The U.S, Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service office of Global Analysis has published values for soybean meal use by country. The values are interesting and somewhat surprising that nearly 60% of the soybean meal is consumed in three countries; China, the European Union and the United States. It is not surprising that these same countries have large numbers of swine, poultry and aquaculture, all needing a quality protein ingredient to formulate feeds which support commercial production of meat, milk and eggs.

World Consumption of Soybean Meal