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Soybean meal prices have been steadily rising, so it’s crucial to adjust feed formulations appropriately.

Release time:

2022-10-14


Lately, soybean meal prices have been hitting new highs one after another—indeed, the metaphor of rocket-like growth is hardly an exaggeration. As of last Friday, the price of 43%-protein soybean meal in coastal regions stood at 5,303 yuan per ton, a substantial increase of 392 yuan per ton from last week’s 4,911 yuan per ton. Even more astonishing is that in some areas, soybean meal prices have already exceeded 5,500 yuan per ton, reaching as high as 5,560 yuan per ton. Meanwhile, the market continues to see chaotic pricing as high as 6,100 yuan per ton—a level that marks the highest point so far this year.

Due to persistently high soybean meal prices, feed manufacturers are reducing their use of soybean meal and increasing the amount of amino acids used, or substituting it with other unconventional raw materials such as various oilseed meals (e.g., rapeseed meal, cottonseed meal, peanut cake, sunflower meal, camellia seed meal), corn gluten meal, wheat gluten meal, and various distiller’s grains (e.g., brewer’s grains, soybean pulp). However, these unconventional raw materials also contain antinutritional factors (such as soluble non-starch polysaccharides and trypsin inhibitors in soybean pulp), mycotoxins (such as aflatoxins and zearalenone), and other undesirable components (including gossypol and cyclopropenoid fatty acids in cottonseed meal, glucosinolates, sinigrin, tannins in rapeseed meal, and trypsin inhibitors in peanut meal), all of which can reduce the quality and utilization efficiency of these raw materials.

To address the issues mentioned above, we can adopt the following approaches:

1 To mask the unpleasant odors caused by the use of unconventional ingredients, fragrances such as Rich Milk Fragrance, Milk Fragrance 602, Fruit Milk Fragrance, and Fruit Fragrance 701 can be used. These fragrances help conceal undesirable smells in feed, improve palatability, and reduce feed costs.

2 To address the issue of poor palatability caused by changes in the natural taste of feed due to the use of unconventional ingredients, sweeteners such as SweetTang 100 and SweetTang 350 can be used to improve feed palatability and enhance animal appetite.

3 For unconventional feed ingredients that contain antinutritional factors, a combination of several enzymes—including xylanase, cellulase, β-glucanase, α-galactosidase, amylase, protease, and pectinase—such as Enzyme Yinei and Enzyme Xineng, can be used to enhance nutrient digestibility, reduce antinutritional factor levels, and improve livestock and poultry production performance.

4 For mycotoxins present in unconventional raw materials, the following can be used: General mold remover 、 Baimaoxiao PLUS It eliminates mycotoxins, promotes intestinal and liver health, and enhances the body’s detoxification capacity.

Soybean meal prices have been steadily rising, so it’s crucial to adjust feed formulations appropriately.

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