Innovative research, discovery, and development across the soybean value chain to drive farmer profitability, industry growth, and end-user value is critical to the future of soybean production and the soybean industry. Emphases and opportunities are growing in the areas of climate resilience, sustainability,traceability, agri technologies, biotechnologies, soybean oil for fuels, and soybean protein for feed and food. US soybean farmers are uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in engaging with all elements of the value chain to provide greater profitability to soybean farmers and better and healthier products to meet growing global demands. The US Soybean Research Collaborative (USSRC)will focus on communication, coordination, and collaboration among soy checkoff partners. The vision is to complement and leverage current work to bring greater short- and long-term value through proactive research and innovation opportunities.

1. Help states be more strategic in deciding how to prioritize and spend their research dollars by having a better understanding of what other checkoff group sand industry partners are doing.
2. Provide information and the platform for partners to further collaborate with each other and with the right teams of experts on “big” projects and grant opportunities.
3. Bring soy partners together to think broadly about the future and do a better job communicating needs and opportunities up and down the value chain.
4. Foster a broad industry and value chain view for soybean research opportunities that move beyond traditional production research to expand markets and drive profitability

1. Establish the United States Soybean Research Collaborative (USSRC)
2. Successfully host the Annual Soybean Research Forum & Think Tank that brings together farmer leaders, commodity group research staff, industry players,academic researchers, and government officials to think broadly about the future of soybean production and use, and better understand research opportunities.
3. Explore, investigate and broadly communicate new and emerging research technologies and opportunities that look beyond traditional production research for soybean partnerships and investments with universities, start-up companies,and established companies.
4. Build a system to prioritize, build, and recommend investments in research programs that will be multi-state, multi-disciplinary, integrated, and holistic to address key prioritized short- and long-range goals.
5. Pursuit of private/public partnerships and lists of funders/sponsors for high priority research across current and new areas to further extend the farmer checkoff dollar.