The Exports Edition
JUNE 2025 | VOLUME 5, ISSUE 9
As policies continue to directly and indirectly impact agriculture, ISA's Government Relations team works to ensure farmers have a seat at the table as decisions are made.
By Collin Cisco, ISA Farm Policy Manager, and Matt Johnston, ISA Government Relations Coordinator
As global soybean markets continue to shift, how can Illinois farmers stay competitive?
By IL Field & Bean Team
Hear from ISA Content Manager Ashley Rice-Haddon as she highlights ISA's ongoing, cross-departmental work in carbon markets.
By Ashley Rice-Haddon, ISA Content Manager
A global force with boots on the ground in all 50 U.S. states, Valent BioSciences is on a mission to reshape perceptions around biostimulants.
By IL Field & Bean Team
ISA Perspectives
ISA's Mark Read explores the ways the Illinois soybean checkoff helps to develop foreign markets.
By Mark Read, ISA District 5 Director
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
Today's smart farming starts not just with precision technology but also with a new approach to financial management.
By Joli A. Hohenstein
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
Get to know the members of the ISA Agronomy Team and how they're working on your behalf.
By Olivia Key
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
Explore how St. Lawrence Seaway could get more Illinois soy to Europe.
By Eileen Pabst, ISA International Markets Manager, and Tim Rendall, ISA Domestic Markets Manager
Discover why U.S. soy is the best choice for animal agriculture worldwide.
By Emma Peters, ISA International Markets Coordinator
A new study commissioned by ISA examines why investing in Illinois' rural bridges is critical to maintaining our competitive role in the global marketplace.
By Todd Main, ISA Director of Market Development
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
The challenges farmers face every single day are tedious and time-consuming.
By IL Field & Bean Team
Join ISA Public Policy Manager Collin Cisco for an exploration of both federal and state estate taxes and learn how Illinois farmers should prepare.
By Collin Cisco