August 13, 2007
Today, in our second in a series of three reports on the History of the Soybean. Todd Gleason, through the courtesy of retired University of Illinois Plant Geneticist Ted Hymowitz (hi-moe-witz), takes us back to the first introduction of the soybean to the United States. The story begins prior to the revolutionary war with a single individual who sailed the seven seas and brought the soybean to North America from China