Brazil, the world's second-biggest soya producer, is to allow the sale of genetically modified soyabeans .
He has done this for a few commodities, such as rice, wheat flour, soyabeans and sugar.
Before he began to experiment with flaking and precipitating soyabeans, whipped cream was a hit-or-miss affair.
In general, though, those who turn to, say, herbicide-resistant soyabeans, do not plant them for higher yields.
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At the same time 30% of soyabeans were rated in very poor or poor condition, up from 27%.
That in turn influences how much land is planted to soyabeans, which for American farmers are interchangeable with maize.
Soyabeans are native to north-east Asia (Japan, the Korean peninsular and north-east China).
Monsanto has conducted extensive field trials in Brazil of genetically modified soyabeans, which might also make possible less use of chemicals.
The oil palm is an efficient crop, yielding up to ten times more oil per hectare than soyabeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.
But Kikkoman buys most of its soyabeans and wheat from America and Canada, so a stronger yen actually reduces its costs.
The ultimate value of some varieties, such as organically grown or special tofu soyabeans for Japan, largely depends on their purity.
In recent months, American and Chinese negotiators have also ironed out spats over soyabeans, America's biggest export to China, and cotton.
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And many other farmers (of rape, maize, soyabeans and now potatoes), sensing a shift in consumers' attitudes, are giving up biotech experiments.
Cotton and soyabeans still grew, and there was still a lumber trade.
The day after the quotas were announced, China cancelled a trade mission to the United States to buy American cotton, wheat and soyabeans.
Partly for that reason, Brazil is not the cheapest place in the world to grow soyabeans (Argentina is, followed by the American Midwest).
For soyabeans the next few weeks are critical, as their relatively long pollination period means that the outlook could improve if rain arrives.
Illinois farmers, facing record low prices from a glut of produce and flagging exports, are keen to sell corn and soyabeans to Cuba.
Paulo Roberto Costa, its downstream director, envisages trains taking soyabeans, corn and iron ore from the interior to the ports and returning with oil.
Favoured commodities such as corn (maize), wheat, soyabeans and cotton will receive a per-acre revenue guarantee of about 90% of the previous five years' returns.
Only if the product introduces something truly new, such as soyabeans with a much-higher oil level than usual, is there an additional layer of scrutiny.
The kiosks displayed the minimum and maximum price paid for soyabeans at 60 mandis, updated once a day, along with agricultural information and weather forecasts.
Third, and most important, Embrapa turned soyabeans into a tropical crop.
B-complex vitamin found in fish, meat, soyabeans, eggs and other foods, which is changed into trimethylamine and so accumulates in people who cannot deodorise the molecule.
One of the world's biggest producer countries, Brazil, gave in to pressure from its farmers last September and approved the planting of a variety of GM soyabeans.
The country is fast becoming to such agricultural commodities as soyabeans what Saudi Arabia is to oil: a swing producer, whose decisions can sway the world market.
Price increases in corn and soyabeans are not thought likely to trigger a food crisis, as they did in 2007-08, as global rice and wheat supplies remain plentiful.
Growing soyabeans which are then exported to feed pigs in North America and Europe is by no means a sustainable activity, nor is increasing ranchland to grow more beef.
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