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U.S. Soybean Oil Market in Mexico Grows
A recent soy-checkoff-funded promotional campaign showed Mexican shoppers the benefits of cooking with U.S. soybean oil, leading to a 15 percent jump in sales. Mexico is a major international destination for U.S. soy. In the most recent marketing year, Mexican customers imported more whole U.S. soybeans and soybean oil than any other country except for China. To increase that demand even more, ...
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Brazil Soybean Production and Weather
Over the past 20 years, Brazil has emerged in the global agriculture industry as both a major producer and exporter of agricultural products. Agricultural production in Brazil has exploded over this time and its impact on global markets has been significant. As shown below, Brazil has become the number two producer of soybeans by 2017, according to the UN FAO. Brazil is in the southern hemisphere ...
By CropProphet
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Animal Consumption Drives Higher U.S. Soy Exports to EU
Customers in the European Union (EU) depend on U.S. soybean farmers to maintain a consistent supply of soybean meal. Currently, they account for nearly 13 percent of total U.S. soybean meal exports. And that level is growing. Although U.S. soybean market share in the EU has declined over the last 30 years, U.S. soybean meal export trade to Europe grew in 2013, thanks in part to intensified ...
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Harper Government Creates Export Opportunities for Canadian Soybean Industry
The Canadian soybean industry will tap new export markets with the support of the Harper Government. Member of Parliament Bev Shipley (Lambton-Kent-Middlesex), on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, announced an investment for the Grain Farmers of Ontario to create export opportunities. “There is growing demand for new varieties of high-quality, safe, food-grade soybeans,” ...
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Maintaining U.S. Soy Market Share in Morocco
USSEC, in close partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), organized several events within the Maghreb region of North Africa to reemphasize the image of the U.S. as a major supplier of high-quality soybeans and soybean products. U.S. soybean products have traditionally enjoyed a dominant market share with a 100 percent share for soybean ...
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Soil gives away soybean pathogen’s presence
New research reveals that soil pH is a useful guide for farmers and agronomists to detect and manage soybean cyst nematode, a devastating soybean pathogen. The investigation uncovered a relationship between high soil pH, which is already outside the ideal growing conditions for soybean, and high populations of cyst nematodes. Scientists from Iowa State University and University of ...
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Bayer CropScience to acquire the seed business of Granar S.A.
Bayer CropScience announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the seed business of Granar S.A., based in Encarnacion, Paraguay. The private company, founded in 2001, specializes in the breeding, production and marketing especially of improved soybean seeds adapted to the growing conditions that prevail in subtropical regions. Granar S.A. has a strong presence in Paraguay and ...
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Farmer-Funded Innovations: checkoff breakthroughs support on-farm profitability
Successful companies in the aviation, communications, computer and medical industries don’t stand still. They find solutions that will keep them a step ahead of the competition. That goes for farmers, too. Soybean farmers today see the results of innovation everywhere they turn. More seed varieties and machinery applications. More ways to get the information they need to help them make ...
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Global Soy Chemicals Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Soy Chemicals Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p0552801/Global-Soy-Chemicals-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Soy Chemicals in US$ Million by the following End-Use Segments: Plastics, Biodiesel, ...
By ReportLinker
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High oleic soybeans offer innovative solutions for end customers
Today’s agriculture industry is innovative in many ways, from precision farming to auto-steering to varied seeding and fertilizer rates. Why should soybean varieties be any different? They’re not. Take high oleic soybeans, for example. High oleic soybean varieties were developed to deliver a better soybean to the food industry. The oil produced from these soybeans adds functionality ...
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USSEC Helps Transition Egypt’s Poultry Producers to Use Soybean Meal as Main Protein in Feed Formulations
With the support of FAS’s Cairo office, USSEC has worked with poultry producers in the Middle East region for several years, focusing on the economic benefits of using high quality U.S. soybean products. Soybean meal is becoming the major source of high-quality protein used in poultry feed, replacing protein sources from animal origins. Using U.S. soybean meal, poultry producers are ...
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Syngenta demonstrates strength of portfolio in Brazil
Syngenta is today hosting a strategic crop update in Brazil for analysts and investors with a focus on Soybean, Specialty crops and Sugar cane. The combined sales potential of these three crops globally is around $10 billion in 2020. Soybean is the most efficient source of protein and is widely used as animal feed as well as for human consumption, biodiesel and industrial uses. Demand is growing ...
By Syngenta
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Three Ways to Support Poultry and Livestock through Soybean Quality
Soybean meal is the most widely used source of protein for poultry and pigs in the United States and abroad. It is estimated that more than 75 percent of all soybean meal produced in the world is fed to poultry and pigs. Dairy cows also are major consumers of soybean meal. For the soybean industry to remain viable, it is crucial these industries remain big users of soybean meal. The only way ...
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A Soybean’s Journey: See for Yourself program
When a farmer unloads soybeans at the elevator after harvest, it may seem like the end of a long journey that was full of hard work and patience. But the elevator is actually just the first stop on a voyage that takes U.S. soybeans to various markets domestically and abroad. For soybean farmers wanting to know more about their customers beyond the elevator, and the soy checkoff’s role in ...
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U.S. Soybean Farmers Improve Protein and Oil Levels in 2013
U.S. soybean farmers are heavily dependent on demand from international purchasers. Although global supplies are currently relatively tight, buyers do have a choice of origin for soybeans and soybean products. Providing marketing support for buyers helps U.S. farmers maintain export partners and expand relationships with new customers. Therefore, soybean farmers have supported a survey of the ...
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Treated Seed and Soybeans Don’t Mix
After you’re finished planting, you may be tempted to dump your remaining seed in with any soybeans you still have from last year’s harvest. Don’t. “It is illegal in the United States to put treated seed into your soybeans and take them to the elevator. It is unacceptable not only in the United States, but worldwide, as well,” says Dwain Ford, United Soybean Board ...
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Soybean farmers prepared for phase out of partially hydrogenated oils
Trans fats have been an active part of the soy industry’s vernacular for decades. And, for the past decade, the industry – including the farmers who grow soybeans – have been working on solutions to meet food-customer needs for a stable oil without partial hydrogenation, which causes trans fats. The FDA’s recent announcement to phase out partially hydrogenated vegetable ...
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Soy Growers in Middle of Tariff Feud with China Stand to Suffer Most
America’s soy growers are lined up even more precisely in the crosshairs of President Trump’s contentious tariff confrontation with China. President Trump announced Monday that $200 billion in additional Chinese goods will be hit with a 10 percent tariff, deepening the likely free fall in prices that producers of soy and soy products are feeling directly in their wallets and which ...
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Soybean Exports Brewing in Milwaukee
“Brew City” recently became “Soy City” as more than 270 representatives of major international companies interested in importing U.S. soy came together for the second annual U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange in Milwaukee. Areas represented included China, the Middle East, Vietnam and many others. International representatives committed to buy $2.8 billion worth of U.S. soy ...
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U.S. Soy on the Move
Throughout soybean harvest here in the United States, soybean farmers are making decisions on where to move this year’s crop. Three out of every four bushels harvested will go from the field to either on-farm storage or to the local elevator. The remaining 25 percent go directly to processors or export. All of these movements require roads, rails and rivers to get the soybeans from the ...
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