Trucks with a soy lining A soy-based polyurethane truck bed liner has hit the South Dakota market. SoyOyl replaces forty percent of the petroleum in the polyol spray-on liner. An average pickup truck bed liner can utilize oil from 1.3 bushels of soybeans. The liner can also be sprayed to coat silos, storage tanks, boat decks and trailer interiors. SoyOyl is produced at the South Dakota Soybean Processors facility, a co-op owned by more than 2,000 soybean producers.
Plans are underway to market the liner in other states.
He patented the process for making a gel that he claims will absorb 400 times its own weight. Diapers currently on the market contain a super-absorbent crystal or powder that absorbs 100 times its weight in water. His fish of choice is carp, an undesirable species brought to the Midwest by 19th century German immigrants. He says 20 million pounds of carp could be harvested annually in Wisconsin alone, which the state's Department of Natural Resources says it would welcome. Associated Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 27, 2001.