News Releases

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced $340.6 million in disaster assistance to help farmers and rural communities affected by natural disasters. The American Soybean Association is pleased the funding has become available and applauds the administration for coming through on...

Connor Henry of Stuttgart, Arkansas, is the recipient of the 2025-2026 Soy Scholarship award, sponsored by the American Soybean Association and BASF. The ASA/BASF Soy Scholarship is a $7,000 award presented to an exceptional high school senior who excels in...

Soybean farmers across the U.S. were pleased to hear most countries will get a 90-day reprieve from the new individualized tariffs announced April 2—an opportunity for negotiations with our trading partners that could lead to consensus and potentially avoid permanent...

Impacts of Removing Seed Oils from U.S. Food Supply Striking The results of a soy industry project to examine the impacts of a potential seed oil ban in the U.S. food supply are in—and the answers are not good. The seed...

Farmers’ fates rely on creating new market access opportunities, swiftly removing tariffs While it was not unexpected, the resulting cloud of concern following the administration’s tariff announcement is not without fallout—in the form of continued market uncertainty, the threat of...

Not all herbicides are created equal – and not all effective herbicides remain on the market. Thus is the problem faced by hundreds of thousands of soybean and other farmers across the country. Farmers need access to multiple products from...

Washington, D.C. March 24, 2025.  Indiana soybean farmer and American Soybean Association director Mike Koehne testified before the United States Trade Representative on the office’s Section 301 investigation into China’s targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance....

Washington, D.C. March 10, 2025. More than 300 organizations have sent a letter to health, agriculture and environmental leaders in D.C. calling for sound science and data to be used by the Make America Healthy Again Commission in upcoming evaluations...

Washington, D.C. March 6, 2025. “U.S. soybean farmers are appreciative of the administration’s announcement March 6 temporarily suspending tariffs on Canada and Mexico,” said Caleb Ragland, ASA president. “Cross-border trade between our three nations is vital for the continued success...

Tariffs inflict further financial damage on already-struggling farm economy Farmer members of the American Soybean Association have for years consistently maintained their position that they do not support the use of tariffs, which threaten important markets and raise input costs...