Soybeans are a major source of protein in many vegetarian diets.
大豆是许多素食饮食中蛋白质的主要来源。
The farmer decided to rotate his crops this year, planting
soybeans after the wheat harvest.
农民决定今年轮作作物，小麦收获后种植大豆。
Soybean milk has become a popular alternative to dairy milk for those who are lactose intolerant.
对于乳糖不耐受的人来说，豆浆已成为牛奶的热门替代品。
Researchers have found that
soybeans contain isoflavones, which may have health benefits.
研究人员发现，大豆含有异黄酮，可能对健康有益。
The processing plant extracts oil from
soybeans to produce various food products and biofuels.
加工厂从大豆中提取油，用于生产各种食品和生物燃料。
Soybeans are native to East Asia but are now cultivated worldwide due to their versatility.
大豆原产于东亚，但由于其多用途性，现在全球都有种植。
A recent study suggests that including
soybeans in your diet can help lower cholesterol levels.
最近的一项研究表明，在饮食中加入大豆有助于降低胆固醇水平。
The chef used tofu, made from
soybeans, as a key ingredient in the vegetarian stir-fry.
厨师在素食炒菜中使用了主要由大豆制成的豆腐作为关键食材。
Soybeans are rich in nutrients like fiber, vitamins, and minerals essential for a balanced diet.
大豆富含纤维、维生素和矿物质等营养素，是均衡饮食所必需的。
The increase in demand for plant-based proteins has led to a surge in soybean cultivation globally.
对植物性蛋白质需求的增加导致全球大豆种植量激增。
In addition to importing agricultural products such as corn, sorghum, wheat and soybeans from traditional agricultural powerhouses like the United States, Canada and Brazil, COFCO Group increased its imports from countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, including Argentina, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Cambodia and Bulgaria, incorporating products such as barley, wheat, corn and rice.
除了从美国、加拿大和巴西等传统农业大国进口玉米、高粱、小麦和大豆等农产品外，中粮集团还增加了从阿根廷、南非、哈萨克斯坦、柬埔寨和保加利亚等“一带一路”倡议参与国家和地区的进口，玉米和大米。
COFCO Corporation has become one of Brazil's major exporters and processors of corn, soybeans and raw sugar.
中粮集团已成为巴西玉米、大豆和原糖的主要出口商和加工商之一。
Soybean Seed & Traits business expanded in Latin America thanks to higher volumes and prices.
由于产量和价格的上涨，大豆种子和性状业务在拉丁美洲扩张。
Sales at Soybean Seed & Traits were level with the prior-year period (Fx & portfolio adj.
大豆种子和性状的销售额与上年同期持平（Fx和投资组合调整。
"All divisions successfully launched innovations last year, with Baumann naming the Kerendia™ kidney disease drug, Intacta 2 Xtend™ soybean seeds and the Bepanthen™ Derma skincare product as examples.
“去年，所有部门都成功推出了创新，Baumann以Kerendia™肾病药物、Intacta 2 Xtend™大豆种子和Bepanhen™Derma护肤品为例。
Bayer grew sales by double-digit percentages at Herbicides (15.4 percent), Fungicides (13.8 percent) and Soybean Seed & Traits (14.9 percent) on a currency-and portfolio-adjusted basis.
经货币和投资组合调整后，拜耳在除草剂（15.4%）、杀菌剂（13.8%）和大豆种子与性状（14.9%）方面的销售额增长了两位数。
Soybean Seed & Traits benefited from higher volumes and prices, particularly in North America and Latin America.
大豆种子和性状受益于更高的产量和价格，特别是在北美和拉丁美洲。
As global agri-food systems are facing multiple challenges and increasingly complex risks such as climate change and natural resource degradation, China Grain Reserves Group Ltd (Sinograin), the country's largest grain storage and transportation company, will import 8.4 million metric tons of soybeans from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, further diversifying the country's soybean import sources.
随着全球农产品系统面临气候变化和自然资源退化等多重挑战和日益复杂的风险，中国最大的粮食储运公司中国粮食储备集团有限公司（中粮集团）将从巴西、阿根廷和乌拉圭进口840万公吨大豆，使该国大豆进口来源进一步多样化。
China enlarged its soybean import sources to maintain the country's grain security.
中国扩大大豆进口来源，以维护国家粮食安全。
The nation imported 79.08 million tons of soybeans from January to October this year, dropping 5 percent on a yearly basis, according to the latest foreign trade data by the General Administration of Customs.
根据海关总署的最新外贸数据，今年1月至10月，中国进口了7908万吨大豆，同比下降5%。
Plant-based food company Green Monday launched a new product series called OmniSeafood, which features "fish" and "crab meat" made from soybean and peas, in Shanghai on Aug 23.
8月23日，植物性食品公司Green Monday在上海推出了一款名为OmniSeafood的新产品系列，该系列包含以大豆和豌豆为原料制成的“鱼肉”和“蟹肉”。
"Wu pointed out that the company has built a factory in Hubei province that can produce 50,000 metric tons of the plant-based meat from soybeans, red beets, wheat and vegetable oil.
吴先生指出，该公司在湖北省建造了一家工厂，能够使用大豆、红甜菜、小麦和植物油生产5万吨植物肉。
The new plant will double its capacity to supply soybean meal and refined vegetable oils to eastern China.
这家新工厂将把产能翻一番，以供应大豆粕和精炼植物油到中国东部地区。
With production facilities in oilseed crushing, apple juice crushing and sugar refinery sectors across the country, LDC also imports agriculture products such as soybean and sugar into China.
LDC在中国拥有涉及油籽压榨、苹果汁压榨和糖业炼制等行业的生产设施，同时也进口大豆和糖等农产品进入中国市场。
Its warehousing facilities are made up of large house granaries, shallow bins, tower silos and various oil storage tankers, with main varieties of reserves including wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, cotton and edible oils.
In addition to signing business contracts and cooperation agreements with the world's major agricultural goods traders－including United States-based Cargill Inc and France's Louis Dreyfus Co－to import soybeans in recent years, the company will continue to adapt to new international economic and trade conditions and actively adjust its source for imports of certain agricultural products, especially with markets taking part in the Belt and Road Initiative, Sinograin President Chi Jingtao said.
The businesses of the top 10 home appliance enterprises cover air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, soybean milk makers, kitchen ventilators, microwave ovens, robot vacuum cleaners and more.
China's history of "vegetarian meat" can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) when monks started eating tofu made from soybeans.
Exports of edible oil will increase, while soybeans will increasingly be used as animal feed to boost pork, beef, fish and milk output," he said.
He said Cargill hopes to double its investment in China over the next five years, especially in areas such as poultry, soybean crushing, food ingredients and animal protein production, in addition to bio-industry related business and the training of farmers.
他说，嘉吉公司计划在未来五年内将其在中国的投资翻一番，特别是在家禽、大豆压榨、食品配料和动物蛋白生产等领域，以及与生物产业相关的业务和农民培训方面。
Sinograin has met its goal in reducing the inventory of cotton, soybeans and rapeseed oil in 2018, second year of its inventory-cutting drive, according to the company's general manager Deng Yiwu.
The company managed to reduce reserves in over 7,000 storehouses by 100 million metric tons of corn, 17 million metric tons of unhusked rice, 10.66 million metric tons of wheat, over 2 million metric tons of soybeans, 420,000 metric tons of rapeseed oil and 2.5 million metric tons of cotton, Deng said.
Plant extracts are the most important ingredients for Herbalife Nutrition's diversified products, apart from protein powders extracted from soybeans, according to Zheng.
As the world's biggest edible oil market by consumption volume, China consumes not only a range of edible oils (like those made from corn, sunflower, soybean, rapeseed, peanut, groundnut) but also millions of metric tons of edible blended oil.
Similarly, blended peanut oil has less than 2 percent of it, with the rest being cheaper soybean oil and rapeseed oil.
In addition to supplying blended edible oil, it also produces corn oil, sunflower seed oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil and soybean oil.
China Grain Reserves Group Ltd, or Sinograin, signed business contracts and cooperative agreements with six agricultural goods traders, including the United States-based Cargill Inc and France's Louis Dreyfus Co, to import soybeans, at the first China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
Lu Xiaodong, deputy general manager of Sinograin, said the group will continue to adapt to new international economic and trade conditions, and actively adjust its source for soybean imports, as well as further expand the scale of soybean procurement in South America as it has become a mature and stable trade market channel for its global business.
Other Sinograin's partners such as Japan's Marubeni Corp, ADM Co and Bunge Ltd from the US, also signed the soybean supply deals during the signing ceremony on Wednesday.
With a daily soybean crushing capacity of 4,000 metric tons and a daily oil refining capacity of 1,200 metric tons, the plant will bolster the group's supply of soybean meal, crude soybean oil and refined edible vegetable oil to meet the needs of partners and consumers in China.
The group also expanded its product line, launching a soybean milk at the end of 2017.
The cutting-edge technologies used by Tus-Clean Energy to convert poor quality soybean oil into biodiesel amazed local entrepreneurs and experts, he said.
"He started plant breeding in mid 1960s, first in soybeans and later in corn.
Today about two-thirds of the soybeans planted in the US every year use genetics developed by Stine's company.
Its soybean and corn seed genetics also have a strong presence in South America and other international markets.
The seed company is now cooperating in both corn and soybean research with several Chinese companies.
"I've always felt close to China, partially because all of our soybeans originally came from Asia, and China in particular," Stine said.
"We will achieve agricultural commodity imports by 2020 of 30 million tons of corn, 20 million tons of soybeans, 10 million tons of rice, 10 million tons of wheat, and 5 million tons of sugar.
Two officials from Shandong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau check imported soybeans at Rizhao port, Shandong province.
As part of the deal, they will jointly own and operate a truck, rail and barge terminal in Cahokia, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, the main pipeline that supplies exporters along the US Gulf Coast with corn and soybeans.
The deal draws a more direct link between a large Chinese food importer and farmers in the world's largest corn exporter and second biggest soybean exporter.
Growmark hopes to solidify ties to a huge market in China, the world's top soybean importer and major buyer of other agricultural goods.
Zhang Xiaoping, director for China at the US Soybean Export Council, said ChemChina could use Syngenta's rich experience and resources in intellectual property, risk control and environmental management to bring its products to global markets.
Ge Junjie, deputy chairman, said during Brazil-China Agri-Food Cooperation Forum held in Shanghai on Tuesday that Peng Xin will set up a soybean production factory in Brazil with an annual capacity of 10 million metric tons by the end of this year.
在周二于上海举行的中巴农业食品合作论坛上，副董事长葛俊杰表示，彭欣将在今年年底前在巴西建立一家大豆生产工厂，年产能达1000万吨。
With this base, Peng Xin expects to export more Brazilian soybeans to the Chinese market.
基于此，彭欣期望将更多巴西大豆出口到中国市场。
The soybean factory will be Peng Xin's third major investment in Brazil in two years.
大豆工厂将是彭新在过去两年中在巴西的第三项重大投资。
Laoganma Special Flavor Foodstuffs Co in Guiyang's Nanming district produces a variety of popular sauces such as oil chili, beef soybean and flavored chili chicken.
Zhang Xiaoping, director for China at the US Soybean Export Council, said China could use Syngenta's deep experience and resources in intellectual property, risk control and environmental management to bring its products to global markets.
"Canada is rich in commodity goods including copper ore, nickel ore, iron ore, petroleum, wheat, soybean and other agricultural products.
Geng Guoqing / for China DailyFeihe Dairy – a leading producer and distributer of infant formula, milk powder and soybean products – has had expediential growth in the past year, increasing 80 percent in sales in 2016.
China is likely to import 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the United States in the latter's 2024 marketing year (Sept 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024), matching the amount imported in the previous marketing year, the US Soybean Export Council predicted on Tuesday.
Zhang Xiaoping, the USSEC's country director for China, said that China has already imported 20 million tons of US soybeans so far for the 2024 marketing year.
Rezac predicted that China's overall demand for soybeans will drive continued growth in the US' soybean trade.
From the 2024 marketing year to the 2033 marketing year, China's total soybean imports, including those from the US, are expected to rise from 101.5 million tons to 134.1 million tons, an average annual growth rate of 3.1 percent.
China imported 99.41 million tons of soybeans with an import value of 419.89 billion yuan ($58.56 billion) in 2023, representing an 11.4 percent year-on-year increase in quantity and a 4.8 percent increase in import value compared to the previous year, data from China's General Administration of Customs showed.
The US Department of Agriculture confirmed on its website last week the private sale of 297,000 tons of US soybeans to China.
"China stands as the primary market for US agricultural exports and also ranks as the leading purchaser of US commodities like soybeans, corn and cotton, among others," he said.
After three years of record growth, geopolitical tensions, adverse weather and higher energy and natural resource costs, global food prices will decline in 2024, particularly those of staples like sugar, coffee, corn and soybeans, reducing consumer spending, Rabobank predicted.
"Lance Rezac, vice-chairman of the US Soybean Export Council, said it has always firmly believed that the Chinese and US economies are deeply intertwined, and that there is a great deal of potential for cooperation.
Rezac predicted that China's demand for soybeans will drive continued growth in the US' soybean trade.
From the 2024 marketing year to the 2033 marketing year, China's soybean imports are expected to rise from 101.5 million metric tons to 134.1 million tons, an average annual growth rate of 3.1 percent.
Data from the US Department of Agriculture show that China's soybean imports from the US totaled 31.5 million tons in the 2023 marketing year — which ran from September last year to August — accounting for 59 percent of US annual soybean exports, a rise of 2.3 percent year-on-year.
Previously, a total of 14 imported items were subject to the reporting mechanism, including soybeans, infant formula milk powder, pork and sugar.
Among these imports, soybeans accounted for 67.21 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 16.7 percent.
The province also increased its imports of iron ore, coal and soybeans.
In terms of intensifying its investment and trade cooperation in other BRICS economies, the company has been bolstering the construction of soybean crushing plants, refining facilities, sugar mills, ports and silos, as part of its processing and logistics infrastructure development in these four countries, Lyu said.
From Aug 7 to Aug 13, the wholesale prices of grain and oil fluctuated slightly, with rice, soybean oil and rapeseed oil down 0.2 percent, 0.2 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
China imported 62.3 million tons of soybeans in the first seven months of this year, up 15 percent from a year earlier, customs data showed.
In July alone, the country's soybean imports reached 9.73 million tons, down from 10.27 million tons in June but more than the 7.88 million tons imported in the same month last year, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.
The per-tonne value of the soybean imports increased 1.3 percent year-on-year in the first seven months to 4,334.6 yuan ($605.39).
The country, as the world's largest soybean importer, imported a total of 91.08 million tons of soybeans last year.
Imported soybeans are usually crushed into meal for animal feed in China.
It also saw increased imports of airplanes, soybeans and frozen goods over the period.
Other Brazilian agricultural products like soybeans, chicken and sugar previously entered China and gained popularity among the country's consumers.
China imported 54.4 million tons of soybeans and 1.11 million tons of frozen beef from Brazil, taking up 59.72 percent and 41 percent of their total import amount, respectively, according to data from China's General Administration of Customs.
Hebei's exports of mechanical and electrical products, steel and agricultural products maintained growth from January to February, and it saw increased imports of soybeans, iron ore and iron concentrate.
The province saw a decrease in imports of iron ore and iron concentrate, soybeans, and natural gas.
Imported commodities via the port were mainly crude oil, soybeans, manganese ore, coal and pulp.
"We used the money to purchase soybean pulp, brown rice and other raw materials for broiler feed.
The province saw a decrease in imports of iron ore, soybeans and natural gas.
He added that the current growth of corn, middle-season rice, soybean, and other major autumn crops is the same as last year.
The province saw a decrease in imports of iron ore, soybeans, and natural gas.
Meanwhile, China will greatly increase the capacity of soybean and oil crops and promote the combined planting of corn and soybeans, while increasing subsidies for rotation of arable land and incentives for counties that are large producers of edible oils, it said.
The minimum price the government pays to purchase rice and wheat will be increased, and subsidies for corn and soybean producers will be made more stable, it added.
The customs noted an increase in the exports of electrical and mechanical products and labor-intensive products, while imports of key commodities such as natural gas, timber and soybeans all registered robust growth.
The company imports soybeans, rapeseed and other raw materials from countries such as Brazil and Canada.
Nearly one hundred representatives from industrial associations and companies, including the US Soybean Export Council, Bayer, and Louis Dreyfus Company, took part in the webinar.
Major exports included mechanical and electrical products, while imports of iron ore sands and soybean saw robust growth.
In the past few years, Argentina and other Latin American countries exported various kinds of foodstuff to China, including coffee, beef, wines, seafood and soybeans.
"As a top global supplier of high-quality meat, soybeans, dairy products, rice, and wine among others, Uruguay has also been actively promoting trade ties with China in recent years.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products and imports of iron ore and soybean reported significant growth.
The US Soybean Export Council (USSEC) organized 13 member firms to participate in the ongoing fourth China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai.
The current US soybean exports to China have emerged from a grim situation following the US-initiated trade frictions, with the volume of US soybean exports to China this year expected to exceed that of the last, Zhang noted.
Imports of key commodities in the province such as natural gas, timber and soybeans all registered robust growth.
""Increased demand from China, along with a supply constraints on corn and soybeans caused by a drought in Brazil, have driven a surge in global food prices, providing a further boost for American farmers," it said.
During the first four months, imports of crude oil, iron ore and integrated circuits increased 7.2 percent, 6.7 percent and 30.8 percent respectively, while the average price of importing soybeans, iron ore and copper ore increased 15.5 percent, 58.8 percent and 32.9 percent respectively.
Although the main indexes of the country's industrial production, investment and consumption have stayed in a moderate recovery range since January, prices of key commodities like iron ore and copper ore as well as soybean rose 53.5 percent, 28 percent and 11.1 percent year-on-year, respectively, in the first quarter.
Meanwhile, China's imports of soybeans grew by 19 percent on a yearly basis to 21.18 million tons.
Its import volume of crude oil surged 60.5 percent year-on-year, while soybean imports registered a solid annual growth of 33.2 percent.
Imports of pork and cotton surged by 223.8 percent and 121.7 percent, respectively, while imports of soybeans and crude oil grew respectively 56.3 percent and 88 percent year-on-year.