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Aquaculture is a growing market for U.S. soy

The board chair of the Indiana Soybean Alliance says China’s growing demand for a sustainable and high-quality protein is an opportunity to expand U.S. soy exports.

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“To see that big picture and to understand how it takes everybody doing their part to make sure that we successfully can get those products exported into those other parts of the world is what’s going to make the difference for us being able to get rid of the product that we produce,” he says.

He says the checkoff is investing in future aquaculture research.

“They’re putting in tanks where they’ll feed the fish in there,” he says. “Now they’re trying to figure out how the population in those tanks is the most advantageous for feed consumption.”

China is currently the world’s largest importer and consumer of soybeans.