date:Mar 01, 2013
ractor tire that contains 10% soybean oil. Each 900-pound tire contains about 90 pounds of soybean oil. Thats the equivalent of about eight bushels of soybeans and is enough product to completely replace the petroleum-based oils now employed to produce tires, according to the company.
We put two and two together, and making ag tires out of soybeans is a natural fit to start some of those efforts, adds Tom Rodgers of Firestone.
The company expects that the first soy-based tires could hit the ma