Then in 2002, a Depression-era system that guaranteed high profits to some peanut farmers was dismantled to put prices on par with the international market. In Virginia, cotton acreage is predicted to drop 19 percent and soybean acreage to drop 4 percent from 2006. Corn prices are the highest they've been in years, and that has pushed up the amount of money farmers can make for growing other crops, too, Rountree said. A 41 percent increase in acreage is due to profitable contracts. This...

Eat all the soy you want, but it is not likely to help you shed pounds. Overweight women who cut out 500 calories a day while consuming an extra 18 grams of soy-rich food didn't lose any more weight than their peers who didn't add the extra soy. A new study found adding soy-protein-rich foods while cutting calories doesn't accelerate weight loss.

Recent controversy has surfaced regarding the efficacy of soy protein consumption in reducing serum cholesterol. FACT: Experts agree soy has additional heart health benefits The AHA report noted that soy foods are heart healthy because of their high content of polyunsaturated fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals and low content of saturated fat, making them an ideal substitute for less healthy foods that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. FACT: Experts agree soy has additional heart...

Nutrition Horizon: Nutrition, Ingredients and Foods Online - Newsmaker. Nutrition Horizon: Nutrition, Ingredients and Foods Online - Newsmaker. Soy protein and soy nuts each exhibited a beneficial effect on components of the syndrome, but soy nuts had the strongest impact, perhaps because they provided soy protein as well as polyunsaturated fat and contained a higher amount of soybean isoflavones. The study evaluated both soy protein and soy nut consumption among postmenopausal women...

farmers are responding to market signals by planning to plant more than 90 million acres of corn this year, the largest acreage since World War II. In addition to the huge loss in soybean acres, about 3 million more than trade analysts had anticipated, the new corn acreage also is coming at the expense of spring wheat and cotton, in regions of the country where those crops are grown. However, area planted to soybeans is expected to increase in the Southeast, with Georgia expecting the...