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High oleic soybeans have cooking oil, automotive functionality

South Dakota farmer Lewis Bainbridge says he’s waiting for high oleic soybeans to be approved in foreign markets.  The United Soybean Board director tells Brownfield growth of high oleic soybeans, genetically enhanced to produce healthier cooking oil, is limited at the moment by pending approval overseas.

“We have the ability to grow it if we can just get the [import] approval,” Bainbridge told Brownfield Ag News from the United Soybean Board meeting in Charleston, South Carolina Thursday.  “We can’t have that getting into an export market where it has not had the approval process.”

When enough high oleic soybeans are produced to fill the edible oils market, Bainbridge says there will be plenty of demand for high oleic oil in the industrial market.

“The functionality for it, particularly motor oil, is incredible,” said Bainbridge, “so there’s going to be a huge use for that as we can develop the production of it as well as the processing.”

AUDIO: Lewis Bainbridge (10 min. MP3)

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