Advisory and Development

FII provides advisory services on a contract basis. Areas of expertise include:

• investigation of specialty feed products
• foreign market development for Saskatchewan feedstuffs
• industry development

Initiatives:

• feed analysis and interpretation for distillers' grain by-products (DDGS)
• utilization of co-products from the bio-products industries
• feed analysis and interpretation for oil seed meals
• domestic and international market feasibility studies
• domestic and international feed market surveys
• effective use of co-product streams (grains and special crops, canola crushing and ethanol production)
• increased feed ingredient/product exports (aquaculture, blended feeds, fractionation products and protein concentrates)
• replacement of corn, soybean and feed ingredient imports (pea, canola blends)
• pea-canola meal blends for livestock product & facility development
• evaluation and market assessment of Saskatchewan-produced fish meals
• direct consultation with producer groups in targeting needs for feed quality improvement
• use of distressed grains and low quality crops (frozen wheat, weather damaged canola)
• development of grain screening processing facilities in Saskatchewan (technical support, advisory, development and technology transfer activities)
• market development and technical support of Canadian processed alfalfa products in the Japanese, Korean and other global markets (on-site technical support, seminars and development of brochures and news articles)
• development and application of micronization to create specialized feeds products
• development of functional feeds (high fat oats, omega-3 eggs, milk and beef)
• replacement alternatives for antibiotics and medications
• measures to address food safety, quality assurance and negative environmental risks (use of food wastes, low phytate barley strains)
• conducting educational seminars for visiting groups including delegations from Asia, Latin America and Europe.
• academic training exchanges and co-operative feed evaluation technology with international universities and research labortatories
• participation in China Feed Centre, planning feed courses and training students