Worth an acre of beans to you? - The Delmarva Farmer
May 25, 2010
The national average yield for soybeans is about 42 bushels an acre. ... So what can you do with an acre of soybeans?
According to the World Soy Foundation. you can produce more than 2,500 gallons of soymilk with those 42 bushels.
That’s 40,000 eight-ounce servings.
One acre of soybeans also provides about 18,000 rations of soy protein and a bushel of soybeans can provide “a significant boost of protein for 20 undernourished children a month.”
That’s the part that grabs the attention of the World Soy Foundation and that’s why the organization is promoting what is known as the Acre Challenge.
As soybean farmers across the nation plant their 2010 crop, they are being encouraged to nourish countless hungry children across the world.
Farmers are being asked to give the value of one acre of their beans to the World Soy Foundation’s Acre Challenge.
The process is simple, even though many of the children are thousands of miles away in developing countries.
A little girl at a foster care facility in Guatemala feels like running and playing now that soy protein has helped improve her diet.
She and the other children from Africa and Afghanistan to Haiti and Honduras benefit from support of the World Soy Foundation.
Jim Peterson, an Indiana soybean grower, started the Acre Challenge in 2007. Supported by the World Soy Foundation, it continued to grow in 2008 when the members of the Iowa Soybean Association pledged a total of 21 acres that year. Then farmers from North Carolina and others from Indiana got aboard.
For 2010, two growers from the Mid-Atlantic, Richard Wilkins of Delaware and Alan Schmidt of Maryland, have signed on.
“We see children grow stronger thanks to the generosity of soybean farmers,” said World Soy Foundation CEO Nathan Ruby. “Farmer funds are leveraged with industry supporters, such as Cargill, Sunopta, Northern Food Grade Soybean Association, Natural Products Inc. Soyatech, and WhiteWave Foods as well as the many international organizations that recognize the importance of soy protein.”
Contributions are tax deductible and can be made online at www.worldsoyfoundation.org or by calling the World Soy Foundation Foundation at 1-800-688-7692, Ext. 1358.
So last week, beans were selling at around $9. At 42 bushels an acre, that would return $378. That could feed a lot of hungry kids in this world.a
The national average yield for soybeans is about 42 bushels an acre. ... So what can you do with an acre of soybeans?
According to the World Soy Foundation. you can produce more than 2,500 gallons of soymilk with those 42 bushels.
That’s 40,000 eight-ounce servings.
One acre of soybeans also provides about 18,000 rations of soy protein and a bushel of soybeans can provide “a significant boost of protein for 20 undernourished children a month.”
That’s the part that grabs the attention of the World Soy Foundation and that’s why the organization is promoting what is known as the Acre Challenge.
As soybean farmers across the nation plant their 2010 crop, they are being encouraged to nourish countless hungry children across the world.
Farmers are being asked to give the value of one acre of their beans to the World Soy Foundation’s Acre Challenge.
The process is simple, even though many of the children are thousands of miles away in developing countries.
A little girl at a foster care facility in Guatemala feels like running and playing now that soy protein has helped improve her diet.
She and the other children from Africa and Afghanistan to Haiti and Honduras benefit from support of the World Soy Foundation.
Jim Peterson, an Indiana soybean grower, started the Acre Challenge in 2007. Supported by the World Soy Foundation, it continued to grow in 2008 when the members of the Iowa Soybean Association pledged a total of 21 acres that year. Then farmers from North Carolina and others from Indiana got aboard.
For 2010, two growers from the Mid-Atlantic, Richard Wilkins of Delaware and Alan Schmidt of Maryland, have signed on.
“We see children grow stronger thanks to the generosity of soybean farmers,” said World Soy Foundation CEO Nathan Ruby. “Farmer funds are leveraged with industry supporters, such as Cargill, Sunopta, Northern Food Grade Soybean Association, Natural Products Inc. Soyatech, and WhiteWave Foods as well as the many international organizations that recognize the importance of soy protein.”
Contributions are tax deductible and can be made online at www.worldsoyfoundation.org or by calling the World Soy Foundation Foundation at 1-800-688-7692, Ext. 1358.
So last week, beans were selling at around $9. At 42 bushels an acre, that would return $378. That could feed a lot of hungry kids in this world.a
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