![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106153336im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field MU Researchers Go Nano, Natural and Green
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October 31, 2007
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In 2002, U.S. farmers harvested 2.7 billion bushels of soybeans. Last year in Missouri, farmers harvested 194 million bushels of soybeans worth about $1.2 billion. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia is turning those soybeans into gold, with nothing more than a little water.
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