Items Tagged with 'ASA'

The Department of Agriculture is projecting a farm income boost for 2021, but growers are looking ahead to 2022 and worried about the role rising input costs will play in their bottom lines.

In this opinion piece, Stephen Censky with the American Soybean Association (ASA) discusses concerns about potential shortages of soybean oil.

Now that farmers and the companies and consultants who support them have embraced the need for field-level data collection and have adopted myriad methods for gathering it, ag leaders say the industry has reached the critical juncture of figuring out what to do with all that information.

Leaders of the American Soybean Association tasked the organization with action on climate, conservation and trade policy as part of the group’s recent policy process.

Serving as the CEO of a farmer-led nonprofit organization is never easy. But Ryan Findlay’s termination after a little more than two years as the CEO of the American Soybean Association has proven to be a head-scratcher in many ways.

Friday’s announcement of $19 billion in coronavirus-related direct payments and commodity purchases was welcome news in farm country, which is reporting a growing level of stress about the pandemic.

Christy Seyfert will lead the American Soybean Association’s Washington lobbying efforts in a move that finalizes the organization’s efforts to bring its government affairs in house.

The Department of Agriculture has awarded $100 million in commodity promotion funding as part of its $16 billion trade mitigation package.