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Ground broken for new Missouri Soybean Headquarters

Missouri soybean farmers broke ground Tuesday for their new building in Jefferson City.  Building chairman John Kelley tells Brownfield it will be a roughly 18-month project to develop the Center for Soy Innovation.

“It’s just amazing, the amount of soybean products that we’re going to use building it,” Kelley told Brownfield Ag News after ground was broken, “and the products that we’re going to able to show in it.”

United Soybean Board CEO Polly Ruhland tells Brownfield the project highlights the importance of state and national partnerships in promoting soybeans.

“The building will be a gathering place for the soybean industry in Missouri,” Ruhland told Brownfield Ag News, “as well as use a lot of different kinds of soy materials, from plastics, to carpet, to paint that will showcase some of the industrial uses of soy that we may not think about all the time.”

Soybean growers at the event say the facility is intended to be a resource for farmers and the community.  Completion is expected late in the fall of 2019.
AUDIO: John Kelley (2 min. MP3)

AUDIO: Polly Ruhland (1 min. MP3)