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Ohio Soybean Council Mission Statement

The mission of the Ohio Soybean Council is to invest soybean checkoff funds to maximize the profit opportunities for Ohio soybean farmers.

The Ohio Soybean Council focuses on the following:

• Increasing soybean farmers profits per acre
• Bringing practical research to Ohio's soybean farmers
• Investing in a targeted portfolio of short, medium and long term projects
• Increasing food and industrial usage of soybeans
• Representing Ohio soybean farmers' interest at the national level on the United Soybean Board.

In the News:

The Ohio State University Now Using Soy-based Toner

Soy-based toner, originally developed by the Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) and soybean checkoff, in partnership with Battelle, is now being used in laser printers across the campus of The Ohio State University (OSU). OSU’s new Soy Toner Alliance makes the university one of the largest, if not the largest, user of soy-based toner in the nation.

OSU President E. Gordon Gee helped celebrate the Soy Toner Alliance during a recent kick-off event at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center. He spoke to attendees about the significance of bringing the environmentally friendly soy-based toner to the university.

“It is not simply about using a new product,” said Gee. “It’s about staking our claim that this university and its leadership role in this state is making sustainability a very important part of who we are.”

The OSU Soy Toner Alliance is led by UniPrint, which maintains about half of the estimated 7,000 printers on campus. UniPrint will be using soy-based toner in any printer in its program for which cartridges are available, currently totaling about 700. Those printers print about 800,000 pages per month, and more printers will be added as cartridges become available.

Printers in OSU’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) were the first to use soy-based toner beginning on June 1.

OSC and Battelle began the research and development of the soy-based toner over a decade ago as a way to create a new market for Ohio soybean farmers. 

“We are very proud to see this idea, launched by the soybean checkoff, come full circle from its development at Battelle to its implementation right across the street at The Ohio State University,” said Keith Kemp, OSC chairman and Preble County soybean farmer. “Soy-based toner showcases the strength and ability of Ohio to be a leader in both agriculture and the growing bioproducts industry.”

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