During Soyfoods Month, many markets will be offering you opportunities to savor soy with in-store demos and samplings, classes and more. Many soy-based alternatives to popular American food items are higher in protein, lower in calories and in fat, and also provide fiber, which helps make them satisfying. Take a trip to the vegetable section of the frozen food aisle and pick up some shelled edamame (green soybeans) Soyfoods are everywhere these days-in your supermarket, in restaurants,...

soybeans, along with large unshipped sales, suggest that exports for the year might exceed the current projection of 1.08 billion bushels," said Good. Shipments averaged 42 million bushels per week through the first 33 weeks of the year and need to average 45 million per week for the last 19 weeks of the year to reach the current projection. The first projections for the 2007-08 marketing year will be included. soybean crop will likely be based on the NASS report of planting intentions,...

When the scientists could see their model was working, they injected two formulations of hydrolyzed soy protein and soy peptides so the scientists could monitor the effects of each on food intake and weight loss. The experiment not only showed that soy peptides could interact with receptors in the brain, it also demonstrated that eating less isnt always the reason for weight loss, the researcher said. To compare soy peptides with leptin, de Mejias graduate student Nerissa Vaughn, with the...

Traders say less corn acres planted means more bean acres and it appears as if we may have a tough time getting all the corn planted that the USDA Planting intentions report from earlier this month shows. After a quiet session in which the market opened just a half cent lower than Fridays close. The focus today is on the USDA crop progress reports and specifically how much progress farmers have made planting corn. This coupled with the fact that a sizeable weather system is moving into the...

April 30, 2007 MEDICAL MONDAY: Soy Milk a Healthy Alternative By Craig Hammond Findings from a study appearing in a recent issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE), suggest there's a link between consumption of large (I repeat, large) amounts of dairy products and Parkinson's Disease in men -- but men only. April 30, 2007 MEDICAL MONDAY: Soy Milk a Healthy Alternative By Craig Hammond Findings from a study appearing in a recent issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology...