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Heat treated UK faba beans to replace imported soybean meal in dairy rations.
The UK imports around 360,000 tonnes of soybean meal each year for use in dairy feed, almost all from South America. InFaba is developing a thermally treated faba bean ingredient designed to replace it directly in the ration. Heat treatment increases the proportion of protein that bypasses the rumen and reaches the small intestine, bringing nutritional performance closer to soya bean meal while removing the embedded land use change emissions associated with imported soya.
- Reduces feed-related Scope 3 emissions
- UK-grown, deforestation-free protein
- Drops into existing dairy rations
A tannin-rich faba bean fraction that may reduce enteric methane from dairy cows.
When faba beans are dehulled, the seed coat is left as a co-product. This fraction carries condensed tannins that alter rumen fermentation and reduce the methane cows produce during digestion. Exploratory work at SRUC has indicated strong potential.
A sector-wide reduction of just 10 per cent would avoid 875,000 tonnes of CO2e per year across the UK dairy herd. InFaba is profiling tannin content across UK faba bean varieties and progressing the most promising candidates through laboratory fermentation studies and controlled dairy trials to validate performance and confirm commercial viability.