$1M gift to keep Soybean Innovation Lab operational after USAID closure

Anonymous $1M donation gives Soybean Innovation Lab a second chance

After previously being set to close amid cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Soybean Innovation Lab has received a donation that will allow it to stay open

Facing closure from Trump cuts, U. of I. soybean lab gets temporary lifeline

A University of Illinois soybean research lab slated to close as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to foreign assistance has received an anonymous donation of $1 million that will allow it to remain open for another year. The temporary lifeline for the Soybean Innovation Lab at the university’s flagship Urbana-Champaign campus came just as the center, which works to establish soybean markets in sub-Saharan Africa and other regio…

$1M gift to keep Soybean Innovation Lab operational after USAID closure

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) - A donation from an anonymous donor is keeping the Soybean Innovation Lab at the U of I operational after the USAID closure.

Optimizing corn and soybean seeding rates

Editor’s note: The following was written by Giovani Preza Fontes and Emerson Nafziger with the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois for the farmdoc daily website April 14.

Soybean Innovation Lab spared through donation - Brownfield Ag News

The director of the Soybean Innovation Lab, at the University of Illinois, says its progress toward developing a global soybean value chain will continue. “It’s a lovely gift. It’s a miracle.” Peter Goldsmith says an anonymous $1.02 million donation averted a predicted mid-April closure and will fund the lab and core staff for another year. […] The post Soybean Innovation Lab spared through donation appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.