Since 2021, Dr. Adam Lock, a professor in MSU’s Department of Animal Sciences and interim chair of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, has focused his research on the role of dietary fatty acids and if soybeans with high amounts of oleic acid could increase yields of milk fat and protein when fed to dairy cows — a result that would increase production (and paychecks) for dairy farmers.

After years of data collection and analysis, not only did results support the theory that high oleic soybeans could increase milk production, but they showed promise that dairy producers could decrease their feed cost when planting the soybeans themselves — so much so that Michigan seed suppliers ran out of the soybean seed last year due to demand, according to Lock.

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