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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company recently announced that two lines of its commercial tires are now made with a renewable soybean oil compound.  The Goodyear Metro Miler G152 and G652 tires for transit buses, along with the popular Endurance WHA waste haul tire, are now made with soybean oil, which replaces a portion of the petroleum-based materials used in their production. Company o... Read

American farmers are again at odds with the EPA over the Endangered Species Act.  The final EPA biological evaluations of neonicotinoids and their impacts on endangered species are overly conservative and don’t use all available data. Grower grou...

The escalating trade war between the U.S. and China continues to pose long-term harm for U.S. soybean farmers. The American Soybean Association says recent decision by the Trump administration to impose ten percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese imports; and China’s subsequent retaliation on $60 billion of U.S. pr...

How important is trade to farmers? A House Ag Subcommittee heard testimony from many in the ag industry about what trade means and what they’d like to see going forward.   Wesley Spurlock with the National Corn Growers Association said, “We need our new administration, as they go in and they work to rewrite NAFTA and bring it up to a newer level, we need that trade, we need to be out talking to Ja