Adam Keil is the Managing Director of the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund (SWOF) and has over 20 years of experience in his field. How did the SWOF begin and what were the initial goals? The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund (SWOF) began in 2019 with a small pilot scale project in Iowa. Two years of study and partnership building laid the groundwork for the pilot. The SWOF initially started with a focus on linking… Read More

By Brent Sohngen, Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics at The Ohio State University The last year has been a whirlwind of activity in carbon markets as buyers have been out in force trying to lock in early carbon at low prices. Companies like Amazon or Microsoft care about carbon on farms because their consumers care about how “green” they are. If they can pay farmers to take carbon out of the air and… Read More

By Matt Herman, National Biodiesel Board’s Director of Environmental Science For over a decade, American farmers have been growing crops to support the production of lower carbon biofuels. These highly sustainable biofuels not only contribute to the nation’s energy security, but they also improve the environment and local air quality. The drop-in nature of biofuels like soybean oil biodiesel and corn ethanol are critical in the fight to lower greenhouse gases (GHGs). It is well… Read More

The Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) launched a new website to connect buyers and sellers of Ohio soybean oil, soybean meal and food-grade soybeans. The site positions Ohio soybeans as a premium product to buyers in domestic and foreign markets and helps facilitate contracts between buyers and Ohio soybean farmers and exporters. “Exporting soybeans to other countries is important to Ohio’s farmers — about half of the soybeans grown in Ohio are exported — which… Read More

By Julie Deering, USSEC Senior Communications Manager In the late August heat, just as some U.S. farmers were making final harvest preparations, nearly 700 international buyers convened for the U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange and Specialty Grains Conference, held for the first time in a true hybrid environment — both virtually and in St. Louis, Missouri. “It’s important to understand how farmers approach sustainability, to see the crop, and to hear farmers’ expectations about the… Read More