I have issued 50,000 SOYBEANS on counterparty (
http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=SOYBEANS )
You can also look at
http://www.gofundme.com/7ElementsSoy if you want fancy video marketing etc etc.
But here's the deal. When I get my soybeans harvested, I will exchange 1 SOYBEAN for 1 pound of actual non-GMO food grade soybeans, and if you live in Iowa/Minnesota/Illinois and order enough I might just deliver it to you personally with my E85 truck that will be running on ethanol made from the GMO corn I have planted in the other field.
What I want all of YOU crypto-day traders and speculators to do is get out your hype machines and promote the heck out of some crazy farmer in Iowa who, thanks to Satoshi and the Counterparty developers, thinks he's carrying a big enough crypto-stick to take on the Big Banks AND Big Ag and beat them both at their own game.
I'm hoping this will be remembered as the Satoshi Pizza or the Alpaca socks moment for cryptocoins, where a farmer decided to hell with the system, people want real food to eat, and cryptocurrencies issued by the real people who grow the food are the only way to play the payment game.
What I'm doing here is a Soybean CSA (community-supported agriculture), and because of the (mostly) distributed nature of sha-256 mining, I can get near real-time price discovery of what the market thinks my product is going to be worth. If this works right, I get cash now to cover the costs of growing the crop, and speculators can take the risk on whether I'll be able to deliver and what the market demand will be when I harvest.
Thank you for playing cryptofarmville for real.
