Font SizeBigger Reset Smaller You are here: Home Quality Control Definitions GM Info GM in Soya Main Menu Home page Contact Us FAQS COVID 19 Quality Control GDPR 2021 Privacy Policy Definitions GM Info Transfer of GM material from feed Authorisation of GMOs GM in Soya Labelling Supplies of GM material to the EU Feed Ingredients Wheat Soya (GM) Rapeseed meal Wheat Distillers Palm Kernel Expeller Maize meal Hipro (High Protein) Soya Soya Hulls (GM) Nutritionally Improved Straw Maize Distillers Sugar Beet Pulp Wheat Feed Pellets Terms and Conditions Who's Online Search this site We have 103 guests and no members online GM in Soya Soya is one of the major GM crops in the world economy and much of what is imported into the UK is sourced from GM-producing countries. Soya is used in a very wide range of products, including many processed foods; large quantities of soya beans are pressed for oil, or ground and used as the basis for dairy replacementproducts. The soyameal used for animal feed is the residue from the oil extraction process. Soyabean meal consists of the fat-extracted soyabeans that have been ground into a meal and is an excellent source of protein. In fact, it is the most widely used high protein feed. Soya is a very sought-after ingredient for dairy feed since it is currently one of the cheapest sources of protein, is highly digestible and can be used in sufficient volume in feed mixes to provide the protein levels required for intensive milk production. Whilst rapeseed meal is also a cheap source of protein, only a restricted volume can be included in feed compounds because rape has negative nutritional effects on cows and is unpalatable at high concentrations. Use of soya in animal feed has grown significantly in the UK since the ban on most animal protein sources in 1998, though accurate figures are hard to come by. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) states that the production of retail cattle feed (including for calves and non-dairy cattle) in Great Britain was 3,834,100 tonnes for the 12 months to December 2003. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland (DARD) states that the Northern Ireland production of retail cattle and calf feed was 63,300 tonnes in 2003. On the basis of these figures, total UK cattle and calf feed would have been 3,897,400 tonnes. Whilst neither Defra nor DARD holds a breakdown of what ingredients this feed contained, feed industry sources estimate that these rations would have contained around 10% soya on average. Assuming that all UK-produced feed was consumed domestically, and that none was imported (other than in the form of raw ingredients), this would therefore give an estimated soya usage for all cattle feed in the UK in 2003 of 389,740 tonnes. Prev Next Weblinks Anglia Farmers (0 Hits) Dairy Uk - THE VOICE OF THE UK DAIRY INDUSTRY (0 Hits) Farmers weekly - Market prices, news and analysis (0 Hits) Fram Farmers (0 Hits) Kite Consulting LLP We provide business services to the entire food supply chain (0 Hits) NFU is the most successful representation body for agriculture and horticulture in England and Wales. (0 Hits) Universal Feed Assurance Scheme - Feed Safety (0 Hits) Joomla Copyright Copyright © 2021 www.proteinfeeds.co.uk. All Rights Reserved. Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.