Rapeseed & Canola Meal

Canadian, EU and Indian rapeseed meal by protein, glucosinolates and fibre

Rapeseed meal is the second protein meal of the world after soybean meal, and the canola name marks the low-erucic, low-glucosinolate varieties bred in Canada: by definition canola meal carries under 30 µmol/g of glucosinolates, and the Canola Council of Canada puts the processed average at 3.6 µmol/g against a minimum crude protein guarantee of 36% at 12% moisture, with actual protein usually 37–40%. European double-zero rapeseed meal trades on the same basis at 34–36% protein; Indian mustard de-oiled cake (DOC) runs 36–38% protein but from Brassica juncea, whose glucosinolate load is higher and must be declared, and it is bought mainly by dairy and layer mills that formulate for it. The sheet carries protein, fat (1–3% solvent-extracted; expeller cake keeps 8–12%), crude fibre (10–12%), moisture (≤ 12%), glucosinolates in µmol/g, and erucic acid where the destination asks; EU Directive 2002/32/EC governs undesirable substances including volatile mustard oil in feed materials, and Canadian meal is generally sold with an amino-acid profile because its methionine and cysteine are its selling point. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 2306.41 (low-erucic) show Canada at 5.76 million MT at an average USD 338/MT, Germany 1.67 million MT at USD 302, Belgium 0.75 million MT at USD 318, France 0.45 million MT at USD 341, Czechia 0.37 million MT and Romania 0.30 million MT at USD 283; under HS 2306.49 (other rapeseed meal) India declared 1.58 million MT at USD 274/MT. The Canola Council's 2025 destination table shows where Canadian meal goes: the United States 4.13 million MT, China 0.74 million MT, the EU 0.62 million MT, the United Kingdom 157,000 MT, Vietnam 116,000 MT, South Korea 76,000 MT and Chile 49,000 MT; China applied a 100% tariff to Canadian canola meal on 20 March 2025 and its intake fell to less than half of 2024, and a Canada–China agreement covering canola was reported by USDA FAS in January 2026. India's Solvent Extractors' Association reports 581,000 MT of rapeseed meal shipped to China in April–October 2025 against 14,886 MT a year earlier.

The buyers are dairy mills in the US Pacific Northwest and California, compounders in the EU and UK, and feed groups in Vietnam, Korea, Thailand and Bangladesh who take canola meal for its rumen-bypass protein and price it at a discount to soybean meal on a protein basis. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers canola and rapeseed meal from Canadian crushers, EU crushers in Germany, Belgium, France and Romania, Indian mustard extraction plants and a UAE crusher on the Fujairah side, against SGS or Intertek certification of protein, fat, fibre, moisture, glucosinolates and mycotoxins at the load port, on GAFTA, FOSFA or the buyer's own contract terms. Parcels are structured as Handysize and Supramax bulk on FOB and CFR out of Vancouver, Hamburg, Ghent, Rouen, Constanța and Kandla, and in containers bulk-loaded with liners or in 50 kg bags for South and Southeast Asian mills; because CBIL also runs a chartering desk (LaycanDesk), the freight leg can be quoted with the cargo. Send your protein floor, glucosinolate ceiling, fat and fibre bands and the monthly tonnage and we will work the crusher to it.

Need the ship as well? Our chartering desk prices bulk feed ingredient freight on LaycanDesk.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.