Designed for both aspiring leaders and seasoned experts, ISA's LEAD Program provides tailored opportunities for growth, collaboration and impact

By Nicole Butler, ISA Executive Employee Relations

Read more about your Illinois Soybean Association's project highlights, program developments and what's ahead in the FY24 Year End Report.

By IL Field & Bean Team

Rising costs on inputs like feed, fertilizers, fuel and labor, along with higher insurance premiums and inflated equipment prices, can make it difficult for farmers to make a profit. So what's a farmer to do?

By IL Field & Bean Team

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

Known as the “silent yield robber,” soybean cyst nematode (SCN) reduces yields without leaving obvious above-ground symptoms.

By Nathan Schroeder, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Every year, ISA's farmer-led Board takes a careful, science-based approach to investing checkoff dollars where they matter: back into your fields.

By IL Field & Bean Team

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has been evaluating a range of soil health tests focused on respiration, also known as mineralization carbon or CO2 burst.

By Andrew Margenot, Ph.D. and Heidi Allen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Meet ISA’s new crop of agronomy experts as they share 2025 growing season strategies and recommendations.

By Stephanie Porter, CCA, ISA Outreach Agronomist, and Kelsey Litchfield, ISA Agronomic Outreach Manager

Highlighting research results from the 2024 growing season.

By ISA Agronomy Team

In 2024, soybean farmers in the 29 soybean-growing U.S. states lost just over 250 million bushels (5.4% of the nation’s crop) to soybean diseases, many of them stem diseases. Learn more about what to watch for this growing season, and how ISA is waging a war against these costly crop killers.

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

Why feed buyers love U.S. soy — and how to keep orders coming.

By Dr. Dominique Bureau, Stephen Gunther and Dr. Flavia M. Damasceno

Step inside the 2024 Soy Connext event, designed to position Illinois farmers to increase U.S. soy exports.

By Erin Worrell, Communications Manager, U.S. Soybean Export Council

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