Product Research
The MSMC, along with partners such as the University of Missouri-Columbia, boast one of the top production research programs in the country. See how the MSMC and USB are working to boost your yields.
Soy Products Guide
Soy offers manufacturers a greener, cleaner and safer way to make everything from candles and couches to fuels and paints. This interactive guide will give you a closer look at the soy-based products available today. Click Here
Business Development
Making Your Demand Our Business.
The MSMC and MSA facilitate the development of new generation businesses that add value to the soybeans our farmers grow. From inspired ideas to innovative implementations, we follow a step-by-step process to ensure we only support the most promising new businesses.
Step 1 – We collect ideas for new businesses and present them to the MoSoy staff for raw feasibility determination.
Step 2 – We assist in the coordination of feasibility and marketing studies, and if warranted, business plan development.
Step 3 – With a sound business and offering document in place, we coordinate membership drives to help launch the business. Following the membership drive, our staff serves as a resource provider and assists in marketing new generation tax credits, normally received by Missouri farmers for investment in a qualified value-added business.
Missouri Success Stories
Soy Labs LLC
Soy Labs is a research-driven nutraceutical company dedicated to supplying next-generation soy-based ingredients to the makers of heath conscious products consumed around the world. Founded in 2005, Soy Labs was established through a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and an investment from 1Soy, a farmer-owned, soybean cooperative, based in Jefferson City, Missouri. In collaboration with soybean producers and scientists from the nation’s leading research institutions, Soy Labs spearheads the product development process that brings cutting-edge products to market.
Missouri Food and Fiber
Missouri Food and Fiber, Inc. (MOF2) is the world’s largest identity-preserved (IP) cooperative dedicated to delivering the highest quality soybeans, rice, corn, wheat, grain sorghum, and cotton to worldwide locations. The members of MOF2 have decades of experience in delivering premium IP products to customers around the world.
Through personal contacts and specialized electronic systems, MOF2 identifies customer product needs, matches the highest quality seed stock with premium growing environments, and manages the production and delivery of IP products from planting and harvest all the way to the customer’s global location.
Centrally located in the heartland of America, Missouri is the premier growing region for higher value, premium IP products. MOF2 sets the global standard for IP products, such as premium quality, food-grade soybeans.
Paseo Biofuels LLC
Paseo Biofuels is a New Generation LLC made up of over 600 Missouri farmer members that own 53% of a 40 million gallon (annually) biodiesel production facility and glycerin refinery in Kansas City, MO. Cargill owns the other 47% of this joint venture. The operation is located next to Cargill’s soybean crush plant near the Paseo Bridge over the Missouri River. An eight-member J.V. board comprised of three representatives from Cargill and five farmers elected from the 11-member board of Paseo Biofuels oversee the LLC.
Mid-American Biofuels LLC
Located in Mexico, MO, Mid-America Biofuels is a joint venture of Biofuels, LLC (a farmer-owned biodiesel business), Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers, MFA Oil Company, Growmark Inc, and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM).
Mid-America Biofuels has achieved Accredited Producer status under the BQ-9000 program, a voluntary fuel quality assurance program adopted by the National Biodiesel Board and the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association. Mid-America Biofuels is committed to producing only the highest quality biodiesel that will meet or exceed all industry specifications.
Soybean Synergies
Joe Parcell, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Agricultural and Applied Economic Department at the University of Missouri, and he is creator of Soybean Synergies. Together with Alice Roach, MBA, and Jill Fleischmann, MBA, they designed Soybean Synergies to enhance MSMC-funded research efforts, provide market intelligence information for all persons associated or interested in the Missouri soybean industry, and to assess opportunities and develop strategic positioning. The team created the Missouri Soybean Resource Guide, and they created an economic impact assessment of the Missouri soybean industry. These publications provide anyone interested with a wealth of historical and present-day knowledge about the industry. Please feel free to contact Joe at joe@valueag.com, Alice at alice@valueag.com or Jill at jill@valueag.com.
