Request to Share Samples with United Soybean Board

United Soybean Board

Question 8a of the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s annual Soybean Objective Yield
Survey requests your permission for NASS to share the soybean sample collected from your field
with the United Soybean Board (USB) for compositional analysis. With your approval, USB will
have your sample analyzed for characteristics valued by soybean product end users. Results from
your sample will remain anonymous. They will be combined with those from other soybean
growers to allow USB to create a national picture of soybean component quality.

THE “COMPOSITION OPPORTUNITY”
Soybeans are utilized and valued based upon specific compositional characteristics. Each
nutritional, food, feed, or industrial component has value for a wide range of different customers
and their specific needs. That is why it is vital to document crop quality nationwide.
Our knowledge about these components will help maintain our global competitiveness
and aid efforts to increase prices received by farmers.
While yield has gone up, some value components such as protein have gone down. The primary
objective of this compositional analysis study is to create targets for our plant breeding efforts
to reverse this trend to make U.S. soybeans more competitive – and more valuable – in the global
marketplace.
Pending USDA-NASS review and approval, information will be available through the USB
website. Information from previous crop years can be accessed by the following link:

https://extension.umn.edu/soybean/soybean-seed-quality
On behalf of USB, we appreciate your consideration and request you
mark “YES” to question 8a on the Soybean Objective Yield Survey.
For more information, please contact Lisa Weaver with

SmithBucklin, a contractor to USB, by dialing (636) 699-0477. The
farmer-directors of USB oversee the investments of the soy
checkoff to maximize profit opportunities for all U.S. soybean
farmers. These volunteers invest and leverage checkoff funds to
build preference for U.S. soybeans by addressing and meeting end-

Information is presented in tables, charts and
data-maps. The data map presented here is
just one example.

users’ needs, specifically in the areas of meal, oil and sustainability.
As stipulated in the federal Soybean Promotion, Research and
Consumer Information Act, the USDA Agricultural Marketing
Service has oversight responsibilities for USB and the Soy checkoff.

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