserved U.S. soy will impact our ability to meet the growing need for soy. Improved market access could also determine what kind of future will exist for your sons and daughters and others who will make up future generations of U.S. soybean farmers. Breaking down existing barriers, and preventing the building up of new ones, can help ensure the profitability and future of the entire U.S. soy industry and its ability to help feed a hungry, growing world.

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With a growing global population that has a greater appetite for protein, agriculturists across the world strive to figure out how to meet this demand. Can U.S. farmers find an opportunity in what some believe could be a huge problem? The United States has the resources to play an important role as a top agricultural exporter and supplier of food for the growing world, if we can resolve the potential barriers.

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Cover Story
Growing Population Challenges U.S. Farmers
With a growing global population that has a greater appetite for protein, agriculturists across the world strive to figure out how to meet this demand. Can U.S. farmers find an opportunity in what some believe could be a huge problem? The United States has the resources to play an important role as a top agricultural exporter and supplier of food for the growing world, if we can resolve the potential barriers.
03.09.2010
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Consumers Benefit from Biotechnology Improvements to Soybeans
U.S. soybean farmers play a large role in helping to feed the world. To continue, U.S. soybean farmers need to be able to use all tools available to increase yields sustainably.
03.04.2010
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National Food Check-Out Week
In partnership with the American Farm Bureau Federation _AFBF_, the soybean checkoff helped carry out the 2010 National Food Check-Out Week February 21-27 celebrating the abundance and safety of food in the U.S. This year, in recognition of the current economic conditions, the focus was “Stretching Your Food Dollar with Healthy, Nutritious Food.”
03.10.2010
Behind The Board
Sharon Covert On Educating Urban Audiences
Sharon Covert, a soybean farmer and USB director from north-central Illinois, has volunteered hundreds if not thousands of hours both here at home and abroad to increase demand for U.S. soybeans and educate consumers about the benefits of soy
03.05.2010
State And Main
State And Main
Thirty Qualified State Soybean Boards invest checkoff dollars to benefit soybean farmers. If you don’t see your state below, look for it to be part of the rotation in a future issue.
03.11.2010
Soy Facts at a Glance
Growing Strong
Two million U.S. farms feed a domestic population nearly four times larger than in 1900, when farmers operated 5.7 million farms and constituted 38 percent of our labor force. Today, farmers make up less than 2 percent of the population.
03.05.2010
Fence Post
What Should Consumers Know About Your Efforts to Help Feed the World
“Not only am I a farmer, but I am also a consumer. I am concerned about all the same things that consumers are concerned about because my family eats from the same food supply. Everything farmers do from farm-gate to plate is to produce a readily available, fairly priced, quality food supply that is safe for the consumer and the environment” – Allen Armstrong, Ohio, soybean farmer
03.05.2010
Online Spotlight
Biotechnology at a Click
The soybean checkoff launched a new biotechnology page late last year within the USB Web site, developed as a source for reference materials and research on agricultural biotechnology.
03.05.2010
Global Spotlight
A Profitable Partnership
As the U.S. pork industry continues to suffer through tough times, several soybean checkoff organizations decided to devote additional financial support to an international marketing program designed to boost pork exports.
03.05.2010
Bean Talk
A Call for Unity
In the middle of the 20th century, experts predicted famine and starvation, but they turned out to be wrong – because they did not predict Norman Borlaug. He not only showed humanity how to get more food from the earth – he proved that farming has the power to lift up the lives of the poor.
03.05.2010
Field Force
Premiums That Pay
The process of matching buyers of specialty soybeans with U.S. farmers willing to grow them can sometimes be difficult. One state soybean checkoff program launched a Web site to help.
03.05.2010
Rural Snapshot
Modern Technology Helps Me Continue my Familys Legacy
Rural Snapshots is a new feature in Beyond the Bean® and a chance for you to show us and the rest of your fellow soybean farmers what’s happening on your farms. Do you have photos of a unique way you do things on your farm?
03.05.2010
Feed Focus
Straight to Video Checkoff-produced Videos Share Some Straight Talk About Animal Agriculture
Videos seem to constantly spring up on YouTube and in media outlets that tend to show mostly a negative side of animal agriculture. To show the general public the truth behind U.S. poultry and livestock production, the soybean checkoff developed a three-part series of videos on different aspects of animal agriculture.
03.04.2010
Inner Bean
The Quality Combination
Each year, U.S. soybean farmers must address all the demands of their various customers. And customers exist far beyond just the local elevator. One demand proves to be soybeans with high levels of oil and protein, suitable for high-protein meal. To ensure that U.S. soybeans meet oil and protein levels customers demand, the soybean checkoff funds an annual crop quality survey and has conveyed results to major international customers.
03.09.2010
Market Sense
Market Volatility Is Here to Stay
As we get ready for planting season, don’t let up on monitoring markets and looking for opportunities to better market your 2010 soybean crop. The last three years have been a roller coaster for all crop markets. Soybean markets have seen record acreage, yields and prices. Many different factors drove prices: record exports and biodiesel demand, diminished crop stocks and planting delays, to name a few. Some of these factors have diminished, but prices still remain above historical averages.
03.05.2010
Farm Feature
Stewards of the Land Sustainable Production Pays Off for Indiana Farm Family
Jerry Rulon is quick to say that everything in agriculture has changed since he started out as a farmer 50 years ago. Like most farms, the Rulons’ acreage, yields and equipment have burgeoned. But it’s changes under the surface that impress Jerry the most.
03.05.2010
Bean Progress
Soy Carpet Backing Goes Residential
So you think once you get inside your house you’re away from your soybeans? Think again. Soy can play a part in your home as well. Soy-based carpet backing has been used in commercial applications for several years, but late last year soy carpet backing came home.
03.05.2010
From the USB Chairman
From the USB And Soybean Checkoff Chairman
Spring is a time of opportunity to plant a new crop and enthusiastically commit to a renewed effort to make a strong industry stronger. The close to 70 U.S. soybean farmers who serve with me on the United Soybean Board _USB_ have already started a renewal process by evaluating and, if necessary, changing the way we do business.
03.05.2010
2010-2nd_Quarter
2010-2nd Quarter
04.01.2010
Feed Focus
Living with Animal Ag
Claims stating that proximity to large animal agriculture operations caused health problems number in the thousands and are difficult to prove and evaluate.
06.25.2010
Market Sense
Ag Jobs Decline with Economy
One major consequence of the global economic collapse of the past two years has been an increased unemployment rate. The U.S. unemployment rate jumped from 5 percent in December 2007 to 10.1 percent in October 2009 and has only fallen slightly since that time. It is critical for economic recovery in the United States that unemployment rates continue to fall.
06.25.2010
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Checkoff Helps Teachers Educate About Biotechnology
With the introduction of a new Web site to help educators and students learn more about biotechnology, the United Soybean Board _USB_ and the soybean checkoff have begun to reach students as they form their first opinions on this area of science.
07.19.2010