The following statement regarding the State of Ohio’s Western Lake Erie Basin Collaborative Implementation Plan can be attributed to Chad Kemp, President of the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association and Adam Graham, President of the Ohio Soybean Association. Today’s announcement by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is simply another step in a process that was started five years ago when Ohio agriculture recognized its role in being a part of the solution to excess… Read More

Support Needed from Ohio for the Biodiesel Tax Incentive Contact your lawmakers today. Contacts with Ohio House and Senate offices are needed this week on an important issue for soybean farmers. Please email Sens. Brown and Portman and Reps. Renacci and Tiberi and ask each to co-sponsor the bill from Sens. Grassley of Iowa and Cantwell of Washington, as well as Reps. Noem of South Dakota and Pascrell of New Jersey… Read More

The following can be attributed to Chad Kemp, President of the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association and Adam Graham, President of the Ohio Soybean Association. A recent study released by the University of Michigan has received significant attention. Ohio Corn & Wheat and the Ohio Soybean Association have major concerns about the unrealistic, one-size-fits-all approach of the study and the calls for additional regulations. The study’s authors also charge that Ohio farmers will not… Read More

The Ohio Soybean Council Foundation (OSCF) is pleased to announce the scholarship recipients for the 2016-2017 academic year. This is the ninth year for the OSCF Scholarship Program, which was created to encourage undergraduate students to pursue degrees in one of the many academic fields that support the future of the soybean industry including agriculture, business, communication, economics, education, science and technology, as well as to support ongoing graduate-level research. Undergraduate scholarships of $3,000 each… Read More

On Thursday, March 24, the Ohio Soybean Association (OSA) is hosting Joe Jobe, CEO of the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) for free tele town hall. Farmers and opinion leaders across Ohio will receive telephone messages inviting them to join the discussion about biodiesel, the Renewable Fuel Standard, and making changes to the federal biodiesel tax credit. How to participate: OSA will call all OSA members at 6:30 PM on Thursday night. Just follow the… Read More