There is enough soybean meal of all qualities in Europe until the next harvest and sowing in the EU will be 10-15% above last year, said Donau Soja, an organization that promotes sustainable soy production in Europe.
A new US$325m soybean processing facility to benefit supply chains for renewable fuels, food products and animal feeds will be constructed by Bartlett in southeastern Kansas, in the US.
Canadian Bio-Systems is launching a rapid return test kit aimed a feed manufactures and soybean meal producers needing to check the feed ingredient for anti-nutritional factors, says technical director.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) said its soy crushing facility in Straubing, in southern Germany, is up and running again after a recent Salmonella contamination incident.
Soybean meal and low-cost enzymes use may offer boost to tilapia production, though results differ when alternative plant proteins are used, say researchers.
In an effort to create more demand for soybeans, the Ohio Soybean Council is supporting development of an improved soybean meal aimed at the aquafeed industry.
In starter pellets, less microbially enhanced soy protein maintains calf growth performance and weight gain compared to soybean meal and may require less feed, say researchers.
Exports of soybeans, corn and wheat are predicted to improve, while other feed grains stay flat for fiscal 2017, says the US Department of Agriculture.
Lower returns reduce incentives for plantings of wheat and soybeans but shifts in relative prices and lower input costs support a year-to-year increase in expected corn plantings for the 2016/17 growing season in the US.
Several US soy growers' groups are welcoming new regulations for aquaculture facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the rule may allow the industry to develop.
Prices for corn will go marginally higher in the US, while demand and supply levels return a steady price for soybean meal, predict officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The US soy sector’s new strategy aims at encouraging growers to increase the value of soybean meal and ensuring livestock industry recognition of soy’s “superiority” over other feedstuffs.
Agribusiness giant also divests Agro Provimi in Poland
Cargill is ploughing US$100m into its soybean oil crush plant in Egypt in an attempt to double its output and meet the increasing demand there for soybean meal and vegetable oil.
The EU feed manufacturers’ federation’s (FEFAC) new guidelines on soy sourcing seek to promote the growth of a mainstream market of sustainable, responsible soy products.
US animal agriculture's consumption of US-grown soybean meal increased by 1 million tons—equivalent to the meal from 42 million bushels of soybeans—in the 2011-12 marketing year, according to a soy checkoff-funded report.
