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roasters. While that part didn’ t take a lot of time, they wanted to create a streamline, including having separate bins, that would allow beans or any other commodity brought into the farm to be processed and held. As to the high oleic soybeans, the beans are fed into the roaster and then grinded into a powdery soybean meal that is later mixed with the cows’ feed.
As the beans change with the climate, Jake said he allows the beans to freeze before he transports them to be processed at Enchanted Dairy. That way, when they’ re coming in around zero to 10 degrees, he turns on the fans and the beans hit the roasters at that same temperature.
When it comes to moving to growing high oleic soybeans and deciding whether to outsource the roasting of the beans or build one’ s own facility, there are a few things to consider, Salfer said. In terms of upfront capital, it’ s considerably less when custom roasting. The only cost then is the storage fee. On the farm roasting, on the other hand, the upfront capital is high, about $ 50,000 to more than $ 100,000 depending on the unit. There is also no maintenance of a roaster when having the beans serviced by someone else. An on-the-farm roaster requires producer operation and maintenance, Salfer said.
When custom roasting, the producer relies on the company when it comes to quality, while an on-the-farm roaster keeps the producers responsible for quality control. The cost long-term depends on the volume for those who opt to custom roast with producers who have their own roaster potentially having less long-term costs with large herds and multi-farm setups. As to labor, Salfer said, those with their own roaster have a higher time and management commitment than those who have their beans custom roasted. Essentially, he said, their labor involves mostly hauling and handling the beans.
Grant Winter with Anez Consulting and Nick Schimek with Pioneer spoke about grow and weed control considerations with high oleic soybeans. For example, some high oleic options have a smaller early-maturity portfolio, with the earliest noted being around 1.9. For Morrison County being as far north as it is, that number can be somewhat borderline, Winter said, meaning while the crop may finish later in the season and as a result potentially capturing more growing season light, there is a risk of frost damage if the crop is planted too late. However, some university-bred options, such as Soyleic, offer earlier maturities, but may carry trade yield-offs, Winter said.
Ultimately when planting high oleic soybeans, the goal is for the seeds to reach
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physiological maturity( about R6.5), an indicator it’ s about ready to be harvested, Winter said. Keeping track of the maturity is also important for farmers to avoid excess moisture in the seed, which can reduce quality and storage life.
For a planting strategy. Schimek and Winter suggest producers plant early to capture the full season in order to increase the development of branching, nodes and pods in order to maximize the oil accumulation. While planting narrower rows close to canopy faster may be helpful to suppress weeds, Winter points out that it can increase the risk for humidity and disease. Dense canopies and humid microclimates are conducive to white mold and white mold can persist more than eight years in the soil. Planting wider rows improves airflow, on the other hand, but requires stronger herbicide programs, he said.
Visitors to Enchanted Dairy had the opportunity to learn more about the roasting, processing and quality control by Lyndell Martin and Austin Schmidt. Martin is a roasting systems specialist / installer and process consultant, who designed and installed the on-farm roasting setup and essentially brought the Carrows onboard with the program.
Schmidt oversees the soybean roasting system’ s day-to-day operations and quality control, which includes monitoring and adjusting roaster settings, such as temperature and speed to maintain a consistent roast and target nutrient specs. He also oversees the throughput of about 300-340 bushes per day combined and schedules roasting cycles with roughly two weeks on and one week off. Schmidt manages the sampling and testing practices, including taking representative samples from the core of the finished pile for accurate lab results, and tunes the grinding process by coordinating hammer mill speed and screen choices to hit the desired micron size target between 600-800 microns.
“ Right now, our microns are sitting about 750 microns. It’ s kind of where we want to be, between six and eight,” Schmidt said.
Chelsea Myer with Form a Feed and Barry Visser with Vita Plus spoke about some of the benefits of feeding high oleic soybeans to dairy cows, as well as how producers can consider fitting it into their herd’ s diet.
Visser said that as adding high oleic soybeans increases rumen-undegradable protein and delivers the“ fat payload, producers can pull back from feeding more expensive protein sources and supplemental fats, such as palm / calc salts( calcium salts of palm fatty acids are a form of ru-