Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

524Biofuel co-products as livestock feed – Opportunities and challengesAlbert Boaitey is a Research Associate in the Department of Bioresource Policy Business and Economics (PBPE), where hehas been working since completing his MSc in Agricultural Economics in 2010. Prior to this he worked with the Departmentof Agricultural Economics in Ghana, in a number of teaching and research assistantship positions. His research interestsare mainly in the area of production economics and agricultural policy, particularly focused on the response of agriculturalinstitutions to change and innovation.Andrew L. Braid graduated in veterinary science from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and initially worked in thebeef cattle industry in far North Queensland and the Northern Territory, before moving to dairy cattle and general practicein New South Wales. He joined the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Canberra, (now Ecosystem Sciences) in 1993.His involvement with biofuels began in 2006 when he became a member of the Sustainable Biomass Production projectteam within CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship to write Biofuel Co-products as Livestock Feed. Since then he hasworked in research on sustainability issues for the emerging bio-energy and biofuels industries in Australia, co-authoringSustainable Production of Bio-energy: A review of global bio-energy sustainability frameworks and assessment systemsystems. His recent projects include participating with CSIRO and the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG) towrite the sustainable aviation fuel road map report Flight path to sustainable aviation and as an observer of a Roundtableon Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Pilot Project for the certification of ethanol produced from waste starch in New South Wales.Michael Brown is Professor and Director of the Feedlot Research Center within the Department of Agricultural Sciences atWest Texas A&M University, USA. He received his MS and PhD degrees in animal science from New Mexico State Universityin 1997 and 2000, respectively. His research is focused on effects of grain processing, feeds from the renewable energyindustry, trace mineral nutrition and feed additives on growth performance and nutrient requirements of feedlot cattle. Heis a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists, and thePlains Nutrition Council.W. Brown grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned his BSA degree in agricultural economics from the University ofManitoba, and an MSc degree in farm business management from the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Brown hasbeen teaching and conducting research at the University of Saskatchewan since 1978. His teaching and research interestsare in the areas of farm and agribusiness management, agriculture finance, and production economics. He has supervisedover 60 undergraduate groups completing agribusiness plans and numerous graduate students at the MSc level. ProfessorBrown has been involved in agricultural training and development projects, including economies of size of large crop farmsand business planning courses in China, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Mexico.Sonia Gallego Castillo is Chemical Engineer, graduating 2005 from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. She iscuurently a Research Assistant of the CLAYUCA Corporation and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) since2004, with extensive experience in designing and implementing research projects with emphasis on evaluation and optimizationof processing technologies based on roots and tubers, to produce flour, and its applications in foods, production ofbioethanol, modified starches and other industrial uses.Gita Cherian holds the Walther H. Ott Endowed Professorship in Poultry Science at Oregon State University, Corvallis,Oregon, USA, where she leads the poultry nutrition programme. She received an MSc and PhD in nutrition from theUniversity of Alberta, Canada, and BVSc and AH from India. Dr Cherian has been actively involved in animal and poultrynutrition research for over 25 years, with an emphasis on lipids and omega-3 poly unsaturated fatty acids. She is the authoror co-author of over 65 peer-reviewed original publications, 10 book chapters and several conference proceedings andabstracts. Dr Cherian has served on several USDA peer-review grant panels and is currently serving as metabolism andnutrition section editor of Poultry Science. She has presented over 35 invited talks in the Canada, China, India, Republic ofKorea and USA at scientific and industry conferences.Colleen Christensen graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, with a BSc in 1991 and a PhD in 1998.Colleen has extensive experience at the nexus of science and industry, creating value from science. Prior to working at theFeeds Innovation Institute, she worked in business development and commercialization at the Canadian Light Source andthe Saskatoon Health Region, and managed a University of Saskatchewan veterinary biotechnology spin-off company. Asthe Executive Director of the Feeds Innovation Institute, Colleen connects the feed industry with academia, facilitating thelocal benefits of the feeds innovation value chain. The Feeds Innovation Institute has been the Network Administrative Lead