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. Raloff, J. 1999.
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