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See For Yourself: Reaching a growing market

This shrimp is not quite ready for harvest.The aquaculture industry is a growing market for US soybeans.  By using soybeans instead of fishmeal, there is the potential to increase the sustainability and affordability of farm-raised seafood.  In fact, soy can replace up to one-half of the fishmeal used in feed rations.

Chris Olsen of Lanec Corporation says their shrimp farm has successfully incorporated soybean meal.  “We have participated in many trials between soybean and fishmeal and we have gotten the same results,” he says.  “And better results.”

Olsen tells Brownfield on their farm, the shrimp consume 14,000 pounds of feed per hectare per year.  And as the price of fish meal continues to increase, he says the plan to increase their use of soybean meal.

Lanec Corporation operates roughly 279 hectares or almost 700 acres of shrimp farms.

 

AUDIO: Chris Olsen, Lanec Corporation (4:00mp3)

 

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