North Star Feed Cost Comparison

High-Oleic Soybean Feed Cost Comparison

Compare a high-oleic soybean feeding program with two alternative ingredient blends. Change the blue-bordered input fields to recalculate.

Ingredient prices and dry matter

High-Oleic Soybeans — Baseline

Replacement Blend with Heat-Treated Soy

Ingredientlb DM/headlb as-fed/head$/head/day

Replacement Blend with Extruded Soy

Ingredientlb DM/headlb as-fed/head$/head/day

Cost Comparison

Positive savings means the replacement blend costs less than high-oleic soybeans. Negative savings means the replacement costs more. Costs are calculated from unrounded values. Blend cost per ton is calculated on an as-fed basis.

Economic comparison only. The specified blends have not been independently verified as nutritionally equivalent.