Soybeans and soybean products. Volume II

Soybeans (Glycine max) and Soybean Products in Poultry and Swine Nutrition

Soy is a legume and has been successfully cultivated around the world. Today, the world’s top producers of soy are the United States, Brazil, Argentina, China and India. According Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), the Brazil is responsible for some 28 percent of the world's soybean production, with the estimate of a production of 57 million tons. The Brazil is the worl...

Impacts of the FTAA and China’s WTO Accession on the International Trade of Soybeans and Soybean Products

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of implementation of the FTAA and China’s lower import tariffs on international trade of soybean oil, soybean meal, and soybeans. A two-commodity spatial model was formulated. The base model was calibrated to simulate the average level data of 1996, 1997, and 1998. Two alternative trade scenarios were simulated. The results indicated tha...

High Pressure Treatments of Soybean and Soybean Products

OMI Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Volume II OMI Ozone Products

Preface Background The Ozone Monitoring Instrument OMI is a Dutch-Finnish ozone monitoring instrument that will fly on NASA's Aura Mission, part of the Earth Observation System (EOS), scheduled for launch in January 2004. OMI's measurements of ozone columns and profiles, aerosols, clouds, surface UV irradiance, and the trace gases NO 2 , SO 2 , HCHO, BrO, and OClO fit well into Aura's mission g...

Chemical composition and protein quality comparisons of soybeans and soybean meals from five leading soybean-producing countries.

Soybeans (SBs) were obtained from five leading SB-producing countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, and the United States), imported to the United States, and processed into soybean meal (SBM) under uniform conditions in the United States. SBs from China had the highest crude protein (CP) content while SBs and the resultant SBM from Argentina had the lowest. Additional differences in the qu...