Soybean check-off dollars fund education, such as GrowNextGen, as well as research. Airable Lab is creating innovative and sustainable solutions in research and product development through bio-based chemistry.

Use our bioproducts e-learning course to help your students learn about many new uses and several different methods used to create bioproducts. We also have an ag research career video!

Soy Bio-based Paint Protects Alaskan Water Supplies and Salmon
From Soy Biobased

BioStripe® a soy-biobased traffic paint, is helping an Alaskan community beautify its sidewalks, streets, and, importantly, add colorful educational messages on its storm drains that feed into the Chena and Yukon Rivers.

The rivers are home to the world-famous Alaskan King Salmon. Residents work alongside the Tanana Valley Watershed Association (TVWA) each year to bring awareness to the storm drains flowing directly into the Chena River. In 2021, residents decided to take advantage of the environmental benefits offered in the soy-based products from a nearly 60-year-old Ohio company, Aexcel Corporation. The United Soybean Board initially funded research with Polynt-Reichhold that paved the way for Aexcel’s products. The use of a soy in Aexcel’s products reduces harmful microparticles, such as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) that could make their way into water reserves through storm drain runoffs. The company continues to work with Polynt-Reichhold on additional research on the use of soybean oil. (Read more.)