Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan’s Lipid Quality and Utilization (LQU) program conducted several projects from 2014 to 2017, focusing on the development of industrial projects from vegetable oils.

As canola production in western Canada continues to increase, one of the remaining obstacles to maximizing investments is generating significant value from the meal, particularly as an animal protein source.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan conducted a large multiple project canola research program over five years to quantify protein structure and subfractions in canola seed and canola meal in relation to nutrient availability in animals.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan conducted a large multiple project canola research program over five years to quantify protein structure and subfractions in canola seed and canola meal in relation to nutrient availability in animals.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan conducted a large multiple project canola research program over five years to quantify protein structure and subfractions in canola seed and canola meal in relation to nutrient availability in animals.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan initiated a three-year project in 2012 to develop methods to improve the fatty acid composition of aquaculture fish fed algae-vegetable oil blends instead of fish oils.

Canola proteins represent an emerging plant-based alternative, with tremendous opportunity for growth, based on their functional and nutritional properties. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan initiated a five-year multi-component project in 2010, with the overall goal to develop formulated canola protein-based ingredients that could then be tailored to specific food applications.

The demand for diversified, easily transported, carbon-neutral energy from biomass, including 'waste' biomasses, such as sawdust, crop residues and other industrial wastes, is increasing.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan conducted a three-year study to determine if cost-effective biosorbents from canola meal would have potential for industrial application of dehydration of ethanol, other alcohols or gases.

Pea meal and pea and canola protein concentrates provide a significant advantage over soybean meal in salmonid diets according to research at the University of Saskatchewan.

Canola meal (CM) is used in animal nutrition but has to compete with other protein sources, and is currently not used to full potential in swine nutrition.

Feeding canola meal to brown-shelled laying hens can result in the production of eggs with a fishy odor. Fishy-egg tainting is a nutrigenetic condition because both genetic and dietary factors must be present for egg tainting to occur.

Researchers initiated a study in 1999 in Alberta to compare live animal performance, carcass composition and meat quality of pigs fed wheat based or corn based diets supplemented with peas, canola meal and soybean meal either alone or in combination.

As Canada’s total canola crush increased from an average of 1.3 million tonnes in the late 1980s to 2.6 million tonnes in the mid 1990s, so did the opportunities for use of canola by-products such as canola screenings, for the livestock industry.

In western Canada, one of the more widely available by-product livestock feeds is canola screenings (CS). Researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge initiated a two-year study in 1997 to determine the feed value of commercial canola screenings in feeding trials with lambs, calves and finishing cattle.