The nutrition value of soybeans grown in Latvia for pig feeding

L. Degola¹*, V. Sterna², I. Jansons² and S.Zute²

¹Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Institute of Animal Sciences, Liela 2, LV3001 Jelgava, Latvia
²Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics, “Dizzemes”, LV–3258 Dizstende, Libagi parish, Talsi County, Latvia
*Correspondence: lilija.degola@llu.lv

Abstract:

Soybean products are excellent sources of protein for pigs because their amino acid profiles complement those of cereal grains. Soy protein is rich in the limiting amino acids lysine, threonine, and tryptophan that are present in relatively low concentrations in the most commonly fed cereal grains. Amino acids in soy protein are more digestible than amino acids in most other plants proteins, which results in less nitrogen being excreted in the manure from pigs fed diets containing soybean meal than if other protein sources are used. The phosphorus in soy products is bound to phytic acid, which has a low digestibility to pigs, but the digestibility of phosphorus in soy products may be increased to more than 60% if diets are supplemented with microbial phytase. There are no much results about nutrition value of soybean growing in Latvia. Therefore the aim of study was determined chemical composition of soybeans growing in Latvia and evaluates their potential in pig feeding.
Research object were soybeans growing in Latvia. In the studied samples content of protein, fat, ash, fibre, composition of amino acids were determined and metabolizable energy were calculated. Evaluated that protein content varied from 32.7 till 40.7%, fat content was from 18.4–21.4% and significantly differed (p < 0.05) among growing places, but the sum of essential amino acids in the soy beans determined 115–125 g kg^-1, and were not differed significantly by varieties. The content of lysine in protein were determined 5.1–5.5 g 100 g^-1. Concluded that soy bean growing in Latvia provides equilibrium high metabolizable energy for pigs – from 13.2 to 17.6 MJ kg^-1 and could be used in feed.

Key words:

amino acids, extruded soy bean, feed