Fullfat Soybean Meal Handbook and Webinars (Currently Out of Stock)
NCI is pleased to announce the release of the Fullfat Soybean Meal Handbook and webinar series. The 80-page handbook informs the reader about the processing and feeding of fullfat soybean meal to the major animal groups. Purchasers of the handbook receive free admission to four webinars on the feeding of fullfat soybean meal to Swine, Poultry, Ruminants and Aquaculture.
About the Handbook.
Since it had been over 20 years since the Fullfat Soya Handbook had been updated, conversations between the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council, the North Dakota Soybean Council, the Northern Crops Institute, and South Dakota State University in the fall of 2017 led to the development of this latest version of the Fullfat Soybean Meal handbook. The goal of the latest edition was not to create a totally new and different publication, but rather to build on the solid groundwork of the first two editions of the handbook. Well-known and respected scientists within each discipline were asked to do a comprehensive literature review of fullfat soybean use in their field, and then write a chapter summarizing what they found.
Introduction
In the 1970s, fullfat soybeans generated a great deal of interest as a high energy, high quality protein source in animal, poultry, and aquaculture feeds. Research consistently demonstrated that when properly heat-processed, fullfat soybeans were an economical source of essential nutrients in many types of diets. Depending on the heat treatment used, farmers could now process their own soybeans on-farm, and feed them directly to their livestock and poultry. This allowed them to have greater control over the quality of the product, and it was a very easy way for farmers to add fat to diets.
However, in the last 40+ years, there has been a dramatic change in livestock, poultry, and aquaculture farming. Instead of many small farms raising multiple species, today’s farms are much larger and more specialized, and typically concentrate on just one species. This has led to record levels of meat, fish, milk, and egg production across the world. Also, our understanding of nutritional requirements and nutrient availability has significantly increased, and we can now precisely meet the animal’s nutrient requirement at any stage of its life, which maximizes resource efficiency and environmental sustainability through reduced nutrient excretion in the manure.
As farms have changed in size and feed mills have become more sophisticated, there has been a decrease in the use of fullfat soybeans, especially with the availability of relatively low cost of grains, synthetic amino acids, and alternate protein/amino acid sources. However, least-cost ration balancing programs now allow nutritionists to apply economic parameters to every nutrient that each feedstuff provides, which gives us a much better understanding of the true economic value of a feedstuff. This also allows diets to be frequently changed in response to changes in ingredient costs. An ingredient that isn’t economical today may fit in very well next month if competing ingredients increase in price. This is especially true in countries that import much of their feedstuffs, and that’s where fullfat soybeans are becoming more popular again. People can import a single ingredient - soybeans, heat-treat them, and have a replacement for multiple feedstuffs like imported soybean meal, fats and oil, DDGS, etc.
Successful meat, milk, eggs, and fish production involves providing the optimum level of nutrition at the lowest cost, and because we now operate on a world market, the cost of feed ingredients are changing daily. The objective of this handbook is to provide the technical information needed to understand the benefits and limitations of fullfat soybeans so that when the economics are right, producers are ready to take advantage of the high quality “nutritional bundle” that fullfat soybeans provide.
Chapters Include:
Fullfat Soybeans for Swine
Fullfat Soybeans for Aquaculture
Fullfat Soybeans for Ruminants
Fullfat Soybean Use in Companion Animal Diets
The Use of Fullfat Soybeans in Rabbit Feeding
Fullfat Soybeans in Feeding Fur Bearing Animals
Why Whole Soybeans Require Heat Treatment Prior to Use in Animal Feed
Common Methods Used in the Heat Treatment of Soybeans
Measuring Nutritional Quality of Fullfat Soybeans
Fullfat Soybean Storage and “Keeping” Conditions
Nutritional Characteristics of Fullfat Soybeans
Economic and Practical Considerations
Fullfat Soybeans for Poultry
The handbook is edited by Robert Thaler, Ph.D. of South Dakota State University, and is written by Mike Brown, Ph.D., Fernando Diaz, Ph.D., Alvaro Garcia, Ph.D., Kim Koch, Ph.D., Robert Swick, Ph.D., Robert Thaler, Ph.D., Michelle Smiricky Tjardes, Ph. D.
About the Webinar.
As an added bonus to the fullfat soybean meal handbook, the Northern Crops Institute will be hosting four fullfat soybean meal webinars, all of which you have access to. Kim Koch, Ph.D. will be doing a basic introduction of the webinar and handbook. He will also discuss what full fat soybean is, who might consider using it and why. Upon purchase of the handbook, and email will be sent out with links to the webinars.
Webinars Include:
Webinar 1: Feeding Fullfat Soybean Meal to Swine – Taking Another Look
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 8:00am & 8:00pm CDT, UTC-5
Description: This webinar provides attendees with the opportunity to learn from Robert Thaler, Ph.D., the editor of the Fullfat Soybean Meal Handbook on the feeding of soybean meal in swine diets.
Webinar 2: Feeding Fullfat Soybean Meal to Poultry – Taking Another Look
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 8:00am & 8:00pm CDT, UTC-5
Description: This webinar provides attendees with the opportunity to learn from Robert Swick, Ph.D., the author of the chapter on feeding fullfat soybean meal in poultry diets.
Webinar 3: Feeding Fullfat Soybean Meal to Ruminants – Taking Another Look
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 8:00am & 8:00pm CDT, UTC-5
Description: This webinar provides attendees with the opportunity to learn from Alvaro Garcia, Ph.D., one of the authors of the chapter on feeding fullfat soybean meal in ruminant diets.
Webinar 4: Feeding Fullfat Soybean Meal to Aquaculture – Taking Another Look
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 8:00am & 8:00pm CST, UTC-6
Description: This webinar provide attendees with the opportunity to learn from Matthew Clark, Co-Founder of Genesis Feed Technologies, about feeding fullfat soybean meal in aquaculture diets.
How Do I Purchase the Book and Register for the Webinar?
All four webinars are provided at no additional cost with the purchase of the Fullfat Soybean Meal Handbook for $125 USD.
To purchase the book, and to receive free access to the webinars, please follow this link:
General Information.
Northern Crops Institute
NDSU Dept. 7400
P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050 USA
Phone: 701-231-7736
Fax: 701-231-7235
Email: nci@ndsu.edu
Website: www.northern-crops.com
About the Northern Crops Institute.
Northern Crops Institute is an international center for meeting and learning about crops produced in the four-state region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana. Situated on the campus of North Dakota State University, Northern Crops Institute exists as a forum to bring together customers, commodity traders, technical experts, processors and producers from all points of the globe for discussion, education and technical service programs. Since 1983, the Institute has hosted visitors from more than 135 countries.
North Dakota State University is an Equal Opportunity Institution. This publication will be made available in alternative formats upon request (701-231-7736).