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Closing in on a marketable solution: Feeding salmon yeast from spruce trees

Closing in on a marketable solution: Feeding salmon yeast from spruce trees

Locally produced feed based on sustainable, novel ingredients is slowly getting closer to market. At the Norwegian shore, at Dønna in Sandnessjøen, salmon are now being given feed based on by-products from the Norwegian forest.

From Chile to Norway – aquaculture in a global perspective

From Chile to Norway – aquaculture in a global perspective

Foods of Norway brings together scientists from all over the world. Immunologist Byron Morales-Lange from Chile is one of them. “Working with research in an international environment is a very enriching approach to improving knowledge”, he says.

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

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The challenge

The challenge

Today, Norwegian fish farming and livestock industries rely largely on imported plant ingredients for feed, such as soy. Norway cannot continue to depend so heavily on imports, as climatic and economic changes in the world in recent years has led to increased cost and reduced supply of feed resources.

The solution

The solution

Norway has limited land area for cultivating food and feed but is a country rich in natural resources, such as forests, seaweed, grass, and by-products from fish, animals and plants. This is an excellent starting point for the production of local and sustainable novel feed ingredients.

The technology

The technology

Foods of Norway develops new technology and innovative methods to create novel feeds from land-based and marine resources as well as to improve the feed efficiency 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 new feed resources.

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

  • The centre contributes to growth and increased value creation in Norwegian aquaculture, agriculture and forestry by developing novel feed ingredients from blue and green biomass, and thereby alleviating the pressure on natural resources for human food production.

  • The centre develops novel feed ingredients from forestry, agriculture, and animal and marine by-products through research on bioprocessing and technology.

  • Foods of Norway aims to improve feed efficiency by developing new methods to improve feed efficiency of farm animals and farmed fish in order to produce more fish and meat with less feed.

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