By Amy Gorin, MS, RDN It’s April, which means it’s National Soyfoods Month. The best way to celebrate? Embracing all things soy! Soy foods are wonderful meal and snack additions for so many reasons. For one, they’re complete plant proteins–meaning they contain all nine essential amino acids that your body isn’t able to produce on its own. Also, regularly eating soy protein may be beneficial for cholesterol levels because it is a heart-healthy food, per… Read More

This week in the lab, Dylan Karis has been investigating the synthesis of soy-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs). DESs are a class of ionic liquid defined by the unique morphology applied to their assembly. Whereas ionic liquids are discrete 1:1 blends of positively and negatively charged ions, DESs may be more complex mixtures. To make DESs, Dr. Karis utilizes soy fatty acid, which is easily obtainable from soybean oil, and a quaternary amine. The goal… Read More

By Kayla Weaver As the news shows ships full of cargo containers waiting in port, most Americans are anxious about being able to get the products inside. However, in agriculture, the questions are more about who gets those containers once emptied and if they can be loaded with soybeans before their return voyage. According to Will McNair, oil and soyfood director at the U.S. Soybean Export Council, containerized soybean exports continue to be a small,… Read More

Truck to rail to barge. Or perhaps, truck to barge to truck. Or maybe just truck to train. Soybeans travel in many ways and in many forms to locations all around the world. More than 50 percent of Ohio’s soybean crop is exported to domestic and foreign markets each year, making soybeans Ohio’s largest agricultural export. Ohio soybean farmers can benefit from the state’s varied and robust transportation systems. Due to Ohio’s vast system of… Read More

There is no doubt that technology has become an essential part of doing business for farmers, equipment retailers and agronomists. Since the 1990s, when GPS units and yield monitors became popular, technology on farms has improved data management, crop production and farm ROI. Because of this, precision agriculture is expected to become a $43.5 billion dollar industry by 2025. This growing branch of agriculture prompted the Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) to launch Precision Ag Reviews… Read More