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'Her top priority is ensuring that each soybean farmer’s checkoff investment is wisely utilized in marketing, education of soybeans' — Shannon Ellis
The soybean checkoff is a congressionally-mandated assessment on soybeans, whose proceeds are used to fund soybean research and promotion efforts. The checkoff is managed by the United Soybean Board under the supervision of the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. In 2014, the checkoff was $109.1 million. [1]
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is an association of 21,000 American soybean producers. John Heisdorffer is the 2018 President of the Association. [ 1 ] Stephen Censky worked for ASA for 23 years, 21 of those as CEO, and then left to become United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture in 2017.
John Wesley Boyd Jr. (born September 4, 1965) is an African-American farmer, civil rights activist and the founder of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA). He owns and operates Boyd Farms, which has 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) [1] across three farms in Baskerville, Virginia where he grows soybean, corn and wheat and currently raises one hundred and fifty head of beef cattle.
ASTA is driven by its membership, which is represented by a board of directors composed of a 15-member executive committee, all past-presidents of the association, division chairs, up to three directors-at-large, chairs of the International and Legislative & Legal Concerns Committees, and ASTA representatives to the Canadian Seed Trade ...
Dave Murman (born June 30, 1953) [1] is an American politician serving as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 38th district. Elected in November 2018, he assumed office on January 9, 2019. Elected in November 2018, he assumed office on January 9, 2019.
Southern States Cooperative is an American farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area. Southern States Cooperative supplies small, medium, and large commercial farmers with livestock and animal feed, pasture seed, vegetable seed, farm fertilizers, farm supplies, bulk fuel, and crop services, including information and products to grow better crops.
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...