Northern Soy Marketing (NSM) is a collaboration of farmer leaders from the northern U.S. states of Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. NSM promotes the quality, consistency and reliability of northern-grown soybeans and soybean meal by working with respected researchers to provide a more accurate picture of soybean feeding quality by considering critical essential amino acids, rather than crude protein as the true measure of soy quality.

Farmers from NSM’s member states proudly produce 27 percent of the soybeans grown in the U.S. The majority of these soybeans are loaded onto rail and shipped from Pacific Northwest export facilities. It takes about 20 days transit for shipments destined for China. For some destinations, northern-grown soybeans exported from the Port of Duluth-Superior, are feasible.