# The role of amino acids in livestock and poultry diets in 2020
						 | The Poultry Site

> Premier Nutrition discusses how protected amino acids, including lysine and methionine, can be used to replace some soya and DDGS in ruminant and poultry diets. It says two new crystalline amino acids for poultry could cut crude protein use by about 1 percent in 2020.

- Date: 2019-12-19 · published 2019-12-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Global · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/55489-the-role-of-amino-acids-in-livestock-and-poultry-diets-in-2020-the-poultry-site
- Commodities: [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md), [DDGS](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DDGS.md), [Lysine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LYSINE.md), [Methionine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/METH.md)

## Why it matters

Wider use of synthetic amino acids can reduce feed demand for soybean meal and other protein sources at the margin. That is a modest bearish pressure on protein meal demand, though the effect is gradual.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bearish ▼
- DDGS: bearish ▼
- METH: neutral
- LYSINE: neutral

## Sources

- thepoultrysite.com: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/news/2019/12/the-role-of-amino-acids-in-livestock-and-poultry-diets-in-2020

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