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The Oceanic Institute (OI), based in Hawaii, has taken a big step toward producing feed made with local raw materials for Hawaii farms raising fish, shrimp, chickens, milk cows and cattle. The OI, located at Makapuu just outside Honolulu, recently began operating a sophisticated mill to research and develop feed for farm animals using ingredients found locally, including seafood trimmings and byproducts of crops such as papaya and plants that could support a biofuels industry. The mill, capable of producing 300 pounds of feed an hour, is an experimental prototype for a bigger mill envisioned to be built in Hilo by 2012 that will be able to conduct large-scale feed trials on farms and commercial production.

OI's mill is primarily focused on feeds for Hawaii's aquaculture industry, though research also will be conducted to develop feeds for the chicken, dairy and cattle industries. Producing feeds from locally found ingredients would help make animal farming in Hawaii more economical, sustainable and self-sufficient. The institute said feed is the single largest cost in animal farming, and that increases in feed prices stemming from spikes in fuel and feed ingredient costs threaten tile viability of local farms relying on feed imported from outside the state. Potential exists for the Hilo mill to develop feeds made with ingredients from the ocean or tropical plants that will be useful to mainland animal feed producers.

The US feed industry is donating US$1.7million worth of equipment to establish the US$4 million mill, which is designed to produce four tons of feed an hour, and has all its necessary funding from the US Department of Agriculture, the state and several local foundations, The Hilo mill would be only the second mill in the US for researching and developing animal feeds after one at Kansas State University, and the first to focus on aquaculture, said Tony Ostrowski., president of OI.

The mill project is being developed in collaboration with the USDA's Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo. OI, an affiliate o/Hawaii Pacific University, has long been involved with helping aquaculture farms develop feeds. The prototype mill advances the research capabilities to a larger and more sophisticated level. A main source for feeds that the institute has already tested on smaller scales for fish and shrimp is waste produced from filleting and processing seafood, 75 to 80 percent of which is imported to Hawaii, Ostrowski said. About half that waste product is discarded in landfills. Other potential ingredients for feed include protein-rich byproducts from crops such as algae, palm and jatropha after oils are extracted to produce fuel. These crops could be grown in Hawaii in large quantities some day to help Hawaii become more energy independent, he said.

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