Maryland Soybean Board Funds Research

While experts already know how the kudzu bug spends its summers – destroying crops by munching on kudzu vines and other hosts, including soybeans – researchers want to know more about how these insects spend their winter. That’s the focus of two studies funded by the...

Maryland Soybean Board Seeking New Ways to Use, Promote the ‘Magic Bean’

All-farmer board accepting proposals for funding projects in areas of soybean promotion and use SALISBURY, MD. (June 2, 2016) – Got any bright ideas on how to use soybeans, or soy byproducts? Or new ideas on promoting “the magic bean”? If so, the Maryland Soybean...

Farm-related jobs exceed graduates in the field

Maryland Soybean Board debuts farm career website SALISBURY, MD. (May 31, 2016) –  Agriculture – no pun intended – is a growing field. Over the next five years, college graduates with degrees related to food, agriculture, renewable natural resources or the environment...

For Maryland Farmers, Every Day is Earth Day

Three times a week, I go out running around a path that I made around three of my soybean fields. Not a single day goes by that I don’t think about the connection between this land and my family. Earth Day is a day when we all think about the environment, when we look...

Baltimore Parents Will Cheer Soy-Backed Synthetic Lawn

Baltimore, MD. (APRIL 05, 2016) – The fields around the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park aren’t the only things greening up this spring. Inside the Exhibit Barn, a soft green synthetic “lawn,” featuring a soy-based backing, has...