Using soybeans

Charlie M · Sep 15, 2022

I remember in the early 70's when soy beans hit our area the guy I worked for in a feed mill bought a roaster to roast the beans and make them useable. I remember eating hands full of them after roasting and
once in a while you would hit a raw bean and you knew it. I know bean varieties have changed over the years. Do they still need roasting to make them useable for animal feed? If so how do farmers raising them
for their own feed do it - do they have their own roasters?

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 15, 2022

Here in southwest WI there are portable roasters that come to the farm and roast them. Cost about $1.00 per bushel. I have a few hundred bushel done every year. Tom

Bob Harvey · Sep 15, 2022

I thought they had MANY other applications - Am I right or left ?

moresmoke · Sep 15, 2022

Cows can eat a small amount of soybeans raw. Hogs and poultry need to have them roasted or crushed. Around here {ND} most all of the soybeans are shipped to crush plants or overseas.

cjunrau · Sep 15, 2022

I have read studies where they have proved that cracking the bean or roasting made no difference in cattle feed at all. I know sheep and chickens eat them cracked at my place and I dont see any down side to them. Just send it through a roller mill.

coonie minnie · Sep 15, 2022

Roasting has an advantage in dairy cattle, and some farms still use whole, roasted beans. Fancier forms of soybean meal- again, usually used in dairy- such as SoyPlus, Exceller meal, etc are meal made from beans that have been roasted first.

We fed a lot of roasted beans for about 15 years. We roasted them on farm with the same roasting company that is Tom's neighborhood. We no longer feed them for some complex dietary reasons (in short, trying to reduce vegetable fat in the dairy ration) but still feed heat treated soy meal.

Eagle Beagle · Sep 15, 2022

In a lot of high class restaurants, they serve soybeans steamed fresh while still green either shelled or in the pod.
Edamame is what it's called, will add another $8.00 to your check! I've always wanted to batter a bunch of them up and do the deep fry thing.
I'm betting some fried Spam with that would go down good.

Beagle

ss55 · Sep 16, 2022

Soybean meal can be used to increase the amino acid LYSINE in hog feeds.

https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/news/l-lysine-shortage-impacts-diet-formulation

Bruce from Can. · Sep 16, 2022

A lot of soymeal that is fed comes from crush plants, that crush the beans to extract the oil. One of my neighbours has a small soy oil extraction unit on his farm. The machine is fed raw soybeans that have been put through a hammer mill, and roasts the bean meal causing the oil to melt and run out. The part that remains comes out looking like a French Fry, is high in protein and makes great dairy feed. He sells the soy oil to a feed company to add to their milled feed for protein supplement and dust control.

UncleTom · Sep 16, 2022

I worked in a Soy bean crush plant for 2 years. I didnt work in the extruder part where the beans are forced through the extruder and high pressure which makes a lot of heat.This is where it separates the meal and oil. I worked in the refinery part that refined the oil for food consumption. This is a large operation where there are so many process going on continuously to refine the oil. I will say one thing. I love french fries and shrimp and when it is fried in soy oil it is the best.As far as working there, they run it with the minimal amount of help and if you weren't running it you were cleaning it or working on it. It took a year to learn it.

WNYBill · Sep 16, 2022

Just read in one of the cooking magazines that soybean oil is an excellent cooking oil and cheaper than canola, olive or corn oils. Been looking for it in grocery store and can't find it.

paul · Sep 16, 2022

Still need processing. A few have on farm roasters.

Cattle can consume a small amount, is it about 3 lbs, of whole beans if it helps the ration.

Generally now a days here the beans get sold to the coop or big processor. The farmer buys back a feed supplement designed for his type of livestock. Most likely some processed soybean meal is part of that feed. Its possible a few bits of his own soybeans come back to him over time. There are often feed bank arrangements where selling or storing grain with the feed mill has less storage or drying costs if you but so and so much feed back from them.

In fact many now sell the beans and corn, and then have mixed feed delivered back to them. Got rid of all the feed making machinery entirely on the farm.

Paul

Traditional Farmer · Sep 16, 2022

Deer don't seem to have any problem digesting raw soybeans

Hay hay hay · Sep 16, 2022

Just look for vegetable oil...by the gallon...then check the ingredients ...usually 100% Soybean oil. I use it to supplement my horse feed. Much cheaper than corn oil.

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