What it doesn't meet with is fish sauce (soy sauce is used instead), chicken or shrimp (pleasing not only vegetarians but those with fish/seafood allergies) Any stray bits resembling chicken and shrimp are made from veggies, spices and soy protein. A generous tangle of wide rice noodles, kissed with homemade tamarind sauce, mingles with all its usual pals bean sprouts, green onions, tofu, toasted and crushed chili peppers, crushed peanuts, lime wedges. Jean's Vegetarian Kitchen dishes up...

Midwest soils have ample water stored to get this year's corn and soybean crops off to a great start, provided fields dry out in time for planting, climatologists said. But that is only half of the needed moisture to get the corn and soybean crop to full maturity and maximum yield, said Iowa's state climatologist Harry Hillaker. In the heart of the corn and soybean belt, precipitation was rather abundant through the winter. Iowa's February snowfall averaged 12 inches or 5.7 inches above...

Interestingly, people from cultures in which dairy farming started earlier (such as northern Europe) are less likely to suffer from lactose intolerance, than those from Asia and Africa. However, this can result in a shortage of calcium, vitamin D, riboflavin and protein so a milk substitute such as Alpro's soya range ( 1. If lactose is not broken down by lactase, components of the lactose remain in the intestinal tract, where it feeds bacteria which can cause cramps, bloating, flatulence...

CDT AMES, Iowa -- While Asian soybean rust has never been identified in an Iowa field during the season, rust pustules and spores were found on a single leaf retrieved from a bin of 2006 soybeans last week. The scientists there said it looked like soybean rust upon visual exam -- yesterday the word came that molecular testing confirmed the pathogen, said Greg Tylka, Iowa State University Extension plant pathologist and spokesperson for the Iowa Soybean Rust Team. The scientists there said...

Technicians note that with this 57 cent break off the highs in May soybeans that this 50% correction coupled with yesterdays spike low could be enough for this current move to the downside. Oil worlds estimated South America's soybean crop is likely to reach a record high of 108. May Soybeans gapped lower and closed the gap but were unable to post a higher close. Interesting to note the index fund longs actually grew on the weakness in wheat and corn on the first break for a while? There...