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INFO Source Newsletter June 2020
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Understanding amino acid functionality to advance precision nutrition and sustainability goals in poultry production
To meet evolving sustainability goals, commercial poultry producers have been charged with reducing dietary protein concentrations in attempt to mitigate excess nitrogen excretion and runoff. Given that modern broilers have robust needs for digestible amino...
2020 Soybean Meal Demand Assessment
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2019 Soybean Meal Demand Assessment
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Soy Isoflavones may be Beneficial to Pigs Facing Health Challenges
In today’s swine industry, nutrition is a powerful way to provide a solid foundation for growing pigs that may face health challenges. The herd nutritionist formulates diets that ensure that the nutrient requirements of individual...
Consumer Survey Reveals High Value Placed on Animal Diet Quality
U.S. Soy and the United Soybean Board conducted a recent consumer survey to learn what information about meat production methods, such as where and how an animal is raised and what the animal is fed,...
Toward standardized amino acid matrices for exogenous phytase and protease in corn–soybean meal–based diets for broilers
A total of 468 male Ross 308 broilers were used in a digestibility study to determine the additivity of apparent or standardized amino acid (AA) digestibility values for corn, soybean meal (SBM), or a mixture...
Energy Values for Soybean Meal
Australian researchers determined the energy values for three feed ingredients for laying hens.     Most available tabulated data for energy are from experiments using adult cockerels or growing broilers.  This research study determined the energy values...
Phytase and Protease Improvement of Amino Acid Digestibility
A digestibility study was conducted with Ross broilers to determine the additivity of apparent or standardized amino acid digestibility values for corn, soybean meal, or a mixture of corn and soybean meal supplemented, with either...
Feeding Value of Organic Soybean Meal
Research to determine the digestibility of amino acids in samples of regular and organic corn and soybean meal was reported in the Canadian Journal of Animal Science.  The experiment involved a total of 560, 14...