A new analysis of nearly 20 studies and almost 2,000 samples

of soybean meal underscores the nutritional quality of U.S. bean meal compared

with Argentina, Brazil and India.

Paul Burke, soybean marketing director of the U.S. Soybean

Export Council, tells Brownfield the analysis is the most comprehensive quality

review of soybean meal ever conducted, “U.S. soy protein, while sometimes lower,

while sometimes lower in crude protein, has good or even better profiles especially

when it comes to amino acids, sucrose or energy and digestibility, compared to

soybeans from other regions.”

Burke says soybeans and soy protein are traded on a crude

protein measure, “We’ve long believed that crude protein as a measurement does

not represent the value in the soybean that buyers and end users should be looking

at.”

Burke says companies can now use a Nutrient Value Calculator

(NVC) by Genesis Feed Technologies to determine the economic and nutrient

values and prices which show U.S.

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