Using soy ink at the Post-Dispatch

Before heading to Mexico with the United Soybean Board and the "See For Yourself" program, we visited some businesses in St. Louis that use soy products, thanks to the efforts of the Soybean Checkoff.  Here, soybean growers tour the printing operation of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The daily newspaper runs soy inks on all of its presses.

The paper, will also prints the area Suburban Journals and other publications, uses thousands of rolls of newsprint each year.

The 1970s era presses run all on soy ink for both color and black-and-white.

Changing the aluminum printing plates in the press.

The Post-Dispatch uses so much soy ink it is shipped in by tanker-truck and is stored in these tanks on-site.