Soybean

Plan I have had past experiences which led me to participate in a hog load out and soybean harvest. I really became interested in helping with a hog load out after learning that the ag450 farm had hogs. I say this because I have grown up around cattle only and have only handled pigs once where we were required to practice moving them at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. I also wanted to help with harvest because I have never have gotten a lot of experience with helping at harvest…

Monsanto’s patent wrongfully. Monsanto is a Company that produces and sells herbicide and genetically modified organisms, (GMOs) which are generally herbicide resistant. They have two patent soybeans, that both resist their herbicide “Round Up”, which are called, “Round Up Ready”. The “Round Up Ready” soybeans are genetically modified to have chimeric genes, which is what makes them…

An essay about Environmental, economic and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. By Jason Hill et al. The authors try to determine whether ethanol, produced from corn grain, and biodiesel, produced from soybeans provide benefits over the petroleum-based fuels they displace. To be a viable alternative to fossil fuels, a biofuel (ethanol or biodiesel) should provide a net energy gain, have superior environmental benefits, be economically competitive with fossil fuels and…

(2014) conducted GWAS of 282 soybean breeding lines for resistance to SCN HG Type 0 using the USLP 1.0 SNP arrays (Hyten et al. 2010). The authors detected a significant association between markers and the known gene regions but no novel regions were detected. Han et al. (2015) identified…

Why would farmers go back in time from all of the developments in technology, and advancements that have come along in agriculture industry? That would be like telling one of today’s farmers to get rid of his brand new John Deere tractor that is equipped with auto steer and heated seats, and go back to a horse drawn plow. In a way this is what the push for non GMO products are doing to farmers. One of the largest debates in today’s agriculture, is it effective to plant non GMO crops. Will…

floor. Not only does it contribute erosion but also as host to other pest , for example as crown rust fungus and soybean aphid. Buckthorn increases fungus and soybean aphid , these bacteria’s don't make there own food they rely on other substances like plants and killing them. Buckthorn can serve as an overwintering host for the Asian soybean aphid it is a pest known to damage soybeans and it will spread of horticultural viruses.Buckthorn seed are easily spread by birds and other wildlife , they…

Gluten in fact dominates the protein in the majority of `premium ` feeds. Because protein as coined by the Greeks means ‘of the first importance” is the foundation of the feed. It is from protein that all tissue is developed and maintained. If the diet’s protein component is not sound, (and in the case of the carnivore it should be the very soundest possible) then the diet will be unsound and result in breakdowns among the animals that consume it. Since gluten is one of the two major sources of…

It also depends on the cultivar of soybean and the production methods. ). In the Chinese method beans are soaked, rinsed, and ground, and the okara is filtered off; in the Japanese method the rehydrated beans are cooked before grinding and filtering (Liu, 1997). Fresh okara contains approximately…

modified (GM) crops represented 26 percent of corn, 68 percent of soybeans and 69 percent of cotton planted in the United States.” Only four years later, 61 percent of corn, 89 percent of soybeans and 83 percent of cotton had been genetically modified (Rick). The statistics show the rise of usage of genetically modified crops which are presently the major share and the primary seed for farmers to sow. We consume the byproduct from corn, soybeans, and cotton which are utilized to make corn syrup…

sunflower, soybean, and canola per impact category are shown in Table 2. According to the results reported in the table 2, soybean was the oil seed with the the best environmental profile regardless the impact category. In contrast, sunflower was the oil seed crop with worst environmental results in almost all the categories. Environmental results were same pattern for the three crops, but sunflower has a higher impact in 5 out of the 6 impact categories. The better result for soybean was…