Last-Minute Gift Saves Global Soybean Research Lab

MSR&PC welcomes new research director

The Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) is entering the next chapter of its farmer-led, checkoff-funded research program. The Council is proud to announce that soil scientist Sergio Cabello Leiva has taken the helm as the organization’s new research director.   “I’m excited for the opportunity to connect with growers and apply research and transfer that knowledge to farmers,” Cabello Leiva said. “This position feeds a lot of…

Last-Minute Gift Saves Global Soybean Research Lab

In February, the USAID-funded Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was told to shut down, ending 12 years of work developing a global soybean value chain spanning Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia. SIL director Pete Goldsmith scraped together short-term funding from the university to keep the lab running through April 15, what was expected to be its final day. As reported…