Happy Monday ranchers,

For most cattle producers, feed costs aren’t just an expense — they’re the margin killer. When prices swing, everything else on the balance sheet has to bend around them. That’s why a quiet shift happening in Michigan feed rations deserves a closer look.

A decade of university research has produced a soybean that’s already cutting purchased feed costs by double digits on commercial farms. It was designed for dairy cattle, but the economic logic behind it applies far beyond the milking parlor — and it could change how beef producers think about growing their own feed supplements.

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