Minnesota soybean group tees up biodiesel advocacy event
MSGA’s Aug. 24 Biodiesel Open in Hutchinson will raise money for lobbying in St. Paul and Washington, D.C., with entries at $150 a golfer or $580 a team.
The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association will stage its 2026 Biodiesel Open Aug. 24 at Crow River Golf Club in Hutchinson. Registration is $150 a golfer or $580 for a four-person team, and the fee covers 18 holes, a cart, dinner and drink tickets.
The tournament helps bankroll MSGA's year-round advocacy in St. Paul and Washington, D.C., where the group meets with lawmakers, regulators and other stakeholders on behalf of soybean farmers. The event also gives growers and industry partners a setting to trade notes on biodiesel policy, soybean oil demand and the broader renewable fuels market.
MSGA President Ryan Mackenthun said the event is a chance for farmers and industry partners to spend a day together.
Its more than two decades of work helped make Minnesota the first state to adopt B20 for the summer months. Biodiesel supports more than 5,000 full-time jobs in Minnesota, generates a $1.7 billion economic impact for the state’s GDP and produces $676 million in farm-level impact.
For soybean growers, biodiesel adds more than $1 to every bushel of soybeans and lifts demand by 13%. The association represents nearly 26,000 soybean farmers and is led by a 40-person board of grower leaders from counties across the state.
MSGA’s board is also pushing soybean oil as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel, alongside tax reform, lower crop input costs, transportation and rural infrastructure improvements, broader domestic and international market access and keeping family farms on the land.
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