A handful of Manitoba farmers grew about 50,000 acres of soybeans in 2001.

After that, soybean acreage steadily skyrocketed, and in the spring of 2025, nearly 1.6 million acres covered the province.

In itself, common soybean meal has a lot going for itself:

• High quality and consistent feed source.
• Good dairy cow palatability.
• Crude protein content of 46 to 48 per cent, compared to 35 per cent for canola meal and 28 per cent for distillers dried grains.
• Bypass protein content of 35 per cent of exceptional essential amino-acid values.
• High dietary energy of 1.90 Mcal/kg.

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