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Importers appreciate cleanliness of U.S. soybeans

 

A South American importer appreciates the cleanliness of U.S. soybeans.

Taylor Shroyer, an agronomist in southeast Minnesota, is part of the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council’s See for Yourself tour in Chile this week.

Speaking to Brownfield following a visit to a Cargill fish health research center, he says feed is monitored closely at the facility.

“By us producing low foreign matter in our soybeans, and i know we do a phenomenal job of even producing lower than the standard of foreign matter, so we just need to keep that up.  Security is only going to get tighter.”

Chile is the world’s fourth-largest customer of U.S. soy protein concentrate.

“We produce such a good crop and a vast amount of it, so getting our crop into these countries is going to be key for them producing feed.  Because they will blend or crush or mix it in their feed at a very strict process, so we just need to be held to their standard as well as ours.”

The group travels to Columbia next, a top-five market for U.S.-origin soybean meal and soy oil.