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The Soybean Innovation Lab Is Set to Close in April After Trump Cuts

Inside Climate News · By Susan Cosier · last updated
The USAID-funded facility in Illinois has tackled projects that would benefit U.S. growers while helping African farmers.

By Susan Cosier

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 Development’s Feed the Future initiative, helps advance soybean production in sub-Saharan Africa, assisting farmers there and developing markets for soybean farmers in the United States.

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