- Location
- Shropshire
Soya, whats the right way of it.
- Thread starter johnspeehs
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marco
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- Location
- tipperary, ireland
Wouldn't it be better for European farmers if butter was used instead of soya oil.
dudders
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- Location
- East Sussex
But like most by-products, I'm thinking demand for the oil came first? Then came the question of what to do with the waste. This produced the usual answer of feeding it to livestock. So flog it cheap to feed compounders, who incorporate it into rations and flog it cheap to farmers as a new alternative. Once everyone's hooked, start pushing up the price. Now farmers get the blame for soya production...
ollie989898
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Soya production in places like the USA and Eastern Europe is no issue. It's a relatively low(er) impact crop and fixes it's own nitrogen. There are far worse things farmers could do than grow soya.
johnspeehs
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- Location
- Co Antrim
I imagine that wouldn't please the vegans either.
whitefox
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- Location
- central scotland(the very wet bit)
i maybe totally wrong here,but there are quite a few posters on this thread that say they feed no soya,if you buy any compound feed at all,i would be rather sceptical that it "didnt" contain soya,i think it is now such an essential protein in all our lives that its inclusion may be overlooked!?if you go into any dockside store in this country the biggest product by volume will be soya......then maize
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
That's what I thought as well, I asked a Thompsons rep and he said they had soya in everything in some form
- Location
- Shropshire
You are probably right. A friend of mine has started growing beans again.
That's where I am heading, total control/traceability and all within a mile of my gate
- Location
- Northumberland
Harbro hosted a webinair couple of weeks ago about their non soya and palm products. They are actively advertising dairy compounds and blends with none included. In fact not just dairy it was aimed at sheep and beef aswell.
johnspeehs
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- Location
- Co Antrim
How do they compare cost ways I wonder? If its possible to manage without it all the better.
- Location
- Northumberland
Calf powdered milk contains palm products and calf starter contains soya which will need a bit more thinking about. I am currently doing a 12 month survey with my milk buyer as to what soya and palm we are currently feeding so have had a breakdown and inclusion rates of ingredients of all products fed from supply companies, interesting reading.
- Location
- Northumberland
Haven't got to that as I am not currently using it as had all products bought forward for winter.
whitefox
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- Location
- central scotland(the very wet bit)
- Location
- Wiltshire
If you don’t ask I would expect all products to have some soya in them. As I said I am not allowed to feed it to milking cows and have been through the ration I buy with the mill I use. I know there is no soya in it. There would be serious repercussions if I was found using it so I have been very careful.
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- Wiltshire
- Location
- Herefordshire
Correct but,I fear,there will be less OSR grown due to flea beetle and the increase in clubroot.I hope there is more encouragement for UK farmers to grow more protein crops such a beans,peas and lupins.This would also be better for the soil and there would then be less reliance on imported Soya.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Neighbour grew soya this year , it held up and harvested well ,they made a good job of the crop , each pod only had 2 little beans (smaller than a skittle) in it and plants were only 1ft high at most , recon lupins would yeild better
- Location
- Wiltshire
A soya crop down the road from me was also disappointing. Don’t think he’s going to try again
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Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Any ideas how?
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Nope not yet! Must be a way though