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South Carolina Soybeans ---the miracle crop. Mature Soybean. Soybeans are practically as American as baseball today, but a half century ago, they were grown only by a handful of innovative farmers. Young soybean seedlings. Double-cropped soybeans behind wheat.
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South CarolinaSoybeans ---the miracle crop
Soybeans are practically as American as baseball today, but a half century ago, they were grown only by a handful of innovative farmers.
Soybeans developing their canopy reducing probability of weed emergence.
Soybeans at green stage, beginning to set pods.
Mature soybeans are harvested with a combine from the end of October to mid December.
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.
Thanks to research, soybeans are used for a myriad of products:soy milktofusoybean curdsoy yogurtsoyburgerssoy loafsoy sausagesoy oil