You likely noticed that soy has played a part in a lot of our episodes of Eating Tomorrow. Indeed, our foray into the future of food forest was inspired and sponsored by the work of U.S. Soy and the farmer families it represents.

A simple search will reveal a wide range of attitudes about soy and its role in our lives today. However, what you may not be able to quickly find is what role it could play in our lives tomorrow.

In this episode of Eating Tomorrow, we hear directly from an Iowa-based father-son soybean farming duo. We learn about their embrace of production innovations, their sustainability practices, and how soy’s versatility enables its resilience. Above all, we learn how soy is writing a story about the future of food.

Why would soybean producing families be directly concerned about the future of food?

Main Course

• Brent and Caleb Renner, a father-son soy-farming duo help us draw connections between past and future of soy pertaining to sustainability, the environment, technology, and more.

Extra Helpings

• Students at Purdue University are growing soy in space-simulated environments.
• Yes, you can eat it twice, check out how soy is used in edible packaging.
• The future of soy is in alternative fuel, learn more here.
• Don’t knock it until you try it, check out the stinky tofu dish we mentioned in episode 4.

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