Source: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS submitted to NRP
UTILIZATION OF SOYBEAN MEAL BY GROWING PIGS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0233712
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
May 1, 2013
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2017
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
2001 S. Lincoln Ave.
URBANA,IL 61801
Performing Department
Animal Sciences
Non Technical Summary
For soybean meal to be successfully used in diets fed to pigs, it is important that accurate data for the concentration of digestible energy and nutrients are established. If the concentrations of digestible energy and nutrients are influenced by the region in which the beans are grown, this information needs to be taken into account in diet formulation. By determining the concentration of digestible energy and nutrients in soybean meal produced in the U.S., it will be possible to more accurately formulate diets for pigs, which will result in improved animal performance, reduced diet costs, and reduced excretion of nutrients to the environment.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
3021820101010%
3023510101090%
Goals / Objectives
Objective One: Energy digestibility in soybean meal - Determination of energy and carbohydrate digestibility in soybean meal produced throughout the Midwest. Objective Two: Amino acid digestibility in soybean meal - Determination of amino acid digestibility in soybean meal produced throughout the Midwest. Objective Three: Digestibility of phosphorus in soybean meal - Determination of phosphorus digestibility in soybean meal produced throughout the Midwest and the effects of microbial phytase on the digestibility of phosphorus in soybean meal produced throughout the Midwest.
Project Methods
A total of 23 different soybean meal samples will be used in this work. Samples will be collected from crushing plants located throughout the United States with an equal representation from the different regions in the soybean producing states. Approximately 500 kg of each meal will be shipped to the University of Illinois where it will be sub-sampled, labeled, and stored. All samples of soybean meal will be analyzed for concentration of gross energy, dry matter, crude protein, acid hydrolyzed ether extract, ADF, NDF, ash, AA, calcium, phosphorus, and phytate bound phosphorus. All data will be summarized and reported on an as-is basis as well as on a dry matter basis.

Progress 05/01/13 to 09/30/17

Outputs
Target Audience:Members of the target audience included nutritionists, integrators, producers, and members of the scientific community in food and feed science. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A graduate student and a post doc were trained in conducting experiments including animal work, laboratory work, data analysis, and writing of resutls in a format suitable for publication. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Dissemination via three publications in peer reviewed mansucripts, two presentations at the American Society of Animal SciencesMidwest Meeting in Omaha, NE, March 2017, and two presentations for producers and potential buyers of U.S. soybean meal in Santiago, Chileand inQuito, Ecuador in August, 2017. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Data for the comparison of digestiiblity of amino acids in soybean meal collected throughout the United States were published in a peer-reviewed publication. Data for a second digestibility experiment that compared ileal amino acid digestibility in soybeanmealproduced in China, India, Brazil, Argentina, or the U.S. were summarized and published in a peer-reviewed publication. Data for an experiment to determine the nutritional value of soy protein concentrate produced to provide different particle sizes were also published in a peer-reviewed mansucript. All activities related to this Hatch Project were completed.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Casas, G.A., C. Huang and H.H. Stein. 2017. Effect of particle size of soy protein concentrate on amino acid digestibility and concentration of metabolizable energy and effects of soy protein concentrate on growth. J. Anim. Sci. 95:2658-2669.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Lagos, L.V. and H.H. Stein. 2017. Chemical composition and amino acid digestibility of soybean meal produced in the United States, China, Argentina, Brazil, or India. J. Anim. Sci. 95:1626-1636.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Sotak-Peper, K.M., J.C. Gonzalez-Vega and H.H. Stein. 2017. Amino acid digestibility in soybean meal sourced from different regions of the United States and fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 95:771-778.


Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience includedanimal scientists, nutritionists, feed formulators, swine integrators, and soybean organizations. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A graduate student completed her PhD on the project and a visiting PhD student from Brazil also completed her research working on this project. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results were disseminated via three peer-reviewed publications that were submittedto the Journal of Animal Science. Two of them have already been published and the third publication is currently in press and will be published in 2017. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan topublish two more manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals from this project.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? The digestibility of amino acids and phosphorus was determined in 23 sources of soybean meal that were collected from throughout the soybean growing area in the U.S. The main results indicated that soybean meal produced in the U.S. is very consistent in nutritional value regardless of the area from which the soybeans were sourced. This information will help feed formualtors and swine integrators in the formulation of consistent diets for pigs. Digestiiblity of AA and energy in soy protein concentrate was also determined and the animal work from that project is completed. The animal work for the above three goals has been completed. Manuscripts from these objectives have been published or will be published in 2017.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Sotak-Peper, K.M., J.C. Gonzalez-Vega and H.H. Stein. 2016. Effects of production area and microbial phytase on the apparent and standardized total tract digestibility of phosphorus in soybean meal fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 2397-2402.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Oliveira, M.S. and H.H. Stein. 2016. Digestibility of energy, amino acids, and phosphorus in a novel source of soy protein concentrate and in soybean meal fed to weanling pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94:3343-3353.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2017 Citation: Sotak-Peper, K.M., J.C. Gonzalez-Vega and H.H. Stein. 2017. Amino acid digestibility in soybean meal sourced from different regions of the United States and fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. In Press.


Progress 10/01/14 to 09/30/15

Outputs
Target Audience:Scientists, graduate students, nutritionists in feed companies and swine integrators. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?A graduate student completed her PhD on this project. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results were disseminated through an abstract and presentation at the National Animal Science Meeting in Orlando, FL (July, 2015) and through a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Animal Sciences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We intend to complete Objectives 2 and 3 in 2016.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Major progress was made towards Objectives 2 and 3.Objective 1 on determining the energy value of soybean meals from different areas of the United States was completed. A manuscript was published in a scientific journal based on this research. The major conclusion from this work was that the energy value of soybean meal produced in the United States is greater than what has previously been concluded. This will increase the economic value of soybean meal from the United States. The animal work involved in Objectives 2 and 3 was completed and mansucripts to communicate the results from these experiments will be published in 2016.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Sotak-Peper, K.M., J.C. Gonzalez-Vega and H.H. Stein. 2015. Concentrations of digestible, metabolizable, and net energy in soybean meal produced in different areas of the United States and fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 93:5694-5701.


Progress 10/01/13 to 09/30/14

Outputs
Target Audience: Members of the target audience include feed companies and swine producers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? A graduate student is being trained in animal nutrition and a post doctoral research fellow is being trained in nutrition andoverall project management. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Results have been published in a conference proceeding from the American Society of Animal Science and in a podcast that is available on the Stein Monogastric Nutrition Research website at http://nutrition.ansci.illinois.edu/podcast/prediction-concentrations-digestible-metabolizable-and-net-energy-soybean-meal-throughout-un. Results were also published in a research report in the March issue of the Stein Nutrition Newsletter (http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=95ed6241b9dab81c9e3425d5d&id=3fc7640cfb). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We will complete Objective 3 of the project plan. Animal work towards this objective was recently initiated and will be completed before the end of the current project period.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Objective one has been completed and a final report prepared. During the project year, all work towards objective 2 was also completed. The 22 sources of SBM that were used in Objective 2 were organized the same way as outlined for Objective 1 and diets containing each source of SBM as the only AA containing ingredient were formulated and fed to ileal cannulated pigs. Digesta were collected according to standard operating procedures and digestibility of AA in all sources were calculated. Results indicated that for most AA, no differences among sources were observed and region within the U.S. does not appear to be a major factor in determining the digestibility of AA. Data from the experiment were written into a final report that will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Data will also be presented at the National Animal Science Meeting in 2015 and a podcast presenting the results will be published on our website.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Sotak, K.M. and Stein, H.H. Concentrations of digestible and metabolizable net energy in soybean meal produced throughout the United States and fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 92(Suppl. 2):68-69 (Abstr.).


Progress 05/01/13 to 09/30/13

Outputs
Target Audience: Feed companies and swine producers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Graduate student training How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Results have been submitted for preseantation at a scientific meeting. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We will conduct more research with soybean meal and we will get current results submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? An experiment was conducted to determine the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of energy and the concentration of DE, ME, and NE in soybean meal (SBM) fed to growing pigs. Twenty-four growing barrows (initial BW: 26.4 ± 1.8 kg) were used and allotted to a 24 × 8 Youden square design with pigs and period as the 2 blocking criteria. Twenty-two sources of SBM were procured from crushing facilities throughout the Midwest. For analysis, the crushing plant locations were separated into 4 zones: 1) Northern U.S., 2) Eastern U.S., 3) Western U.S., and 4) Illinois. The dietary treatments included a corn-based diet and 23 diets based on a mixture of corn and each source of SBM. The ATTD of GE of SBM of Zones 1 and 2 was greater (P < 0.05) than the ATTD of GE of corn, but not different from the ATTD of GE of Zones 3 and 4. The DE of SBM from Zones 1 and 2 was greater (P < 0.05) than the DE of corn. The DE of SBM from Zones 3 and 4 was not different from the DE of corn or SBM from Zones 1 and 2. The ME of SBM from Zones 1 and 2 was greater (P < 0.05) than the ME of SBM from Zone 3 and corn. The ME of SBM from Zone 4 was not different from the ME of SBM from Zones 1, 2, and 3. Net energy of SBM from Zones 1 and 2 was greater (P < 0.05) than the NE of SBM from Zone 2 and corn. The NE of SBM from zone 4 was greater (P < 0.05) than from corn, but not different from the NE of SBM from the other zones. Overall, DE, ME, and NE concentrations were not affected by the zone within the U.S. where SBM is produced.

Publications

  • Type: Other Status: Submitted Year Published: 2014 Citation: K. M. Sotak and H. H. Stein. Prediction of concentrations of digestible and metabolizable energy in soybean meal from throughout the United States fed to pigs.