Swine eat another 24 percent, and cattle some 13 percent more. Most of this soy was grown in what has traditionally been termed America's Corn Belt, Brown observes, often in an alternate-year rotation with corn. At nearly 450 million bushels, soy harvests from Illinois, where I came from, now run second only to Iowa. In both states, soy now accounts more than one-third of the income from all principal field crops. With the way trends are headed, I should probably think about redefining myself as a daughter of Soy Land.
Nutritionists debate soy's health benefits.
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