American Soybean Association Responds to Fertilizer Companies Scale Back

American Soybean Association (ASA) President Scott Metzger said, “This unsettling news from Mosaic comes at a time when U.S. soybean farmers are facing major economic headwinds, and neither the skyrocketing cost nor the availability of inputs – like phosphate fertilizer – are helping ease those challenges. This is the worst time possible for Mosaic to decrease domestic phosphate production. High …

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How Soybeans Became America’s Leading Crop

The Rise of Soybeans in U.S. Agriculture Soybeans may seem ubiquitous in today’s American agriculture, but their widespread cultivation is a relatively recent phenomenon. According to Mark Oppold, host of American Agriculture History Minute, soybeans were not widely grown in the United States until the early 1930s. World War II and the Soybean Boom The rapid rise of soybeans in …

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American Winter Conference In Washington DC

National Peanut Board and American Peanut Council to Host Winter Conference in Washington, D.C. The National Peanut Board (NPB) — the farmer-funded checkoff program dedicated to promoting U.S. peanuts at home and abroad — has announced details for its upcoming Winter Conference, held December 9–11 in Washington, D.C. The event will be conducted in partnership with the American Peanut Council, …