The Freeborn County Corn and Soybean Growers and their checkoffs will cancel their annual meeting planned for Thursday at Wedgewood Cove Golf Club to help protect others from the spread of COVID-19, according to a press release.

“As much as we wanted to have our annual meeting, we have to think of others first,” said Freeborn County Corn and Soybean Board Chairman Cole Pestorious. “Protecting our community is more important.”

The Freeborn County Corn and Soybean Growers Organization is affiliated with the Minnesota Soybean

Research & Promotion Council, which oversees the investment of soybean checkoff dollars on behalf of approximately 25,000 farmers in Minnesota. The council is governed by the rules of a federally mandated checkoff program that requires all soybean producers pay a fee on the soybeans they sell. This money is used to promote, educate and develop market opportunities for soybeans.