Ricky Stallings of Perquimans County won the annual Soybean Yield Contest with an entry of 83.2 bushels per acre.  McLain Farms of Iredell County won the Most Efficient Yield Contest with a total cost of $3.89 per bushel.

Bobby Joe Fisher of Rocky Mount was elected to a second term as president of the North Carolina Soybean Producers Association on January 14, 2010.

The North Carolina Soybean Producers Association elected directors and officers at the Annual Membership Meeting in New Bern on January 14th, and recognized Reginald Strickland and Dr. Richard Reich at the annual Awards Banquet.

Jeff Wuebker, President of the Ohio Soybean Association, will be the keynote speaker at the Soybean Producers Forum on Thursday, February 4 at the Southern Farm Show.  Wuebker will discuss how Ohio soybean producers and animal agriculture producers worked together to support livestock and poultry production, including a successful ballot initiative in Ohio to create the Ohio Livestock Standards Care Board.  The Board establishes standards governing the care and well-being of livestock and poultry in Ohio, an initiative approved by a majority of voters in the state’s November 2009 elections.

The North Carolina Soybean Producers Association held its first annual Soybean Producers Forum meeting at the Southern Farm Show in Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday, February 4, 2010.  Jeff Wuebker, President of the Ohio Soybean Association, was the keynote speaker.  Wuebker discussed how Ohio soybean producers and animal agriculture producers collaborated to support livestock and poultry production, including the support of a successful ballot initiative creating the Ohio Livestock Standards Care Board to govern the care and well-being of livestock and poultry.  Dr. Tommy Carter, a noted research scientist and soybean breeder, also spoke at the event on the development of drought tolerant soybeans.