Stacy Nichols, dairy technical sales manager at Vita Plus and member of the dairy advisory board at U.S. Soy, spoke to The Dairy Site’s Sarah Mikesell at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, USA about the value of high oleic soybeans. 

We’re starting to see a lot of adoption of high oleic soybeans in the industry. Most dairy producers would be feeding 3 to 7 lbs. per head per day in their lactating ration, although we’ve seen producers feed a lot more than that. The benefit of using high oleic soybeans is a reduction in purchased feed cost, and it’s mainly on the supplemental fat side. 

When we’re able to feed with the high oleic soybean, the oleic acid isn’t as detrimental to milk fat production. What we’re seeing from the levels of fat we can get into these cows is we’re actually gaining more milk fat production because she’s got more fat in the diet that she can put into milk fat. 

Learn more and watch the video here or below.