Magic bean : the rise of soy in America
Matthew Roth (Author)
At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America's land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation's largest cash crop. This book tells how this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine
Print Book, English, 2018
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2018