Dr. Mary Lou SwiftField Crop Development Center, Lacombe AB

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CommodityNot used by malting/food industryEnd users price as commodityenergy cost per kg product produced; Few wet chemistry laboratories Turnover time, cost, blendingBook values for nutritional composition

Helm et al., 2000

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$40 per tonne

Hulled Barley Hulled Barley + Enzyme

*Scale 1.0 to 2.5

Feed Quality Evaluation/NIRS Project300 Samples each of 6 products

Animal (In-vivo) and In-vitro Measurements

BARLEY WHEAT PEASCANOLA

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GRAINSWHEAT

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DEFINE FEED VALUE! Develop robust, timely, inexpensive ways to predict/estimate feed value

Work with industry leaders to use these predictors of feed value in formulation systems

Develop rapid method to “estimate the estimate”

M.L. Swift1*, L. Oatway1, R. T. Zilstra2, W. C. Sauer2,

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Apparent Total Tract Digestibility (ATTD) Energy◦ 39 Hulled (+21)◦ 16 Hulless◦ Barrows (~33 kg)◦ 96% barley diet

In-vitro Assay◦ 3 step enzymatic◦ Pepsin 6 h◦ Pancreatin 18 h◦ Cellulase 24 h

Physical, Chemical◦ TW, KW, % Plump◦ CP, Starch, Lipid,

Ash, Dietary Fiber, B-Glucan, Pentosan

(Regmi et al., 2008. JAS 86:2619)

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Whole plant barley NDF digestibility and its relationship with chemical constituents and DM yield

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