Firms can handle US soybean slump

Alternate sources, ingredients can make up for any shortfalls in meal

Chinese companies have many ways to meet feed production needs despite the slump in soybeans imported from the United States since the two countries levied tit-for-tat tariffs on each other.

Soybean processors have sufficient stock for production even through early 2019, and many Chinese companies have planned to increase other meal imports, such as sunflower seed meal, to produce feed, said industry experts.