June 3, 2009

This picture taken in the spring of 1952 shows Jake Hartz Jr. (left), son of Arkansas County soybean pioneer Jacob Hartz Sr., standing in front of a train loaded with the first soybeans exported to Japan from the United States. The Mitsui Co. purchased the food bean, Mamloxi, from Hartz Seed Co.

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