Soybean Checkoff invests $500,000 in partnership with World Food Prize for biotechnology education

The United Soybean Board and soybean checkoff, through USB's Biotechnology Initiative, announced at a press conference Oct. 15, a $500,000 investment in the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines, Iowa. This investment will be used to help create a kiosk in the new educational wing at the Hall of Laureates that will help educate the public on the value of biotechnology toward increasing U.S. soybean production.

Richard Fordyce, team lead on USB's Biotechnology Initiative and a soybean farmer from Bethany, Mo., made the announcement. He was joined by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, World Food Prize Foundation president.

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