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Cooperative Research Centre for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry. Program 1b – Assessment of canola meal quality. Dr Robert van Barneveld, Director, Pork CRC Ltd. Subprogram 1b: Quality assessment of feed ingredients.
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Cooperative Research Centre for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry Program 1b – Assessment of canola meal quality Dr Robert van Barneveld, Director, Pork CRC Ltd
Subprogram 1b: Quality assessment of feed ingredients • Adopt, implement, enhance and maintain NIRS calibrations for nutritional quality of cereals developed within the Premium Grains for Livestock Program. • A wider range of rapid and objective analytical methods for the nutritional quality of feed ingredients. • Processing and interventions to increase nutrient yield from target grains.
Issues • Canola meal widely used as a protein and energy source by the pig industry • Variation in canola meal quality due to: • Processing method • Processing efficiency • Composition of canola seed
NIR analysis of reactive lysine SECV/SD < 0.3 Highly accurate calibrations
Pork CRC and AOF • AOF concurrently interested in assessing canola meal quality and monitoring processing conditions • Proposed in vivo experiments to assess this • Unknowns in relation to variation in source materials and outputs from plants
Investment • Co-fund with the AOF • Chemical and in vitro analysis of source seed • Chemical and in vitro analysis of outputs from the same processing plant and different plants • Validation and enhancement of NIR calibrations • Define need for further experimentation