Welcome

to the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board website!

Pennsylvania soybean farmers raise an annual crop of about half a million acres of soybeans.

Soybean research, marketing and education activities are conducted by the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board, which is funded by the soybean checkoff. Through the checkoff, farmers contribute one-half of one percent of the net market value of their beans for these activities on their behalf.

Each year the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board sponsors a yield contest. The contest helps gather and share information about production trends. Lapp Farms of Chester County won the contest this year with 87.81 bushels of Syngenta NK S36-B6. That's the same seed that produced 87 bushels for second-place winner Greene Valley Farms, also of Chester. For more information, please click here.

Click here to read about the changes in production in the 16 years since the yield contest began. Thanks to John Yocum, PSB chairman and past organizer of the Yield Contest, for putting this report together.

Find out what's new with Biodiesel and a list of fuel distributors in Pennsylvania and other Mid-Atlantic states by clicking here!

Livestock and poultry production makes a huge impact on Pennsylvania and the Northeast region's quality of life and state economies. Click here to open a PDF booklet that provides state-by-state data.

Find out more about the Northeast Region by clicking here!

Biodiesel used by Great Valley School District

Great Valley School District has started using B20 biodiesel in its 70 school buses, providing cleaner emissions for better student health. The project is supported by the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Program of the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection..

To find biodiesel in Pennsylvania, please click here.

If you're a fuel distributor and you've got biodiesel questions, Ben has biodiesel answers! Click here to visit with Ben!