The United States may become the world's largest soybean producer in history. Brazil may take over.

The United States has the largest soybean output in the world, which is just a thing of the past. It is predicted that the United States, which once led the world in soybean production, will change hands, and Brazilian soybean is expected to take the top spot in the world's soybean output. According to the USDA, the United States will produce 113 million tons of soybeans this year, while Brazil will produce 119 million tons of soybeans. Although the gap is small, the take-off of Brazilian soybeans is self-evident.

Although American soybeans may be about to lag behind, there is no doubt that American soybeans are still at the forefront of the world. It can be said that the American soybean planting industry is full of legends. The reason for this is that it has developed rapidly in the past hundred years.

There was a short story in which American agricultural researchers found several soybeans outside a granary in the northeast and brought them back to the United States, where they developed rapidly after improvement. It is impossible to test whether the story is true or false! But we can also see that the soybean germplasm resources in the United States come from China.

A hundred years ago, China used to be the world's largest producer and exporter of soybeans, but at that time, the production of soybeans in the United States was almost zero. Now, a hundred years later, the United States Eagle has become the world's leading producer of soybeans and the second largest trading country in terms of exports.

From the history of the development of American soybean, the rise of soybean should be attributed to the harmony of the time, the earth and the people.

The so-called weather coincides with the trend of economic and trade globalization; the geographical location is that soybean is suitable for the climate of the United States; and human harmony lies in the concerted efforts of the United States to drive the development of soybean industry from the perspective of scientific research and technology.

The beginning of American soybeans dates back to a sailor at the East India Company in 1765, bringing Chinese soybeans from China to London and then to Georgia, where soybeans first took root in the continental United States.

In 1882, Dabunie of the North Carolina Agricultural Experimental Station conducted a comprehensive nutritional assessment of soybeans, pointing out that soybeans do not contain starch, are rich in oil and protein, and are unique in composition. Because of the hardness and unique composition of soybean grains, no one in the United States at that time would think that soybean could be used as food, but only as feed for animals, a situation that lasted until the 1920s.

The upturn was Morse, known as the father of American soybeans, who devoted all his life to soybean cultivation and the popularization of soybean products. In the 1920s, he visited East Asia and traveled to countries with more soybean cultivation, such as China, Japan and South Korea. During the period in East Asia, we not only investigated the food processing uses of soybeans, but also collected 4451 soybean planting resources. It can be said that the take-off of the American soybean industry is at this moment!

By the 1930s, the United States had become the unavailable protagonist of the world soybean trade. The soybean production of the United States surpassed that of Japan for the first time in 1931 and South Korea for the first time in 1934. In 1941, the soybean production of the United States surpassed that of Northeast China (then Manchukuo) and surpassed that of the whole of China in 1942.

At the beginning of the 20th world, a Japanese company exported Chinese soybeans to Europe, and the export volume also increased for two years. However, as early as the 1940s, the northeast soybean export volume dropped sharply. A large factor comes from European soybean companies' dissatisfaction with the quality of Chinese soybeans.

You can see that it took less than 20 years for American soybeans to surpass Chinese soybeans. Up to now, many Chinese people still think that the backwardness of China's soybean industry is due to China's large imports of American soybeans. So far, we should reflect on the fact that Chinese soybeans are struggling. We can't blame others for developing too fast. I can only blame myself for developing too slowly.

The outbreak of World War II led to an urgent demand for soybean oil in all countries. in early 1942, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a pamphlet for farmers with the title: soybean Oil and War, grow more soybeans to help win the war! In just one year, the soybean acreage in the United States has increased from 6 million acres to 10 million acres. In order to encourage people to grow more soybeans, the US government also provides soybean support programs, which not only subsidize the purchase price, but also offer to help farmers harvest soybeans. And formulate a series of plans to reduce the risk of farmers planting soybeans.

With the development of biotechnology industry in recent years, Monsanto as the leading agricultural seed company in the United States has greatly promoted the rapid development of soybean industry, and insect-resistant, disease-resistant and herbicide-resistant soybeans have come out one after another. some data show that 95% of the soybeans in the United States are biotech soybean varieties.

Today, American soybeans not only supply domestic soybean demand, but also solve the shortage problem for the rest of the world, but also generate a lot of foreign exchange for the United States.

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