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South CarolinaSoybeans ---the miracle crop
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Mature Soybean
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Soybeans are practically as American as baseball
today, but a half century ago, they were grown
only by a handful of innovative farmers.
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Young soybean seedlings.
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Double-cropped soybeans behind wheat.
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Soybeans developing their canopy reducing
probability of weed emergence.
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Soybeans at green stage, beginning to set pods.
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Mature field of soybeans ready for harvest.
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Upon harvest the combine separates the bean from
the pod.
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Mature soybeans are harvested with a combine from
the end of October to mid December.
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Soybeans are offloaded from the combine to a
grain wagon and sent to the processor. The two
by-products are soybean meal and soybean oil.
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Soybean Research
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Thanks to research, soybeans are used for a
myriad of productssoy milktofusoybean
curdsoy yogurtsoyburgerssoy loafsoy
sausagesoy oil
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Products made with soybean meal or oil.
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