Soybeans

Delegates wrote history at the 97th Illinois FFA State Convention with the vote to add a sentinel to the FFA officer team that now includes six members.

Clay Geyer is balancing working on the farm, promoting corn-husking competitions and much more this summer.

It has been almost a month since we finished planting corn and soybeans, and now we are praying for a measurable rainfall and sunny days to stimulate growth.

With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final herbicide and insecticide strategies now in place, those guidelines will now be used on labels for both new products and those due for re-registration.

A research team is in its second year looking at how conservation practices can affect crop productivity and profitability.

The recently implemented U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new Final Insecticide Strategy drew support from various agriculture groups for its “commonsense” approach and efforts to work with stakeholders.

The Dave and Donna Scanlon family was proud to receive the Hoosier Homestead Award in recognition of more than 100 years of agricultural heritage.

The Star in Agricultural Placement award will be presented during the Stars Over Illinois ceremony on Wednesday, June11.

Five district winners for the Star Farmer award will be honored on the stage of the Illinois FFA State Convention.

In February 2018, this space outlined my assessment of Congress’s meandering approach to the overdue farm bill. It was a waste of ink.

It took just short of four weeks for Dan Parker to finally get the last seed in the ground.

The 2025 High Performance Low Carbon Liquid Fuels Summit was held in Indianapolis, where attendees learned about the potential of corn-based ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel.

A first-look at the 2025-2026 crop balance sheet was rolled out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Most of the crops are planted in the northern two-thirds of Illinois, but multiple bouts of heavy rains in the southern part of the state have slowed many farmers to a standstill.

Sangamon and Macon counties had the top average corn and soybean yields, respectively, in 2024.

The Riskedal family uses regenerative agricultural practices on their farm where they grow corn, soybeans and wheat along with feeding cattle for a freezer beef enterprise.

Farmer Dan Glessing isn’t ready to get too upset over President Donald Trump’s trade wars.

Because of all the rain we have experienced in southeastern Indiana, we are only 30% complete with our bean acres and haven’t gotten any corn in the ground yet.

The opening lines in a recent farmdocDAILY post should have raised an eyebrow or two among farm bill geeks both in and out of Congress.

This is the first in a series of columns featuring conversations with state Farm Bureau presidents about current issues in agriculture.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts soybean ending stocks will decrease 16%, or 55 million bushels less than 2024, and corn ending stocks will increase 27%, or 385 million bushels from 2024.

The Illinois Soybean Association announced the launch of the SpringBoard Seed Funding Challenge, an initiative designed to find new uses for soy by identifying and supporting early-stage innovations in soy-based, non-food applications.

New crop corn and soybean ending stock estimates were lower than pre-report trade expectations in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s supply and demand report.

We are about one-third done with planting. So far, Morris has been wetter this year, but we do have some beans planted there.

After two bitter tariff wars in less than a decade, China now sees Brazil as a better long-term bet for groceries than the United States.

I’ve got my bean crop planted into green standing cereal rye that had been sprayed just the day previous. It went into great soil conditions.

There are good days and bad days — and Wednesday was the latter at Ropp Jersey Cheese.

Planting season went smoothly for Craig Swartz and his father, Gary, and was wrapped up in record fashion.

Heading into this year, most U.S. farmers were hoping to break even or maybe record a small profit if they could find a way to limit their sky-high costs.

I have 100 acres of corn left to plant and maybe 80 acres of beans left. We’ve really been hitting it hard.

Founders Pledge announced a $1.02 million gift from an anonymous donor to fund the Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois for another year.

AgriNews is happy to welcome back Clay Geyer as northern Indiana’s From the Fields contributor for 2025.

Students at Grant Park learned how to “bend don’t break” during a project developed by the Grant Park FFA Chapter that focused on mental health.

Tours of the Peoria Next Innovation Center kicked off the premier Soybean Innovation Center SpringBoard Challenge.

Corn and soybeans are planted at the same time on the Henert farm.

If you are one of the millions of Americans who pollsters say “voted for change” last November, boy, are you getting it now.

Spring planting is just getting started, so hopefully we will not see any major breakdowns.

On any given day, Dan Parker could be advocating for agriculture with legislators, helping his daughters with 4-H projects, supporting the local FFA chapter, selling seed, or working on the farm.

As more than 1,000 FFA members and their teachers visited the Statehouse, a longtime advocate for those wearing the blue jackets reminisced about how the organization impacted his life.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture opened its monthly supply and demand estimates report with a caveat.

Meet Mindy Orschell, AgriNews’ new From the Fields contributor in southern Indiana.

Beck’s announced that construction is underway for a new 96,000-square-foot facility in south-central Minnesota, in addition to the existing research and breeding program base.

With all of the pieces of the puzzle already in place, an initiative is underway with a goal of making the Prairie State the ag-tech center of the world.

The Illinois Soybean Association has named six agronomic professionals to its 2025 IL Soy Envoy class.

Tags on bags of livestock feed must meet specific standards.

Corn and soybean stocks halfway through the marketing year were headed in different directions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly grain stocks report.

A unexpected reduction in corn ending stocks was among the few surprises in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s April supply and demand estimates report.

“I” state farmers intend to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring compared to last year, according to a prospective plantings report.

Beyond a comprehensive look at farmland values, the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers’ annual report also features other tidbits of interest in each Prairie State region.

Expectations a year ago that farmland prices have plateaued became reality through 2024 — and farm managers and rural appraisers expect more of the same this year.