News Releases

ASA/WISHH Organizes a Soy flour Baking Demonstration in Myanmar

May 7, 2015

The American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World Initiative for Soy in Human Health’s (WISHH) organized a soy flour baking demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar for more than  50 bakery owners and lead bakers at the end of ...

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Soy Growers Call for ‘Mandatory and Continuous’ Grain Inspections

May 7, 2015

American Soybean Association (ASA) Director Bill Gordon, of Minnesota, testified in Washington this week, calling on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee to help ensure that grain inspections under the Grain Standards Act ...

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USDA Disappointed with EPA’s ‘Incomplete Analysis’ of Neonic Seed Treatments

May 7, 2015

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) expressed disappointment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) incomplete analysis on neonicotinoid seed treatments for soybeans and the burden it’s created for growers. In October 2014, EPA’s report ...

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Soy Growers: Farm Credit System Vital to Farmers, Rural Business

May 7, 2015

The American Soybean Association (ASA) expressed strong objections to the American Bankers Association’s goal of eliminating the Farm Credit System (FCS) in a letter sent last week. The letter, signed by 42 agricultural organizations, stressed ...

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ASA President Discusses Importance of Food Security in ‘Agri-Pulse’

May 6, 2015

American Soybean Association (ASA) President Wade Cowan contributed a guest blog to Agri-Pulse this week, on how agricultural development abroad and investments in food security is key to growing soy’s role in the global food ...

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