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Beef Bulking Up With Soy
Beef Producers Another Valuable Customer for U.S. Soybean Meal While the poultry and swine sectors are the biggest users of U.S. soybean meal, the value of the beef industry for soybean farmers can be...
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Biodiesel Benefits Animal Ag in Multiple Ways
Biodiesel production has significantly benefitted the soybean industry as a whole – but one of biodiesel’s most significant contributions is not often highlighted. Animal ag farmers benefit from...
View ArticleUSB Task Force Takes Close Look at System
The United Soybean Board (USB) Value Task Force is exploring a Value Enhancement Opportunity (VEO) to develop market standards, protocols and technologies that will allow farmers to be paid based on...
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What’s a Soybean Worth?
Industry Considers Composition-Based Pricing System Can a soybean pricing system more clearly based on the value of protein and oil become the norm for U.S. farmers? Robert Stobaugh, soybean farmer...
View ArticleShowing the World Your Quality
Survey gives farmers chance to aid soy sales efforts. This fall, U.S. soybean farmers have the opportunity to help increase demand for U.S. soy by sharing just a small sandwich-bag-sized clump of your...
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Survey Says …Quality Matters
It’s an important message that’s been shared often with soybean farmers: Quality Matters! Soybeans with higher levels of protein and oil create more demand, which can improve soybean farmers’ bottom...
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Soybean Meal Market Prioritizes Quality
Healthy competition to produce healthier meal A common goal of all soybean farmers is to run a profitable business. A marker of any successful business is the ability to provide customers with the...
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Key Demographic Favors Meat, Says Restaurant-Industry Analyst
Food marketers target millennial generation as they add protein to diets Another industry expert has weighed in with her outlook for meat consumption in the United States and it’s … positive? No...
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Soybean Quality Goes Beyond Just Protein
Five attributes that make U.S. soybean meal a preferred feed source U.S. soybean meal is an excellent source of protein, essential amino acids and other valuable nutrients, which is why the animal ag...
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Three Ways to Support Poultry and Livestock through Soybean Quality
By Hans H. Stein, Ph.D., University of Illinois Soybean meal is the most widely used source of protein for poultry and pigs in the United States and abroad. It is estimated that more than 75 percent of...
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Finding Quality Is Simpler than You Think
Seed dealers, Soybean Quality Toolbox can lead farmers to seed that will produce quality and yield There are many factors in farming that are out of a farmer’s hands, but growing high-quality soybeans...
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Celebrating 15 Years of Component Premiums
Mark Sandeen, AGP vice president, Processing Marketing Over $40 Million in Premiums Paid by AGP Since 1999 Guest editorial by AGP The pennies, nickels and dimes have certainly added up during the 15...
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More Protein Can Bring More Value to Soybeans
Higher-quality products are worth more to end users Many people are willing to pay more if it means getting a higher-quality product. As was discussed at CONNECTIONS 2014, the pork sector has been...
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Higher Protein Content Boosts Value of Crop
Farmers have often heard that higher-quality soybeans could generate more value. Now, a new soy-checkoff-funded study shows how much more. The price of soybeans is driven by the combined value of...
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Soybean Farmers Help Pigskin Fans Pig Out
Indirect consumption of soybean meal high on Super Bowl Sunday Super Bowl Sunday – the second-biggest eating day of the year – is here again. It’s a big day for the nation’s producers of chickens,...
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It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Essential amino acids a better measure of soybean feed value Soybean buyers from around the globe have long been tracking the protein and oil content of the soybeans they purchase. For good reason, as...
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Hand-in-Hand Demand
Americans really love bacon. And we’re not alone. Around the globe, pork is the most widely consumed meat. And while some culinary trends are just a flash in the (frying) pan, consumers’ appetite for...
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Sizing Up the Competition
As demand for soy grows along with the world’s population, competition for that burgeoning market grows, too. Today, as U.S. soy enjoys historic demand all over the world, it also must fend off rising...
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A Tool for Making a Quality Decision
It’s no secret that when processors buy soybeans to turn into poultry and livestock feed they are making their choices based on the amount of protein inside. Likewise, food-industry customers need...
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Soybean Meal Provides Pigs More Than Protein
Soybean meal delivers a great nutrient bundle for pigs While the protein that soybean meal provides animals is important, it merely scratches the surface on why soybean meal is such a beneficial...
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