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What is NovaPro?
Sustainable dairy cow feed NovaPro is produced at Yelo’s state-of-the-art rapeseed expelling facility in Warwickshire. It uses 100 per cent UK-grown oilseed rape (OSR) in its manufacturing process, supporting British farmers and reducing food miles. Around 60% of the OSR fed into the process becomes NovaPro, with the remaining 40% being the expelled oil that is subsequently refined and sold by Yelo as the UK’s only pressed, refined rapeseed oil.
While many protected rapemeal diets are available, NovaPro uses heat and mechanical presses to squeeze oil from the rapeseed, creating a high energy rape expeller – rather than producing rapemeal with hexane solvent extraction. The residual cake is then treated, using a unique patented process with Xylig, a wood extract rich in Xylose, which increases the level of rumen bypass protein. This process, coupled with NovaPro’s higher energy content, gives it the edge over many other protected rape proteins and helps to explain how it has improved milk performance over soya based rations.
Protected ruminant proteins work by increasing the bypass protein, lowering its digestibility in the rumen and increasing the proportion that passes intact, to be digested in the small intestine. This increases the availability of the essential amino acids lysine and methionine to the small intestine. These two amino acids are both present in rape based protein feeds at levels better matched for milk protein production than soya, which further drives milk performance.
NovaPro was tested in formal trials with M&S at several of its dairy farms in 2020. An “out-in-out” testing regime compared milk performance, with and without soya, using a nutritional equivalent ration made with NovaPro. Milk performance across several farms, either remained unaffected or improved with the replacement of soya with NovaPro.
Yelo is currently undergoing a detailed carbon life-cycle analysis on its products as its facility is supplied by its own renewable heat and power using UK-sourced, low-grade biomass residues or clean recycled wood chip derived from used wooden pallets. In addition, the wood sugar used in the process is a co-product from the wood pulping industry and for every tree used, another three are replanted. Yelo says the environmental footprint of rape cake has around 60-70 per cent of the impact of soya.
