Lupin Seed for the Crop-Livestock Food Chain

A global foresight on food crop needs for livestock.

Increasingly more studies are raising concerns about the increasing consumption of meat and the increasing amount of crops (cereals and oilseeds in particular) used to feed animals and that could be used to feed people. The evolution of this amount is very sensitive to human diets and to the productivity of feed. This article provides a 2050 foresight on the necessary increase in crop productio...

Understanding the nutritional chemistry of lupin (Lupinus spp.) seed to improve livestock production efficiency.

In their raw, unprocessed form, lupins have many desirable characteristics for feeding both ruminants and single-stomached animals. An emphasis on these desirable characteristics when formulating diets, combined with an advanced knowledge of how components of lupins can influence nutritional value, will ensure they make a cost-effective contribution to livestock diets. The main lupin species us...

Crop Biotechnology: Feeds for Livestock

ALLEN VAN DEYNZE, Biotechnology Specialist, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis; KENT J. BRADFORD, Professor of Vegetable Crops and Director, Seed Biotechnology Center, UC Davis; and ALISON VAN EENENNAAM, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Animal Science, UC Davis. Most crops developed through biotechnology that are on the market today provide farmers with in...

Evaluation of Lupin as a New Food/Feed Crop in the US Mid-Atlantic Region*

INTRODUCTION White lupin (Lupinus albus L. Fabaceae) is one of four economically important species of the genus Lupinus, which consists of over 300 annual species (Hondelmann 1984). The other three species are: L. angustifolius, L. luteus, and L. mutabilis. Approximately 100 species of Lupinus occur in the US and Canada and most are native. White lupin, an old crop for the southern United State...

Crop - Livestock Interactions