Tim Scates, an Illinois Soybean Association leader and soybean producer from Carmi, Illinois, feeds a soy-based formulation to ranched tuna near the Coronado Islands of Mexico during ISA trials.
A new market for soybeans will soon be available through North
America’s first tuna hatchery.
Mark Albertson is with the Illinois Soybean Association which helped fund research on feeding tuna a soybean-based diet, instead of other fish.
“We started doing research with tuna about three years ago and we are very pleased that we have made some big breakthroughs on formulating diets for tuna.”
He tells Brownfield some tuna populations are reaching the endangered species list, but the feed they have created will allow tuna to be grown in a hatchery setting like salmon and catfish.
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