Indiana Corn & Soybean Post: Publishers, Checkoff Coverage and Issues
Profile updated November 2026
The Indiana Corn & Soybean Post is the joint magazine of Indiana's two grain checkoff programs, the Indiana Soybean Alliance and the Indiana Corn Marketing Council. Its publishers describe it as news and information about the Indiana corn and soybean checkoff, and it is written for the farmers who pay those checkoffs. This profile explains who stands behind the magazine, how the two checkoffs work and what the Post has published in recent years.
| Publishers | Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Corn Marketing Council |
|---|---|
| Purpose | News and information about the Indiana corn and soybean checkoff |
| Base | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Frequency | Several issues a year (seasonal and monthly-titled editions) |
| Format | Print, with digital editions on Issuu |
| Recent issue | May 2025 |
| Official website | Issuu: Indiana Corn and Soybean Post |
History of Indiana Corn & Soybean Post
The Post reflects a long process of consolidation among Indiana's grain groups. The Indiana Soybean Alliance was formed when the Indiana Soybean Board, which ran the soybean checkoff, merged with the Indiana Soybean Growers Association. The Indiana Corn Marketing Council was founded in 2007 to run the state's corn checkoff, a mandatory program collected at the first point of sale.
From early on, the soybean and corn groups shared leadership and staff. Farm Progress reported that the soybean and corn boards jointly hired an executive director to lead both, that one communications team served both crops, and that the groups were headquartered on West 74th Street on the northwest side of Indianapolis, in a building shared with the Indiana Pork and Indiana Beef Cattle associations to reduce costs. A single combined magazine for corn and soybean farmers is a natural outcome of that shared operation.
Indiana Corn & Soybean Post Today
Digital editions of the Indiana Corn & Soybean Post on Issuu run from Winter 2022 through Summer 2022, a Holiday 2022 issue, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall 2023 issues, March, May, July and September 2024 issues, and a May 2025 issue. The publishers describe the Post as their channel for checkoff news and information.
The checkoff groups also partner with Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture on Managing Farm Risk, a program offering tools and strategies to help farmers understand and manage risk, the kind of farmer-facing work the Post reports back to its readers.
What Indiana Corn & Soybean Post Is Publishing Now
Checkoff investments
The Post reports how corn and soybean checkoff dollars are spent at the state and national levels, in line with the publishers' stated purpose.
Market development and new uses
The Indiana Corn Marketing Council directs its checkoff into market development, sustainability, new uses and value creation, and producer engagement, all areas the magazine covers for readers.
Farmer leadership
Both checkoff boards are made up of volunteer farmers, and the Post keeps growers informed about the people and programs governing their checkoff money.
Indiana Corn & Soybean Post Editors and Staff
Publisher records and contact lists connect these people to the Indiana Corn & Soybean Post:
- Dave Blower - Editorial contact, Indiana Soybean Alliance
- Megan Kuhn - Former communications staff for the soybean and corn groups
Who Reads Indiana Corn & Soybean Post
The Post goes to Indiana corn and soybean farmers, the producers who fund the checkoffs. The Indiana Corn Marketing Council collects one-half cent per bushel of corn marketed in Indiana, at the first point of sale, and is directed by a 17-member board of volunteer farmers. Farmers may request a refund of the corn checkoff under state law. Corn and soybeans are the backbone of Indiana crop agriculture, and federal statistics from USDA's Census of Agriculture track the state's grain farms county by county.
Indiana farmers who rotate corn and soybeans know a good joke can carry them through a long day in the combine cab. Readers of the Post can find more at farm.FM, where farm satire and farm humor take on everything from grain bins to county fair politics, with ranch humor for the Hoosier cattle crowd. Its farm jokes are clean enough to share at the next checkoff meeting.
If the name is new to you, farm.FM is the nation's first satirical farm site, with Tractor Tunes country music for farmers on the side. One of its regular writers keeps a whole archive of stories like that.
Indiana Corn & Soybean Post Sources and Agriculture Authority Links
- Issuu: Indiana Corn and Soybean Post, May 2025 - a recent digital edition.
- Indiana Corn Marketing Council: About the corn checkoff - the 2007 founding and how the checkoff works.
- Farm Progress: Indiana corn and soybean groups name new director - how the groups came to share leadership and offices.
- Purdue University: Managing Farm Risk - land-grant risk management program run with the Indiana checkoffs.
- USDA NASS Census of Agriculture - federal data on Indiana corn and soybean farms.
Indiana Corn & Soybean Post FAQ
Who publishes the Indiana Corn & Soybean Post?
The Indiana Soybean Alliance and the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, Indiana's soybean and corn checkoff organizations.
What does the Indiana Corn & Soybean Post cover?
News and information about the Indiana corn and soybean checkoff, including the programs those dollars fund.
Where can I read past issues?
Digital editions from 2022 onward are posted on Issuu.
How much is the Indiana corn checkoff?
One-half cent per bushel of corn marketed in Indiana, collected at the first point of sale.
For Hoosier grain farmers who want to know what their checkoff dollars are doing, the Indiana Corn & Soybean Post is the place both checkoffs report back.