News Releases

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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ASA/WISHH Hosts Central American Participants at Food Expo

July 28, 2016

American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Program (ASA/WISHH) sponsored the attendance of two participants from Guatemala at select courses during the 2016 Annual Meeting and Food Expo of the Institute of ...

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Soy Growers Welcome European Approval of New Biotech Traits

July 22, 2016

American Soybean Association (ASA) President and Greenwood, Del., soybean farmer Richard Wilkins welcomed news this morning out of Brussels that the European Union has approved three outstanding biotech soybean traits for import and processing. The ...

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