Field To Market – Working to Promote Sustainable Agriculture Field To Market describes themselves as “a diverse alliance working to create opportunities across the agricultural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, environmental quality, and human well-being.” Submit yourself into learning more and discovering how Field to Market is promoting sustainable agriculture throughout the United States. Discover their vision. Read More

Fresh off a record-setting Commodity Classic at the end of February, the members of the Ohio Soybean Association (OSA) Board of Directors joined the American Soybean Association (ASA) and state affiliate staff in Washington for the association’s annual spring board meeting.   This year’s meeting focused on several key issues at the forefront of the soybean industry, and brought in public sector officials from multiple agencies to discuss each issue with the board.  … Read More

Managing Marestail This Spring – The Perfect Storm? By: Mark Loux   This spring is shaping up to be one where marestail control problems abound, based on the following: a) not many fields were treated with herbicide last fall due to wet weather and the late harvest.  Fall treatment results in a field free of overwintered marestail in spring, which takes the pressure off spring burndown treatments – they just… Read More

The Ohio Soybean Council Foundation (OSCF) is pleased to announce the scholarship recipients for the 2015-2016 academic year. This is the eighth year for the OSCF Scholarship Program, which was created to encourage undergraduate students to pursue degrees in one of the many academic fields that support the future of the soybean industry including agriculture, business, communication, economics, education, science and technology, as well as to support ongoing graduate-level research. Undergraduate scholarships of $3,000 each… Read More

Members of the committees overseeing agriculture in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives were working overtime last week to work out their differences. Each chamber has passed their version of a bill that will change the way nitrogen, phosphorus, and manure are applied in the western basin of Lake Erie. Senate Bill 1 has received a second hearing in the House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and is listed for a possible… Read More