Including UHP-LO soybean meal significantly reduces feed costs while maintaining performance
St. Louis, MO (May 7, 2024) – Benson Hill, Inc. (NYSE: BHIL, the “Company” or “Benson Hill”), an ag tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, recently completed a feeding trial with industry leader Perdue Farms to demonstrate the value of incorporating soybean meal derived from Benson Hill’s Ultra-High Protein, Low Oligosaccharide (UHP-LO) soybeans into broiler diets.
Results confirm that the inclusion of UHP-LO soybean meal throughout all phases of broiler production delivered a significant reduction in feed costs while maintaining performance, reflecting the higher protein and metabolizable energy inherent in Benson Hill’s proprietary soybean genetics.
“Our ongoing work with Perdue and other leading poultry producers opens up opportunities for diversifying soy options in animal feed and shows the benefits our seed innovations can deliver,” said Deanie Elsner, Chief Executive Officer of Benson Hill. “These positive results validate more than 20 years of soybean breeding for quality traits, further enhanced by our CropOS® technology platform, enabling us to offer an innovative soybean meal option to an already established market.”
As previously announced, Benson Hill’s UHP-LO soybean varieties demonstrate novel attributes for animal feed rations, enabling broadacre expansion of Benson Hill’s proprietary soybeans. Previous research identified three key product attributes of UHP-LO soy that uniquely position it for adoption by animal companies, soybean processors, and farmers. These key attributes are higher protein levels, lower anti-nutritional factors, and competitive yields.
“We’re encouraged by these latest results,” said Randy Mitchell, Vice President of Nutrition and Research at Perdue. “We look forward to partnering with Benson Hill to further evaluate this value-added soybean meal derived from their proprietary soybean genetics in our commercial operations.”
“Trial results indicate there is enough value in soybean meal derived from Benson Hill UHP-LO soybeans to drive large-scale adoption by poultry producers,” says Dr. Roy Brister, Ph.D., an independent animal nutrition and strategic poultry advisor with more than four decades of experience in the poultry industry. “Now is the time for the industry to build on this exciting innovation.”
About Benson Hill
Benson Hill moves food forward with the CropOS® platform, a cutting-edge food innovation engine that combines data science and machine learning with biology and genetics. Benson Hill empowers innovators to unlock nature’s genetic diversity from plant to plate, with the purpose of creating nutritious, great-tasting food and ingredient options that are both widely accessible and sustainable. More information can be found at bensonhill.com or on X, formerly known as Twitter, at @bensonhillinc.