1. Cooperative Research Centre for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry Program 1b – Assessment of canola meal quality Dr Robert van Barneveld, Director, Pork CRC Ltd

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Assessment of heat damage

6. ConstituentSECVSELSECV/SELSECV/SD Total lysine0.420.401.050.09 Reactive lysine0.760.601.270.17 SECV/SD < 0.3 Highly accurate calibrations NIR analysis of reactive lysine

7. 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

8. 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