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Growing yeast from trees – first successful scale-up of microbial feed ingredients from sustainable resources

Growing yeast from trees – first successful scale-up of microbial feed ingredients from sustainable resources

Yeast made from Norwegian spruce trees is a high-quality feed ingredient that can replace imported protein. A fruitful collaboration between industry and research has for the first time successfully achieved a large-scale production of yeast from local, sustainable resources

Reducing salmon climate footprint through novel, Norwegian feed

Reducing salmon climate footprint through novel, Norwegian feed

Through their report, “Råvareløftet”, Bellona aims to change the Norwegian salmon industry, through novel, more sustainable solutions. Foods of Norway has participated in the report.

Can we grow chicks with feed made from sticks?

Can we grow chicks with feed made from sticks?

Six pens are filled with tiny, fluffy yellow chickens. For the next five weeks they will hopefully help pave the way to a more sustainable agriculture in Norway – one foot at a time.

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The challenge

The challenge

Today, the Norwegian fish farming and farm animal industries rely largely on imported plant ingredients, such as soy. But Norway can no longer continue to depend so heavily on imports, as there have been dramatic changes in world feed resources in recent years, with decreasing supply and higher prices.

The solution

The solution

Norway has limited land area for growing food and feed resources, but possesses large natural bioresources such as forests, grass, macroalgae, and co-products from fish, animals and plants that can provide a basis for the production of novel feed ingredients.

The technology

The technology

Foods of Norway will use new technology to create novel feeds from land-based and marine resources as well as improve the genetic robustness of fish and farm animals.

Key research

Key research

To increase value creation in the Norwegian aquaculture, meat and dairy industries Foods of Norway will target three key research areas: Biomass, feed efficiency and product quality.

About us


 

  • Foods of Norway is a Centre for Research-based Innovation (CRI) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, funded by The Research Council of Norway and the Centre`s industry partners.

  • The centre aims to contribute to growth and increased value creation in the Norwegian aquaculture and agriculture industries, by developing sustainable feed ingredients from natural bioresources that are not suitable for direct human consumption.

  • We develop new feed products from forestry, agriculture, and marine resources through industrial exploitation of cutting-edge research on processing and (bio)technology.

  • Foods of Norway also aims to improve feed efficiency by advanced genomic analysis to support genetic adaptation and identification of new selection criteria for fish and farm animals.

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