US soybeans are providing comfort to frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Okabashi, an American company that uses US soy in all its sandals, has committed to donate up to 10,000 sandals to health care workers for every order placed through their website or Zappos.

Belinda Burrier serves on the United Soybean Board’s executive committee as oil target area coordinator.   

“Soybean producers made about 11 million metric tons of soybean oil in the marketplace last year and we needed customers,” she says.

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