Dr. Leoni Martins presented on evaluating and feeding high oleic soybeans at the 2025 Penn State Dairy Nutrition Workshop. His presentation included a review of the research to date and an overview of preliminary data from a soybean characterization study he is conducting with 15-20 collaborator dairy farms across Pennsylvania.

Take home messages include:

• There is substantial variability in roasted soybean samples (e.g., DM and oleic acid concentration).
• Because nutrient composition can vary with environmental conditions, maturity, and storage, nutritionists should routinely analyze soybeans for DM, CP, total fatty acids and oleic acid composition.

See the full presentation here.