Making It In The Americas
Minnesota farmers understand the value of exports as over half of the state’s bean production is sold out of the country. But not all exports that are important to soybean farmers are in the form of a soybean.
Feature Stories
Seeing is Believing
Over half of Minnesota-grown soybeans are exported. More than a quarter of those beans go to markets in China, making them our single largest soybean export customer. Even armed with the knowledge of China’s market importance, dozens of Minnesota farmers now have an even broader understanding of the market’s magnitude, potential and the work that has gone into cultivating it.
Weed Control Gets More Complicated
Three years ago, Jonathan Wolff of Wood Lake, Minn., noticed that Roundup wasn’t controlling the weeds on a 300-acre farm he rents. The farm is fertilized with manure from a local dairy. The problem weeds, mostly waterhemp with some pigweed and lambsquarter, have been particularly hard to control in soybeans.
Building a Movement for Farming and Ranching
Food production is the basis of nearly all farming efforts in Minnesota. Industrial uses and biofuel markets provide vital outlets for Minnesota’s agricultural products, but farming’s primary focus is on food.
Quality Bean Management
Green plants aren’t the only things popping up in farms and fields across Minnesota. So too are gleaming silver grain bins as more and more farmers are building capacity and are taking on the task of storing and marketing their own grain. Both the bins and responsibility are getting bigger.
President’s Letter
2013 China See For Yourself Trip
I’m writing this in the middle of the night, sitting in a Boeing 747 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on a return flight from our Minnesota Soybean See For Yourself Trip to China.
Miscellaneous
The R.E.A.L. Story
May-June 2013 Updates
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