For soybean processors, the next five years turn on a single, deceptively simple question: how do you extract more value from every bushel?
World population reaches 8.5 billion by 2030, protein consumption keeps climbing, and aquaculture, one of soy’s fastest-growing outlets, cleared 100 million tonnes for the first time in 2024, ahead of projections, as formulators swap fishmeal for soy. Processors delivering higher-protein, higher-digestibility meal will command premiums in exactly the markets expanding fastest.
Feed value, food-grade quality, fuel-driven oil demand, and healthier oils are usually discussed as separate stories. They share one root cause and one solution. The macro environment rewards soybeans that are compositionally better: denser in protein, lower in anti-nutrients, richer in the oil profiles food and fuel markets want. That is a genetics problem, and it is solvable.
This is precisely the gap Confluence Genetics was built to close.
On the feed side, Confluence’s ProVIA™ Ultra-High Protein, Low-Oligosaccharide (UHP-LO) soybean delivers 18 percent more protein and 90 percent fewer anti-nutritional oligosaccharides than conventional soybeans, a combination that raises metabolizable energy and lets nutritionists formulate tighter, more efficient diets. In a large-scale turkey trial, bird fed ProVIA™ meal gained 2.5 percent more body weight, improved feed conversion by 3.9 percent, and yielded 5.9 percent more white meat, with broiler trials showing similar gains. The same platform benefits swine, aquaculture, and human-food applications.
Where ProVIA sharpens the meal side, FortaVIA™ answers both halves of the crush at once. These varieties combine high protein, 9 percent above commodity beans, and low oligosaccharide content with a premium oil profile: high-oleic content above 75 percent with low linolenic and linoleic levels. That is the clean, long-frying-life oil foodservice is paying for, grown in a bean that delivers high-value meal for poultry, swine, and dairy rations, so FortaVIA captures premiums on both sides of the crush at once.
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