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Although soybean was introduced into North America in 1765, for the next 155 years, the crop was grown primarily for forage. [78] In 1831, the first soy product "a few dozen India Soy" [sauce] arrived in Canada. Soybeans were probably first cultivated in Canada by 1855, and definitely in 1895 at Ontario Agricultural College. [79]
In 1933 soybeans were trading at $0.39 cents per bushel. By 1948 the same soybeans were trading at $4.13 a bushel. There was nothing different about the beans themselves.
The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
The nation’s first cooperative for processing soybeans opened in Henderson in 1941. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
William Roy Shurtleff (born April 28, 1941) also known as Bill Shurtleff [1] is an American researcher and writer about soy foods. Shurtleff and his former wife Akiko Aoyagi have written and published consumer-oriented cookbooks, handbooks for small- and large-scale commercial production, histories, and bibliographies of various soy foods.
Samuel Bowen (died 30 December 1777) was an English entrepreneur and farmer who established an estate in Savannah, Province of Georgia, where he cultivated the first soya beans in North America. While earlier sources credited Benjamin Franklin with the introduction of the soya bean to North America, later research has shown that Bowen was ...
Harvest of near-record corn and soybean crops, sped along by weeks of dry weather, is straining storage capacity in Iowa and across Midwest ... farmers harvested 47% of the country's second ...
Soybeans were not widely cultivated in the United States until the early 1930s, and by 1942 it became the world's largest soybean producer, due in part to World War II and the "need for domestic sources of fats, oils, and meal". Between 1930 and 1942, the United States' share of world soybean production grew from 3% to 47%, and by 1969 it had ...