Through U.S. farmer funding for research and promotion over the past 20 years, the United Soybean Board (USB) helped develop biodiesel into a viable alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel in the United States. This cleaner-burning, homegrown fuel represents a renewable, nontoxic alternative to the oil we over-rely on from other countries. Perhaps most importantly, biodiesel [...]

U.S. agriculture, as much as any other industry, stands at the forefront of the complex issue of sustainability. Soybean farmers, for instance, grow a crop that is useful in nutritious human food, protein-rich animal feed and renewable fuel for a demanding and growing global population. Sometimes, u [...]

As I wrote last month, soy biodiesel can be a part of the world’s future energy mix, but like other parts of that solution, we must be doing it bigger, better and faster. U.S. soybean farmers and others in the U.S. soy industry already have the structure in place to accomplish just that.

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One part of the answer to the complex question of how to gain global energy security is soy biodiesel. And the mechanism for the continued growth of the soy biodiesel industry around the world is the same as the one that has gotten it to this point in the United States: soybean farmers who continue [...]

I raise soybeans and am a farmer-director on the United Soybean Board (USB), which conducts research and promotion to improve the profitability of U.S. soybean farmers. USB has been a major driving force behind the development of the biodiesel industry in the United States. We started funding biodie [...]