soy bean

[canhle]

Just wonder if anyone has tried growing soy bean?
thanks

canhle

[gtill]

UH tried growing soybean in N Kohala in the 70s, after they flubbed a corn crop which would have paid the thing off. Well in typical UH Ag style they planted a short variety of beans which werent't compatable with machanical pickers. We were given the entire 100s of acres to pick, but wasen't worth the time! 40$ in Hilo for a days picking.

But yes, soybean grows good here, just keep awasy fromUH Profs!

[hpp4me]

Has anyone gone one step further by making tempe or tofu from their soy bead garden? We seem to be eating more and more like vegetarians and less like carnivores. It might be easier to raise soybeans than livestock. []

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[james weatherford]

Re gtill's comments about the ease with which soybeans are grown in Hawaii, I would ask for some specific instances and locations of any soybean growers on the island.
Also, what is the specific source of the story about soybeans in Kohala?

In the Hilo farmers market sometimes there are boiled-salted green soybeans in-pod. Locally grown for sure.

As for soybeans to make bean curd, tempe, etc? Don't I wish!



James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[gtill]

In the early 1970s, after the UH Kohala Task Force failure at growing seed corn in North Kohala (loosing 10s of millions of tax dollars)!

The genius Professors decided to grow soybeans for tofu etc. So they poured more 100s of thousands into soy harvesing equipment. And now, the seeds they bought, which weren't the right type to use the harvester on. After the harvest (which only picked the top 2" of the plant, and the project was declared another complete failure!

Our friend was given permission to glean the remainder , which got us 40$ at KTA! But these plants grew allright with minimum water and care, at that time if they did things for real, they might have been sucessful to a small extent!

However, to try to grow here in competition with the mainland or foreign crops, forget it! Unless the state makes a stiff tax on import soybeans! Like the stiff tax that will hit any import palm oil sources, so our own "farmers" will prevail, they've already got our money!