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Healthy Catch Tilapia is Best Served?
 

Brand Initiative

The objective of brand initiative is to clearly establish, with both the trade and consumers, that tilapia produced at the sustainable DFI facility will be better tasting, healthier, more nutritious and infinitely safer than any competitive products on the market today.

Quick Delivery

DFI’s unique system allows for high quality, fresh tilapia filets to be on their way to supermarkets and restaurants within hours of leaving their production modules. DFI’s central US location also allows for economical, direct, one-day delivery to the concentrated consumer markets on either coast.

DFI Parameters

  • Water from the nearby Missouri River will be drawn into a series of individually segregated, 1,200,000 gallon, concrete production modules. A multi-million dollar supply pipeline for this purpose has already been constructed.
  • Using carefully selected genetics, tilapia spawned in the DFI hatchery will be introduced as fingerlings into the production modules.
  • These grow-out modules will be heated with waste heat recovered from the complex’ operations and supplemented as needed by an on-site geothermal source.
  • Nutrient rich process water, discharged from the grow-out modules, will be used to fertigate nearby crops, including wheat, corn and soybeans, three main components of the tilapia’s feed ration.
  • An on-site feed mill will process these and other feed components into pellets necessary for tilapia feeding.
  • An on-site plant will convert all inedible portions of the tilapia into fish oil and meal, both of which can then be sold, generating additional revenues for DFI.
  • Finally, as the modules operate independently of each other, all inputs are controlled, preventing cross contamination among the modules while allowing segregation for age, species, etc.
  • Upon reaching “market” weight, the tilapia are transferred by water channel to the on-site processing plant.