U.S. soybean farmers are an essential partner in the prosperity of the aquaculture community, and are helping to revolutionize aquaculture globally.  Soybean farmers in America’s Heartland provide a consistent, healthy and efficient source of protein that nourishes the fish that feed families around the world.

U.S. Grown Quality

• Soybean meal is consistent in quality, and is produced in a range of protein levels to suit the needs of the aquaculture industry.
• Soybean meal has the best amino acid complex of all of the plant protein ingredients.
• Soybean meal is highly digestible to most cultured fish and shrimp species.

Consistency

• Soybean meal provides a consistent product to fish farmers, which in turn allows farmers to supply consumers, chefs and retailers with fish of consistent quality, size and supply.

Affordability

• Soybean meal has a significantly lower cost than most animal feeds, and a much lower cost than fishmeal/fish oil.
• Soy protein can replace animal proteins in feeds for freshwater and marine fish with rapid fish growth and low feed conversion ratios.

Sustainability

• Availability of a high-quality, renewable protein product like soybean meal is critical to the future of the global aquaculture industry.
• Soybean production has increased more than tenfold in the past four decades, and can sustain this growth in the coming years.