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Checkoff Reform and ESG Goals Powered by Soybean Protein Improvement
This Northern Soybean Marketing website exemplifies why falling protein must be added to the lists of bipartisan reasons why commodity checkoff system reform is needed: Feed sales, food security, and rain-forests are harmed whenever soybean protein falls unchecked, science is hidden, and soybean value clarity are lacking.
Commodity Soybean Protein and Corn Nutrition Value Continue to Fall
Did you know commodity soybean protein and corn nutrition value have fallen for nearly 20 years? Reversing those hidden losses will help family farmers increase soybean value and naturally boost corn sales - and [...]
Commodity Checkoff Support of Food Team And Government “Climate Smart” Actions Raises Regulatory Questions
Checkoff groups who support government action to regulate global climate appear to be disregarding the 2018 version of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Guidelines. The AMS was created to oversee farmer investments, research, and [...]
CO2 Pipeline Plan Sparks Legal and Food Security Concerns
Corporate ESG teams, NGOs, ad agencies, and consulting teams have debated ideas about proposed plans to pipe carbon dioxide from Iowa ethanol factories ‘Keystone-XL-Style’ to Illinois and Nebraska and frack it into the [...]
Idea for Proactivist™ TV Reality Show:
Idea for Proactivist TV Reality Show: NAKED, HUNGRY, AND BLURRY—VEGAN ALASKA STYLE How long before the contestants tap out? Our view: Anyone who tells others what it’s OK to eat is out of line. [...]
Food System Sustainability Challenges and Solutions
Family farmers who feed everyone lose sales every day to factory-made feed. Subsidized, high-emissions ethanol ‘co-products’ displace sales of commodity corn and soybean meal used for livestock feed by undercutting price. The growing global [...]
Meat is an original plant-based food
Meat is an original plant-based food. So-called plant-based “meat” and “milk” mongers who claim to save you, animals, or the entire planet are selling factory-made food-like substances. Not actual food. Soy tofu and milk contain [...]
Proactivists Request Update from Republican House Majority
When Republicans were the minority they wrote this letter which questioned USDA spending on so-called “Climate Smart” funding. (Please see page 2.) Read House Minority letter to USDA Secretary. Where do these representatives stand on [...]
Growing Healthier Together Starts with a Seed and the Feed
Growing healthier together starts with a seed and the feed Research shows it may be possible for soybean meal protein to reduce pig and poultry greenhouse gasses by more than 4.6%, improve corn demand more [...]