# The Global Miller: 11/04/2017: Feather meal twice the protein value of soybean

> A Global Miller blog post promotes feather meal as a protein ingredient, citing renderer research from 1988 showing its protein value for cattle was twice that of soybean meal. It notes feather meal once traded at a discount to soybean meal on an equal protein basis but now trades at a higher relative price.

- Date: 2017-04-10 · published 2017-04-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71609-the-global-miller-11-04-2017-feather-meal-twice-the-protein-value-of-soybean
- Commodities: [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md), [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

Feather meal's rising relative value could support demand for poultry by-products as protein substitutes in feed rations, modestly supporting MBM-type by-product prices while softening soybean meal's relative advantage.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: bullish ▲
- SBM: neutral

## Sources

- gfmt.blogspot.com: http://gfmt.blogspot.com/2017/04/11042017-feather-meal-twice-protein.html

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