For 50 years, NASA has helped farmers to boldly grow, bringing you innovations designed for space exploration that translate to field exploration.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Meet the distinguished leaders awarded this year's ISA Impact Awards. These individuals have been diligent in supporting our mission to invest in promotion, advocacy, research and education to create profit opportunities and drive preference for soy from Illinois.

By IL Field & Bean Team

The 2025 Soybean Summit is an expanded, two-day event designed to provide Illinois farmers with timely updates on a number of issues. Step inside!

By IL Field & Bean Team

Queen of the Field Meal, Deanne Frieders shares some of her favorite farmhouse holiday recipes.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Don Guinnip, Clark County farmer, proposes that a sound, farmer-directed wheat program is good economically, environmentally, socially and politically.

By Don Guinnip

Recently, your Illinois soybean checkof was pleased to donate seven pallets - nearly ...

By IL Field & Bean Team

Soil health mindset underpins efforts to boost productivity, sustainability and resilience.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Although it’s generally a growing part of every year’s crop budget, innovation is often an early exit from farmers’ wish lists in years when crop revenue slips and budgets tighten. Here's how to balance tech resources with reality.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Experts share tips for equipment, marketing and sustainability over the long winter months.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Join the ISA Agronomy Team at the Field Advisor Forum—a day dedicated to learning how your checkoff dollars are funding impactful agronomic research in Illinois and providing data-driven solutions for your farm.

By Stephanie Porter

ISA's newly updated Field Advisor platform brings the latest on-farm research together with weekly agronomic insights and news to help your operation improve yield and profitability.

By Jennifer Jones

This opinion piece authored by El Paso farmer, Rob Shaffer, explores our opportunity to build stable, reliable markets for Illinois crops that provide a sustainable return on our investments.

By Rob Shaffer

Learn more about the iFAB Tech Hub at the University of Illinois and how its team is harnessing the power of corn and soy to create sustainable, high-value products.

By Olivia Key, Field & Bean Magazine Assistant Editor

As it celebrates its one-year anniversary, the ISA Soy Innovation Center is dedicated to facilitating the research and commercialization of new and innovative soy-based products with a focus on three primary categories: textiles, bio-lubricants and industrial applications.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Did you know soy can be used to replace nearly any product made from petroleum—including plastics? Soy-based plastics offer a nontoxic alternative to everyday items, contributing to sustainability and representing an exciting opportunity to drive demand for Illinois soy.

By Dylan Karis, Lead Chemist, Airable Research Lab

Learn more about an emerging partnership between ISA and the Peoria-based National Center for Agricultural Utilization, a 270,000-sq.-ft. research facility that employs nearly 200 people including 75 Ph.D. scientists.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Less than two years since its launch, this program boasts more than 63 Sustainably Certified products, each of which must meet the standards outlined by the USDA’s BioPreferred® Program.

By IL Field & Bean Team

As more companies and consumers embrace soy, eco-friendly solutions will increasingly become the norm rather than the exception.

By Jaidyn Miller

Corey Lacey, Ph.D., ISA Environmental Policy Manager, answers readers' top questions and breaks down the EPA's final herbicide strategy.

By Corey Lacey

Discover the many ways the Illinois Soybean Association has spent the last 60 years advancing biofuels, infrastructure and waterways transportation, and critical agronomic research - and what soybean farmers can expect in the coming years.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Hear from Stephen Censky, Chief Executive Officer of the American Soybean Association, about the ways ASA, ISA and other groups are working together to protect your farming freedoms.

By Stephen Censky

Get to know your ISA Government Relations Team, which is dedicated to advocating ...

By Olivia Key

Illinois Field & Bean Magazine spoke with select federal and state legislators ...

By IL Field & Bean Team

Jonathan Coppess of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign guest authors this perspective on the Farm Bill's impasse and the unlikelihood for reauthorization this year.

By Jonathan Coppess