Project Number: 6645-21000-026-42
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Apr 22, 2008
End Date: Feb 28, 2009

Objective:
1. Standardize the meal production process from small batch identity-preserved beans from planting and harvesting through preservation and drying to insure a similar moisture content that is critical to small batch processing. 2. Define previously dietary factors that can influence the value of diets made with BBI incorporated traits, such as low phytate. 3. Define the optimum dietary formulation principles that will result in maximum feeding value. 4. Develop a poultry feed formulation strategy that exploits the unique traits of low-phytate amino acid enhanced soybean meal. 5. Evaluate effects of excreta produced on soils and plants.

Approach:
Standardize the meal production process from small batch identity-preserved beans from planting and harvesting through preservation and drying to insure a similar moisture content that is critical to small batch processing. Define previously unsuspected dietary factors that can influence the value of diets made with BBI incorporated traits such as low phytate. Define the optimum dietary formulation principles that will result in maximum feeding value using feed formulation model simulations in combination with feeding trials. Develop a poultry feed formulation strategy that exploits the unique traits of low-phytate amino acid enhanced soybean meal that minimizes the excretion of phosphorus while maintaining economical animal performance. Evaluate effects of excreta produced on soils and plants.