A New, Cost Effective Protein Replacement for Meal in Swine Diets What is Canola Meal? PROTEIN CONTENT ingredient pricing scenarios and in a variety of swine 1500 is less than that of soybean meal, resulting in significant feed cost savings when is used, especially at high inclusion rates. This could work out to a reduced feed cost of several dollars per market pig. 1000 500 0 feeds, the opportunity price (shadow price) of 2400 ENERGY 1.3% 1.2 1.05% 0.9.65% 0.6 0.3 0.0 2000 2500 Using a least-cost feed formulation with a variety of feed 1.5 2800 2500 ADF CONTENT 3000 Cost Reduction and Economic Benefit is a new advanced canola meal that provides animal producers with a high quality protein option to meet their nutrition standards. is produced from new high protein canola seed created through traditional plant breeding which has the same high oil content as conventional canola. The key difference between canola and conventional canola is higher protein, greater digestibility and lower 20 50 19% 47% 44% fiber content. The protein content of the meal is 40 37% 15 14% approximately 44 percent. It is closer in protein 30 content to soybean meal (47 percent) than to 10 20 conventional canola meal (37 percent),making it 6% 5 a cost-efficient alternative to soybean meal for 10 swine diets. 0 0 PHOSPHORUS CONTENT
Some Key Features of Canola Meal Protein and Amino Acids offers higher protein content than conventional canola, ranging from 43 to 46 percent. The average protein level is 44 percent as fed basis with 89 percent dry matter. The amino acid content is higher than conventional canola meal with the same overall amino acid balance. For example, lysine content is 5.6 percent of crude protein in both conventional canola meal and. is a good source of methionine plus cysteine compared to soybean meal. The digestibility (SID) of amino acids in is slightly higher than in conventional canola meal. This is mainly related to the lower fiber and reduced tannin content compared to conventional canola meal. Fibre and Energy offers much lower fiber levels compared to conventional canola meal. This is reflected in both the ADF and NDF fiber fractions. The main compositional change is much lower levels of lignin and polyphenols in compared to conventional canola meal. There also are slightly lower levels of cellulose, hemicellulose and tannins compared to conventional canola meal. The decrease in fiber levels and its replacement by extra protein results in higher energy content for compared to conventional canola meal. It has approximately 10 percent higher swine metabolizable, digestible and net energy content than traditional canola meal, which places it midway between conventional canola meal and soybean meal. Phosphorus The total phosphorus content of is approximately 15 percent higher than conventional canola meal. The increase in phosphorus maintains the same phytate to non-phytate phosphorus level as conventional canola meal. Overall, phytate levels are high in canola meal relative to soybean meal.
Practical Use of Canola Meal in Swine Feeds The high protein and energy levels in Canola Meal offer an opportunity to use it at high inclusion levels as a 100 percent soybean meal replacement. The benefit is excellent pig performance while reducing feed costs. Weanling Pig Diets Research at the University of Illinois with demonstrates that can be used at 25 percent inclusion levels in weanling pig diets with no negative effects on animal performance. This creates an opportunity to drastically reduce the amount of soybean meal used in weanling pig diets. The advantages are two-fold: Reduce feed cost. Reduce the load of antigenic soybean meal proteins in the diet. The purpose of the study was to gain confidence in the high feed inclusion levels. There were three weanling pig studies at the University of Illinois and all showed high performance at high inclusion levels. This confirmed other recent research conducted at the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba that found feeding 25 or 30 percent conventional canola meal will result in no detrimental effects on weanling pig performance. The key is to balance the diets properly and ensure an adequate amount of digestible nutrients. Of the weanling pig studies conducted at the University of Illinois, two had all diets balanced to the same energy level, which resulted in slightly higher added fat levels to the high diets. The net effect of the higher fat level was to achieve the same body weight gain rate but at an improved feed conversion efficiency. The third study kept added fat levels the same and allowed the diet energy content to decrease slightly as levels increased. The pigs ate
slightly more feed to ensure adequate energy intake. This resulted in similar body weight gains with a comparable feed efficiency to the control diet, at a much lower feed costs per unit of body weight gain. The decision whether to formulate weanling pig diets using to constant energy levels as a soybean meal diet or rather to constant added fat levels will depend on the cost of nutrients in the diet, which varies with feed ingredient prices. The conclusion though, is that could be effectively used at up to 100 percent of soybean meal replacement in either strategy. Hog Grower Finisher Diets The best results will be obtained by using as a complete replacement for soybean meal. It is recommended to let energy content of the diet decrease with increasing levels while maintaining the same level of added fat as you would with a soybean meal based diet. Also, it is recommended to keep essential digestible amino acids in the same ratio to energy as with a soybean meal based diet. Given the ability of growing pigs to adjust their feed intake to maintain a constant energy intake, it is expected that growing pigs will eat more of the high diets. This has been demonstrated by grower/finisher feeding trials at the University of Illinois which resulted in equivalent growth rate and similar if not better carcass composition with soybean meal diets, but with a poorer feed efficiency. The net result, given the cost of relative to soybean meal, could be a reduction in feed costs per unit of pig body weight gain and lower overall pig production costs. also can be used effectively in combination with lower protein ingredients such as DDGS. General recommendations Given its high protein content, it would be expected that would have a similar value as soybean meal. Using a least cost feed formulation with a variety of feed ingredient pricing scenarios and in a variety of swine feeds, the opportunity price (shadow price) of is typically less than that of soybean meal, resulting in significant feed cost savings when is used, especially at high inclusion rates.
Nutrient composition of conventional canola meal, canola meal and soybean meal. Nutrient or component, as is Canola Meal Meal Meal Dry matter, % 89 89 89 Crude protein, % 37 44 47 Crude oil, % 3.0 3.0 1.4 Linoleic acid, % 0.6 0.5 0.7 Crude fibre, % 11.5 9.0 3.4 Ash, % 7 7.5 6 Calcium, % 0.62 0.62 0.30 Total phosphorus, % 1.06 1.25 0.60 Phytate phosphorus, % 0.75 0.90 0.39 Phytic Acid,% 2.7 3.2 1.4 Non-phytate phosphorus, % 0.31 0.35 0.21 Salt, % 0.10 0.10 0.05 Sodium, % 0.10 0.10 0.02 Chlorine, % 0.05 0.05 0.05 Potassium, % 1.20 1.30 2.10 Sulfur, % 0.83 0.83 0.40 Swine DE, kcal/kg 3100 3300 3685 Swine ME, kcal/kg 2900 3100 3380 Swine NE, kcal/kg 1750 1850 2020 ADF, % 19 14 5 NDF, % 25 19 9 Lignin and polyphenols, % 7 4 2 Starch 0.3 0.3 0.5 Sugars 8 7 9 Sucrose 6 5.5 7.5 Fructose + glucose 0.5 0.8 1.0 Cellulose 5.5 5 5 Oligosaccharides 3.0 2.9 12 Soluble NSP s 5 5 8 Insoluble NSP s 13 12 12 Tannins, 1.5 0.5 0 Sinapine 1.0 1.0 0 Glucosinolates 8 8 0 Amino Acids: Total, % (SID* coeff., %) Lysine 2.07 (78) 2.46 (81) 3.02 (90) Methionine 0.74 (87) 0.88 (87) 0.67 (91) Cysteine 0.89 (83) 1.06 (83) 0.74 (87) Threonine 1.52 (78) 1.80 (79) 1.85 (87) Tryptophan 0.48 (75) 0.57 (76) 0.65 (90) Arginine 2.15 (88) 2.55 (88) 3.48 (94) Histidine 1.15 (85) 1.36 (86) 1.28 (91) Isoleucine 1.48 (78) 1.76 (78) 2.16 (89) Leucine 2.59 (81) 3.08 (81) 3.66 (89) Valine 1.92 (78) 2.29 (79) 2.27 (88) Phenylalanine 1.41 (83) 1.67 (83) 2.39 (89) Tyrosine 1.07 (83) 1.28 (83) 1.82 (90) * SID. Swine Standardized Ileal Digestibility