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Asia

NEWS

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PRODUCT FOCUS

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CASE STUDY

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FEATURES 32 Cross-functional role of trace minerals

42 Integrity across the ‘farm to fork’ chain

38 Feed formulation software

48 Algae’s key role in taking care of consumer expectations

34 Protecting against combustible dust buildup

FACES

94 People news from the global milling industry

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74 Event listings, reviews and previews

52 Hidden hunger STORAGE

62 Processing and throughput evolved

TRAINING

29 GEAPS/K-State operations courses

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8 Mildred Cookson 10 Johan den Hartog 16 Tom Blacker 18 Christophe Pelletier 22 Chris Jackson

2 GUEST EDITOR Bryan McGee

66 MARKETS John Buckley

90 INTERVIEW Hao Bo

Guest

Editor

“The Heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the Harvest of the future” Archives of the United States of America – Washington DC Most of this year’s cereal crops in the northern hemisphere have now been harvested and, outside those regions suffering strife and civil unrest, food security has been assured for another year. This security results largely from the highly developed technology we now enjoy for the storage, transport and processing of those cereals.

It has not always been thus and it has only been possible to ensure such security since the industrialisation of our industry, which itself only dates back for a little over a century. The most significant of the technical advances which enabled production of staple foods to match the rapid rise in population was the so-called ‘Rollermill Revolution’ and its associated ‘Gradual Reduction’ system as pioneered in Austro-Hungary. This combination of discoveries in the 19th century was rapidly adopted throughout Europe and North America and thence through the English speaking countries and elsewhere in the world.

My whole career was spent in the milling engineering industry where I developed a huge respect for the engineering pioneers, especially Henry Gustav Simon and his contemporaries.

It became increasingly clear to me that this rollermilling revolution in the industry has been somewhat taken for granted and never adequately recorded and told as a continuous story.

In retirement I have been fortunate to be able to work with and assist specialists with experience in documentation and recording of historic,

industrial material.

Initially I helped Glyn Jones in his huge quest to produce ‘The Millers – a story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870 –2001’ published in 2001.

This research revealed that there was far more material waiting to be discovered, so I was delighted when asked by Nabim to assist Rob Shorland-Ball in a project funded by English Heritage to identify and record details of mills in England which were, and are, of significance.

Again, this investigation made us aware of the wealth of latent material awaiting discovery.

Having completed this somewhat exploratory project, we were fortunate to find that the well established charity, The Mills Archive (www. millsarchive.org) in Reading, was more than willing to expand its remit into the rollermilling era and we have been working with them ever since.

It is timely that the Jordan brothers, David and Bill, have created a heritage centre based around their historic water driven rollermilling Holme Mill in Biggleswade to demonstrate to a new generation the technologies involved.

This journal, Milling and Grain, with its own roots dating back to 1891 in the midst of that revolution, has been enormously supportive and now includes a monthly feature by the Mills Archive to keep readers up to date with its progress and to provide snippets of interesting facts from their exhaustive files.

I hope you find these comments add to your enjoyment of this edition of Milling and Grain and please feel free to contact me if you wish to participate in this quest.

Bryan McGee Consultant

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Bühler’s Atta process with PesaMill™ is the first industrial process technology for the production of Atta flour with a completely authentic taste under perfect hygienic conditions.

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Rice Milling around the World; early approaches A Chinese legend says that rice is the gift of animals rather than the gods.

After a series of disastrous floods, all plants had been destroyed and no food was available.

People survived through hunting, but it was very difficult, because animals were scarce. One day a dog ran through the fields with bunches of rice seeds hanging from its tail.

See the full story on page 8

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317,000,000 tonnes – the total amount of RICE India produced 2012 - 2013 450,544,269 tonnes – the total amount of RICE Southern Asia produced 2012-2013 188,390,000 tonnes – the total amount of WHEAT India produced 2012 – 2013 252,128,227 tonnes – the total amount of WHEAT Southern Asia* excluding Sri Lanka produced 2012-2013 Source: Statistics retrieved from FAO 4 | October 2015 - Milling and Grain

Hao Bo Sixth GrainTech India 2015 The sixth annual GrainTech India exhibition has concluded at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru, India.

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Zhengchang, established in 1918, has made constant innovations in feed machinery industry and accumulated a wealth of experience in tackling the various challenges facing feed companies over the past almost 100 years.

See the full story on page 90

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Benchmark tool for FEFAC soy sourcing guidelines now available bit.ly/1QL9lEu AFIA says proposed changes to fair labour standards are hurtful not helpful bit.ly/1O86kQM GAIN: The Arusha Statement on Food Fortification bit.ly/1MGqjTG

Featuring Alapala technology, Turkey’s largest capacity single-line flourmill starts production in Mardin

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araboğalar Flour Mill in the Mardin Organised Industrial Zone was finished in a record time of about five months, and started production in July 2015. It boasts a wheat processing capacity of 600 tonnes per day.

The facility, constructed to meet the demand for quality flour, particularly in Iraq and Syria, is the largest capacity single-line flourmill not only in Turkey but also the entire region. The project has been completed to the highest standards, with hygiene as a priority.

The mill is equipped with fully automatic PLC controls, and Alapala’s latest technology - notably Smilago II, Arion and Aurora milling machines - has been employed.

Housed in an eight-storey building with many high-level technological and operational features, the mill clearly demonstrates the success of Turkish industry in the international arena.

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Rice Milling around the World; early approaches Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

A Chinese legend says that rice is the gift of animals rather than the gods. After a series of disastrous floods, all plants had been destroyed and no food was available. People survived through hunting, but it was very difficult, because animals were scarce. One day a dog ran through the fields with bunches of rice seeds hanging from its tail. The people planted the seeds, rice grew and hunger disappeared.

At the Mills Archive we have in our library numerous journals, books and catalogues, as well as many images, on rice production from all corners of the world. These range from hand winnowing to milling by modern day methods. This article concentrates on the early primitive methods, largely dependent on muscle-power, either from animals or humans. Subsequent articles will look at our coverage of the introduction of water power and the early stages of industrialisation.

One of our journals, The Miller (7 August 1882), has many articles on rice milling from different countries. A report from Burma indicates that the paddy was sown in June after the rains had fully set in, first in the higher lands where it was sown on the surface of the water, forming nurseries. After the plants had reached 18 inches they were pulled up by the roots and tied in bundles to be transplanted into fields lower down, which by this time had been ploughed ready to receive them. The transplanting took place in September and was performed by the women and children. It was hard work as it required stooping all day long in ankle deep water. One article suggests that there is no more beautiful sight in the world than the fresh emerald green of the tender young rice plants!

Once transplanting was done no further care was necessary beyond driving off the birds as the crop ripened and seeing to the water supply by opening sluices.

Occasionally, with a late or heavy monsoon, thousands of acres were sometimes submerged and the crops ruined, as happened in 1876 and 1877 when there was great suffering among the populace. The journal issue is well-illustrated, featuring a series of images of different processes from early times to some which are still used today.

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would be threshed first to remove the husk, then crushed between stones pulled round by an animal, usually donkeys or oxen, or by hand. It must have been heavy work as most illustrations shows two men, one pulling and one pushing the heavy stone round to decorticate or remove the husk.

Unmilled rice, known as paddy (Indonesia and Malaysia: padi; Philippines, palay), was usually harvested when the grains had a moisture content of around 25 percent.

In most Asian countries, where rice was almost entirely the product of small farms, harvesting was carried out

Rice winnowing by hand

Winnowing and grinding rice

Winnowing of rice in Japan

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Donkey and Chinese women husking rice at the Franciscan Missionary Union, ChanTong, China

Rice mill in India powered by oxen

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manually. A familiar sight in several Asian countries was paddy laid out to dry along roads in the sun. The drying had to be carried out quickly to avoid the formation of moulds. Harvesting is followed by threshing, either immediately or within a day or two.

The seeds of the rice plant are first milled using a rice huller to remove the chaff (the outer husks of the grain).

One illustration shows this process being done by water power using wooden stamps, a topic I’ll return to next month. At this point in the process, the product is called

Native rice huller Philippines

brown rice. The milling may be continued, removing the bran, for example, the rest of the husk and the germ, thereby creating white rice. White rice, which keeps longer, lacks some important nutrients; moreover, in a limited diet which does not supplement the rice, brown rice helps to prevent the disease beriberi.

Raw rice may be ground into flour for many uses, including making many kinds of beverages, such as amazake, horchata, rice milk, and rice wine. Rice flour does not contain gluten, so is suitable for people on a gluten-free diet.

We have many old postcards that show the various processes of rice production in Japan, China, India and the Philippines. Some of these illustrate this article, showing several of the stages in the process to produce polished rice. After initial threshing and winnowing to remove the husk, it would be passed through stones to remove impurities, and then it would be milled again to provide rice that could be used for cooking. To complete the process to obtain polished rice the grains would be put in a rotating drum with perforations to polish the seeds.

These articles only give a brief glimpse of the several million records held by the Mills Archive Trust. If you would like to know more please email me at mills@ millsarchive.org Milling and Grain - October 2015 | 9

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Improving through sharing with early warning

by Johan den Hartog, GMP+ International Weather conditions during cultivation and harvest; procedure changes in cultivation; transport or processing of (raw) feed materials; human failure or even fraud; many elements can negatively impact feed safety.

Our early warning system (EWS) teaches us that each year brings on new challenges. “Sharing information from EWS through the feed chain strengthens the management of current threats, risks and incidents and consequently contributes to safe feed”, says Johan den Hartog, Managing Director of GMP+ International.

With its recent publication of the ‘Annual Report Early Warning System 2013-2014’ GMP+ International reports 62 EWS notifications in 2013 and 74 in 2014. The numbers increased compared to the previous years, a trend that seems to continue in 2015. The notifications are dominated by mycotoxins.

This threat counted for more than 50 percent of all notifications in 2013 and one-third in 2014. In 2013 Europe was hit by a serious incident with Aflatoxine B1 in maize (harvest 2012) from the Balkan region. Less Afla-problems were reported in 2014, but more Don (Deoxynivalenol), Zea (Zearalenon) and Ergot. Rainfall during cultivation and harvest in the Balkan region and specific parts of France and Germany were the main natural causes for fungal diseases in the crops and harvest.

Non-manageable

Weather conditions are non manageable. “That’s why it is hardly surprising that feed materials are mostly involved in EWS notifications. Over 80 percent of the notifications in 2013 and 90 percent in 2014 concerned feed materials”, states Den Hartog. Compound feed, additives, premixes and former foodstuffs caused less problems to the participants of the GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance module

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(GMP+ FSA). In feed materials pesticides seriously increased in 2014 (12 notifications, in 2013 only 3). Dioxin was another problem threatening feed safety (reported seven times in 2013 and six times in 2014).

The summer of 2014 was marked with the Furazolidon incident found in soy mix, soy meal and milled grain. This was serious, the consequences significant. It demonstrated the importance of executing the utmost care in selling, purchasing and processing feed materials, once again.

Den Hartog: “For GMP+ International, the evaluation of this incident resulted in improvements in our feed safety management system. And it was a substantial input for the profound renewal of the integrity policy within GMP+ FSA which was running at that moment.”

Important role

“We keep learning from individual notifications and information from EWS-evaluations”, Den Hartog explains. GMP+ International assesses each EWS notification, to find the source and cause of the problem e.g. contamination and, if it is necessary, alerts GMP+ FSA participants about the occurrence of a contamination in the market. This prevents contaminated material spreading in the market and contributes to reduce the size of a feed safety emergency.

EWS also provides relevant information for risk assessment (at other certified companies) or contributes to future prevention. Companies that are involved with the EWS notification, have to inform their suppliers and customers, block unsafe batches, (also) investigate the cause and source of the contamination and take corrective measures.

Publication of EWS warnings helps other individual companies to understand the occurrence of a concrete unsafe feed event in the market. So they can increase alertness regarding this specific risk and adjust their risk management.

Den Hartog concludes: “It will make companies and the feed sector as a whole more resilient to cope with everyday challenges to deliver safe feed for safe food.”

GMP+ International recently issued its ‘Annual Report Early Warning System 2013-2014’. GMP+ FSA certified companies are obliged to report unsafe situations or feed materials posing a threat to feed safety.

Additionally, raised awareness of arising and known threats and risks will contribute to a more efficient exchange of information as well. So EWS gains an important role in feed safety management systems like GMP+ FSA, next to the three other main components: normative references, assurance and corrective action tools and the rules of certification.

Mathews Company awarded grant from Propane Education and Research Council (PERC)

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athews Company, a global manufacturer of grain dryers, has been awarded a product development grant for the redesign of its Legacy Series grain dryer by the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC).

The Council works diligently to support research and development of innovative, propane-powered technology that reduces emissions and saves money for end-users. The project encompasses a complete redesign of the Legacy Series profilestyle dryer.

According to company president Joseph Shulfer, the initial commercialisation of this product took place more than 30 years ago.

“The Legacy Series product line has always been a reliable workhorse for the company, with very minimal updates over the years. However, the product is in need of a revamp to better align its features and operation with the technological advancements

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The proposed solution is to take the experience and knowledge that Mathews Company has acquired over the past five years redesigning two of its other products, and apply those principles to this project.

“The end result will be a product that offers producers and commercial grain facility operators something that does not exist at this time: a ‘profile’ style dryer, but with the advantages, features and overall operational efficiencies associated with a tower-style dryer,” says Mr Shulfer.

Mr Shulfer believes that despite the low equipment sales in agriculture right now, timing is excellent for this project.

“Low commodity prices are driving farmers, especially those that lease land, to find savings where they can to help their bottom line. Mathews Company is stepping up to offer products with energy efficient technology that lower operational input costs.

“The fact that the majority of grain producers have established operations with reliance on Propane and that the new profile dryer won’t require new wet holding storage or bucket elevators required of tower dryers, will be enticing to end-users looking for ways to save costs,” says Mr Shulfer.

Cinch Munson, PERC’s Director of

Eberhard Paech-Award 2016 announced -Creativity for bread

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or the 16th time the Eberhard Paech-Award will be awarded in 2016. Only once every three years this significant price of the baking industry will be awarded for outstanding work in the development of technology, the reputation and the presentation of the bread. The next award ceremony will be held in Berlin in October next year.

The Eberhard Paech-Award was awarded in 1971 for the first time. Since then, 25 outstanding personalities of the baking industry have received this award.

The award criteria are outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of:

• Science, Research and Education • Technology of bread and bakery products production • Product development and quality improvement • Bread in your nutrition • Bread marketing • Bread and bakery in the performing arts The Eberhard Paech-Award is worth €10,000.00, it will be awarded as a whole or in two equal parts. The price is always awarded to natural persons, irrespective of their nationality. Also research or working groups will be awarded, except business enterprises.

The initiator of the award is

Mathews Company’s 2011 Legacy 1 model grain dryer

Agriculture Business Development agrees.

“Mathews Company and PERC share a common goal of helping ag operations cut their operating costs by using high-efficiency grain dryers that run on clean, American propane.”

Mathews Company plans to shorten its normal product development lifecycle in order to bring the new dryer into prototype testing in 2016.

“We want to be aggressive in bringing this new offering to market, however, we will do our due diligence with in-field testing to make sure it performs as expected,” says Mr Shulfer.

“We fully anticipate that the new dryer will make an economic case for on-farm grain drying stronger by bringing elements of tower dryer technology to the profile-style dryer, thus making it more efficient with lower costs to operate.”

Eberhard Paech (1910 - 2000), whose life goal was to put his ideas into creating high quality bread. For him, bread was the most important staple food, a living thing, an essential part of everyday life and culture. His creativity, his pioneering spirit and his ability to connect overall social developments with the practicalities of the industry, and his ability to link ideas of many together, have made him one of the pioneers and ambassadors of producing good bread.

In 2000 the founder handed over the foundation to the “Vereinigung Der Backbranche e.V.” A jury consisting of practitioners, academics and business representatives throughout the baking industry will evaluate applications and proposals.

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European Parliament wants animal cloning ban extended to offspring and imports

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he European Parliament (EP) beefed up the Commission’s initial proposal to ban animal cloning to include the cloning of all farm animals, their descendants and products derived from them, including imports into the EU, in a vote on 8 September.

“The technique of cloning is not fully mature, and in fact, no further progress has been made with it. The mortality rate remains equally high.

Many of the animals that are born alive die in the first few weeks, and they die painfully. Should we allow that?” said the environment committee co-rapporteur, Renate Sommer (EPP, DE).

The legislative report was adopted by 529 votes to 120, with 57 abstentions.

“Up to now, we have been able to import reproductive material from third countries. We are washing our hands letting others do the dirty work.

We want to ban comprehensively.

Not just the use of cloning techniques but the imports of reproductive material, clones and their descendants.

Traceability is possible. There are pedigree books, breeding books, stock books available. I’d like to ask the European Commission to rethink this whole thing. Sometimes, politics have to set the limits,” said Ms Sommer.

“We need to take into account the impact on animal health, but also on human health,” said the agriculture committee co-rapporteur, Giulia Moi (EFDD, IT).

“This report sends the message

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to our trade partners that we are not willing to put our own health, our families’ health, and future generations’ health at stake using products of dubious quality of this nature,” she said.

“Our farmers are currently faced with major competitive pressure from Asia particularly, due to certain practices, including cloning. But Europe is based on values and that includes quality. We want to be sure that we don’t go down a path from which there is no return,” she added.

While animal welfare would be respected for the descendants of cloned animals born by means of conventional sexual reproduction, the high mortality rates at all development stages of cloning their progenitor raise significant animal welfare and ethical concerns, says Parliament. It therefore extended the ban to cover the germinal products of animal clones, descendants of animal clones and products derived from them.

The ban should also cover animals which are already derived from clones in certain third countries, says the EP. It says imports into the EU should only be allowed if the import certificates show that animals are not animal clones or their descendants.

The ban should also apply to imports of animal germinal products and food and feed of animal origin.

High mortality rates and abnormalities

The EP points to findings by the

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) from 2008 that the health and welfare of clones are adversely affected, often severely and with a fatal outcome. The resulting low efficiency rates in cloning (6 to 15 percent for bovine and 6 percent for porcine species) make it necessary to implant embryo clones into several dams to obtain one cloned animal.

Furthermore, clone abnormalities and unusually large offspring result in difficult births and neonatal deaths.

Public opposition to cloning

MEPs also refer to consumer research findings indicating that a majority of EU citizens strongly oppose the consumption of food from animal clones or from their descendants and that a majority also disapprove of the use of cloning for farming purposes, on animal welfare and general ethical grounds.

The amended text converts the legal act into a regulation, which has to be applied directly in all member states, rather than a directive, which would require further national legislation.

Parliament also extended the ban’s scope to cover all species of animals kept and reproduced for farming purposes and not only bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine species as proposed by the Commission.

Next steps

The co-rapporteurs will now start negotiations with the Council of the EU on the final shape of the law.

Chinese and Irish dairy insights shared at unique educational initiative led

by Alltech

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restigious members of the Chinese dairy industry met with leading figures in Irish agriculture on September 1, 2015 at Alltech’s European headquarters in County Meath. The meeting was designed to encourage closer collaboration between China and Ireland, particularly with regard to their dairy industries.

For the past several weeks, students from the China Agricultural University, Beijing, interned Officials and students from China Agriculture University, representatives on Irish dairy farms to gain experience with from Keypak Group, DongYing Austasia Modern Dairy Farm, Tianjin Jia Ireland’s unique grass-based dairy system, which Made Livestock and staff from Alltech at its European Headquarters and Bioscience Centre in Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland stands in contrast to the Chinese housed method.

With a growing world population set to hit nine billion by 2050, agricultural production will need to increase by 70 percent to meet the growing demand for food.

“Exciting opportunities are available for the Irish dairy industry in China,” said Kevin Tuck, managing director at Alltech Ireland.

“While Chinese milk output has increased exponentially over the years, it will never be in a position to meet its population’s growing demand for dairy. Ireland is in a unique position to share its unfair advantage with the Chinese. By unfair advantage, I refer to our production surplus and proven commitment to sustainability with Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme.”

China Agriculture University is the leading agricultural educational institution in China.

From left to right: Alltech’s Professor Maurice Boland discusses recent developments within the Chinese dairy industry with Professor Li Shengli, Professor Li Shengli, the chief scientist for the China Agricultural University and Dr Mark Lyons, Alltech vice president, Chinese dairy industry, concentrates on nutrition corporate affairs and genetics. This unique visit was his first time on Irish soil.

“My experience in Ireland has been amazing, and I set out in Food Wise 2025. am impressed with the passion Ireland possesses for it “More Irish dairy product was exported to China in the agriculture,” Professor Li said. first six months of this year compared with 2014,” said Mr “My aim is to establish scientific and technology Gleeson. relationships with the Irish beef and dairy industry. Seeing “Three of the world’s leading infant formula is believing, as we say in China; now that I have been to manufacturers are located here in Ireland, which proves Ireland, I believe!” the confidence they have with Irish dairy. We continue Professor Li addressed the current situation for the to make significant progress with market access to China Chinese dairy industry and its continuing development. for Ireland’s agricultural food and drink products. Adding “The 2008 melamine scandal has resulted in slow value through research and development will insulate the increases in dairy production in China and an obsession for industry from global market volatilities.” safety. An important development for the industry has been Attendees concurred that agricultural science must rise the increase in large-scale dairy farms, (each) with more to the global challenges the industry faces. Alltech’s Dr than 100 head of cattle, leading to 90 percent of Chinese Richard Murphy highlighted the company’s commitment raw milk now produced with a mechanised system. It is to this task, noting that Alltech has established 23 research very important for milk to be affordable in China. While alliances with leading universities and institutions around Chinese consumption of dairy products is very low the world, including eight in China. Alltech have a compared with Europe, I predict this will increase with dedicated team of 90 scientists around the globe working reform of the one-child family policy.” in three bioscience centres, one of them located in Brendan Gleeson, Ireland’s deputy secretary general Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland. for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, The importance of the visit by the Chinese delegation addressed Ireland’s advantages, including its large food was widely recognised by attendees, many of who production surplus, score of zero in terms of water stress expressed hope that they will bring Ireland’s message of as measured by the FAO and commitment to food safety as sustainable agriculture home to China.

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Milling News A Flour World Museum story No. 3

Growing economies in developing regions

Finale in the mill “Thank God! There’ll be no more mischief!” After seven nasty pranks, tricksters Max and Moritz meet their end in a mill. Author Wilhelm Busch set the final scene of his story there because of his youthful friendship with a miller’s son, Erich Bachmann, whose home offered a wealth of inspiration for Busch. Thoroughly conversant with milling processes, in his most famous illustrated story he has the two mischievous boys end up getting ground into coarse flour. The stories with Widow Bolte, Tailor Böck, Teacher Lämpel, Uncle Fritz, Master Baker, Farmer Mecke and Master Miller were a huge success in Busch’s lifetime, and were translated into ten languages soon after they were published. Today Max and Moritz is one of the best-known works of German children’s literature, and has been translated into more than 280 languages.

The Mühlenchemie FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg is an expression of our company culture and the responsibility we feel towards the miller and his flour, as one of the most important staple foods. The museum is a journey through the millennia, illuminating the development and importance of flour. It is the only one of its kind in the world. www.flourworld.de

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Tom Blacker, International Milling Directory I write this month’s column ahead of important meetings, exhibitions and conferences taking place throughout October. This month has the Annual General Meeting of London and South East Milling Society (LSEMS), IAOM South East Asia meeting, IAOM Middle East and Africa meeting and also JTIC 2015, taking place in Paris. These events will take the directory around the world.

I am looking forward to the meetings, discussions, developments and showcasing of milling technology. My colleagues Roger Gilbert and Tuti Tan shall be attending IAOM South East Asia. This is an important meeting in Jakarta and it’s an exciting time for the growing economies in those developing regions and markets.

The vast amount of flour-based food eaten in Asian cuisine, from buns to roti bread involves certain challenges for the industry in the milling processes whether this is milling Atta flour or milling flour with lower gluten levels. I expect to see a lot of the industry at these various international meetings too, so I wish you safe travels and the best of success. I look forward to meeting with clients and friends alike across the globe.

Another thing I must mention is that the newly published 2016 Media Guide for this magazine now includes print and online circulation statistics, information on industry sectors and advertising details. There are print copies soon to be sent to all our networks so do look out for yours arriving in the post over the next few weeks.

You will also note a slight change in name regarding the International Milling Directory, updated for 2016; we have chosen the new title of ‘The International Milling and Grain Directory’.

This is to reflect its reach across the grain handling and storage sectors and in closer terms with the feed, flour and rice milling industry. Additionally, it cements ties with the brand association to this magazine.

Over the years, the directory and magazine have grown and been distributed together but their functions and purposes remain different. As an annual print publication, it is a resource for all to keep on the shelf throughout the year, compared to the regular monthly magazine with up-to-date news and features.

Finally, I will finish on a thank you to all, because this month is the first anniversary of the website. Your co-operation is valued and I hope that it continues for many more years to come.

Tom Blacker Directory Coordinator

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Legumex Walker announces sale of Special crops division to The Scoular Company

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egumex Walker Inc have announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with The Scoular Company pursuant to which Scoular has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of LWI’s Special Crops Division for CAD$94 million plus the amount of net working capital at closing, on a cash free debt free basis, paid in cash.

The sale represents a CAD$174.6 million transaction value for LWI, based on LWI’s working capital as at June 30, 2015. The actual purchase price and transaction value are subject to working capital and other adjustments in accordance with the Agreement (all figures are in Canadian dollars).

Scoular is a leading US-based agricultural marketing company that manages supply chain risk for global suppliers and end-users of grains, oilseeds, and other feed and food ingredients.

As announced previously, the Special

Committee of the Board of LWI oversaw an extensive process starting in March 2015 and considered a number of alternatives to maximise shareholder value.

As a result of the Strategic Review, and in light of the challenges facing the Company, the Special Committee unanimously determined that a sale of the Special Crops Division was most likely to maximise shareholder value.

“Following careful review of the transaction by the Special Committee in consultation with our external financial and legal advisors, we believe this transaction represents excellent value and is in the best interests of LWI shareholders,” said Bruce Scherr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Legumex Walker Inc. “This is a highly strategic addition to our existing global feed and food ingredient merchandising business and US-based grain-handling network,” said Bob Ludington, Scoular’s Chief

Operating Officer. “The transaction will significantly increase our product and geographic footprint, which in turn will increase our ability to serve new and existing customers worldwide.

We expect to operate Scoular Special Crops much like LWI operates the business today, but with the financial capacity to expand operations, product lines, and distribution channels. As a result, we will be able to provide additional value to Canadian producers and pursue opportunities to serve a global customer base seeking specialty products associated with healthy food trends.”

“The goal for our Special Crops Division was to bring together several exceptional businesses in our industry, diversify across our product offerings, growing regions and customers, and create an exceptional platform that would thrive as it grew,” said Joel Horn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Legumex Walker Inc. “Coming off a record year for Special Crops, we are proud that an organisation of the caliber of Scoular recognises the value that we have created.”

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The Pelletier Column

How Nature may reshape food value chains – part two

by Christophe Pelletier It is not the first time that our natural environment changes.

Finding successful solutions to deal with it really are about our ability to adapt and to preserve our future, as it has been the case in the past. The challenges may be of a magnitude like never before, but so are our knowledge, our technical abilities and the tools present and future.

From an agricultural point of view, adapting to a new environment is about finding the type of production that thrives under new conditions. It may mean different areas of production for some species. In North America, there is already a shift for corn. Iowa has traditionally the main grower, but the corn production area is now expanding north. Minnesota is now producing more corn than in the past and so are the Canadian Prairies. Similarly, the production area for soybean is shifting north. Minnesota is growing an increasing volume of soybean and even in the province of Manitoba in Canada, soybean production attempts have been carried out since a few years.

It is the result of better production conditions and the development of new varieties that can adapt to new less favorable climatic conditions. Because of the local supply for soybean, the development of aquaculture with local soybean products for fish feed is now considered a longterm possibility in Minnesota among others. In Europe, corn production regions also saw a shift to the north for corn during the 1970-80s thanks to the development of new varieties, which largely contributed to the growth of dairy production in these new areas through the widespread use of corn silage.

For the future, there is no doubt that genetics will contribute again to ensure food security. There is currently a lot of work done to develop varieties that can withstand droughts, floods or soil salinity. The ability to know the complete genome of species, to spot genes through gene markers, to be able to create new varieties that are less sensitive to diseases help speed up the development of crops that can thrive under future conditions. The recent developments in synthetic biology are quite interesting.

Research conducted at the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) on the development of rice varieties that can have a higher photosynthesis efficiency and thus higher yields could open new perspective for a more productive and more sustainable production.

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of effective solutions as well. In particular the rise of precision agriculture is certainly quite promising. The ability to deliver to the crops exactly what they need when they need it at the right time and at the right place in the right quantity will help reduce the environmental impact of agriculture while offering the possibility of delivering higher yields.

Similarly, in animal production, there still is room to improve feed efficiency. It can happen through further genetic improvement, the use of more efficient feed ingredients and feed composition and through better farm management. The latter is definitely an essential facet of a better future for food production. Better and updated skills for food producers will help being more efficient, more productive and more sustainable at the same time.

An area that is often forgotten when it comes to the future of food is the functioning of markets. If demand for certain products, and in particular animal products, increases faster than supply, price will go up and there will differential increases between the different types of products. As most consumers, unlike what marketers sometimes tend to make believe, still choose what they eat depending on the price of foods, there will be shifts. Some productions will thrive while others will struggle.

As prices still will be an essential driver of the location of the various vegetal and animal productions, markets and environmental constraints will increasingly have a joint effect. In the future, the dominant economic model of producing where it is the cheapest to produce will evolve. As the pressure on water supplies, soil conditions and pollution issues will keep increasing; the model will include an increasing share of negative externalities. They are the long-term costs that are never factored in the production costs but that will affect future production economics. Externalities are the hidden side of sustainability and they will determine the future map of agriculture, as it will no longer be possible to ignore them. Choices will have to be made between short-term financial performance and the long-term ability of various regions to be able to produce, and to keep producing, the volumes and the quality specifications that are needed by the different food markets of the future.

Christophe Pelletier is a food and agriculture strategist and futurist from Canada. He works internationally. He has published two books on feeding the world’s growing population. His blog is called “The Food Futurist”.

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Satake's optical sorter demonstrates great success amid the coffee boom in Taiwan

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aiwan is in the midst of a coffee boom. In order to meet the desire for high quality coffee, the number of coffee companies wanting to install optical sorters is on the rise.

Annual consumption of coffee beans per head in Taiwan increased by 1.73 times from 0.55kg in 2004 to 0.95kg in 2013 (FAO). Cafes continue to open one after another in the capital Taipei in response to this coffee explosion.

Coffee traders who own coffee houses import premium coffee beans in order to serve such specialty coffees to their customers. In order to ensure product quality they have turned to using optical sorters.

There are two applications for coffee bean sorting: for green coffee beans and for roasted coffee beans.

Green coffee beans are mainly sorted to remove insect-damaged beans and foreign materials such as stones.

Roasted coffee beans are sorted to remove any non-uniformly roasted beans. By sorting coffee beans in such a manner using optical sorters, coffee-houses can serve coffee that

is both safe and of high quality whilst customers can relax and enjoy coffee that is rich in aroma and taste.

The Satake Pika-sen α (alpha) small-scale optical sorter has a rated capacity of one ton per hour. It is increasingly being employed by coffee traders and coffee houses, because the volumes traded of specialty coffee beans are much smaller than that of middle-level coffee beans.

The Pika-sen α is highly regarded

by the industry for various reasons confidence in its Japanese reliability, its user-friendliness and also its affordability.

More and more coffee-houses are installing a Pika-sen α (alpha) in their cafes. Consumers in Taiwan are particularly aware of food safety.

Sorting the coffee beans on the spot, in front of customers in the cafe helps create a favourable impression that their coffee is certain to be both safe and high in quality.

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Nutreco renames animal nutrition research division and commits to doubling R&D investment

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utreco announces that its global animal nutrition research centres will be renamed to Trouw Nutrition R&D. This change is part of the strengthening of its global animal nutrition activities under one brand.

Trouw Nutrition R&D encompasses five research centres operating in The Netherlands, Spain and Canada.

Nutreco will also double its investment in R&D and innovation over the next few years.

With production facilities in 25 countries and sales in over 90 countries, Trouw Nutrition is Nutreco’s global animal nutrition brand. The renaming of its R&D centres is part of Nutreco’s objective to accelerate innovation in closer contact with customers and will help in bringing technology faster to the market.

“Our R&D strategy remains unchanged and our innovative

MFS/York/Stormor Launches New Website

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FS/York/Stormor, a leading world-wide manufacturer of grain storage and handling equipment, has announced the launch of their new website, www.mfsyork. com. The new site has been designed to offer the ultimate user-friendly experience with intuitive navigation and functionality. It provides visitors access to detailed information on both the company and their full portfolio of on-farm and commercial ag products.

According to MFS/York/Stormor President Dan Faltin, “ The new

Milling News strength is focused on three areas: Life Start, Health and Welfare and Feed Efficiency,” says Leo den Hartog, Director Trouw Nutrition R&D. “We believe that technological advancements in animal nutrition must play a central role in improving the environmental footprint of the food industry as a whole and in feeding a growing world population.”

To underline the importance of technological advancements, both from a customer and sustainability perspective, Nutreco has committed itself to double its investment in R&D and innovation both in animal nutrition and fish feed over the next years.

Norway and has additional research units in Italy, Spain, China and Japan.

Additionally, Nutreco has a Food Research Centre in Spain. There is an ongoing interchange of ideas and knowledge between the research centres to capture synergies.

Global research network

Trouw Nutrition has three research centres located in The Netherlands: the Ingredient Research Centre, the Ruminant Research Centre and the Swine Research Centre. The Poultry Research Centre is located in Spain, and Agresearch in Canada is one of the largest animal R&D facilities in North America focusing on dairy, swine and poultry.

Nutreco’s fish feed business operates under the brand name Skretting. Its research activities are clustered in the Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC). Skretting ARC is based in

The Trouw Nutrition Research and Development Centres encompass a broad range of scientific disciplines, including nutritionists, veterinarians, animal physiologists, molecular biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, biochemist and technical engineers.

Product registration and IP management are also covered. Inhouse research by over 100 experts is complemented by more than 50 long-term research collaborations with leading universities, research institutes and other organisations.

Trouw Nutrition R&D has also established an exclusive research partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre (MAFIC) of China. To further validate and test research results in practice, it has field research farms in many key markets, including China, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands.

site and the enhancements were all designed with our customers and visitors in mind. Simplified site navigation, search capabilities and constantly updated product information and specifications have been developed to make it fast and easy for visitors to find the product or information they need.”

Other website features include: An easy-to-use “Find My Dealer” function that allows visitors to locate the MFS/York/Stormor dealer(s) nearest them based on proximity and desired product Video Vault page where visitors can view all company videos, as well as videos from other Global Industry divisions A highly unique “Dare To Compare”

section where visitors can view and assess MFS/York/Stormor products and components side-by side with competitive products News and Events sections including schedules of upcoming tradeshow participation around the world and the latest updates on innovative new products “The development and creation of the new MFS/York/Stormor website has been in the works for quite a while,” Faltin continued. “We felt the investment in time was a small price to pay in order to launch a site that provides our dealers and customers with quick and easy access to all of the information and materials they need to determine the best solutions for their grain storage and handling needs.”

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The GM debate and Breed Preservation

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG I feel that I am a very privileged person travelling a lot and seeing our agricultural industry from many perspectives, from business farming through to family farming and subsistence farming; all of which play a very important role in our ability to feed the world and all of which need different levels of input.

This week the GM argument has come to the fore again. I am no scientific expert but I do wish those who publish views on this matter would understand the need to continually develop technologies to improve production and increase outputs and maintain farmers livelihoods, basing their arguments on proven science rather than opinions that arguably do not stand up to modern scientific scrutiny.

As a livestock breeder and farmer in the UK and with farming interests in Australia, I would like to ask people if they have ever stopped to consider that without continued crop and stock development over the ages, successfully achieved over a very long time our world would be very short of food. Now thanks to modern science we are able to develop breeds much more quickly and have them commercialised for the benefit of all.

Farmers over the centuries have been very good at adopting science and innovations to improve both their production and incomes - a vital necessity given that worldwide consumers want cheap food. One has to wonder where we would be if all of our farmers were pushed out of business if they could not adapt new methods of production.

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doing this we have to bear in mind the long- term effects that short term decisions have on our planet. Look at the reduction in the rain forests using better technology do we need to reduce these further?

Let us rather concentrate our efforts on getting 100 percent of the crops and livestock produced to the consumer.

Technology correctly used along with education both at farm level and through the distribution chain should be able to make this aim a possibility.

This week I am visiting one of the world’s foremost farming countries, the USA to attend World Dairy Expo where some of the best dairy producing animals are on show but, they are dominated by the Holstein Breed understandably as it can produce more milk than any other breed.

But I make a plea to worldwide governments to preserve intact other breeds (preserving their breed integrity) that cannot compete with milk yields. These will keep a genetic diversity available to our industry. I say Governments should be involved because other breeds cannot necessarily produce the yield of milk and income that the properly managed Holstein can. The argument being why should an individual farmer beer the cost of keeping other breeds and genetics available?

Cattle, sheep, pigs and goats worldwide are not an endangered species like the panda or tiger but, we have many indigenous breeds of livestock within species that are and we have already permanently lost breeds.

There needs to be a concerted effort to maintain all of our breeds both animal and plant that may not now be commercial but which could possibly contain genes that will be needed in the future @AgrictecExports

ADM Opens Tech Centre in Erlanger, Kentucky. Archer Daniels Midland Company has announced the opening of its new information technology and support center, which is located on the same campus as ADM’s WILD Flavors offices in Erlanger, Kentucky. The New facility will eventually create up to 200 jobs in the region.

ConAgra Foods Announces $300 Million Efficiency Plan, Establishes Chicago Headquarters.

ConAgra Foods have announced restructuring plans to improve profitability, advance its growth agenda and unlock shareholder value. ConAgra Foods expects to realise at least $300 million of efficiency benefits within the next three years through a combination of reductions in SG&A and enhancements to trade spend processes and tools.

Glencore has taken proactive steps to position the company to withstand current commodity market conditions. The business remains operationally and financially robust with positive cash flow, good liquidity and absolutely no solvency issues. In the official release, the company state, “we are getting on and delivering a suite of measures to reduce our debt levels by up to US$10.2 billion. Glencore has no debt covenants and continues to retain strong lines of credit and secure access to funding thanks to long term relationships we have with the banks. We remain focused on running efficient, low cost and safe operations”.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Mühlenchemie

Mühlenchemie – we never sleep.

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So when the staff of our facility in Wujiang, near Shanghai, make their way home at the end of the day, work has already started in Mexico City – and of course no­one turns the light off before an individual solution has been found for each of our customers.

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Biomin inaugurates new global headquarters in Austria

New Biomin headquarters: Erber Group Campus in Getzersdorf, AustriaBIOMIN has just opened its new global headquarters in Getzersdorf, Austria

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ocated sixty kilometres west of Vienna in the Erber Group campus, the 11 000 square metre building sets new standards for staff friendliness and energy efficiency. It is the first platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building ever constructed in Austria - a testament to how the firm values employees’ wellbeing and respect for the environment.

The bright, spacious offices are equipped with ergonomic height adjustable desks, biodynamic light sources, plenty of natural light and a geothermal-powered cooling system.

Situated on 20 hectares including wooded areas and a recreation area with running track and swimming ponds, the

From left to right: Pulling on one string University Professor Dr Rudolf Krska, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling, Governor of Lower Austria Erwin Pröll, Erber Group Founders and co-owners Margarete Erber and Dr hc Erich Erber (Photo: Erber AG/APA-Fotoservice/Bollwein)

site offers room for further planned building expansions.

The company had outgrown its former headquarters in Herzogenberg, Austria five kilometers away and relocated earlier this year.

Biomin has continued to see double-digit sales growth supported by geographic expansion and recent product line successes with Digestarom®, a phytogenic feed additive, PoultryStar®, a multi-species probiotic for poultry, and the recent launch of the fifth generation of Mycofix® for mycotoxin deactivation.

The opening ceremony took place on August 28, 2015, with Austrian Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling and Governor of Lower Austria Erwin Pröll in attendance.

Biomin founder and President of Erber AG, Erich Erber explained, “From the beginning my goal was to find a new way to promote animal health that privileges natural and innovative solutions that benefit animals, producers and the environment.”

Longstanding cooperation with leading researchers at the Inter-University Department of Agrobiotechnology (IFA) in Tulln and other research institutions worldwide have helped Biomin to become a global champion in mycotoxin deactivation and gut performance management.

Biomin opens new Panama plant

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iomin has further expanded its global production network with the opening of a production plant in Panama. The inauguration marks the latest milestone in the firm’s local presence that stretches back nearly two decades.

The new plant will allow for growth and quicker delivery to Biomin distributors and customers in new and existing markets throughout the Americas.

The plant produces Mycofix®, an innovative mycotoxin deactivating feed additive, with plans to produce

PoultryStar®, a multi-species probiotic for poultry, in the future.

The site was planned with a longterm perspective and an expectation of growth in mind. It has an installed production capacity of 3120 tons per year based on one packaging station and a single shift. Its starting production goal is 6240 tons per year with two shifts. Maximum production capacity can reach 12,480 tons per year with the addition of a second packaging station.

On August 20, 2015 Christian Seiwald, Chairman of Erber AG,

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and Esteban Giron, Vice Minister of Agricultural Development joined in the cutting of the ribbon inaugurating the plant in Panama alongside Biomin Managing Director, Marcelo Ribeiro, marking a momentous occasion for the company and the region.

“A strong, longstanding commitment to scientific research has allowed Biomin to deliver leading products in an everincreasing number of markets across the globe,” commented Mr Seiwald.

Also in attendance were Ruben Beltran, Managing Director of Biomin USA along with 50 invited guests including key distributors and customers from throughout the region.

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Japanese millers trade team visit will help support future market share

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n 2016, the US Wheat Associates (USW) will mark 60 years with a marketing office in Japan, so it comes as no surprise that in marketing year 2014/15, Japan was the single largest buyer of wheat from the United States.

In the same year, Japan was also the biggest market for US hard red spring (HRS) and soft white (SW) wheat. To learn more about the high quality wheat to which their customers have become accustomed over the past 60 years, a team of mid-level managers from Japanese flour mills will visit Oregon, Idaho and Montana on September 20 to 26, 2015.

Millers on this team are executives from milling companies representing Japan’s National Cooperative of Millers. The first trade team from this group of millers visited the United States in 2014. USW collaborated with the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee, Oregon Wheat Commission and Idaho Wheat Commission to organise and host this year’s visit.

“These mid-level managers will eventually ascend to senior management positions and hopefully take with them an understanding that the United States produces the highest quality wheat for Japan,” said Steve Wirsching, USW vice president and director of the West Coast Office in Portland, Oregon.

“This trade team visit creates an opportunity for us to increase their positive view of US wheat and ensure we can continue to compete in Japan in the future.”

This trade team will bring individuals involved in milling, quality control and marketing to the United States to learn more about the effective wheat export supply chain and give them the opportunity to discuss logistical and quality assurance systems with the people who manage the US wheat supply chain.

The milling managers will begin their trip in Portland, hosted by the USW West Coast Office, where they will be briefed by the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) and Wheat Marketing Centre. While in Oregon, the team will also tour the Columbia Grains export terminal and visit OMIC USA. Continuing their trip in Boise, Idaho, the team will meet with Scoular Grain and the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, and will tour the Swan Falls Dam and lock system on the Snake River.

To complete their tour of the Pacific Northwest, the team will travel to Montana to tour shuttle train loading facilities operated by Gavilon Grain in Chester and United Grain in Moccasin. Other stops include the Central Ag Research Centre near Moccasin and Myllymaki Farms outside of Livingston. Throughout their trip the team will have the opportunity to hear from each of the sponsoring state wheat commissions.

United States-Japan Partnership in Wheat

“The Japanese domestic milling and baking industries are highly advanced and fully automated, and demand consistent, good quality US wheat. It is crucial to provide appropriate information on US wheat to the Japanese

wheat industry because they must address concerns from an increasingly sensitive consumer base on issues such as pesticides, allergens and biotech products. USW will continue with trade servicing for Japanese customers to help them gain a deeper understanding of the true value of the US wheat system from farm to table.”

USW 2014/15 Unified Export Strategy

In 1949, the Oregon Wheat Growers League (OWGL) organised a trade delegation to investigate opportunities for

expanding US wheat sales to Japan. That trip resulted in a variety of marketing and education activities, including a “Kitchens on Wheels” school lunch program that promoted wheat foods to Japanese consumers in rural areas.

Today, those efforts continue to pay off with a wellestablished market for US wheat. Japan has purchased significantly more US wheat than any other country, including more than 3.5 million metric tons (MMT) on average the last five years. Japan issues consistent, large, bi-monthly tenders for US western white, a sub-class of SW, HRS and hard red winter (HRW) wheat classes.

Sophisticated Japanese flour mills and their customers demand very high standards of cleanliness and uniformity in addition to the variety of wheat classes to make the wide range of flour products for hundreds of different wheat food products - and US wheat producers consistently meet those standards.

USW’s efforts in Japan and through trade team visits to the United States focus on providing up-to-date market information and collaborating with Japanese industry groups. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry (MAFF) carries out all wheat purchase in Japan and then sells the wheat to Japanese flour mills. The Japanese grain trade acts as intermediaries between MAFF and overseas sellers, and OMIC, Ltd., in Portland, OR, provides testing and inspection services.

The trust between USW and the Japanese industry allows for open dialogue between the two countries, to foster a mutually beneficial, long-term trading relationship.

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GEAPS/K-State offer two operations courses in November GEAPS 501: Management Basics for Grain Facility Supervisors.

This course will provide an extensive overview of the main duties, responsibilities and expectations of grain operations supervisors and managers. It will cover essential duties, topics and roles supervisors and managers need to understand, and why they are important.

GEAPS 552: Materials Handling III This course aims to introduce students to key information about powered-transmission design; system design and other affiliated systems used to move and store grain and related commodities.

While not required, it is recommended that participants complete

GEAP 550: Materials Handling I and GEAPS 551: Materials Handling II before taking this course.

GEAPS 501 is one of six courses required to earn the Credential in Grain Operations Management (CGOM). The CGOM is the first formal credential in the grain industry, and can be augmented with Specialist Credentials in Grain Quality Management, Grain Handling Equipment Management and Property and Casualty Risk Management. Completion of GEAPS 552 counts towards the Specialist Credential in Grain Handling Equipment Management.

Anyone who completes the CGOM and all three specialist credentials earns the Master Credential in Grain Operations Management (MCGOM), the highest certification available in the industry.

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MPAS Seginus B端hler has expanded its plansifter series with a top-performer, the MPAS Seginus.

PRODUCT FOCUS OCTOBER 2015 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will be saving you time and money in the milling process.

The Seginus sifts and sorts grist and flour-type products in wheat, rye, corn and durum wheat mills. In addition, it sorts coarsely-ground product or free-flowing granulate reliably. With its new drive system, the Seginus is a true innovation with many options for use: as the little brother of the square plansifter Sirius MPAK or as a replacement for the small plansifters MPAR and MPAQ in existing plants or for use in new plants in the control sifting.

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DA 7440 process NIR sensor The DA 7440 is a new type of process NIR sensor for over-belt placement. It uses advanced diode array technology to measure accurately even as recipes, ingredients or process conditions change.

Diode array is an established, advanced NIR technology, which measures accurately without re-calibrations even as raw materials or process conditions change. The Diode Array instrument collects all wavelengths simultaneously averaging multiple, full spectrum readings every second. By doing so it provides accurate measurement of complex parameters including moisture/oven volatiles, fat, nicotine, sugars, seasonings and many more.

This enables processors to optimise moisture content, reduce scrap, improve quality and decrease time for product changeovers - all without laborious sampling and reference method testing.

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NaOClean - for all your hygiene needs NaOClean manufacture disinfecting systems such as disinfectant generators for the processing of fish, meat, vegetables and other foods. Their products are also used in the agricultural sector.

Many companies use their systems because they are operator friendly with no toxic or harmful materials involved.

Established in the early 1980s, NaOClean has developed a system that generates sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) from a small amount of salt (NaCl).

The sodium hypochlorite produced in this way has an antibacterial action about three times more effective than other chemicals. It is also a very effective odour-remover, with no harmful by-products or side effects. It has very different antibacterial and odour-removal properties from chemical NaOCl.

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M48 Bucket Elevator MFS/York/Stormor, a division of Global Industries, Inc, announced that York has recently released an innovative bolt-together M48 bucket elevator, work platform and distributor platform design.

The new M48 bucket elevator design offers capacity ranges from: 10,000 bushels/hour (255 metric tons/ hour) to 30,000 bushels/hour (762 metric tons/hour).

The new design consolidates three previous head profiles into one optimised design that not only minimises wear but significantly improves flow.

The bucket elevator head now comes equipped with a convenient three piece hood for easier access and serviceability, while the expanded work and distributor platforms allow ample room for servicing.

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With this fully integrated all-round process, just one PesaMill™ can replace as many as twenty traditional Chakki mills – with a whole load of further advantages: higher yield, reduced energy consumption and the possibility of producing several types of flour qualities in the same plant.

Traditional/Authentic Atta flour

Bühler’s Atta process with PesaMill™ Maximum food safety

The use of high-compression steel rolls rather than stones for milling means that hygiene standards are very much higher. Contamination by stone abrasion or chemicals becomes a thing of the past.

Lower energy consumption

Thanks to the effective, integrated and energy-efficient process technology, by using one PesaMill™ rather than a lot of isolated traditional stone mills saves up to 10 percent of the energy costs.

The innovative circulation system with the PesaMill™ ensures the production of authentic Atta flour. Taste and mouth feeling are identical with Atta flour produced on traditional Chakki stone mills.

Reduced operating costs

Higher yield

Protected investments

Greater flexibility in production

The advantages of the Atta process with PesaMill™

The extraction rate of the new Atta solution can be adjusted to the market requirements, typically between 93 percent and 97 percent. Compared with traditional stone mills, the PesaMill™ delivers a plus of one percent to two percent yield.

PesaMill™ provides the basis for flexibly adjusting the properties of the flour to individual requirements. Starch damage, water absorption and granulation can be simply and swiftly adjusted for different types of flour qualities (for example, North Indian Atta, South Indian Atta etc.).

In traditional stone mills, by contrast, the millstones need to be redressed or replaced frequently. Hence downtimes are minimized, productivity is raised and the system can operate reliably 24/7.

Thanks to innovative technology and a robust design, backed up by the highest standards of manufacturing quality, the Bühler Atta process with PesaMill™ guarantees a long service life and the best possible protection for your investment.

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ncreased animal production pressures, including higher feed ingredient costs and stricter standards and regulations, have created many challenges for the industry and for the animals themselves.

Nutritionists are being asked to keep it all in balance – health and welfare of the animal and, at the same time, maintaining production efficiency and creating the highest quality end product possible.

Key nutrition requirements are well-established and known, but with the challenges and evolving regulations facing the industry, many are taking another look at the role micronutrients play in building metabolic balance, efficiency and peak performance in animals.

Improved growth performance, immune development, structural integrity of tissues, bone development and strength, protection against oxidation and enzymatic activity are all benefits that can be seen with the right trace mineral nutrition management.

Specifically, zinc, copper and manganese perform important roles in helping swine and poultry operations reach their potential, but when needs are met, it’s clearly evident in the animal.

When animals are zinc deficient, the result is poor growth, delayed sexual maturity, abnormalities in fetuses, diarrhea, skin lesions and compromised immunity. Zinc’s cross-functional role is critical in animal development. When required levels are fed, it builds skin integrity, improves immunity, helps with normal growth and development and serves as an essential component for multiple enzymatic activities. The core absorption site for zinc is the duodenum, and about 60 percent accumulates in the muscle and 30 percent accumulates in the animal’s bones. Zinc also modulates enzymatic activity and assists with enzymatic structural stability in the 300 known zinc-dependent enzymes.

Copper deficiency is identified with poor growth rates, anemia in piglets, low fertility rates, disorders in bone and connective tissue, weak vascular tissue and impaired egg shell formation in poultry. Often, copper is used as a growth promoter to improve appetite, as well as increase antibiotic activity and feed efficiency.

Like zinc, the major site of absorption is the duodenum. Copper concentration occurs with 45 percent accumulating in the bone and 25 percent accumulating in the skeletal muscle. Copper is

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critical to immune function and is also a cofactor for several enzymes.

When manganese is not fed to requirements, the result is poor conception rates, structural abnormalities and lameness, congenital defects and abnormal metabolic activity. Manganese focuses on growth and reproduction, wound healing and shell matrix formation in poultry. Manganese concentration is located in the mitochondria where it generates energy in all the tissues of the body.

All three of these organic trace minerals – zinc, copper and manganese – function to improve growth performance, enzymatic activity, tissue and structural health, immune function and protect against oxidative stress. Another key function is to support structural integrity in the animal, which includes bone, tendon, hoof, skin and eggshell. These minerals allow for collagen and keratin synthesis and cross linking and elastin crosslinking, while bone development and strength rely on collagen and cartilage synthesis followed by ossification.

In poultry, eggshell formation relies heavily on zinc, copper and manganese because the calcification of the collagen matrix is dependent on the enzymatic cofactors. Their role also includes reducing oxidative stress, which reduces the risk and susceptibility of disease and builds a stronger immune system.

There is no single solution to increasing performance in animal production; therefore a holistic approach is best utilized to address the myriad of challenges in animal production. From a nutrition standpoint, zinc, copper and manganese play a critical role in helping to keep metabolic and biological processes in balance and can help improve performance, efficiency and profitability.

Maximising Trace Mineral Nutrition

Inorganic trace minerals like sulphates or oxide salts have traditionally been the choice to supply animals with minerals, and they’ve been added to the diet at levels that exceed those recommended by scientific bodies like the National Research Council. Uncertainty over the bioavailability of mineral elements from inorganic sources has caused producers to feed more inorganic minerals than recommended to ensure an adequate

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Important production outcome measures can be directly improved by including adequate supplementation levels of chelated organic trace minerals. The outcome measures can include feed conversion, weight gain, reduced mortality, piglet birth weight, meat quality, carcass quality, chick quality, immune response, footpad scores, laying rate and many others.

In contrast, ineffective sources and levels of trace minerals can limit animal performance. It’s critical to be aware of the source of trace minerals in order to improve uptake and maximize performance.

A diet which includes Mintrex® chelated trace minerals can result in improved bioavailability, which increases profitability by decreasing mortality, improving feed efficiency and improving vaccine response when compared to other mineral sources. Mintrex provides a unique 2:1 chelation structure that optimises key production measures and maximises potential uptake levels well beyond those achievable by other mineral sources, which directly increases customer profitability.

The results are most obvious when animal diets deficient of chelated trace minerals are then fed at required levels to high performance animals. Mintrex, a highly bioavailable mineral source, allows for a decrease of inclusion rates while meeting nutritional requirements and maximizing animal performance.

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by Brad Carr, President of IES, USA An evolution or revolution in controlling dust in overhead areas helps eliminate the risks of fugitive dust for milling and grain facilities xplosions from combustible dust have plagued the milling and grain industry throughout its history. In just grain handling alone, OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, reports that over the last 35 years there have been over 500 explosions across the US, which have killed more than 180 people and injured

more than 675.

Clearly, the numbers tell the story that something else needs to be done. But what can solve the problem in the smartest, most practical way?

Or more importantly, what could prevent the problem from happening in the first place?

SonicAire® fans were engineered to accomplish just that. They are the only proactive solution to eliminate overhead fugitive dust problems.

It is a system that has changed how we control combustible dust. These fans can robotically prevent fugitive dust from accumulating in overhead areas. And they provide a vertical cleaning radius from 0-140°, with a full 360° rotation.

Their introduction to the milling and grain industry has given managers a new alternative to consider. Allow me to demonstrate how they work and you can decide for yourself.

A proactive solution for sustainable cleaning in high places

Our engineers have designed a full line of these fan systems to address the specific issues of different types of dust characteristics.

SonicAire 2 Series Controlled Clean. Powerful Performance.

This fan is a powerhouse with a 2HP (1.5kW) motor that delivers twice the cleaning area of the original SonicAire fan, so installations costs are cut in half. The SonicAire 2.0 is designed to combat problems with heavier fugitive dust generated in a wide variety of industries, but especially the milling and grain industry.

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overhead structures. Innovation highlights include: • iDrive - A new drive disc that allows operators to easily plan exactly where cleaning coverage is desired. Determining oscillation angles and reach of airflow has never been easier • Unified electrical enclosure - All electrical components are housed in one place. This increases frame strength and is easier to service if necessary. Meets NEMA 12 gasketed enclosure requirements • Sickle fan blade – A new configuration for high efficiency.

Sound levels are below 81dBA at 20 feet (3.65m) • Self-lubricating and sealed bearings – Designed for reduced maintenance costs • Sleek, extended fan shroud - Increases fan cleaning distance Other options are available in the 2 Series. They include: • SonicAire 2c: The ‘c’ stands for ‘compact.’ The fan motor still has the power and control, but the fan size allows it to be located in the spaces that are too small for other fans.

• SonicAire 2hw: The ‘hw’ stands for ‘heat and water.’ This is a water-tight fan (NEMA 6) that can work in extreme heat as high as 180°

Engineered safety

The core of every SonicAire fan is its BarrierAire™ technology, our unique engineering platform. As its name implies, this innovative technology uses dynamic air patterns to create a barrier, or set up a block for fugitive dust buildup.

Here’s how it works.

High velocity and high mass airflow from a robotic clean fan create an overhead barrier. This barrier essentially controls dust like an air curtain, preventing accumulation of fugitive dust on steel structures, pipes, ducts, walls and process equipment.

It does this automatically and accurately. Anything in the overhead areas can be shielded in this way so that no dust can ever accumulate. Managers can pinpoint the areas that need to be cleaned so that no dust is allowed to build up in overhead places.

The outcome is remarkable: you can now automatically maintain OSHA compliance throughout your plant – at all times.

Users no longer have to pay for expensive cleaning services.

They also don’t have to shut down production to allow cleaning services to work. Even more important is that they also don’t

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However, there is a one-time deep clean of fugitive dust, and once that dust is removed, no new dust is allowed to accumulate again. Only with BarrierAire technology can you automatically maintain OSHA compliance throughout the plant at all times.

Your employees have never been safer from the risks of combustible dust.

Now that you know what the systems do, let me explain why we designed it in the first place.

Managed approach vs engineered approach

Basically, SonicAire fan systems represent a shift in engineering philosophy.

Prior to their launch, the only way people could keep overhead areas clean was through a managed approach. In fact, the NFPA Standards refer to a managed solution, which has been the status quo. So before technological advances were made, manual housekeeping was the only solution.

Why has a managed approach lasted this long?

What many people found attractive about ongoing cleaning is that there are low upfront costs. Contracts were set up for ongoing payments that then became a part of annual operating expenses.

You don’t have to put down a lot of money at one time to continue either using cleaning services or using your employees to manage combustible dust.

A managed approach means that personnel or third party businesses clean the overhead structures on a continuing basis. This has been the conventional approach to controlling combustible dust.

In essence, the cleaning is done after the dust had already accumulated.

But our engineers had issues with that philosophy. Our response was, "Why can’t we find a way to keep the problem from happening?” We also had serious issues with other aspects of a managed approach, which include: • A risk to personnel for the overhead cleaning • Lost production due to the necessary shutdown of the plant • Levels of clean in a facility vary based on the proximity to the scheduled cleaning time If overhead cleaning is scheduled monthly on the 15th, the combustible dust has had time to accumulate by the 14th of the month, making it possible for the plant to be out of compliance with OSHA regulations therefore risking the safety of the employees. Even if a plant owner/manager were not inclined to

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procrastinate the cleaning, the cyclical nature of the buildup is inevitable with a managed approach.

Now, the philosophy for an engineered approach is that technology can be leveraged to automate cleaning processes and continuously protect against the risks of combustible dust accumulation.

Two different types of engineering solutions exist.

The first is localised filtration. With this technology, the equipment captures the combustible dust by either vacuuming or suctioning. This approach is often needed, but the reality is that it can’t be used alone.

Think about it; it is impossible to collect or capture 100 percent of fugitive dust. Localised filtration can’t capture every particle.

OSHA regulations basically represent a zero-tolerance approach to dust accumulation, even with the new nuances on levels.

But the bottom line in compliance is still clear: Our job is to remove the fuel (fugitive dust) that causes the explosions. We still can’t allow for accumulation. That’s where our engineers saw an opportunity to innovate something that shifted the paradigm and makes people safer.

The second technology is SonicAire’s BarrierAire technology.

With this, you can now account for all the fugitive dust in a large facility. These fans can robotically eliminate fugitive dust not captured by a filtration system. Best of all, this can be automated.

In fact, often there can be a synergy between the filtration and SonicAire fan systems for enterprise-wide compliance, since they can be effectively used together in one facility.

What’s more, with either of these engineered approaches, there are higher, one-time costs for implementation. So capital investments have to be made. These are one-time costs though and the benefits are ongoing.

An engineered approach also allows for automated, controlled cleaning that doesn’t interfere with production. Depending on the sophistication of the specific technology, it also delivers consistently higher levels of clean for ongoing compliance to government regulations and for employee safety.

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SonicAire fans have been shown to pay for themselves in as little as a year.

Criteria for evaluation

Mill and grain facility owners and managers should evaluate the overall cost for any solution – be it SonicAire’s BarrierAire technology or anything else based on the following range of variables: • Initial cost • Operating cost • Ongoing labour cost • Employee morale • Disruption to normal production • Energy usage We believe that trying something revolutionary can seem risky.

We also believe that nothing is more important than protecting the lives of employees.

So we’ve reduced the risk to new clients by offering a unique “Try and Buy” program.

The premise is simple: Try a SonicAire fan for 60 days; get all your money back if you are not 100 percent satisfied. With this program available, you’ve got nothing to lose, but the dangers of combustible dust.

By 2050 – 35 years away – we must be able to show that we have avoided the loss of 180 lives and injuries to 675 employees.

About th e Author:

Brad Carr is president of IES, manufacturer of SonicAire® fans.

SonicAire fans were highlighted as a Safety Innovation Award at GEAPS 2015. Mr Carr has had numerous invitations to speak on dust control and safety for a wide range of industries; most recently at the National Safety Council Congress and Expo.

He has also published many articles on this topic for a broad spectrum of industries. SonicAire fans were highlighted as a Safety Innovation Award at GEAPS 2015. http://iesclean.com

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by Dr Pratiksha Saxena Department of Applied Mathematics and Dr Rajkumar, Gautam Buddha University, India

he livestock and animal industries are important parts of a country’s economy.

A number of industries ranging in size are based on animals and animal products. Development of these industries is directly dependent on the animals’ diets.

The ingredients in the form of food consumed by animals on daily basis, are termed as an animal ration or animal feed. Formulation of animal ration is a process that involves combining different nutrient ingredients in such an efficient manner to provide sufficient

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amounts of energy and nutrition to animals at different stages of metabolism and production.

This article presents a summary of feed formulation software.

Content is divided into three categories: for aquatic animals, for poultry and for ruminants. A description and comparison of various software is provided, explaining the features and uses of each software.

Feed formulation

Animal ration should be formulated in such a way to fulfill the energy requirements of animals. This is one of the basic needs of livestock management and for industries based on animal yields.

Different kinds of animals have various energy requirements

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These optimisation models are used in such a way to provide information on energy requirements at different stages for growth, reproduction, metabolism and lactation at optimum cost.

To formulate an animal feed, knowledge of basic animal nutrition, the nutrition levels of feed ingredients, feed composition, as well as mathematical programming techniques are important.

Feed analysis

Analysing feeds is an important part of diet formulation as different kinds of available feedstuffs vary in composition. A ‘balanced diet’ is the term given to a feed which provides all necessary nutrition to an animal and should simulate feeding behaviours.

Animal feed should be formulated in such a way that it is highly digestible whilst causing the least amount of environmental damage.

Initially, a variety of methods were used for feed analysis, such as the trial and error method, linear programming methods and other conventional methods. As time passed different forms of mathematical programming were used for better results, methods such as stochastic programming, goal programming and other non-linear programming techniques.

Manual calculations and applications are time consuming, tedious and prone to errors. As the number of feed ingredients increase, the complexity of feed formulation models also increase. In this era of technology, specifically designed software and computers are used for this purpose, providing more accurate results for a larger number of variables in less time.

These days it is common to formulate feed for commercial purposes using software. This software is well programmed to compute the nutrient profile of a feed, to access a feed library and to apply this to a feed formulation.

Software for aquatic feeds

according to their age, reproduction and metabolism.

It is a very important to formulate the animal feed efficiently to meet the animal’s specific requirements at a particular age and stage of life. Feed formulation encompasses selecting a combination of feed ingredients that adequately meet the required nutrition and other requirements of animals at different stages of life.

In addition to this, cost is also an important factor for any industry. The main objective of ration formulation is to provide a satisfactory nutrient level for a specific animal species whilst minimising cost.

In order to achieve this, mathematical techniques and

‘Diet Formulator Program’ has been developed to formulate the feed for freshwater and marine finfish and shrimp. It is not based on least-cost diet formulation program, but rather a simple excelbased diet calculation program.

The user selects ingredients and the program calculates the nutritional information of the formulated diet. The program also allows the user to insert other ingredients for a chemical analysis.

Ingredient costs can be entered in the database and the program will calculate the ingredient cost of the diet formulation.

‘Fishfarm Solutions’ is a program designed for simple rations on the basis of Pearson square ration formulation. Nutrient contents of ingredients and nutrient requirements are expressed on the same basis.

This excel sheet formulator needs a comprehensive list of all the feed ingredients with their protein levels as inputs. Then according to the required quantity of feed, it combines different kinds of ingredients from the list.

‘Winfeed’ formulates diet for ruminants, non-ruminants, poultry, pets and fish. It is based on linear and stochastic programming. It can work with an unlimited number of ingredients and nutrients.

It is user friendly software which also calculates marginal price, shadow price and assists with cost analysis. It is compatible with excel and can import or export data for feed formulation. It also provides graphical reports in the form of pie charts and bar graphs.

Software for poultry

‘Poultry Feed Formulation’ is freely available software and from the year 2014 it is also available as an android application.

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Layer feed formulation is divided into seven stages: starter, grower, developer, prelay, peak, layer one and layer two. This is user-friendly software that allows the user to edit, save, email as well has having the ability to print the output formulations. Any user input errors are highlighted if variables are not in the range of a breed’s requirement.

‘Kasturi’ is poultry management software that manages feed formulation for layers, hatchery, and broilers. Covering all aspects of the hatchery, from housing of newly born chicks to egg laying birds, setting of eggs, to hatching of chicks. Kasturi keeps a record of daily events such as mortalities, culls, feed consumption rates and type of feeds being used.

It can formulate the feed, analyse nutrients, temperature, humidity, light, body weight, uniformity and vaccination schedule. It can generate several types of reports on medication, vaccinations, sales, purchases, stocks and monthly performance among other options.

‘Ration Formula Express’ (RFE) for poultry produced by VETSOFT Software Corporation is a program based on least cost feed formulation. This poultry management program uses operation research techniques to formulate the least cost ration depending on the requirements of breed and prices of ingredients.

RFE has bilingual language capabilities for English and Arabic. It is based on feed composition according to NRC 1994.

It also takes care of shadow price and provides results in the form of comparable decision sheets and graphs. These display the ration formula ingredient quantities, a nutrients analysis, as well as nutrients constraints and requirements.

Software for ruminants

‘Feedlive’ is used to formulate diet for swine, sheep, poultry and other animals. It is based on least cost formulation and linear programming. A special feature of this software is that it accumulates data on mono and polygastic animal feeds all into one place. It is a MS windows application that can formulate feed for any batch size.

Feedlive has the ability to analyse an existing formula, functioning in a backward operation.

- ‘Feedsoft’ Feedsoft® cloud formulation is a platform, which provides live statistics to individuals or small size companies with general formulation needs. It can also modify all nutrient data easily via its ‘nutrient editor screen’. Feedsoft® is a user-friendly interface that is assessable via mobile phone.

- ‘Spesfeed’ software is for poultry and other animals. It supplies and supports two different feed formulation systems ‘Spesfeed Express’ and ‘Format International’, each offer their own advantages. Spesfeed Express is a small user friendly system, limited to a single user, it has a restricted amount of nutrient data that can be considered. Format International has a wide range of software. It caters for large and sophisticated users. Features include a multi-user system which allows the manipulation of large data bases, multi-mix and global-mix formulation.

‘FeedMU’ is a simple feed formulation program, which uses the trial and error method, and linear programming to produce a least cost feed formula. It can be used for simple feed in animal farms and complex feeds in feed mill.

It is a MS Windows based application developed using Visual Basic and .NET application for feed formulation. FeedMU uses information on animals’ requirements, ingredient details and feed composition to formulate a well balanced diet. It has a function to transfer requirements and ingredients data to others and it can export formula reports in PDF format.

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by D V R Rajiv Mohan, Vice President – Commodities, ITC Limited – Agri Business Division, Hyderabad, India he ‘Farm to Fork’ chain, encompassing production, harvesting, storage, processing, packaging and sales, has seen emphasis shifting from efficiencies and effectiveness to a plethora of areas like hygiene, food safety and sustainability. From being features of exclusivity in the food economy, these aspects have now become the basic

requirements.

The global milling conference addressing grain production and distribution, food quality and processing while protecting the environment, aptly covered these areas which are extremely relevant given the current dynamics on both the supply and demand sides for the milling industry in India, further accentuated by the recent food hygiene and regulation related issues.

As regards to quality and environment, the ‘Farm to Fork’ chain is beset with a host of complexities. Gone are the days when a fist full of grain verified for colour and odour sufficed the millers’ requirement and a bite with the teeth gave an indication of the moisture, today we have to contend with a host of contaminants – pesticides residues, heavy metals, dyes and additives and so on.

On the environment front, pollution and contamination problems apart from energy related issues are to be addressed.

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How do we cope with this situation? Who takes the responsibility and what are the solutions?

Firstly, Food Safety and Environment Protection needs to become a norm. It is no longer an exception but a necessity.

Secondly, millers need to realise that the end product can be of the desired quality and safety, only when all legs of the chain are compliant to the norms of Food Safety and Sustainability.

Finally, it has to be everybody’s responsibility across the ‘Farm to Fork’ chain to honour food quality and environment protection - farmer, miller and brand owner, all put together.

Amongst the key reasons for this thrust on food safety, quality and environment protection are: • Customer health and well being • Food security for future – healthy and sustainable food chains • Preservation of bio diversity – ecological balance • Energy efficiency and conservation of natural resources • Managing the complexity of fragmented production and multiorigin sourcing • Global competitiveness – market access by bridging the gap with mature markets • Brand Equity and market standing Towards the goal of creating an absolutely safe and responsible food chain we need to focus on the agri value chain. Today we have a scenario where the international brands are either catering to the high end luxury segment or they are over dependent on

F global supply chains. This leaves out substantial value creation from India. Millers and brand owners need to focus on creating sustainable agri chains in India that enable larger value capture in the economy.

Food Safety and Environment Protection - Farm

My experience in the Agri Business is that there is a high sensitivity to price and the general focus is on what happens within the mill/factory. From a longer term perspective, the thrust has to be more on ‘farm gate’ rather than ‘factory gate’.

The interventions requiring emphasis are : • Agro climatic zone mapping – prioritisation of crop basis suitability of soils and weather • Moving from factory gate to farm gate – agronomic interventions of improvement of quality and productivity • Threshold based intervention – use of inputs to the extent required after analysing the problem • R&D at the fulcrum of stakeholder cohesiveness – every leg of the farm chain needs to have R&D support with active participation by all stakeholders • Customised farm storage solutions – this could be a game changing intervention if properly analysed and implemented with emphasis on cost competitiveness

Food Safety and Environment Protection – Post Farm

Apart from quality and price, there must be focus on building systems and processes as well as on compliance – by everyone, at all stages.

The interventions requiring emphasis are • Balancing on the price and quality with compliance – there needs to be a shift from ‘cheaper the better’ to ‘compliant the better’

• Standardisation of norms and processes - these need to reflect the ground realities of agrarian economy and infrastructure • Building traceability - one of the pre requisite of these would be the standardisation of quality norms • Stakeholder engagement - farmers, vendors and customers need to be aware and willing to participate

Need for an integrated approach

A compliant ‘Farm to Fork’ chain with thrust on food quality and environment safety can only be the product of an integrated approach with focused interventions along the agri value chain and adequate infrastructure with apt systems and processes. The laws and regulations must be in sync with the agri value chain realities with active participation by brand owners and retail chains.

A move towards sustainable food economy would lead to enhanced farm incomes and better focus on value addition with the reduction in wastages and inefficiencies.

We must let the consumers make an informed choice in favour of sellers of safe food products through sustainable means.

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by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain Magazine

he London and South East Millers Society held another great meeting for its industry members in early September. This meeting was at a former flourmill, Holme Mills in the UK, which is now a heritage mill.

It is an important mill, since from the early era of the roller mill revolution, it seized the opportunity to use this new technology in the Victorian era. Bill Jordan, chairman of Jordans

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welcomed all from the society to the mill and provided a short presentation.

Bill’s brother David, vice-chairman of Jordans, was also on hand to assist and provide additions to the presentation. Bill has a history of flour milling through the family firm as he trained at Holme Mills for six months when he left school at 18 years old.

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The mill’s formal name is Holme Mills. In 1086 in the Domesday Book, the contemporary mill was recorded and valued

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For a good time, visit the mill Since 1889 the world-famous “Moulin Rouge” – “Red Mill” – has enticed visitors to Paris. This legendary variety theatre features can-can dancers and exotic revues, and unlike mediaeval mills it is located in the middle of the entertainment district Pigalle. Because nowadays, erotic entertainment is found downtown.

But in the old days, you went out to the seclusion of the mill. Nestled discreetly in a forest or on a stream far from town, the mill was long considered a place of permissiveness and forbidden lust. Mill brothels are known from antiquity, and if the mill itself wasn’t the house of ill repute, then they could be found along the well-travelled mill road.

Indeed, milling and sensuality are so intimately interwoven that “grind” came to signify the sex act in more than one language.

at an annual turnover of 47 shillings. It is located on the River Ivel, a tributary to the River Great Ouse. In the local county of Bedfordshire there were over 400 mills at its peak in the late 1890s. This was a high concentration of mills by any standard today and was possible because the mills were supplied by the ample harvests of grain from the wider Eastern England region. Still today, this region produces the most flour milling wheat than any other in the UK. In 1855 the Jordan family switched from farming to flour milling under lease at Holme Mills, until buying the mill outright in 1890. In 1894, following a fire in the mill, a 25 horse-power water wheel was installed to work in conjunction with a 20 horse-power oil engine. Another fire in 1899 helped to further the technology and production capacity from the mill. These technological leaps enabled the mill to increase production significantly and helped Jordans to become one of the leading producers of flour in the region by the turn of the century.

Inside the mill, and located above the river on the ground floor are the gears and mechanisms that gave the mill its power. From the water wheel, the power was transferred to the crown wheel. This is the largest wheel in the mill and is constructed with individually repairable timber teeth to ensure easy and quick maintenance in case of breakages.

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Flour circuit/power circuit

In the mill, there are essentially two circuits, one cog and belt driven circuit for powering the machines and another circuit for the grains and flour. Set over three floors, the mill was highly innovative and advanced. At its zenith, and with the investments made following the 1894 paraffin engine fire, the mill was fully equipped for the launch into the roller milling age. With its Carter Roller Mill System installation, Jordan’s mill made it into one of the most advanced flourmills in the country.

Silos were installed inside the mill. They were used to store grains for North American hard grains, as well as locally sourced soft grains for up to 15 months. Imported grains were not just a contemporary need. Imports were needed in the mill continuously in the operations throughout the Jordan’s tenure. The silos are not there today, which is a shame but it was interesting to picture these silos storing grain ready for the milling process.

Inside the mill, the vast amount of wood materials in the floor and piping created a very different atmosphere than a modern mill. The only way for workers to move around were stairs, sealed behind large metal sliding doors. There was even wood surrounding the conveyor belts of elevator buckets. The elevator buckets were much smaller than modern buckets; they were merely a few inches wide and constructed wholly from metal.

The main modern material of choice in buckets is polymer plastic. When in motion, the mill’s machinery moved at a rapid pace, grains were conveyed around the mill to the gravity-fed roller mill machines. The atmosphere and sense of the mill lived again.

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line just as the working mill would have been. Technical knowhow was evident in the group with some commenting how they remember parts such as leather-belt driven power. As original machinery and parts are present in the mill, Turner of Ipswich and Henry Simon roller mills, record books to monitor activity in the mill, woven flour sacks and anti-moisture devices were set in the mill to give an accurate portrayal of everyday working life.

The gulf between computerised and digitally controlled milling was absent but the ingenuity was based on the traditional head miller’s experience. With cottages built next door to the mill’s delivery door, it meant that the miller and family were physically linked to their mill as some family-owned mills are still to this day.

In the mill’s working era, it was economical to utilise waste products from the flourmill in an animal feed mill, which existed on the current site of the market garden. Today, there is no trace of the feed mill unfortunately. It was admitted that the downfall of the mill commercially was the demand for quality white flour, competition and subsequent decline in the local region.

The mill was the last remaining mill in Bedfordshire. However, the desire to retell the story provided the impetus for the renovation and in 2013, this mill was restored to a heritage mill for future generations. This legacy will ensure that a successful mill continues to be appreciated in its Victorian era, and mark the development of milling in contrast to today’s size, scale and advanced mills. This experience demonstrated that there is now a great example of milling history brought alive in the middle of England for other retired mills to follow.

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Algae’s key role in taking care of consumer expectations

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by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain Publisher

he inclusion of algae in food production took on a meaningful turn when Olmix presented its antibiotic-free broiler chicken to delegates attending its oneday conference ‘Building a Healthy Food Chain – Thanks to Algae,’ in Paris last month.

The chicken, raised on algae-included feed rations and managed, processed and distributed by Olmix, was tasted by the 400-plus delegates attending the conference.

While broiler and fish production differ widely, algae products are attempting to achieve similar levels of food safety in both livestock and aquaculture.

Until now the benefits algae provides in terms of human nutrition and health have been largely associated with cultural and coastal communities and with those looking for dietary alternatives.

In livestock and fish production algae has been considered a valuable ingredient in its own right for some time, but products have now been developed to help protect health, improve well-being and reduce the need for medicines and in particular antibiotics.

Algae has not yet proven itself as a viable source of protein in meeting the growing demand from our food producing animals, particularly not in fish diets where the pressure is on to minimise the amount of fishmeal included in feeds.

However, Paris may well prove a turning point in the way we consider algae inclusion in our food production system.

“We are now ready to meet consumers’ expectations for a better life,” Olmix marketing director Daniéle Marzin told the delegates

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One of the world’s most famous views - The Olmix team poses for a picture at the Théatre National de Chaillot on the banks of the Seine opposite Eiffel Tower and Champs de Mars

crowed into the Hotel Pullman Eiffel Tower conference room.

Gathered in Paris to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, over 300 international invited guests, from customers to agents, to distributors and staff from more than 50 countries enjoyed three days of festivities with local French staff and others which started with a reception in the art deco Théatre National de Chaillot.

The conference offered presentations by three professors: Professor Antoine Andremont, professor of microbiology at the University of

Paris Medical School on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance – what is the world situation; Professor Dung Cao the deputy director of the Potato, Vegetable and Flower Research Centre in Vietnam on pesticides and their use in Asia; Professor Jose Luiz Tejon Megido, president of TCA International in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Dr Thomas Pavie made the final address which launched of the Olmix antibiotic-free chicken production internationally, the first application for food-producing animals.

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President, founder and CEO of Olmix Group, Hervé Balusson, celebrates the company’s 20th anniversary at the legendary Lido cabaret on the Champs-Élysées in Paris

Care for all

Olmix has adopted a ‘Care programme’ for its plant, livestock and aqua and human food divisions.

Melspring is the company’s ‘Plant Care Division’ and focuses on sustainable products capable of improving plant health, protecting against disease and supporting the environment. Algae products are applied as fertiliser and offer the opportunity to reduce the use of chemical pesticides while lifting crop quality and yields.

The Olmix ‘Animal Care Division’ has introduced a product and feeding strategy that aims to eliminate the use of antibiotics in chicken production, improve farmer’s profits and animal wellbeing. And may well lead to similar objectives in aquaculture.

Producing antibiotic-free chicken “will not be achieved only by nutrition nor with a single ‘miraculous’ feed additive,” says Ms Marzin.

She says Olmix is now capable of providing a global strategy to improve animal hygiene, enhance immune defenses, guarantee digestive welfare, increase digestive

efficiency and fight mycotoxins.

“To get optimal efficiency, Olmix engages the whole livestock chain as products are implemented by farmers, veterinarians and the feed miller,” she adds.

The Algae School

Two days in Paris followed by two days in Brittany. The two venues visited included the company’s new office and factory facilities and an evening visit to the new Breizh Algae School, located at the Balusson home farm, which will offer courses to Olmix customers on the use and benefits of algae products, including modern farming techniques that eliminate the need for antibiotics, pesticides and chemical additives.

Dedication and commitment

The dedication and commitment to the values algae can provide, has been championed for 20 years by Hervé Balusson, president, founder and CEO of Olmix Group.

His resolve to bring the benefits of algae to international attention and to conduct the research necessary to develop algaebased products has paid dividends for all in the food production chain, and was lavishly and generously celebrated in Paris during the company annual ‘Breizh Algae Tour’ which was held the same week From Left: Professor Antoine Andremont, Professor of Microbiology, University of Paris Medical as Space, Rennes one of School, Paris; Professor Jose Luiz Tejon Megido, President, TCA International, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dr France’s major agriculture Thomas Pavie, former Deputy Agriculture Counsellor for China and North East Asia exhibitions.

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Hidden hunger Reflecting on the first-ever summit on food fortification and hidden hunger

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by Greg S. Garrett, Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

hree weeks ago we closed the groundbreaking Global Summit on Food Fortification in Arusha, Tanzania.

The momentum from this event is creating the environment needed to ensure the world’s most cost-effective development solution is scaled-up throughout Africa and Asia to help end hidden hunger.

The Summit was formally opened by Africa Union Nutrition Champion, King Letsie III of Lesotho as well as the Prime Minister of Tanzania. Two different African Union Commissioners gave plenary speeches and President Kikwete of Tanzania paid a visit to the Summit organising team on the final day. Over a dozen ministers of health and industry from low-and middle-income countries attended among the 29 government delegations. These delegations made various commitments to scale up fortification with essential vitamins and minerals in order to better address hidden hunger, representing well over a billion additional at-risk individuals in their respective countries who can benefit from these renewed efforts.

Dr Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stated on day two: “After a decade long investment and food fortification being such a well proven, tested, method – why has it taken us so long to hold this very important conference?”

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After the event, even the New York Times reported on the great opportunity fortification offers to help address malnutrition globally.

For me personally it was rewarding to see many months spent planning pay off. It was also an opportunity to present results from a recent study and publication I co-authored on an area of great concern and interest, for example, improving the quality and compliance of fortified foods.

Closing the ground-breaking summit, H.E Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, delivered an impassioned Statement on behalf of the co-hosts (the Government of Tanzania and GAIN) and co-conveners (WFP, UNICEF, SUN Secretariat, African Union, USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) in the form of the Arusha Statement on Food Fortification.

I’d like to leave you with some of the highlights from that statement which should excite us as we aim to reach a billion more people with better food and nutrition and end hidden hunger: We leave Arusha with a determination to build a new movement, a future fortified with improved food and nutrition security. We have the tools, we need to finish the job started a hundred years ago and make the benefits of this simple and cost effective approach to an improved diet available to all.

Preventable deficiencies of critical vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin A, D, iron, iodine, folic acid and zinc

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This has far-reaching effects on individuals and impedes the economic development of nations.

GDP losses from under-nutrition can be 2 % - 3 % per year.

The central message of this Summit is that food fortification should become a critical pillar of national food and nutrition security plans. Unless we can rapidly scale up the availability and consumption of fortified foods in countries, the achievement of some Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be impossible.

Food fortification is a vital tool to make progress towards the World Health Assembly goal to reduce anaemia among women of reproductive age.

But without further investment, we risk losing this momentum.

We have the unprecedented opportunity to virtually eliminate iodine deficiency if we scale up salt iodization efforts. Through effective fortification with iron of grains we can expect to achieve a 2.4 percent reduction per annum in anaemia. Fortification of wheat flour with folic acid in 18 countries in Africa and Asia could prevent over 50,000 debilitating neural tube defects

annually. We cannot lose these opportunities.

Food systems and eating habits are changing rapidly due to urbanisation, changing climate, land and water use and a younger population. While food fortification alone cannot end malnutrition, it is critical to micronutrient deficiency prevention and control strategies, and is an underexploited public health tool.

What are the critical areas for action highlighted at this Summit?

First, modest but new investment is essential. Fortification is cost-effective and largely self-sustainable, costs are built into markets and typically do not require further or continuous

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public subsidy. Governments need to invest in technical support, oversight and compliance.

The new investments are needed to build, improve and sustain fortification programs. It was estimated that the additional donor costs over 15 years to build, improve and sustain fortification in 25 low and middle-income countries for multiple food vehicles would be $150m. This could effectively cover an additional billion people.

Second, there is need for a major effort to improve oversight and enforcement of food fortification standards and regulations.

Poor compliance with laws and regulation limits potential for impact and undermines effectiveness. Available data show adequate compliance with standards as low as 50 percent in many contexts. Governments should improve their inspection and enforcement systems to ensure high quality fortification and a level playing field for the producers. Effective regulatory monitoring and enforcement will notably require more robust national budget allocations.

Third, there is a need to generate more evidence to guide fortification policy and program design, to continually improve programmes and demonstrate impact. For example, there is a lack of detail of foods consumed by various target groups, limiting our understanding of potential food vehicles, use of fortified foods and quantification of the dietary gap we must address for some nutrients.

Fourth, progress requires more transparent accountability and global reporting. We support the call for a global observatory or annual report of the state of fortification.

Fifth, continuing advocacy is a high priority, and we will work together with stakeholders such as the SUN movement and African Union to advocate for greater attention by governments.

We leave Arusha with a determination to build a new movement, a future fortified with improved food and nutrition security. We have the tools, we need to finish the job started a hundred years ago and make the benefits of this simple and cost effective approach to an improved diet available to all.

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Bakhresa port grain depot

by Tim Hartford Cross, International Project Manager and Connor Thompson, Design Draftsman, Griffith Elder

bulk wheat cargo vessel carrying hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain from Russia reaches its destination at the Dar Es Salaam port. Some 500 metres away, the Bakhresa grain-handling site prepares for the large wheat intake.

The new facility at Kurasini has been operational for some months now and consists of five silos, totaling 60000 Tonnes capacity.

With only three days to offload the grain from the vessel, the peak flow rate of 1200 Tonnes per hour must be consistently reached.

This speed of offloading is achieved using four side-by-side Griffith Elder Weighbridges, each with separate intake lanes.

Bakhresa’s site has a fleet of 40 brand new wheat trucks designed for this exact purpose. Each truck has a capacity of around 25 tonnes and can complete the entire weighing and offloading process in only five minutes. The loading and unloading of each vehicle is done on the weighbridge to save time.

As the trucks arrive at the weighbridge, the drivers present a preprogrammed RFID tag to identify themselves. Each tag contains the details of the shipment, including contract number, type of goods and many other bespoke details. These details are stored as a ticket within the Ton Tel software along with the fully loaded weight of the vehicle.

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The vehicle can then offload the grain onto the elevators and conveyors that will distribute out to the relative silos. Once empty, the vehicle is weighed again. This records the empty weight of the vehicle and calculates a net weight value to add to each ticket.

The driver terminal produces a small printout for the driver showing the weight information, as he is paid based on the amount of grain offloaded. The whole system is fully automatic using Griffith Elder’s Ton-Tel Software and the operator is only needed to clarify information with the drivers, if necessary.

The Ton Tel Software contains an extremely versatile reporting function, allowing managers to generate reports based on vehicle, store, date or any other information found on the tickets. As well as summary reports, the software can be programmed to send reports automatically via email at scheduled times. This allows the manager to know exactly what is happening on site at any time.

To avoid operator error, authorisation levels with password protection can be set within the software to allow different levels of access for operators, managers and administrators.

Once the grain has been offloaded, the grain handling is carried out by Buhler conveyors and elevators and directed from the control room to the selected silo. During this process the grain is sieved to remove the fine dust and large foreign bodies from the grain. As the port repeatedly takes shipments from all over the

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world it is important to separate the various wheat types in each silo.

The information between the conveyor control system can be correlated with the Griffith Elder Ton Tel software and the clients own stock management system to ensure that stock levels and stock information is correct.

The wheat doesn’t stay here long and as soon as it is stored, Dispatchers begin planning which mill the wheat will be allocated to.

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The whole system is then repeated, this time loading the vehicles with wheat via the loading bay above each of the weighbridges. The flow is controlled by an operator who can see the live net weight on the large display inside the office.

Once the truck is filled, the wheat can then be immediately dispatched from the Bakhresa grain handling site onto its various final locations where it can be made into a wide variety of products that are distributed across Africa.

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Production record in July 2015 for Symaga Last July Symaga reached and surpassed its production record, with total steel manufacturing of 4,700 ton throughout the month, which means a daily production of about 200 ton. This record is the result of the confidence placed in it by its customers, and thanks to a continuous investment in new technologies over the last 10 years, which has been around €40 million, the company was able to double its production capacity. The growth in production was coupled with an increase in human resources, reaching 200 employees. All this resulted in a 50 per cent sales growth.

Symaga is participating in some of the main grain storage projects for this 2015, such as the construction of the biggest rice reprocessing facility in the world, located in Thailand and being the biggest hopper silo order in the company’s history.

Symaga is also proud of strengthening its business in Indonesia, supplying silos for which will be the biggest grain import terminal in Southeast Asia. Symaga will also expand its presence in North Africa and consolidate its business in Central and Eastern Europe.

No doubt that Symaga has been compensated for the great effort made and wants to thank all of its customers and workers.

ADM Oilseeds Plant in Missouri to Expand Storage Capacity Archer Daniels Midland Company have announced that it is investing to create an additional 2.5 million bushels of soybean storage at the company’s Deerfield, Missouri, processing plant.

“Our local farmer suppliers are a vital part of our business in Deerfield, and we hope that they will be as excited as we are about expanding our bean storage capacity here,” said Tim Cassidy, commercial manager of the Deerfield plant.

“This gives us the opportunity to receive more soybeans from our farmer partners in the Deerfield region, and to handle those crops more efficiently. We’re thrilled to be expanding our storage capacity in Deerfield, and look forward to continuing to be the destination of choice for farmers.”

Construction of the additional capacity will be complete in Q4 of 2015.

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Cargill to invest US$100 million to double capacity at its soybean crush facility in Egypt argill is investing US$100 million to double the capacity of its soybean oil crush operation in Borg El Arab to meet the increasing demand in Egypt for soybean meal and vegetable oil.

The company will also construct an additional 42,000 metric tonnes of storage capacity within Cargill’s existing premises at the port of

Dekheila in Alexandria.

The expansion at the soybean crush plant will add a 3000 metric tonne production line to Cargill’s existing facility. It will allow the company to leverage its existing crush capabilities to maximise economies of scale and efficiencies in its production process for both soybean meal and oil. The extension of the facility at Dekheila, which discharges, stores and handles imported grains and oilseeds, will enable Cargill to optimise its supply chain, allowing for enhanced efficiency in the timely delivery of grains to its Egyptian customers and to its crush plant at Borg El Arab.

“This investment fits with our strategy of growing our business in Africa and the Middle East,” said Johan Steyn, head of Cargill’s grain and oilseeds business in the Middle East and Africa.

“The demand for soybean meal and oil continues to grow, and expanding our capabilities in Egypt will enable us to better serve our customers in the local market with high quality products, crushed and produced locally.”

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Construction at the soybean crush facility is due to commence in November 2015 and the expanded facility is expected to be operational by mid-2017. Work to increase the storage capacity at the port of Dekheila will also commence in November 2015 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The crush plant will be equipped with the latest technology, allowing the production of improved high protein meal, a fast growing product segment in the local market. As part of the investment Cargill will install equipment that will enable significant savings in power consumption for the new and existing plants.

Cargill has been operating in the Egypt since 1994 serving the local agricultural sector through its grains and oilseeds business. It has been involved in soybean crush since 2004 through its majority share in the National Vegetable Oils Company (NVOC), producing crude soybean oil for the Egyptian market and supplying soybean meal to the poultry and aqua feed industry. Cargill also has a majority share in the National Stevedoring Company (NSC) in Dekheila port, which facilitates the discharge, storage and handling of imported grains into Egypt.

As a 150-year-old agricultural and food production company, soybean crushing is one of Cargill’s core capabilities around the world. The crush plant and storage facility are part of a network of over 1000 state of the art facilities in 67 countries around the world. It will adhere to Cargill’s high standards of quality and environmental health and safety.

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Wheat for glue blended six times faster with rotary batch mixer Idaho Milling and Grain has produced wheat flour since 1982 in a process that involves measuring, milling and mixing. But this is not a refined baking flour for cookies and cakes. Instead Idaho Milling and Grain produces industrial-grade wheat flour that is formulated into a glue extender for the wood products industry.

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lue extenders are used to bond thin sheets of layered wood veneer that form structural plywood. These rugged compounds are also key elements in adhesives, sealants, coatings, plastics and cleaning compounds. Idaho Milling was able to reduce glue extender production time from 2 hours to 20 minutes per batch cycle by replacing its existing ribbon blender with a Munson model 700-TS-110-MS Rotary Batch Mixer. The company increased product quality and practically eliminated residual material in the machine after each batch.

Tumble, turn, cut and fold action produces uniform blends

The flour production process begins when raw wheat stock arrives from local farms during harvest. The wheat is tested for moisture and protein, blended to target protein content, and cleaned to remove foreign seed, sticks, chaff, and other residue. Afterward, it is tempered by adding water to toughen the bran coat. The wheat is then milled into glue extender by running it through a series of roller mills, sifters and purifiers. It travels by pneumatic line into the 3.1 cu m capacity Munson model 700-TS-110-MS Rotary Batch Mixer, where it is blended with other proprietary ingredients.

The finished extender is then conveyed pneumatically to storage bins for packaging.

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Wheat flour and other ingredients are fed from bins into the 3.1 cu m capacity Rotary Batch Mixer, which loads, mixes and discharges each batch six-times faster than the company’s ribbon blender.

As Head Miller, Boyd Hess is responsible for production, maintenance and shipping. With a 28-year work history with Idaho Milling and Grain, Mr Hess credits the rotary batch mixer with blending flour at greater efficiencies and with significantly less residue than the company’s previous, hand-fed ribbon blender.

“The rotary batch mixer produces much more uniform blends, even with diverse particle sizes and variations in bulk density,” says Mr Hess. "This is due to the mixer’s tumble, turn, cut and fold action achieved with proprietary internal mixing flights, and continuous rotation throughout the blending cycle."

“The blending system, from milled product through to packaging, is controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC),” describes Mr Hess. A recipe is entered into the PLC which starts with a zeroscale reading from load cells under the 3.1 cu m capacity mixer.

The pneumatic system feeds each ingredient from several bins through airlocks until all ingredients are added and the mixer load reaches its target weight. When the airlocks shut off, the mixing action begins, lasting from 3 to 10 minutes depending on the product density. Afterward, the mixer discharge gate opens, and the

The operator enters a recipe into the PLC, which controls the blending process from milling to packaging

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Finished blend of glue extender ingredients

The performance of many industrial adhesives relies on batch-to-batch uniformity of these glue extender ingredients

discharge airlock valve meters the material to the pneumatic line to the packaging area until the load cells again indicate zero weight.

The glue extender is packaged in 23 and 45 kilogram bags and bulk bags up to 1361 kg.

Two-hour production run shrinks to 20 minutes

A 1361 kilogram batch of formulated wood products extender is loaded, mixed and discharged for packaging in less than 20 minutes. “The batch size varies depending upon the recipe, and the rate of charge and discharge through the airlock system,” says Mr Hess, “but the entire operation is quick and energy efficient.”

“We can fill, blend and empty the mixer in less than 20 minutes for most formulations versus a typical batch cycle time of 2 hours using the ribbon blender. That machine was limited to a smaller batch size of about 453 kg and required 37 kw compared to 15 kw for a 1361 kg batch in the Rotary Batch Mixer.

“Another plus,” says mix master Hess, “is that there is nearly complete discharge without residue. In filling a 1361 kg bulk bag, only one or two kg of residual material remains in the mixer, if that,” he says.

A rotary airlock valve positioned below the discharge of the Rotary Batch Mixer meters blended material into a pneumatic conveying line routed to storage bins in the packaging area.

A 15 kw motor is sufficient to tumble 1361 kg batches in Rotary Batch Mixer, whereas a 37 kw motor was required to drive agitators through 453 kg batches in the company’s Ribbon Blender.

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MARKETS OUTLOOK Rock bottom prices as supply grows

by John Buckley

"World maize production estimates have dropped recently to take account of lower EU, US and Chinese numbers. Since July, the all-important US crop (37% of world exports) was first raised from 343.7m to 347.6m tonnes, then reduced again to 345.1m (16m under last year’s record harvest. This figure is still contested as many analysts think USDA is over-rating planted/harvested acreage, possibly yields too if some slightly disappointing early-harvest results prove typical"

IT has been a mostly bearish period since our last review – thanks to some new record crop and stocks estimates for wheat and soyabeans and the chill economic wind blowing from China.

The latter especially has unsettled global market sentiment, casting a shadow over the forward outlook for commodity demand – especially in the feed and bio-fuel sectors (depressing crude oil prices to new lows). It also seems to have outweighed, for now at least, the likelihood that US and CIS – possibly also South American maize supply has been over-rated – although, even if it is, there is probably still more than enough of the leading feed grain to meet all perceived demand, as discussed in more detail below. The overall impact of these events as we go to press has been to push prices to new five-year lows for US and EU wheat, 6½- year lows for soyabeans and to dampen ideas of a sustained recovery in the feed grain sector (maize prices have at least managed to stay above last September’s five-year lows but for how long?)

While great news for consumers, the constant slide in raw material prices is generating unease in some countries about the potential impact on farmer incomes and future sowings. We have already seen declines in Canadian and Argentine wheat areas and Latin American maize sowings are tipped to fall too. For the time being, though, large stocks of all the main crop commodities will offer considerable protection for supply going forward, whether from grower cutbacks or anything less than severe, multiple bad weather events.

In the latter respect we have to keep one eye on less promising weather in the CIS region – lack of rain for a Russian (2016) winter wheat crop that’s over halfway sown and Ukraine’s – which is about a quarter planted as we go to press. Anyone who has watched the markets in the last decade will know how easily production in this region can be devastated by droughts or severe winters – sometimes with seismic effect on prices (Russia, the world’s third largest wheat exporter, was arguably the key factor in a world shortfall that drove wheat markets to alltime record highs in early 2008 and contributed to several of the price ‘spikes’ seen since). Dry weather has also been a talking point in Australia and Canada while Argentina’s crop could be its smallest in decades after rain and floods exaggerated farmer planting cutbacks (although as well as low prices, farmers there have long tussled with government interference in export trade).

There is also the ongoing presence of the El Nino climate phenomenon which can bring droughts to Australia and East Asia and too much rain to the Americas. If it really is the strongest for decades, markets might have to reintroduce some weather ‘risk premium’ into prices at some stage going into 2016.

Also to be considered is the possible response of the managed funds to any hint of such weather issues reinvigorating crop futures markets. Commodities generally have been a poor investment in recent years of price collapse and, as mentioned above, may be facing a less than stellar year of consumption growth, especially if China’s wobbling economy spills weakness into Asia and other regional feed markets. That said, the ‘outside’ investor does seem to have a habit of turning a blind eye to such demand fundamentals when weather headlines get prices moving upwards so

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it would be unwise to rule out a return of speculative money if, say, a full-blown Russian drought develops.

For the time being, though, the main Northern Hemisphere harvest season is upon the markets and competition for customers – between wheat exporters for milling imports and between wheat, maize, other coarse grains and ingredients to fill feed demand – will likely remain a formidable price restraint.

Record wheat supplies ANOTHER round of upward revisions to world wheat crop estimates – mainly in Europe and the former Soviet - has propelled the world total to a new record high of 731.6m tonnes, according to the latest USDA outlook. Readers might remember that, back in May, when USDA started issuing 2015/16 crop forecasts, global output was actually expected to drop from last

year’s peak 725m to 719m tonnes.

Recent additions to key world wheat crop forecasts • EU up from 148 to 154m • Russia 57 to 61m • Ukraine 24 to 26.5m.

• Australia 26 to 27m • Turkey 18.5 to 19.5m …and on the debit side • Canada down from 27.5 to 25m • Argentine – maybe as low as 7-8m from 11.5m • India from 90m to 89m Another giant crop means that, for the third year running, production will comfortably exceed consumption, boosting stocks to a new record level at some 227m tonnes (up by over 15m tonnes from last year).

Wheat stocks are seen rising this season in: • China + 14.7m tonnes • USA +4.4m.

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among the loosest of recent years, currently forecast at nearly 32%.

This too is not far off the all-time highs, among which, recent past peaks include the range of 34.4% to 36% lasting for a full six-year period around the turn of the millennium. That surplus depressed the bellwether CBOT futures market well well below $3/bushel ($110/tonne) – prices that are hard to believe now. Compared with that performance, recent CBOT wheat futures prices might be thought to have done well to so far held above the $4.50’s ($165/t) - even if that is the cheapest wheat seen on this market in five years.

Interestingly, the effect has been more marked on US higher-quality spring breadwheat export prices which have dropped to a six year low after a rapid, larger than expected harvest.

The European wheat market, while dropping a bit less than Chicago, has also tested five-year lows. That’ might be good news for consumers but is clearly very unwelcome for those who have to make a living out of growing the stuff. Various recent trade articles have focused on the fact that prices in many countries are either just over, at or even below cost of production. Will that affect sowings in the year ahead? Probably not that much, some abnalysts opine, due to the lack of viable crop alternatives.

(Interestingly, the current season’s global wheat area, mainly planted in the autumn of 2014 for predominantly Northern Hemisphere winter wheat crops) rose by 0.9% - despite the fact that prices were already well into their decline at that time.)

Export competition & prices Global wheat import demand in the 2015/16 season (began July 1) is currently seen falling by 3m tonnes to 158m, leading to fierce competition between plentifully supplied exporters.

The EU – which last season was originally expected to ship 28m tonnes (no mean achievement and still far above the long term average) actually ended up exporting a record 35.4m. As crop estimates have risen, the 2015/16 forecast has increased from 31m to 32m but could go higher if Europe can compete effectively against CIS exports – which means keeping prices cheap. Recently EU sales have fallen behind forecast – mainly due to better deals offered by Russia and Ukraine, not only for the EU’s key (and historically most contested markets in the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) region but in Far East Asia, where feed users have been taking CIS wheat instead of maize from the Americas.

Based on the above forecast and consumption growing by about 2m tonnes(mainly in feeds) EU wheat carryover stocks are expected to grow from 13m to almost 15m tonnes this season, their highest for some years - so there is some leeway to export more if needed.

Germany’s wheat harvest has been showing high quality including better proteins than last year. Although French quality is reported to be up in terms of Hagbergs and moisture, its proteins have been described as ‘disappointing’ again.

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Russia restricted its late 2014/15 season trade with an export duty to keep conserve adequate domestic supplies as it awaited what was, at one tome, an uncertain crop outcome (after some challenging weather and an expected fall in fertiliser use caused by the collapsing rouble). But, thanks to a strong start to the last season it still finished with a respectable 22.8m tonnes of foreign sales – up more than 4m versus 2013/14. The export-slowing duty also resulted in Russia finishing last season with large stocks to add to this year’s now larger-than-expected crop. It’s possible that the new 2015 Russian crop figure may be slightly over-stated by the government but probably not by enough to make a huge difference to its export campaign which has been stepping up markedly in recent weeks and is expected to reach a 23m tonnes. This is despite Russian exporters complaining that the rouble-based duty creates an open-ended risk when they sign wheat contracts (the weak rouble also pushes up Russian domestic prices but makes Russian grain exports worth more in dollars). However, the duty will probably be phased out or abolished soon. Ukraine (sixth largest wheat exporter) has about 2m tonnes more to sell this year and is expected to raise exports accordingly, benefitting, like Russia, from its chronically weak currency to offer cheap dollar prices.

A smaller crop means less wheat will be coming out of (No 4 exporter) Canada (18.5m versus last year’s 24.8m) but a so far promising Australian crop is expected to enable a rise from 16m to 18m tonnes, keeping it in fifth place in the global league.

The US export outlook currently looks less promising, despite an estimated 3m tonne increase in this year’s production and an extra 4.4m tonnes of carry-in stocks from last year. The main problem remains uncompetitive pricing versus virtually all its major competitors, compounded in the contested MENA markets by more expensive transatlantic freight . That leaves US exporters heavily dependent on closer (Latin American, Asia-Pacific Rim) and politically loyal customers for much of its trade. Exports are a far more important factor in US markets which rely on foreign customers to clear over 40% - sometimes as much as half if their crop. In the past season (and this one to date) this lack of competitiveness has probably been cited more often than any other single factor as a price restraint on the bellwether Chicago

futures market. If exports do keep the CBOT in check, global markets will take note (Paris and even London wheat futures often take their initial daily lead from overnight Chicago and/or macroeconomic market events, especially when fresh European grain market news is lacking).

Many traders expect the export contest to remain a price restraint across wheat markets in the months ahead – and this is even before the CIS maize crops get fully harvested and start to make their price-cutting impact on the European and other feedgrain market sectors.

Import trends According to USDA data, the expected drop in world wheat import trade this season is mainly down to lower Iranian (2.5m versus 5m) and Turkish imports (3.8m versus 6m) after these countries voosted domestic crops. A number of smaller importers are seen importing a bit less, the total cutbacks more

than offsetting an expected rise in imports into Brazil after frost and rain damaged that crop. (Although some Brazilian sources now say the crop is bigger than thought, consumption falling so imports will actually drop!) But it’s also possible that these rock-bottom wheat prices will help stimulate a bit of extra importbased consumption in some countries, providing an opportunity for them to rebuild stocks at relatively low cost. About 60% of the expected growth in this season’s wheat use (5.3m tonnes) is seen in the feed sector.

A lot of moving targets among the maize numbers World maize production estimates have dropped recently to take account of lower EU, US and Chinese numbers. Since July, the all-important US crop (37% of world exports) was first raised from 343.7m to 347.6m tonnes, then reduced again to 345.1m (16m under last year’s record harvest). This figure is still contested as many analysts think USDA is over-rating planted/harvested acreage, possibly yields too if some slightly disappointing early-harvest results prove typical. However, at this stage, future revisions are not seen greater than a few million tonnes – not a game changer in the context of the US carrying in a hefty 44m tonnes of old crop stocks and currently seen taking most of those into the next, 2016/17 season that starts next September.

Europe’s maize crop had clearly been running into trouble for some weeks after a dry heatwave set in across France and several other key member states. The latest USDA estimate of just under 58m is down 7.8m since July and over 17m under last year’s (also a record) result, putting it 19m tonnes under estimated consumption needs. EU maize users are expected to make up the shortfall by expanding imports from 9m to 16m tonnes and by drawing down this season’s large, 9.3m starting stock to about 5m tonnes.

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A wide range of estimates meanwhile persists for CIS and Latin American crops. USDA has continued to carry a 27m tonne figure for Ukraine but some local estimates are closer to 23/24m (still enough to keep its export trade higher than the long term average).

A lot of that will be going to fill West Europe’s deficit. The Latin American outlook is especially hard to call. Initially farmers were seen cutting area back sharply in a switch to more lucrative soya crops. Lately, however, some analysts are forecasting both crops will benefit from Brazil’s tumbling currency, boosting producer returns from exports based on strong dollars (the exchange rate has actually fallen to its lowest ever for the Brazilian Real). The last USDA estimate for Brazil’s 2015/16 crop (now being sown) was 79m tonnes but some now think it could get as high or even beat last year’s 84m tonnes. The fluidity in these guesstimates was underlined as we went to press by one well-followed analyst offering a range of 81/88m. But Along with larger carry-in stocks from that record harvest, even the USDA’s lower crop estimate is seen allowing Brazilian exports to jump from 22m to a new all-ime peak of 29m tonnes. That may, however, be undercut by Argentina sowing less. Some estimates for its 2015/16 crop are as low as 21.6m versus the USDA’s 25m and last year’s 26.5m tonnes. That could further dent USDA’s 15.5m tonne Argentine export forecast (already seen 3.5m lower than last year).

But world maize supplies will still be more than adequate.

World feed use of the grain is seen growing by a relatively modest 6m tonnes or so, other industrial/food use and imports all staying more or less stable at last season’s level. In fact, overall, cereal use in feeds is seen growing at a below-trend 1.5% compared with 3.8% last season and 7% in 2013/14).

As global corn production will probably lag consumption in the season ahead, world stocks are seen dropping from 197m to 189.7m tonnes – not a tight figure by historical comparison even if almost half of these reserves are effectively held ‘off-market’ in China. Yet even that figure has a bearish aspect. Having grown from just 59m only four years ago, it faces China with a huge storage problem which simply cannot continue. Chinese farmers’

support prices are being cut by the government which is also trying to auction off some of these reserves. That‘s likely to keep China’s imports – once seen growing sharply – a virtual nonfactor on the world maize market.

Currently, the stock/use ratio for maize is seen around 19.3% compared with last season’s 20% but not tight versus the previous three year range of 15% to 18.5%. The ratio had been as high as 33% in the late nineties but that pushed CBOT futures well under $2/bu (about $79/tonne)) compared with this month’s $3.80 ($150/t). In volume terms, forecast maize ending stocks

for 2015/16 are actually the second highest in 16 years, again broadly bearish. Maize bulls have also been restrained by market talk that consumers’ growing use of plentiful substitutes – wheat, barley, dried distillers’ grains, manioc etc might demand more competitive corn pricing.

meal prices on the floor for a lot longer – unless something severe happens with weather in Latin American weather over the next six months or the USA in the Apr/Sep period next year.

Where market leader soya goes, other oil meals have to follow.

That time-honoured fact will weigh against this season’s lower global rapeseed and sunflower crops – equal to about two million tonnes less oilmeal supply from these sources against an extra 10m soya meal. And those huge soya stocks are there to boost crush further if required. The outlook for oilmeal supply and prices, then, remains encouraging for consumers.

KEY FACTORS AHEAD - WHEAT Russian exporters should play an increasingly aggressive pricing role to reclaiming their reputation as a reliable as well as cheap supplier. Ukraine also has a big crop and will fight hard for its own position as export floor price-setter against Russia, EU and other rivals.

Can the US catch up with its flagging export sales without cutting prices further?

World stocks of wheat carried into 2015/16 now offer an even thicker cushion against any crop weather problems in the months ahead.

The further drop in wheat values back towards or, for some farmers, below cost of production remains an issue that may affect future sowing plans – but probably not much for the year ahead.

Soya glut may expand further As noted in our intro, benchmark Chicago soya futures market has been trading its lowest prices in 6½ years following the spate of recent crop increases and trade concerns about the strength of Chinese demand going forward.

On the supply side, production in the (Sep/Aug) 2015/16 season is forecast by the USDA much the same as last year’s 320m or so. Another giant US crop close to last year’s record 108m tonnes well exceeds expected demand and will lead to a doubling of surplus stocks to over 12m tonnes.

Estimates of next year’s South American crops – just starting planting this month - vary widely but the region as a whole is expected by most observers to turn in another massive harvest.

Top supplier Brazil is expected by USDA to produce 97m tonnes (last year 94.5m) and Argentine 57m (60.8m) although local analysts are now talking figures closer to 100m and 60m respectively as the weak Lat-Am currencies boost farmer returns.

Some dry weather in Brazil may need watching, given the droughts this country has seen in recent years although, in an El Nino year, the odds on that persisting are pretty low.

On the demand side, the key factor is Chinese consumption, expected to grow at 7% compared with last season’s 15.5%.

Globally, soya demand is also growing more slowly (not necessarily due to economic factors – there have been pauses in recent years after periods of heavier than usual importer buying).

This will, however, lead to global stocks growing from an already burdensome 80.6m to almost 87m – even before adding in the possible 6m extra tonnes from next year’s probably underrated South American crop. That means the next season starts with a stock cushion equal to about a third of ther annual global crush – a rather bearish equation that’s likely to keep soya bean and

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COARSE GRAINS Where will the US maize crop end up as USDA juggles with acreage and yield data? Probably a bit lower than seen now How low will Ukraine’s maize crop go and how much will it ship to Europe?

Russia has more maize than last year to export.

How much will Brazil and Argentina sow for harvest in first half 2016?

Good stocks should keep this market amply supplied in the season ahead.

A much smaller EU maize crop this summer will need a lot more imports but there should be no lack of supplies at competitive prices.

Growth of global feed grain – and oilmeal - use is seen slowing this season Competition for coarse grain custom will continued between large maize, wheat and adequate barley, sorghum and other raw material supplies, again helping to contain feed costs.

OILMEALS/PROTEINS Huge soyabean crop surpluses across the Americas continue to offer potential for cheaper global oilmeal costs as 2015 progresses, despite the downturn in alternative oilmeal supplies from rapeseed and sunflowers .

Will lower costs and ample supplies of feed inputs encourage more demand than expected for these products in countries expanding their livestock production systems – China, India, Indonesia etc? Or will China’s economic malaise cap demand?

Developed consumers like the USA may also use more feed as high meat prices boost profitability. But there is clearly plenty of room to meet bigger feed demand without tightening supplies or raising prices.

Soya meal will continue raise its already dominant share of the protein market, demanding price restraint across the oilmeal sector.

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26th Annual IAOM MEA Conference and Expo 2015 Dubai, UAE http://www.iaom-mea.com

n 04-05 November 66th JTIC 2015 Paris, France http://www.jtic.eu

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Solids & Recycling-Technik 2015 Dortmund, Germany http://www.easyfairs.com

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XXXIII ALIM Meeting Argentina 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.alim2015.com

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Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids - UK Kent, United Kingdom http://www.bulksolids.com

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Farm 2 Fork New Delhi, India http://www.phdcci.in/

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Agra Innovate Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria http://www.agra-innovate.com/nigeria/

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Taking place in Paris Nord Villepinte, France, from 1-3 December, Fi Europe 2015 will welcome over 26,000 visitors from all over the world and more than 1,300 exhibitors including Brenntag, Cargill, ADM and Naturex. A number of exhibitors will be showcasing their innovations and solutions in protein, such as Rousselot, Prinova and Essentia Protein Solutions and there will be several features on the show floor for visitors which will focus on the trending topic of proteins.

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he Ukrainian Grain Association and the information-analytical agency APK-Inform announce the latest edition of the Ukrainian Agrarian Congress.

As in 2014/15, the Congress will be held in three rounds. Each round will focus on the most topical issues of development of the world and Ukrainian agricultural business.

The first round of the Ukrainian Agrarian Congress will be held in Kiev, Ukraine, on October 15-16, 2015.

To date, establishing effective dialogue between agribusiness and government is still the main purpose of the agricultural sector in Ukraine. Key rules of the agricultural sector: have they have changed over the past year?

What are the results of the Ukrainian government's work, and what have any enacted reforms caused? Reporting aspects and other issues will be discussed within the framework of the Ukrainian

Agrarian Congress, which will also cover the issues of functioning of the world and Ukrainian agricultural markets and provide forecasts for long-term development of the market.

The meeting of representatives of the agrarian business of Ukraine jointly with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the Agrarian committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy and Development of Ukraine, and representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), sectoral agrarian associations of international organisations, will receive the unique opportunity to analyse the work of the government over the past year, and specify the future development of the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

Encouraging investment in all agricultural sectors, including agricultural commodities production, the food industry, animal husbandry etc is still the most important issue for Ukraine. Within the framework of a panel discussion on investment

opportunities in agribusiness, the Congress participants will discuss the role of Ukraine in the global food market, estimate investment volumes attracted over the 2014-2015 period, as well as willingness of foreign investors to invest in Ukraine.

Major topics of the Congress: • Macroeconomic situation in Ukraine and its impact on the further development of agricultural business • World agrarian market: impact factors, demand making • World grain trade: international experience and opportunities for Ukraine • Prospective markets for Ukrainian agricultural commodities: demand and trade features in 2014/15 MY • Condition of the infrastructure of Ukraine as the limiting factor for development of the agrarian market The Black Sea-Caspian Sea Agrarian Congress, to be held in the Azerbaijani capital Baku in April 2016, will form the second stage of discussions at the highest level on agricultural commodities production and trading in the region.

Finally, the Ukrainian-American Agrarian Congress (June 2016, USA) will form the third stage.

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he JTIC International Milling and Cereal Industries Show, organised by AEMIC will be held from Wednesday 4th - Thursday 5th November 2015 Paris Event Centre at Porte de la Vilette, France. JTIC will offer two days dedicated to cereal industry professionals.

The two days will feature an exhibition welcoming more than 100 exhibitors, service providers and suppliers of products and equipment, and four half-days of plenary conferences.

Plenary conferences:

Air control and treatment in the cereal industries Wednesday 4 November 2015: 9:30-11:30am Chaired by Gilles Renaud and animated by Jérôme Bergerot, journalist Extraction, drying, handling, pressurisation, air is an essential technical and logistical support at cereal industry production sites.

The issue of air conditioning in secondary processing and the role of air in finished products are also important to take into account.

The proliferation of every type of use has had serious consequences on energy consumption, which therefore needs optimising. JTIC proposes a review of the current state of problems and challenges of air in our industries.

Milling and Biorefining: The cereals between food and green chemistry Wednesday 4 November 2015: 2:30-4:30pm INRA Partnership Chaired by Joël Abécassis (Inra), moderated by Fabienne Chauvière, journalist At a time when the “Food or Fuel” debate remains unresolved, JTIC is proposing a review of the state of first-generation bioethanol processes, from an environmental and economic point of view. Bio-sourced materials, bioplastics, solvents and even cosmetics.Then zoom to advances in research in the green chemistry sector, with a product- and technology-based approach.

Striving to get the most from every aspect of the plant, this industry inherently features a circular economy, a concept currently in the air. An opportunity to open the debate: how can primary processing industries feature in this bioeconomy, through the concept of biorefining?

Quality of wheat this year Thursday 5 November 2015: 9:30-11:30am ARVALIS - Institut du Végétal Partnership Chaired by Christine Bar l'Helgouac'h A roadmap of the 2015 soft wheat harvest. That’s what JTIC is proposing to sketch out with a panoramic overview of the global market and an update on the technological quality of the harvest.

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characteristics of the harvest deciphered.

Protein content, specific weight, Hagberg Falling Number, productivity, and adaptation to global warming... Research is working to improve varieties. Which means progress to meeting new social expectations, through the more efficient use of nitrogen additives, for example, but also commercial imperatives such as adapting to the demands of the domestic as well as export markets openings.

Innovation in industrial bakery, impact of foreign products Thursday 5 November 2015: 2:30-4:30pm Chaired by Aliette Verel and Olivier Descamps and moderated

by Mac Lesggy In globalised markets, where information exchange has never been easier or faster to adopt digitisation, influences and trends spread at lightening speed. And the agri-food industry is no exception to the rule: culinary specialties no longer have geographic boundaries and consumption patterns are continuously changing.

Nomadic lifestyles, food safety, locavorism, regional specialties...

Industrial bakeries continue to innovate to meet consumers’ expectations. What are the major trends? How is the sector and its suppliers responding to these changes? Thats what JTIC proposes to explore.

Research work features centre-stage

In addition to the results presented during the conferences, the JTIC is setting up a dedicated space to feature the latest research on cereal-industry related topics. Center-stage at the show, it will allow all guests to explore the areas that scientists are working on. Presented in the form of posters to attract and engage, they will showcase a range of scientific and technical developments in the Cereal Industry, selected by the review panel. Prizes will be awarded to the best presentations, during the event.

at its stand, which will be consumed by the participants at lunchtimes on 4 and 5 November.

The evening event on 4 November will be held at Pau Brazil, in a festive and convivial setting. The guest of honour is yet to be announced.

Q&A with JTIC event organiser Nelly Duprat of AEMIC

MAG: What has changed in the industry since last year?

Have there been any company takeovers?

We are continuing to see small mills being taken over by big groups, especially in the west of France. In March we also saw the merger of Axéréal and Dijon Céréales, which created the second largest milling group in the French market. With a production capacity of over 430,000 tonnes of flour, its ten mills and six distribution platforms employ 600 people.

This year was also marked by the extension of the “protein agreement”, adopted by Intercéréales, which now specifies protein content in all wheat contracts between storage agencies and their user customers. For the 2015 harvest, this criterion also now figures in the arrangements between growers and storage agencies in order to raise awareness all along the value chain of the importance of this criterion, especially for the export trade.

Lastly, at more than 40 Mt, the 2015 soft wheat harvest was a record in terms of volumes, with an average yield of 7900 kg/ ha. According to the survey of 270 storage agencies carried out

by FranceAgrimer and the Arvalis Plant Institute, the technical quality of the harvest was considered “very good” with a moisture content, usually over 13.5 percent in French grains, actually lower at 12.8 percent.

MAG: I understand that GrainTechCluster of Turkey gave a talk at last year's event. Can visitors expect any extras this time around?

In terms of new approaches and innovations, visitors will not be disappointed this year. Six innovations, approved by our selection committee, will be presented in the workshop area. The programme of workshops will be made public after the jury has met on 23 October.

This year, for the first time, a cooperative - Vivescia - will be exhibiting at the JTIC to meet its milling customers. In addition, Minoterie Suire will be making organic bread and fine pastries

MAG: Will any awards be given out this year's event? If so, what will they involve?

We will have three prize-givings this year. The most eagerly awaited and media-hyped is the one for the exhibitor and visitor challenge which will held on the evening of 4 November. The 2015 Challenge includes bonus points for exhibitors and a new prize for visitors in the selfie competition. All visitors are invited to take a photo of themselves at stands and assign them a score.

The visitor with the most selfies will also receive an award at the prize-giving.

Two other award ceremonies will also highlight the best projects in Young Talent Competition / Défi Jeunes Talents (DJT). The winning authors will see their work published in Industries des Céréales magazine and will be awarded prize money to help them continue their work.

MAG: How can Milling and Grain readers engage with the event, is there anything exhibitors or visitors can participate in during the lead up to the event?

All cereal industry professionals who wish to do so can use the JTICs to present their ideas and their work. Whether by setting up a workshop or a poster, they can inform and look for support, partners and even customers from among the other participants.

Proposals must be submitted by 12 October.

Those looking to hire, as well as job-seekers, are invited to contact AEMIC to prepare their participation at the 2015 Job Fair which will be held at the JTIC. Those interested can also follow the latest JTIC news on Twitter and Facebook, to prepare every aspect of their schedule at the Show.

MAG: On your website there is a brief description for each of the four conferences, what is the significance of these conferences and speakers?

The goal of the JTIC conferences is to inform and educate participants on a wide range of topics. The speakers are always selected for their technical expertise and their experience in the particular field.

MAG: This year JTIC event is moving to a larger venue in Paris, why has this change been made?

JTIC has been getting bigger for 66 years. From the first conference in 1949, the first exhibition of suppliers in 1970, to going international in 2010 in partnership with IAOM, the JTICs have not stopped growing. The return to Paris, which most of our participants have asked for, is a necessary step to be able to continue our development and particularly to make it more easily accessible for international visitors.

MAG: What is the reach of this event globally?

The JTICs are more than a Show or a scientific conference. It is the only event of its kind in France, indeed in Europe, dedicated to the entire cereals industry.

The only one that addresses the concerns of the entire value chain, from the quality of the grain harvest to innovations in baking, including economic and ecological issues, and presenting

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Industry events an exhaustive selection of machines and ingredients.

The goal of the JTICs is also to promote our industry’s knowhow and expertise all around the world. Users of French wheat are naturally curious to discover the new approaches and ideas that JTICs offer each year. Nonetheless, an increasing proportion of Eurasian and American wheat users are interested in know-how of our experts and our exhibitors.

Twenty percent of JTIC exhibitors come from Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Scotland and Spain) and other parts of the world (Brazil, China, Turkey) to present their Equipment solutions.

Visitors can also compare and select from an offering truly representative of the market.

The Job Fair is also becoming increasingly international with, this year, “speedmeetings” to allow French and international companies to come find new talent from among the young graduates from AEMIC’s partner schools.

MAG: How wide a range of the industry is encompassed, are artisan millers accommodated?

All cereal industry professionals are welcome at the JTICs. Whether they are at the upstream or downstream end of the value chain, whether they are small operations or big groups, they can all find useful information at the conferences and technical solutions among the exhibitors.

The topics addressed at the conferences are for the most part consensual. The topics and speakers are chosen to provide a panorama of the entire topic and the key aspects of each one. As the development of cereal-based bioenergy, for example, has an impact on the market and the price of grain, all millers are affected by this activity as they use the same commodities.

Similarly, artisanal operations are not unaffected by the strategies of industrial bakers, such as for example the development of gluten-free products, as they satisfy a consumer demand. Last but not least, issues such as global warming, which will be addressed at the Arvalis conference, are common concerns as we all suffer the consequences.

Our exhibitors offer ranges of products and services for every type of industry, permitting the biggest as well as the smallest to optimise their processes and yields, and the quality of their products. Although foreign visitors represent the biggest industries, the French public is very representative of the milling landscape in France. And small millers always regularly attend the JTICs. MAG: Is there anything else you would lito to say to further promote the event?

To improve interaction and public participation at conferences, visitors can send their questions to conference speakers and panellists by SMS. The questions are collated and posed by the facilitator at the end of each conference.

This year, for the first time, the exhibition will have a “Young Business Incubator” stand. At that stand, businesses launched within the last two years by AEMIC members will be able to use JTIC to publicise their industry activities.

In parallel with the “French-style” lunches that can be reserved, a Masterchef Foodtruck will let exhibitors and participants who are in a hurry enjoy “finger food”. Burgers and other interesting snacks will be offered by competitors on the reality TV cooking show Masterchef, inspired by the successful series broadcast in the UK by the BBC.

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Event review

SPACE 2015 The International Livestock Trade Fair Review

Event organisers, Anne-Marie Quemener and Cecile Berthier

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Pierre Joris from Symaga

PACE 2015 has come to an end for another year, Milling and Grain’s team members, Tuti Tan and Roger Gilbert attended the four-day event which ran from Tuesday 15th – Friday 18th September.

This time around, the event was held at the Rennes Exhibition Centre, just a 10km drive from the city centre of Rennes,

France.

The weather was not the best - but this did not keep the 106 226 visitors who attended away.

At the 29th SPACE, there were 15,042 international visitors from 125 countries, an increase on the 2014 event of 118 countries in attendance. The total attendance of the event was down slightly on last year due to fewer French visitors but this was more than offset with a 13 percent increase in International visitors when compared to last year.

There were large delegations from Algeria, China, Egypt, Iran, India, Morocco and elsewhere from around the world, firmly establishing SPACE as a livestock event with true global reach.

Record breaking figures

Denis Giraudoux from Biomin

Records were broken regarding the number of exhibitors, 1449 versus the 1428 of 2014. Nearly 200 new companies were on show. The number of foreign exhibitors was much higher, 494 versus the 458 of 2014.

The amount of stand and exhibition space had increased, with 69,500m² of net space and 116,500m² of total gross area.

This event is a popular one, even with the increased space and despite the poor weather the halls were still crowded and the roads were queuing with visitors all with their own interests that were surely met at this expansive gathering.

High-quality event

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Laurent Rounce, Francois Recoquillay from Phytosynthese

could be seen. Suggesting that SPACE is of key importance strategically for many in the industry.

Livestock farmers are often running their own projects, and as they continue to modernise their farms in countless ways, visiting an event like SPACE is a great investment. It allows everyone, exhibitors and livestock farmers, to meet in a friendly atmosphere to find common prospects and discuss ideas for the future of livestock production.

The hospitality at SPACE was great; the restaurant provided splendid food at reasonable prices. There was plenty of seating space available, functioning as a nice place to sit and refresh amongst full days of discovering new innovations and networking.

The team from DLG were at SPACE

Stefan Gallard from Invivo - with Roger Gilbert from Milling and Grain

Innov’Space awards

The 2015 Expo was also marked by the Innov’Space awards, with 48 winners including five special prizes. At the 20th anniversary celebration of Innov’Space during the Exhibitors’ Soirée, the companies that had won the most times were awarded an exclusive distinction.

They praised the value of the label, which is a mark of recognition of the research teams who endeavour to find new solutions for farmers, and recognition of the entire profession.

Nikolaus Jungbluth, Jan Frericks from Leiber

Jose Demuynck from Danis

Research and development village

The success of the Research and Development Village on the theme ‘My Connected Farm - Performance at My Fingertips’ shows that visitors to SPACE, and livestock farmers in general, are looking for innovative and effective tools to improve farm performance, animal welfare and working conditions.

Over the four-day Expo, presenters at the Research and Development Village provided information on precision feeding, digital technology in dairy farming, using data in poultry farming, and selective breeding for the future.

Animal presentations

The animal presentations also focused on innovation with the only multi-breed auction in France. The sale featured Prim’Holstein, Normande, Pie Rouge, Brune and for the first time Montbéliarde and Limousin breeds. It was a great success, with several animals sold for export, particularly to Portugal.

The Limousin Breed Festival placed this breed in the limelight this year and was boosted by the participation of breeders from the breed’s region of origin, unfortunately limited for health reasons.

Sylvie Roquefeuil from Lallemand

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Pietro Barbalarga

New Flour Evaluation Test for Soft Products

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Export Director MEA, Eurogerm

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Stephane Cochet

Cristian Torri

Dr. Anna Zhenchuk

Technical Marketing Manager, BioAnalyt GmbH MGA - Online Multifunction A Tool to confidently Market Anylab - New Method for Quick Grain Analyzer Vitamin Enriched Flour Determination of Hagberg Value Export Director, Chopin Technologies

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What’s happening in the markets?

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Vice President of Overseas Operations, US Wheat Associates, Inc. US Market Outlook

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Director, Ameropa SA Black Sea Market Outlook

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Indrek Aigro

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Broker for Grains, Copenhagen Merchants

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Deputy Minister, Chairman & CEO, Government Trading Corporation of Iran

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Event review

Sixth GrainTech India 2015

T

he sixth annual GrainTech India exhibition has concluded at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru, India.

GrainTech India 2015 was hosted by Media Today Group and focused on products and technology related to grains, cereals, oilseeds, spices and feeds. The seventh FOODEX exhibition was hosted concurrently at the same venue.

Thousands of Indian and International visitors were in attendance throughout the three-day event. The event attracted many international guests, with attendees from Turkey, China, Taiwan, Germany, USA, Poland, The Netherlands and other countries.

International and Indian stakeholders alike were exhibiting their products and services, with a total of over 200 exhibitors on display.

A highlight from the event was the Indian Flour Milling Industry and Mega Food Parks Conclave that took place on August 21, 2015. Chief coordinator of Media Today Group, Mr Syed Jafar Naqvi, made the opening remarks for the conference.

President of the Karnataka Roller Flour Mills Association, Mr Prashant Jain, made a welcoming address. This was followed by a keynote address provided by Mr. Hitesh Chandak, the President of Roller Flour Millers Federation of India, who brought forth the main issues and challenges faced by the industry.

The Conclave included both national and international speakers. Among the topics highlighted were the emerging trends of value-addition in the grain milling industry, market

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scenario of value-added and Ready to Eat (RTE) products, quality issues and technical solutions, mega food parks, cold chain development and food sector, and the scope of agribusiness and food industry as a viable career option.

Participants and speakers from the Indian Milling Industry, exchanged their respective opinions, ideas, experiences, and suggested ways to improve the industry by taking advantage of modern advancements.

Ideas were shared by international participants such as Buhler India, Alapala Machines (Turkey), Molino (Turkey), and others. Discussions around what is required for the future of the flour milling industry took place.

The event provided a platform for leading personalities of the Indian and International Flour Milling Industry to interact with each other and work towards the development of efficient means of addressing the needs of the industry.

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Hao Bo

Zhengchang, established in 1918, has made constant innovations in feed machinery industry and accumulated a wealth of experience in tackling the various challenges facing feed companies over the past almost 100 years. Over that period Zhengchang (formerly more commonly known as ZCME) has evolved into China’s largest manufacture of feed machinery and has 16 branches in China with over 1300 staff and more than 30 offices all over the world. To date the company has constructed more than 2000 turnkey projects around the world, covering fields of poultry and livestock feed, aquatic feed, petfood, premixes plants as well as related sawdust pellet and fertilizer processing facilities. In addition it is a significant supplier of silo storage construction, electrical control systems and even waste processing and treatment plants. Today, its aim is to deliver to its clients higher feed quality, higher overall capacity and more profits.

Milling and Grain had the opportunity earlier this year, during Victam and GRAPAS in Germany, to interview the owner and Chief Executive Officer of the ZhengChang machinery company Mr Hao Bo on its history, development and his views as to where the feed milling industry will develop in future.

The Chinese feed processing industry is relatively young, however, China has become the largest country in feed production with the capacity of 198 million tons per year. Why has the Chinese feed industry develops so rapidly?

How can Zhengchang Group succeed in domestic market and what are the key factors of its development?

In addition, the fast growth of the feed industry provides the wider stage for feed field development. Zhengchang Group is one of the Chinese feed industry representative enterprises, which is the earliest large-scale enterprise engaging in producing feed machines as well as developing and manufacturing feed projects. Zhengchang Group successfully developed the first Chinese feed pellet mill in 1974, which not only fills in the gap that Chinese feed enterprises can’t produce pellet mill but promotes the development of the Chinese feed industry as a whole. For example, it helps enhance the R&D ability of hammer mills, extruders, mixers, computer bagging scales and the relative products. And it has become the “Mother Machine” for promoting the development of the Chinese feed industry.

Besides, the pellet mill which has the capacity of 75 tons/ hour is under development. Besides specialising in the key products of the feed industry, Zhengchang Group expands its vision to the feed project and puts forward feed ‘turn key’ projects, which means Zhengchang Group can offer the customers the full set of equipment and services: from the civil work construction to the installation, commissioning and offering feed formulas - the customers just needs to accept the keys. By producing high-quality feed machines and projects, promoting the development of agriculture and farming, until today, Zhengchang Group has produced more than 9000 sets pellet mills for customers both at home and abroad and completed nearly 4000 feed projects.

First of all, China has the population of 1.3 billion which means it is a very huge consuming market of itself. Especially after China carried out reform and open policy, agriculture has a fast and continuous development. China also carried out the “Vegetable Basket Project” which brings benefits to all, and introduced a series of policies to support and promote the fast development of the feed industry; such as exempting the added-value tax for the selling of feed products as well as the selling of commercial pigs and breeding pigs. Implementing of these policies plays a great role in promoting high-speed development of the Chinese feed industry.

Third, the change of people’s consumption structure promotes the rapid development of stock farming. As a result, the feed market expands continuously. The increase of the industrial feed rate, on the contrary, promotes the development of stock farming which also pulls the needs for feed. Fourth, with the development of science and technology, famer’s breeding concept begin to turn to large-scale, standardisation, specialisation model, industry feed popularising rate increases year by year, the rate of output of land, workforce and food enhances step by step.

All of the above factors make great contribution to the development of the Chinese feed industry.

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The vision of the Zhengchang Group is to become a worldclass enterprise of the food, oil, feed machines and projects, improving the human standard of living, creating the values for the customers and the opportunities for its employees.

Based on this vision, Zhengchang Group has concentrated on the development of the global feed industry for many years, and specialises in developing and manufacturing all kinds of equipment of the feed industry. In 1974, it developed the first pellet mill, and afterwards it was consistent to pay great attention to the high efficiency, energy-saving, high stability of the innovation of the pellet mill. The capacity of the pellet mill from the initial 5 tons/hour increasing to 10 tons/hour, 25 tons/hour, 40 tons/hour, up to today’s 55 tons/ hour.

Besides paying attention to the quality and efficiency of the feed machinery, Zhengchang Group keeps focused on creating value for customers, and manufactures the production lines which are kept for happiness. These lines not only enhance the capacity more than 15 percent, but with the unique technologies and differential competitive power. Such as the R&D of the process and equipment for piglet feed production line, layer feed production line, cattle and sheep feed production line. The general manager of the Wuhan Kangdi Feed Company has said, “the piglet production line of Zhengchang’s gives us the differential equipment and process and it is the best piglet production line in globally.” Despite the fierce competition in the market, the piglet feed from this company are still in short supply.

Through continuous innovation of technologies and process, enhancing the cost performance, Zhengchang Group help its customers save cost, improve efficiency, gain extra profits and occupy more market shares.

Mr Hao Bo, can you tell us how did Zhengchang Group do when it changed from a state-owned company to a private company and its framework?

What is its turnover?

Around the year of 2000, China holds a enterprise system reform nationwide, the purpose of the reform was to make these enterprises more energetic, creative and promote the development of these enterprises. Zhengchang Group has been formed in 2003. And from then on the sale by Zhengchang Group has increased more than tenfold.

When did Zhengchang Group enter the feed machinery foreign market, which countries and regions are key markets for Zhengchang Group ?

In the early 21st century, Zhengchang Group paid attention to foreign markets and put forward the policy that both domestic and foreign markets play the same role in the development of Zhengchang, and has since worked hard to extend the foreign market. In 2008, Zhengchang Group established Shanghai Zhengchang International Machinery and Engineering Co Limited, which can work independently to deal with foreign affairs and offer services to foreign customers. It opened the international market new pattern.

Now Zhengchang Group has extended foreign markets in many different regions and countries. For example, in Asia, including the countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Burma, Kazakhstan; in Africa, including Egypt, Nigeria; in South America, including Brazil, Peru, Columbia. In addition there is also Russia, and other 80 other countries.

Is the European market important to Zhengchang Group in the future? Give some examples to illustrate.

Are other markets the key markets for Zhengchang Group that Zhengchang will pay greater attention to?

European market is huge and full of fierce competitions.

While there is no doubt that Zhengchang Group not only competes in this market but wins its place as well.

Our company can win this market because we always provide high-quality, stable performance, high efficiency, advanced process and cost performance equipment to our customers.

In fact, our company has a lot of loyal and old customers in Europe. At the same time, our company pays great attention to the Asian, African and South American markets which are supposed to be the key markets for Zhengchang Group. As signing the contract of 45TPH project with DABACO Vietnam, holding the open ceremony of Zhengchang Group Brazil subsidiary and making the construction plan of a Brazilian factory, Zhengchang Group will provide more and better services to the customers from these countries and regions in the future.

What are the differences of your knock-out products sold in the domestic markets and the foreign markets? What kinds of changes will happen in the future years?

The featured products of Zhengchang Group in overseas markets are feed projects, wood pellet projects, steel silo projects, etc. In the future, Zhengchang Group will pay more attention to enhancing the quality of after-sales services.

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In February, 2011 Zhengchang Group initiated its “Chinese feed hammer mill production base” What is that and how can it help the feed industry?

By upgrading and rebuilding the hammer mills of customers’, the capacity of hammer mills can be increase 30-50 percent, which makes great contribution to a feed enterprises by helping them increase capacity and reduce power consumption in this current meager age.

What new developments and direction does the company focus on?

Zhengchang Group has been concentrating on the development and manufacture of the feed machinery and the improvement of feed technology for many years.

In the future, Zhengchang Group will also stay in the feed industry but pay more attention to intelligence, large-scale, high-efficiency and internationalisation, especially when facing the coming 4.0 industry age, Zhengchang Group will complete its products more precisely and superiorly to realise the purposes of making more professional equipment, more advanced technology, higher quality, higher efficiency, clearer orientation and more accurate market position.

Besides providing equipment and turn-key projects to customers, what kinds of products and services can the Zhengchang Group provide to customers?

Besides improving the quality of our products continuously, Zhengchang Group pays attention to offering better services, including the follow aspects: equipment installation, training for operating personnel, equipment maintenance, etc.

What’s more, Zhengchang Group establishes six plus two all-around service system, which can help our customers get better services, work more independently, better understand the core characteristics of the products and better use these products. As a result, it helps Zhengchang Group change the relationship with the customers: get rid of just buyerseller relationship, and establish the long-term strategic cooperation relationship of ‘Creating values for customers’.

What are in your opinion the future global food and feed industry development directions?

Because feed processing enterprises can’t provide terminal products to mankind, it is the best choice for feed processing enterprises to cooperate with breeding companies and food processing enterprises. From the perspective of macroeconomic analysis, the main drivers of Chinese economy is from economic system and economic policies to labour, capital and science and technology step-by-step. China has a lack of capital but is full of cheap labour. Considering the cost selection, using labour as a replacement of capital and developing labour-incentive industries can bring its comparative advantage into full play, which also can help absorb surplus labour, increase farmer’s income and support the development of the overall economy. So the feed processing industry should devote its own value firmly to this.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Cargill elects CEO David MacLennan as next chairman

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argill’s board of directors have elected David W. MacLennan, currently Cargill’s president and chief executive officer, as chairman of the board in addition to his current responsibilities. Gregory R. Page, 64, will step down as executive chairman and continue to serve on the board as an executive director of the company.

David MacLennan

“The board appreciates David’s leadership and management of the company. We have the highest confidence he will deliver long-term growth for Cargill. Now is the time for him to lead the board as well,” Page said.

MacLennan, 56, joined Cargill in 1991 and has held various leadership positions within the financial, risk management, energy and animal protein businesses in the United States, London and Geneva. He left the company in 2000 to become president of Fixed Income Capital Markets at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray and returned to Cargill in 2002.

In 2008 he was named Cargill’s chief financial officer and elected to the Cargill Board of Directors. He was elected Cargill’s president and chief operating officer in 2011, and chief executive officer in 2013. MacLennan earned a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago.

Ryan Covington joins SonicAire by IES’s engineering team

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ntegrated Environmental Solutions, Inc. manufacturer of SonicAire® fans, announces the addition of Ryan Covington as Engineering Manager, responsible for directing the product development team.

“Mr Covington will manage the certification process for our SonicAire products compliance to North American and international standards”, said Brad Carr, President of IES.

“His ability to listen closely to our clients, making sure they receive the most suitable product and documentation for their needs, will be an invaluable asset.”

Ryan Covington

Graduating from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mr Covington brings a wealth of experience to IES and the further development and application of their SonicAire fans. These fans are uniquely designed to address combustible fugitive dust in a variety of manufacturing and industrial settings.

Prior to coming to IES, Mr Covington worked for Underwriters Laboratories LLC from 2006 to 2014; first as a Senior Project/Field Evaluation Engineer and finally as an Engineering Manager.

“Ryan’s experience managing engineering teams, developing product improvement programs, and providing technical support will be invaluable to IES as we adapt our product for additional markets and grow our customer base,” said Jordan Newton, Vice President of Engineering and Sales.

A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and International Association of Electrical Inspectors, Mr Covington enjoys woodworking and model trains and is also active in the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the Raleigh Moravian Band.

Bühler Aeroglide Appoints Jason Pintuff to Manage Process Development Expertise for Customers Worldwide

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ühler Aeroglide, a global leader in thermal process engineering and technology for food, feed, and industrial materials has appointed Jason Pintuff Process Development Manager. In this role, Pintuff will coordinate the company’s international lab resources and technical processing support to help customers create and manage successful food processing operations.

“As Process Development Manager within the Process Engineering Department, Jason will now manage and coordinate field engineering, international lab services, data tracking tools and the technical training necessary for our customers to own and operate successful food, feed and industrial

Pintuff’s experience will serve Bühler customers well. Pintuff joined Aeroglide in 2005 as a Field Engineer and later transitioned to Process Engineering where he served the feed market as an Applications Specialist.

In 2011, Pintuff began supporting sales for the food and feed industries, and most recently, he served as Regional Sales Manager. Prior to joining Bühler Aeroglide, he was a Project Manager for Microthermics, building lab drying equipment for Fortune 100 food companies. He also worked in the power generation division of Siemens. Pintuff has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from North Carolina State University and an A.S.E in Engineering from Isothermal Community College.

“I’m excited about working with our worldwide team of engineers and scientists to leverage Bühler’s unique expertise, now aligned to enhance operations for our customers,” said Pintuff. “We do more than help food manufacturers with thermal processing equipment. We provide food science specific processing expertise, and this is expected to be a significant value to all food applications.”

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