About ISA | Illinois Soybean Association

The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) checkoff and membership programs represent more than 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois. The checkoff funds market development and utilization efforts while the membership program supports the government relations interests of Illinois soybean farmers at the local, state, and national level, through the Illinois Soybean Growers (ISG). ISA upholds the interests of Illinois soybean producers through promotion, advocacy, and education with the vision of becoming a market leader in sustainable soybean production and profitability.

Difference Makers: Javier Garcia Gonzalez, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)

Difference Makers: Javier Garcia Gonzalez, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)

Adding Value to Meat in Mexico

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05.11.20

The Advocacy Seeds We Plant

The Advocacy Seeds We Plant

Even with today’s unprecedented challenges, ISG is working to see results from the advocacy seeds we have been planting the last few years to improve trade.

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05.11.20

Keeping It All in Perspective

Keeping It All in Perspective

The soybean industry will prevail. Soy protein is a bright spot of food and feed growth.</body></html>

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05.11.20

Top Soybean Summit takeaways to support your essential role

Top Soybean Summit takeaways to support your essential role

With planting season right around the corner, there’s still a lot of work for us to do. The Illinois Soybean Association checkoff program continues to provide support to your essential work.

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04.16.20

AMP up on-farm business decisions for long-term profitability

AMP up on-farm business decisions for long-term profitability

By Doug Schroeder, Chairman, Illinois Soybean Association Board of Directors

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03.19.20

Difference Makers: Nathaniel Doddridge, Casey’s General Stores

Difference Makers: Nathaniel Doddridge, Casey’s General Stores

Casey’s General Stores received the Eye on Biodiesel Impact Award from the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) in 2019. Nathaniel Doddridge is Casey’s director of fuels.

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03.16.20

Pushing B20 for 2020 and Beyond

Pushing B20 for 2020 and Beyond

Favorable biodiesel legislation and regulations have been priorities for Illinois Soybean Growers (ISG) since the 1990s.

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03.16.20

Soy Fuels More Than Diesel Engines

Soy Fuels More Than Diesel Engines

If you could reduce expenses on your farm and support the soybean industry at the same time, you would probably use whatever cost-saving input was at your disposal, wouldn’t you?

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03.16.20

Repairs in waterway transportation support soybean export opportunities

Repairs in waterway transportation support soybean export opportunities

Trains, planes and automobiles; these are the modes of transportation we most often talk about. While important to infrastructure and the moving of people and goods, we can’t forget about another major method of transportation—water.

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02.20.20

Make a New Year’s Resolution to Manage Farm Risk

Make a New Year’s Resolution to Manage Farm Risk

We start each year with an idea of what we hope to achieve and how we want our businesses to operate. Although we can’t predict every factor that will affect our farms, we can start the year with a list of goals to shoot for.

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01.16.20

Difference Makers: Dr. Patrick Webb

Difference Makers: Dr. Patrick Webb

Partnering with Pork on African Swine Fever

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01.15.20

When Opportunity Looks Like Hard Work

When Opportunity Looks Like Hard Work

Katie Dowson is a dreamer, and a doer, too. She brought that dream to fruition in 2018 when she founded Seed Life, a full-service seed sales and seed treatment company in Virden, Ill

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01.15.20