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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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From the USB Chairman
From the USB And Soybean Checkoff Chairman 19
Hopefully, by now, all your soybeans are in the ground. They won’t stay there long. In a few months, we’ll ship about every other row of our crop to a different country. Have you ever looked at a map of the world and wondered how your soybeans might make their way from your farm to a feed mill in Vietnam? Or a tofu plant in Japan? Or a fish farm in China?
08.31.2010
Soy Facts at a Glance
Why Market Access Matters
All around the world barriers are being erected that stop your soy from tapping into valuable markets. Take this quiz and find out why market access matters to you.
06.25.2010
Fence Post
What Internet tools do you use to help manage your farming operation
“We do some pricing of commodities online. It certainly helps us keep as up-to-date as possible. We also buy and sell equipment online. It opens up a lot of barriers as far as distance and availability. We can do a better job of making sure we are getting the best deals possible.” ~Woody Green, South Carolina soybean farmer
06.25.2010
Global Spotlight
Growing Asian Economy Sparks Demand for U.S. Soy
By unloading just one ship, Vietnam recently imported more U.S. soybean meal in one day than it did in all of the last marketing year. After importing the U.S. soybean meal equivalent of less than 350,000 bushels of whole soybeans in all of marketing year 2008-09, Vietnam in recent months welcomed the largest single shipment of U.S. soymeal in that country’s history, a haul of more than 2.2 million bushels worth.
06.25.2010
Bean Talk
Biotech Benefits Environment
By allowing farmers to cut back on tillage trips and crop protection products, biotech crops enhance the sustainability of agricultural production. A new report funded by the soybean checkoff and compiled by the Conservation Technology Information Center _CTIC_ proves the environmental benefits of biotechnology.
06.25.2010
Online Spotlight
Soybean Social Media Tools
This year the soybean checkoff launched a series of social media tools on the Internet meant to keep soybean farmers up to date on information from the checkoff.
06.25.2010
Field Force
Yielding More From Less
A recent soybean checkoff-funded study proves the U.S. soybean industry continues to reduce the size of its environmental footprint. The independent life-cycle profile study, using data from 2001-2007, shows U.S. soybean farmers and processors reduced greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage, compared with the previously used data from 1998-2001.
06.25.2010
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
Inner Bean
The Protein Slide
Oil and protein: the two products derived from U.S. soybeans that customers demand when they buy U.S. soybeans.
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
farmfeature
Arkansas Farmer Gives Back
Like many farmers, Ellis Bell proudly reminisces about his days showing livestock in 4-H. “I’ve always loved farming. I always wanted my hogs and cattle to be the best that they could be,” he says, his eyes fixed in the same contemplative gaze as an age-worn photograph of young Ellis leading a curly-haired Hereford past a mechanical cotton picker.
06.25.2010
Behind The Board
Getting the Most Out Of Your Checkoff Investment with Jim Stillman
Jim Sillman, a soybean farmer and USB officer from northwest Iowa, works hard to ensure that soybean checkoff dollars are invested wisely.
06.25.2010
Bean Progress
From Our Fields to Theirs
As you sit down to watch your favorite sports teams this year, know that as a soybean farmer you may be playing an integral part in the game. That’s because soy-based turf backing can be found on many sports fields across the country incorporated into AstroTurf®.
06.25.2010
Cover Story
Breaking Down Trade Barriers
Overcoming restrictions, regulations and other barriers that hold back your international sales.
06.25.2010
State And Main
State and Main 19
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.
07.15.2010
*ONLINE ONLY*
Ag Myths Busted
We read them every day, see them on the news and sometimes even hear them repeated by our own friends and family – ag myths.
07.19.2010
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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
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07.19.2010