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Soybean Meal Quality Benchmark

The GOLD Score is a quantile-based benchmark that evaluates soybean meal quality across five weighted pillars: Crude Protein (24%), KOH Solubility (26%), Essential Amino Acids (26%), Sugars (19%), and Trypsin Inhibitor Activity (5%). Scores range from −50 to +50 relative to a reference population of approximately 79,000 laboratory samples.

Create a lot to score your soybean meal, or explore the benchmark distributions, trends, and full scoring methodology.

Tier Classification

• Gold — score ≥ +20, significantly above benchmark
• Silver — score 0 to +19, at or above benchmark
• Bronze — score < 0, below benchmark
• Rejected — TIA ≥ 6.0 mg/g, automatic rejection