GOLD STANDARD

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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 (30%), KOH Solubility (27%), Essential Amino Acids (20%), Sugars (17%), and Trypsin Inhibitor Activity (6%). Scores range from −50 to +50 relative to a reference population of approximately 79,000 laboratory samples.

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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