Soybeans-the wonder beans

From the Buckeye blog:

  Soybean oil is slippery stuff. Far more lubricious than petroleum oil or so says Cathy Horton, the official Ag Day entrepreneur for Director Jim Zehringer’s first official Ag Day, which was held Mar. 7 -- just a few days before the state legislature passed H.B. 89 making the following week Mar. 13-19 the state’s official Agriculture Week. Coincidentally perhaps, Gov. Kasich was giving his state of the state address May 8. Somewhere in that speech he mentioned agriculture leading the state out of the economic mire with high tech products. “This is not your father’s agriculture,” he told the group. And he said “entrepreneur” three times. I’m thinkin’ it may have been convenient for the director to celebrate Ag Day a little early. But you can never have too many Ag Days as far as I’m concerned.
Cathy Horton is well recognized by Ohio soybean groups for her work developing a soy-based lubricant to challenge WD-40 and doing it very well. Her line of 15 retail products and 45 industrial items includes both lubricants and cleaners. They are presented in recyclable aluminum containers that look like they should hold hair spray. They are sleek and professional. Most important, she says, “They are green.” Her company NuTek Green has found a real niche.