Soybeans are one of the most traded commodities on the Chicago Board of Trade because they are easily grown and serve a number a uses.
Initially, George Washington Carver saw that soybeans may be used as a substitute to cotton as the sole profit maker in the South, after which he discovered that they may be utilized to make plastic, paints, inks, varnishes, linoleum and even fuel. And you thought soybeans were only for making tofu and soy milk!
