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Soybean Checkoff Invests $500,000 in World Food Prize Partnership
Published Friday, October 16, 2009 at 06:09 AM
The United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff, through USB’s Biotechnology Initiative, announced at a press conference this morning a $500,000 investment in the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines, Iowa. This investment will be used to help create a kiosk in the new educational wing at the Hall of Laureates that will help educate the public on the value of biotechnology toward increasing U.S. soybean production.
Richard Fordyce, team lead on USB’s Biotechnology Initiative and a soybean farmer from Bethany, Mo., made the announcement. He was joined by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, World Food Prize Foundation president. To download audio clips from the press conference from the soybean checkoff Web site, click here.
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