Soy News March 1999
Arkansas Board Allocates Funds for Research
The Arkansas Soybean Promo-tion Board met on March
3 to review checkoff collections and determine its funding
level for soybean research for the 1998-99 fiscal year.
The task was made more difficult this year by low prices
and reduced production levels which created a significant
reduction in total checkoff dollars collected. The Board
determined that the total funding commitment for the
year would be set at $1.1 million, about a half million
dollars below the previous year funding level. The specific
research projects and the level at which they were funded
are included in this edition of Soynews
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Soybean Board to Co-sponsor Soybean Promotion
Program
At its March 3 meeting the Arkansas Soybean Promotion
Board committed $2,500 to co-sponsor the Arkansas Soybean
Promotion Program. The Board will co-sponsor the program
along with the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation, with
assistance from the United Soybean Board. The program
is developed by Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation to provide
recognition to county Farm Bureaus for outstanding efforts
in promotion of soybeans and thereby encouraging the
local promotion of soybeans, soy products, and the soybean
industry. The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board's commitment
will be utilized to provide for materials to be used
by counties in their promotion *(See Co-Sponsor, back
page) Co-sponsor (cont'd) efforts. The materials are
being included in kits prepared by the United Soybean
Board and will include posters, display material, slide
sets, brochures and pamphlets, and samples of various
products made from soybeans. A handbook will be distributed
by the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation providing details
about the program including how county Farm Bureaus
can participate and enter in the awards contest. Cash
awards will be presented to counties judged to have
conducted the best soybean promotion program during
the year.
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Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board 1998-99 Research
Project Allocations
IMPROVING SOYBEAN PROFITABILITY
- Low Input Nonirrigated Soybean Production:
$40,176.26
- Rotational and Tillage Systems to Control Soybean
Cyst Nematode:
45,381.45
- Adaptability of Soybeans to Arkansas Moisture and
Nutrient Environments:
23,515.84
- Rice and Soybean Production on Soils Adversely Affected
by Poor Irrigation and Water Quality:
48,387.48
- Effect of Subsoiling and Related Practices on Silt
Loam and Heavy Clay Soils:
6,026.83
- Integration of Resistant Soybeans with a Biological
Control Agent for Suppression of the Soybean Cyst
Nematode:
53,582.25
- Surface Irrigation Alternatives for Irrigated Soybean
Management:
16,749.01
- Effects of Cropping Systems on Soybean Seed Quality
and Seed-Infecting Fungi:
13,980.96
- Economics of Soybean Production:
29,517.48
- Evaluation and Incorporation of Varieties (Transgenic-Roundup
Ready and Conventional) in Differing Arkansas Soybean
Production Environments and Cropping Systems:
31,157.30
- Low Input soybeans on heavy clay:
8,199.06
- Helping Arkansas rice farmers exploit market opportunities
by improved use of soybean, wheat and corn in rice
rotations:
29,019.81
- Effects of Tillage, planting date, plant population
and genotype on severity of charcoal rot in soybean:
29,536.59
- Developing cost effective weed management systems:
91,598.44
- Weed Interference and Weed Management:
57,463.77
- Variety Testing in a Greenhouse for Disease Resistance:
32,399.32
- Field Screening of New Soybean Cultivars for Performance
Against Major Diseases and Nematodes:
58,578.98
- Soybean Variety Testing:
13,817.67
- Breeding Improved Varieties and Germplasm:
40,353.45
- Optimizing Variety Selection to Improve Yield:
13,811.59
BASE PROGRAMS
- Weed Biology/Ecology:
$20,263.14
- Soybean Drought Tolerance Research:
43,990.91
- Soybean Adaptation to Restrictive Soil Environments:
35,064.88
- Soybean Research Verification Program:
69,527.86
- Improving Technology Transfer for Profitable and
Sustainable Soybean Production:
57,416.00
- The Relationship of the Environment to Sudden Death
Syndrome and Stem Canker:
40,996.17
- Molecular Separation of Races of Soybean Cyst Nematodes:
24,843.85
- Improving the Adaptation and Diversity of Arkansas
Soybeans:
44,740.46
- Extraction and Characterization of Food Grade Pectins
from Soy Hull:
33,377.30
- New and Innovative Programs Investigation and Application
of Whole Farm Systems Approach to Crop Production
Management:
$16,398.12
- Commercialization of Soy Hull Carbon Absorbants:
Waste Water Treatment and Sugar Decoloring Applications:
40,126.76
TOTAL $1,110,000.00
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Farmer-leaders examine challenges, prioritize issues
United Soybean Board farmer-leaders recently set an
aggressive agenda for the soybean checkoff that will
help guide checkoff investments next year. Board members
singled out and prioritized eight issues and strategies
at the first USB Evaluation and Planning Meeting, which
was held January 30-31 in Atlanta.
Given the challenges and opportunities U.S. soybean
farmers will likely face over the next year or so, it
was necessary for the full Board to place the issues
on the table to determine how the soybean checkoff will
best be able to address them,� says USB Chairman Bob
Eilts of Central City, Nebraska.
The group ranked these issues as most important in
developing fiscal year 2000 soybean checkoff action
plans:
- Increase farmer knowledge and awareness of the
soybean checkoff's ability to enhance soybean farmers'
opportunities for profit, which would ensure the continuation
of valuable marketing and research programs.
- Proactively address the importance and potential
impact of genetically improved soybean products on
worldwide markets.
- Improve compositional qualities in soybean varieties
to enhance the market position of all soy products.
- Establish criteria to achieve the most effective
and efficient resource allocation of checkoff dollars.
- Proactively address the impact of restrictive international
trade issues on the growth of soybean exports.
- Address near-term declining farmer revenues and
the resulting decline in available checkoff investments.
- Enhance consumer recognition of edible and industrial
soy products.
- Assist soybean farmers to enhance profit opportunities
in both the identity-preserved and generic soybean
markets. Finger-jointed lumber can now be made more
efficiently with soy-based adhesive. Soy-based wood
adhesive is just as strong and more environmentally
friendly than the petroleum-based products it's replacing.
At its March 3 meeting the Arkansas Soybean Promotion
Board committed $2,500 to co-sponsor the Arkansas Soybean
Promotion Program. The Board will co-sponsor the program
along with the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation, with
assistance from the United Soybean Board. The program
is developed by Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation to provide
recognition to county Farm Bureaus for outstanding efforts
in promotion of soybeans and thereby encouraging the
local promotion of soybeans, soy products, and the soybean
industry
The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board's commitment
will be utilized to provide for materials to be used
by counties in their promotion *(See Co-Sponsor, back
page) Co-sponsor (cont'd) efforts. The materials are
being included in kits prepared by the United Soybean
Board and will include posters, display material, slide
sets, brochures and pamphlets, and samples of various
products made from soybeans. A handbook will be distributed
by the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation providing details
about the program including how county Farm Bureaus
can participate and enter in the awards contest. Cash
awards will be presented to counties judged to have
conducted the best soybean promotion program during
the year.
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