IMPROVING THE U.S. POSITION IN WORLD SOYBEAN MEAL TRADE
研究如何通过改进质量、激励生产者和推广成分检测来提升美国豆粕在国际贸易中的价值，发现美国豆粕比其他国家更稳定且饲用价值更高。
In order to improve the value of U.S. soybean meal in trade markets, problems with quality must be corrected. This can only be achieved by creating appropriate incentives for producers, improving the accuracy of meal protein and amino acid testing, and gaining acceptance for composition tests as pricing criteria. A study of various data sources and physical soybean meal samples found that U.S. soybean meal was more consistent and of higher feeding value than was soybean meal from several other exporting countries. Common near-infrared analyzers can provide useful measures of composition for pricing. Amino acid levels as a quality measure can be tracked from the whole soybean into soy meal. Continuing integrated analysis could produce a dramatic reorientation of high and low soybean and soybean meal value in the marketplace.