Cooperative Research Centre for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry

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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
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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.

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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

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Assessment of heat damage
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Assessment of heat damage
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NIR analysis of reactive lysine
Constituent SECV SEL SECV/SEL SECV/SD
Total lysine 0.42 0.40 1.05 0.09
Reactive lysine 0.76 0.60 1.27 0.17
SECV/SD lt 0.3 Highly accurate calibrations
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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

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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