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Identifying the Mystery Crop
What's Growing ON?
(NC)—There are over 20,000 soybean farmers in Ontario and about 2 million acres of
soybeans grown in the province every year. With that much land devoted to this crop, it's
likely you've driven by a field without even knowing it.
Soybean plants grow thick and bushy with wide round leaves and colourful flowers that
produce their seeds in pods, just like other beans. The flowers on a soybean plant are small and are nearly impossible
to see from the road.
The plants grow to be 2 and 3 ½ feet tall when mature, and depending how far apart they are planted, soybean fields
will have visible rows or just look like a sea of green leaves. Just before harvest, soybean plants dry out, turn yellow,
and the leaves fall off, leaving the bean pods exposed on the plant and ready to be harvested by the combine.
After the fall harvest soybeans are sold to food companies that soak the beans whole to make soy beverages and tofu,
or crush them to separate the oil from the high protein meal. The oil can be used for cooking or powering cars and
the meal is used as a high protein food for animals. You may have eaten edamame, typically at sushi restaurants.
Edamame is young soybeans, harvested while still green, then boiled and salted.
With 2.3 million tonnes of soybeans grown in Ontario every year, you will almost certainly drive by a few fields this
summer. Go to whatsgrowingon.ca to learn more.
The Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes
by The Guinness Book of Film
1. - "...Bond. James Bond."
Dr. No 1962
2. - "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the
world, she walks into mine."
Casablanca 1942
3. - "Well, it's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men."
I'm No Angel 1933
4. - "I'll be back."
The Terminator 1984
5. - "Would you be shocked if I put on something
more comfortable?"
Hell's Angels 1930
6. - "My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of
chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'"
Forrest Gump 1994
7. - "I could dance with you till the cows come
home...On second thought, I'd rather dance with the
cows when you came home."
Duck Soup 1933
8. - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Gone With The Wind 1939
9. - "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin'
to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You
talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the
f*** do you think you're talkin' to?"
Taxi Driver 1976
10. - "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And
don't be stingy, baby."
Anna Christie 1930
38 The Bulletin | August 2010 www.thebulletinmagazine.com