A lab focused on developing soybean farming in Africa was scheduled to shutter in April, a casualty of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts. Then a donor stepped in. Founders Pledge, an international ...

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The Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Champaign-Urbana in Illinois received its official notice of termination March 11 after a review of its work by Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...

The impending closure of a University of Illinois soybean research lab due to federal funding cuts could impede the study of a fungal disease that experts say would decimate the crop if it makes its ...

Back when Republicans were a mighty political force in Illinois, one of the party’s great unifiers was the humble soybean. Illinois produces more of these fuzzy legumes than any other state, and the ...

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an island in a sea of farmland where corn and soybeans grow, sits the Soybean Innovation Lab. The institution, part of the U.S. Agency for International ...

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 ...

Since virtually the first day of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have been dismantling federal agencies and claiming as savings the billions of ...

A bulletin board in the halls of the Soybean Innovation Lab on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana describes its efforts to create ‘a sustainable soybean industry across Sub-Saharan Africa.’ ...

URBANA, Ill. — Dozens of people will be out of a job as a soybean research team based in the Midwest is forced to shutter. The Soybean Innovation Lab is set to close Apr. 15, according to a social ...

Soybean Innovation Lab Director Peter Goldsmith (left) visits Pan-African Soybean Trials in Malawi. Soybean Innovation Lab Director Peter Goldsmith (left) visits Pan-African Soybean Trials in Malawi.

The impending closure of a University of Illinois soybean research lab due to federal funding cuts could impede the study of a fungal disease that experts say would decimate the crop if it makes its ...