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High oleic processing options
Two Michigan processors are accepting high oleic soybeans this season.
Anita Stuever with the Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee says with the FDA’s recent decision to remove trans fats from processed foods, soybean farmers will benefit.
“We’ve been working on the issue nationally for ten years and have some alternatives that food manufactures can use to meet their requirement, and one of them is high oleic soybeans.”
She says farmers currently can market high oleic beans to processors in West Michigan and Southeast Michigan. “Zeeland takes Vistive Gold High Oleic soybeans and pays a premium to farmers.” Stuever tells Brownfield, “Pioneer also has their Plenish varieties and they take those at Lake Ottawa and send them down to Indiana for progressing.”
She says the soy checkoff’s goal in the next eight years is to plant 18 million acres of high oleic beans to meet demand opportunities.
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