| Identifying the mystery crop |
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Identifying the mystery crop
Soybean plants grow thick and bushy with wide round leaves and colourful flowers that produce their seeds in pods, just like other beans. The flowers on a soybean plant are small and are nearly impossible to see from the road. The plants grow to be 2 and 3 ˝ feet tall when mature, and depending how far apart they are planted, soybean fields will have visible rows or just look like a sea of green leaves. Just before harvest, soybean plants dry out, turn yellow, and the leaves fall off, leaving the bean pods exposed on the plant and ready to be harvested by the combine.
After the fall harvest soybeans are sold to food companies that soak the beans whole to make soy beverages and tofu, or crush them to separate the oil from the high protein meal. The oil can be used for cooking or powering cars and the meal is used as a high protein food for animals. You may have eaten edamame, typically at sushi restaurants. Edamame is young soybeans, harvested while still green, then boiled and salted. With 2.3 million tonnes of soybeans grown in Ontario every year, you will almost certainly drive by a few fields this summer. Go to www.whatsgrowingon.ca to learn more. www.newscanada.com |
(NC)—There are over 20,000 soybean farmers in Ontario and about 2 million acres of soybeans grown in the province every year. With that much land devoted to this crop, it's likely you've driven by a field without even knowing it.
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