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Illinois Soybean Ambassadors see soy at work in Central America
A group of soybean producers known as the Illinois Soy Ambassadors travelled to Central America last week to see how U.S. soybeans are helping to end malnutrition. While in Guatemala and Nicaragua, the group saw how soybeans are helping to meet the nutritional needs of adults and children through a project called the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health – or WISHH.
Soybean Ambassador, Frank Legner, told Brownfield Ag News that “mechanical cows” put into schools turn soybeans into milk and offer other benefits.
“They’re able to use the byproducts of that machine,” said Legner, “and use it in different things like breads and other types of baking goods in order to help utilize everything for protein.”
Not only does this initiative help and educate countries that are potential soybean markets, like Nicaragua and Guatemala, but Legner says that those involved in the program are doing far more than just that.
“They do understand that if they want to better the overall wellbeing of a country that they need to start with the kids, because they’re the future,” Legner said about project participants.Legner is a soybean farmer from Odell, Illinois.
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