Specifications | Value |
---|---|
Protein | 33.5% Basis, 33 Min |
Oil Content | 18.5% Basis |
Moisture | max 12,5 % |
Broken | max 20% |
Damaged | max 3% |
Foreign Matter | max 3% |
Colored Peas | max 2% |
The domestication of the Soybean first dates back to the harvests made by Chinese farmers in 1100 BC as homeland Southeast Asia. Soybean which The Europeans became aware of with the writing of a German botanist as reached its first popularity with the plantings made by the British colony Georgia in the early 18th century.
Shipments of soybeans to Europe in the 19th century attracted worldwide attention. At that time, there were only 1.8 million acres of soybean plantation in the United States. The cultivation of soybean which entered our lands for the first time in the 1930s that it has been carried out in the Black Sea for many years.
In the mid-20th century after World War II and restrictions on China by the United States as dominated world soybean production and harvesting more than 75% of the world's soybean crop.
In the second quarter of the 20th century that the worldwide shortage of feed protein led to the start of large-scale soybean production in many South American countries primarily Argentina and Brazil.
Today, the USA takes 50% of the world soybean production than followed by Brazil, Argentina and China.