Fermented soybean meal in piglet feeds

Efstratia Papanikou: Fermented soybean meal offers several advantages for piglets, including enhanced digestibility, improved palatability and gut health benefits, but several challenges must be carefully managed.

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When it comes to optimizing piglet nutrition, soybeans continue to dominate the protein stage. One version of soybeans, that of fermented soybean meal, has slowly emerged as a new ingredient that offers benefits and potential challenges. Based on our experiences using this ingredient in commercial piglet feeds, we would like to offer the following for consideration.

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