Canola Meal Research

Setting research priorities

Canola meal production in Canada is expected to increase from 2 million tonnes to 4 million tonnes over the next four to eight years as domestic crush capacity increases. This will put increasing pressure on the value of canola meal in its primary market (feeding dairy cattle). The Canadian canola industry has recognized this challenge and has made it a priority to increase canola meal metabolizable energy for poultry by at least 10% in order to maintain its value when it becomes primarily used in monogastric feeds.

Feed industry meeting

The Canola Council of Canada hosted a meeting in Saskatoon, SK in September 2007 with 50 participants from the canola industry, research institutions and the Canadian feed industry to identify research priorities. Choose from the links below to read the summary of this industry meeting and the individual presentations, which detail existing canola meal research, along with the gaps the industry would like to fill.

• Meeting Summary
• Presentations

• Welcome and overview
  Canola meal competitive situation and CCC goals, Dr. Dave Hickling, Canola Council of Canada

• Canadian animal feed industry perspective
  What the feed industry wants from canola meal, Dr. Arnold Pierce, Preferred Animal Nutrition Services

• Breeding canola for higher energy (yellow seed)
  Progress to date in genetic improvements in canola meal energy contact, Ms. JoAnne-Relf-Eckstein, AAFC

• Processing canola for higher energy
  Increasing energy using current processing technology, Dr. Dave Hickling, Canola Council of Canada

• Adding enzymes to increase energy
  Progress to date using enzymes with a view to potential developments, Dr. Bogdan Slominski, University of Manitoba

• Implications of feeding high dietary inclusion levels of canola meal
  High protein diets and their impact on the animal and the environment; Discussion of required research to manage high protein, Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra, University of Alberta

• Reducing anti-nutrient levels in canola meal
  The long term potential (Designing Oilseeds for Tomorrow’s Markets), Dr. Randall Weselake, University of Alberta

• Canola meal value in our strongest market – dairy cattle
  Understanding the nutritional value of canola meal and how it can be enhanced, Dr. Tim Mutsvangwa, University of Saskatchewan

• Beef
  What needs to happen to use more canola meal in beef feeds, Dr. John McKinnon, University of Saskatchewan

• Aquaculture
  The benefits and limitations of canola meal in aqua-feeds and opportunities to improve canola meal value, Dr. Murray Drew, University of Saskatchewan

• Canola Protein Concentrates
  The production and use of high-valued canola protein concentrates, Dr. David Maenz, Chief Scientific Officer, MCN Bioproducts Inc