...Diana Chen Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America . By Matthew Roth . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2018 . 344 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2634-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 564 Agricultural History dation of environmentalism when...

... of the reformers I study. Luke Manget Dalton State College Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America. By Matthew Roth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 344 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-70062634-2. Pure white and smooth with only a hint of grassy flavor, the soy product called tofu has both...

... of soy that vanquished Paraguay s once abundant Atlantic forest. This monolithic sea of green that today dominates the Paraguayan landscape, was not inevitable, however. It was driven by the political, economic, social, and cultural landscape that began with the now famous Green Revolution. Using...

... the government of Lugo attempted to extend the reach of the Paraguayan state beyond the confines of Asunción. This is a masterful approach to what could have been simply a text about state corruption and inefficiency. Hetherington s book moves rapidly, like the world of soy which it is describing, outlining how...

... family s farm in Greene County, Illinois, and he maintained a lifelong interest in the price of soy beans and corn there. The agrarian life became such a vital part of his being that he dedicated much of his scholarship to understanding and explaining it. As a youth, he progressed from eight years...

.... Industrial changes brought into the colony were equally important. Foodprocessing industries such as rice polishing and flour mills blossomed. Breweries, alcohol manufacturers, and soy sauce manufacturers were also prolific. Although operating on relatively small scale, these food-processing industries made...

... of Taiwan and Korea supplied more than 95 percent of Japanese rice imports. Industrial changes brought into the colony were equally important. Foodprocessing industries such as rice polishing and flour mills blossomed. Breweries, alcohol manufacturers, and soy sauce manufacturers were also prolific...

...: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Patel, Vinay R., et al. “Castor Oil: Properties, Uses, and Optimization of Processing Parameters in Commercial Production.” Lipid Insights 9 (2016): 1–12. Prodöhl, Ines. “Versatile and Cheap: A Global History of Soy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century...

... 1970s Mennonites were already producing nearly The Steel Wheel 183 half of Santa Cruz s soybeans, and they maintained this share even as the soy harvest jumped eightfold from a mere twenty-four thousand tons in 1978 to a quarter of a million in 1988. In the following two years of drought, yield per acre...

... and a shifting political regime. Under neoliberal rule, traditionalist Mexican Mennonite colonists paradoxically boosted the modernization of the frontier by capitalizing on the commercial potential of another migrant, the soybean. Just like settler communities, soy transformed in the process of its...

... their favorite breakfast while learning about the var? ious structural and nutritional qualities of grain. In the "Soy Shed," visitors tour a suburban kitchen and garage. Patrons open drawers and peek into cabinets to discover hundreds of everyday household items, which share the common characteristic of being...

... to cash-grain farming, and burgeoning global demand for corn- and soy-based products moved the fringes of the region. Michael Allen traces the changes in midwestern river culture from the Hopewellian and Mississippian people to the age of steamboat power. Rivers and their traffic encouraged racial...

... (2017) work on pigs, and Ines Prodohl s (2016) work on soy all provide excellent models of international research, trade, and food politics. 586 Agricultural History And they often also raise important issues of food versus nonfood uses of farm products. Prodohl s study of soy nicely illustrates...

... (mung) gobo beans (soy) goma (sesame) beans (tapery) habucha beets(table) horseradish broccoli kohlrabi cabbage cantaloupe carrots casaba cauliflower celery chard chongi corn lettuce melons(honeydew) melons(Persian) melons(water) mustardgreens mizuna Napa cabbage okra onions cucumbers parsley parsnips...

..., the hundreds of uses of soy beans, and techniques for improving soil without the use of synthetic fertilizers. I learned that cultivating small plots of land could be a bulwark against starvation rather than the cause of it, and that there are viable alternatives to the exploitative, environmentally...

... for Biobased Materials,” Journal of Industrial Ecology 7, nos. 3-4 (2003): 33-46; Dorothy Chubbuck, “The Many Wonders of the Soy Bean,” Herald 4, no. 7 (Apr. 30, 1937): 1, 3. The Herald was the Edison Institute’s history magazine. 26. Kellar, “Edwards,” 14; [Everett E. Edwards], “The National...

... to hire a combine for harvesting his beans that fall.31 One of the biggest challenges combine operators faced in harvesting soy? beans was the problem of cracking or splitting the beans. Soybeans, like any seed crop, begin to deteriorate as soon as the outer hull cracks, causing storage problems...

.... A contributor to Farm, Field and Fireside reinforced the use of a creep to separate two-week-old lambs from ewes, and to feed fresh bran in a trough inside the creep to make baby mutton very fast. The ration included corn meal and linseed meal cracked corn and soy beans with a sprinkle of bran and plenty...

...: Honi soi qui mal y pense (shame on him who thinks evil). That is not the end of the story, however; the early bird can be controlled and even made useful. The illustration on the card s reverse shows the renegade rooster now under 573 Agricultural History Fall the firm control barbed-wire reins...

... for a change from rice to wheat as the most common food in Japanese diets. He worried however, that the recent US embargo on soy products to Japan would cause Japanese buyers to question the reliability of American wheat. 56 Judge's preoccupation had merit because the Pacific Northwest wheat industry...