There were only 67 days of grain supply in the world in January, says former World Bank president Robert Zoellick. The remark was made during a speech at the Forum for the Future of Agriculture conference which takes place today in Brussels, Belgium. Don't worry if you're not there, the event is being streamed online.
Canola, cottonseed, and sunflower products can replace soybean meal
in diets fed to pigs, but they contain less protein and energy according to research conducted at the University of Illinois, USA. To
determine if it makes economic sense to use them, producers need to know
the concentrations and digestibility of the nutrients they contain. To
help them make the decision, University of Illinois researchers examined
amino acid digestibility for these products.
"Soybean is by far the biggest oilseed crop in the world," said Hans
Stein, professor of animal sciences. "But canola, cottonseed, and
sunflowers are grown in areas where soybeans can’t grow. When the oil is
taken out of the seed, meal is left over, as with soybean meal.”
His team looked at amino acid digestibility in both intact canola
seeds and canola meal, as well as in cottonseed meal, intact sunflower
seeds, dehulled sunflower meal, and sunflower meal with hulls, on which
there has been little recent digestibility research. The study included
soybean meal for comparison.
It's been a bumper month for grain exports at Emerald Grain’s Melbourne Port Terminal. The grain handling facility has reported its strongest month of exported since it opened in 2000. During February, more than 185,000 tonnes of grain passed through the
facility and on to eight destinations across Asia and Africa including
China, Japan and Mozambique.
Glen Collision, general manager storage and handling, Emerald Grain
said the record month was thanks to improved efficiencies across
Emerald’s supply chain. “Emerald has a long-term lease of two locomotives which transport
grain quickly from Emerald’s storage sites in New South Wales and
Victoria and through to the port.”
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| English: Close up of blooms on a canola plant near Yorkton, Saskatchewan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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