Each growing season brings new and complex challenges to soybean production in Illinois. From extreme weather conditions to new and changing pest pressures to herbicide resistance, farmers face tremendous obstacles every year. The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) is responding by funding innovative research that often spans multiple years to evaluate ever-changing conditions and identify solutions that can work on your farm.

Learn more about the research projects we’re funding by checking out the research categories below. If there’s a project or two that interest you, you can connect with the researchers behind the projects in Meet the Researchers. And if you’re curious about past research projects and key findings, check out the Archive.

If you’re a farmer or advisor, we invite you to take our Soybean Production Concerns Survey linked below to help guide future ISA research efforts. We also encourage you to contact us below with specific production challenge research ideas.

If you’re a researcher interested in working with ISA on a project, we encourage you to contact us with your ideas. The RFP will open in early March. Contact us below to be added to the mailing list for more information.