Beyond the Bean – Harvest Edition

To the half-million U.S. soybean farmers —

Welcome back to another edition of Beyond the Bean. Now it’s time for the harvest edition, and we know 2025 has certainly had its challenges. With rising input costs, inflationary environment, tariff barriers, there’s a lot on the minds of farmers. But the one thing that you can be sure of is that your Soy Checkoff farmer-leaders have been thinking about investments in food, feed, fuel, industrial uses, exports and sustainable on-farm practices. All of that is part of your checkoff investment, and our farmers have been resilient in making sure that what we’re doing is real and relevant for the times that we’re in.

There’s a lot of investments that are actively working on your behalf including growth of U.S. Soy in the animal ag sector, the Port of Houston opening new doors for export demand and expanding biofuels in the rail and marine markets. We’re proud to work for the American soybean farmer. All the investments that you’ve been making on behalf of checkoff have been overseen by your fellow farmer-leaders. We couldn’t be more proud to work alongside that leadership, and we’re going to do our best this year and next year to ensure volume and value is there for you as you make planting decisions for 2026.

Thank you for what you do, and please have a safe harvest.

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Sincerely,

Lucas Lentsch

United Soybean Board CEO