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Canola meal in dairy rations
New research explains why use of this high-protein ingredient has increased in many countries.
BY TREENA HEIN, CORRESPONDENT C
anola meal is continuing to make inroads into dairy cow rations in many countries, including Canada, the USA, South Africa, Mexico, China and several other Asian countries. This high-protein ingredient
Use of canola meal as a high-protein ingredient has increased in many countries.
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is also fed to other livestock, including aquaculture species. In Australia for example, canola meal is now fed to fish, dairy cattle, poultry and to beef cattle in feedlots. How widely it’s used in the Australian dairy sector depends on several fac- tors, explains Duncan Rowland, executive officer at the Stock Feed Manufacturers’ Council of Australia. “It’s one of the few home-grown protein meals that’s available in large quantities for Australian livestock producers,” he says. At the same time, Rowland notes that “the Australian feed industry competes in exporting canola meal for dairy cattle in New Zealand, with smaller quantities coming from China, Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam. We find it hard to compete with these four countries in the open market due to price.” A lot of Australian canola seed, adds Rowland, goes to Europe for the manufacture of biodiesel, with a premium paid for certified sustainable pro- duction. In Europe rapeseed meal is more commonly used than canola meal in dairy rations, but it’s from ‘double-low’ rapeseed, resulting in quality that’s much more similar to can- ola than to traditional rapeseed. The European Feed Manufac- turers’ Federation were unable to provide further comment because they are currently dealing with urgent issues related to the impact of COVID-19. In Canada, canola meal is widely used and, in the USA, Dr An- tonio Faciola says canola meal is fed to dairy cattle in every state that has significant dairy production. Faciola, an assis- tant professor of Livestock Nutrition at the University of Flori- da, says he has not visited a US dairy farm over the last few years where canola meal is not being fed, but adds that ten years ago, the opposite was true. Use of canola meal in the dairy sector in the USA and beyond has grown for two main reasons: research and the results of that research being com- municated widely.
PHOTO: CANOLA COUNCIL OF CANADA
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