Soybean Research Center

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SRC's Seth Naeve leads team pitching soybean value in Vietnam amid search for new markets

Research by PhD student Alina Smolskaya will help farmers produce more with less.

You’ve passed them countless times — acres of green stretching to the horizon along Minnesota highways. But did you know those soybean fields help fuel cars, feed the world, build everyday products, and drive billions of dollars in economic value for Minnesota? Often called the “miracle bean,” soybeans are at the heart of one of the state’s most important industries—and the University of Minnesota has helped lead that story from the very beginning.

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