News Releases

Iowa Farmer to Speak at Monarch Butterfly Conference

July 28, 2016

American Soybean Association (ASA) Director Wayne Fredericks, Osage, Iowa, will participate on a grower panel during the Monarch Collaborative Conference in St. Louis this August. The conference discussion will cover promoting the role of agriculture ...

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ASA Meets with Ag Reporters, Students at Ag Media Summit

July 28, 2016

The American Soybean Association (ASA) participated as an exhibitor at the Ag Media Summit, hosted in St. Louis, Mo. this week. For two days, ASA staff, along with ASA Vice President Ron Moore, met with ...

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ASA Attends Risk Management Agency’s ‘State of Crop Insurance’ Roundtable

July 28, 2016

Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator Brandon Willis hosted a discussion about current crop insurance issues with the American Soybean Association (ASA) and other farm and lending groups last week. Soybeans remain the second-ranked insured commodity, ...

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USDA Begins Second Year of National Project to Quantify Effects of Agricultural Conservation

July 28, 2016

Information provided by a USDA news release.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is contacting 25,000 farmers and ranchers now through August to take part in a national survey that ...

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Update on ARC-CO Yield Issue

July 28, 2016

The American Soybean Association (ASA) has worked with several other farm organizations to address discrepancies in county yields and payments under ARC-CO. These differences came to light last October, when payments were made for 2014 crops, ...

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