# What Do You Know About Your Lysine Source? - Dairy Herd

> A Purina dairy nutritionist says rising blood meal prices are prompting US dairy producers to consider rumen-protected lysine products. He advises comparing cost per gram of metabolizable lysine rather than price per ton across the many protected lysine sources now on the market.

- Date: 2020-11-20 · published 2020-11-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/50471-what-do-you-know-about-your-lysine-source-dairy-herd
- Commodities: [Lysine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LYSINE.md), [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

Higher blood meal prices can shift dairy rations toward synthetic protected lysine, which may support lysine demand while adding competition among suppliers.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: bearish ▼
- LYSINE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- dairyherd.com: https://www.dairyherd.com/news/what-do-you-know-about-your-lysine-source

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