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Changing market dynamics and the prospect of a fourth consecutive record harvest

With the northern hemisphere harvest moving toward the final stages, it is shaping up to be an interesting year for the global wheat market.

Following three consecutive record harvests, the world has been very well supplied with wheat over recent seasons. Despite record demand, huge crops have seen world stocks swell to all-time peaks.

This has put pressure on prices; since mid-2013, average milling wheat export prices (US$ fob) have fallen by about one-third.

World production for the current 2016/17 season could potentially be a record for a fourth consecutive year, but despite this, there are signs that the dynamics of the market are changing.

The global trading environment is being complicated by disappointing harvest quality in major growing areas, including in parts of the US and the EU. So, although overall world availabilities could be at their highest ever, securing supplies of the desired milling quality may be somewhat harder, and more expensive, than in recent seasons.

The impact of this is already visible in recent price movements. Reflecting abundant supplies overall, the Council’s index of world average export prices is at around 10 year lows. However, price premiums for the best quality milling wheat, with high protein levels, good hagberg falling numbers and test weights, are widening.

The way in which this affects global trade will be of particular interest to the IGC. Competitively priced supplies from the EU and the Black Sea region (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) have captured an increasing share of global wheat trade in recent years, with their shipments reaching all-time peaks.

This has largely been at the expense of US

market share, as sales from that origin, which in the past was by far the largest global supplier, have retreated to around 40-year lows. A strong US dollar has contributed to poor price competitiveness for US shipments to some of the world’s key buyers in North Africa and Near East Asia, where sales from Europe and the CIS have done particularly well.

Potentially the key change for trade in the 2016/17 (Jul/Jun) season will be a slump in exports by the EU, with these currently projected at around a four-year low by the Council.

Unusually for the harvest period, EU export prices have risen in recent weeks as concerns escalated about the size and quality of the harvest, especially in France and Germany. While milling wheat export quotations in Russia and Ukraine have edged higher too, they have stayed relatively low and this has improved the attractiveness of their new crop supplies to potential importers.

The US is also expected to benefit from the problems in Europe, with a rebound in exports possible over the coming year, especially for higher-grade milling wheat. For the first time in around two years, US Hard Red Winter milling wheat is priced (on a US$ fob basis) below equivalent supplies in the EU, albeit still more expensive than Russian wheats. If these price relationships are maintained, 2016/17 could see US exports reach a three-season high, but Russia will probably be the single largest wheat exporter for a second consecutive year.

Given the worries about availabilities of high quality wheat from some of this year’s crop, market participants will be monitoring closely the outcome from those areas that are still to be combined. Early signs from the US spring wheat harvest are promising, with mostly good yields and quality reported. However, traders will also be watching to see if current favourable prospects for crops are realised in Canada, Australia and Argentina.

Amy Reynolds, Senior Economist, IGC

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Improving raw material quality for millers

When China discovered that they were losing a significant amount of harvested crop through poor storage, it was decided that something at a national level had to be done about it; that’s what is happening there today See the full story on page 80

NEWS

IGC predictions ring true

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Source: FAO

As many of the speakers predicted at the recent IGC Conference, China’s imports of corn and feed grains are set to slump after the government increased the amount auctioned from state reserves and domestic prices dropped to a decade low.

See the full story on page 22

7.9 million metric tons - China is currently the world’s secondbiggest corn consumer, and its government is offering about 7.9 million metric tons of corn from its stockpiles for a third week; compared with six million tons offered in auctions held July 21 and 22 and about two million tons offered July 12-13, which included poor quality grain.

21 Percent - China has contributed to the singular economic growth and increased food production achieved by the country, which accounts for 21 percent of the world’s population and only 9 and 6 percent of its arable land and water resources, respectively.

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INDUSTRY EVENT

Where science meets business in Beijing

Bigger than ever and earlier in the year than its previous editions, the major international Feed to Food trade fair platform VIV China returns to Beijing in September when it will form an important part of a week full of activities and information for professionals from the global animal protein industries.

VIV China 2016 takes place at the New China International Exhibition Centre (NCIEC) in Beijing.

See the full story on page 98

STORY

The Gaba Rice revolution

At the beginning of 2012 Satake launched rinse-free GABA rice.

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ne of the priorities of the Voluntary Initiative (VI) is to minimise the risk to bees and other pollinators. The Crop Protection Association (CPA), working with the NFU and the British Beekeepers Association, has developed a new VI tool – Bee Connected.

This web-based alert system enables spray operators to alert local beekeepers of planned insecticide applications.

To ensure beekeepers are only notified of a relevant spray event, as well as the timing and name of the active ingredient(s), the alert includes the distance and direction of the planned spray event as well as detailed information about the active ingredient(s).

Dr Colin Ruscoe, President of the British Crop Production Council notes, “Bee Connected includes information from BCPC’s The UK Pesticide Guide, including available data on hazard to non-target organisms. This will be invaluable in allowing the beekeeper to determine the likelihood of harm to bees arising from the product to be used, and so the relevant safety precautions to be taken”.

Bee Connected also includes details of the crop being sprayed and whether it is bordered by flower-rich margins.

Following a successful pilot in Hertfordshire Bee Connected will be launched across the UK in September 2016. The British Crop Production Council’s range of conferences, publications, online databases and working groups provides independent, authoritative science-based information to practitioners, researchers and policymakers.

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In the third week of August I participated in a conference with some 750 millers from around the world. Nothing unusual there, but what came next was.

Opening the company’s first Buhler Networking Days 2016, CEO Stefan Scheiber made the statement that the millers’ in the room, produce products and services which touch the food needs of four billon people everyday; that’s over half the planet’s total population of 7.3 billion.

Mr Scheiber went on to say, “It’s time now that private industry steps up to make a difference” in addressing the expected food needs of nine billion people by 2050.

This is very good news indeed.

Through my tenure as Secretary General of the International Feed Industry Federation, which I held from 1988 to 2010, I identified and promoted awareness of the fact that the world population was increasing rapidly and that governments and industry needed to work together to address the issue of food supply to meet the needs of 9.5 billion by 2050.

On behalf of the feed industry I was the first person to coin this phrase.

Buhler, one of the world’s most significant suppliers of milling and related equipment to the food and feed processing sectors, has now not only acknowledged the challenge publicly but is prepared to do something about it.

We will be reporting on the outcome of these ‘Networking Days,’ which included over 30 innovations and product launched in a ‘solutions exhibition’ area of 1800 square metres, over the coming months.

Also in this edition we report on the establishment of a new charity, set up by Milling and Grain called ‘Milling4Life’ and chaired by Clifford Spencer of the UK, who is not only well versed in all things grain related - he grew over 60 different crops in the UK on some 20 different farming operations and has wide international experience in grain growing - but is the Goodwill Ambassador of NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development which is an economic development program of the African Union.

Mr Spencer is providing his first column on Milling4Life in this edition and he is also the subject of our interview at the back of the magazine.

Milling4Life, in the final stages of registration, will work alongside of the re-launch charity Aquaculture without Frontiers (UK) CIO with each having its own board of trustees, programmes and websites.

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Industry tour to inspire next generation of crop scientists

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HDB-funded PhD students grew their understanding of the practical applications of science in horticulture at a series of visits on 3–4 August.

The group – who are all undertaking doctorates in arable or horticultural disciplines – were given a whistle-stop tour of the industry, taking in five growers in the Chichester area over the course of two days.

AHDB organised the event as part of its work to encourage the next generation of scientists into agricultural and horticultural research and retain them within the field.

AHDB’s Joe Martin, who was responsible for the programme, said: “The ability of our industry to problem-solve and innovate hinges on attracting the best and brightest minds into the field of crop sciences.

“By connecting these students with horticultural enterprises, where they can see for themselves the practical impact of new technologies, we hope to inspire these talented academics to spearhead the next wave of scientific advancement.”

Across sectors, AHDB funds around 15 new PhDs a year, with 50 to 60 projects ongoing at any one time. A call for applications for a share of UK£1 million worth of funding for studentships starting in 2017 is currently live, with a closing date of 19 September.

David Kay, Managing Director of Hall Hunter Partnership, which hosted the first visit, said: “Those of us who have had full careers in both the agricultural and horticultural arenas understand how varied and exciting the sectors can be.

“The practical application of highly applied science in order to produce food for future generations offers the current student cohort many opportunities to found and develop excellent careers in the years ahead.”

The tour of Hall Hunter Partnership, a family-run business growing soft fruit for major supermarkets, was followed by a visit to the state-of-the-art glasshouses at Tangmere Airfield Nursery, which specialises in sweet peppers.

Tangmere’s Mark Knight said: “Like many farmers and growers across the UK, Tangmere is very keen to nurture talent in the industry.

“We look forward to welcoming the students with the aim of stimulating their minds in a practical way, thinking about how we will solve new challenges and support the future of British farming.”

The next day, the students took in Barfoots of Botley, which grows 90 percent of the fresh sweetcorn eaten in the UK and Hill Brothers, growers of two million ornamental flowering plants for retail each year.

Rounding off the event was a visit to Fleurie Nursery, part of the Farplants Group, the UK’s largest wholesale supplier of outdoor plants to garden centres.

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Innovative ATEX-certified grinding installation Feeding device from Van Aarsen minimises explosion risk for its hammer mill

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In order to further minimise explosion risk, Van Aarsen has introduced an innovative feeding device with an integrated heavy parts separator - also known as a “stone catcher� - for its GD hammer mill. The GD hammer mill with feeding device from Van Aarsen is ATEX-certified.

Innovative feeding device When dust comes into contact with an ignition source, such as sparks, in an oxygen rich environment, there is a risk of explosion and that is exactly what happens when the grinding process for grains and organic materials is started or stopped in a hammer mill.

Van Aarsen develops and manufactures machines for the production of compound feeds and premixes for the animal feed industry. It is also a leader in developing new techniques for minimising explosion risk without compromising the efficiency and quality of the grinding process.

As such, Van Aarsen has introduced an innovative feeding device with an integrated heavy parts separator for metal objects, stones and other heavy objects. The heavy parts

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Van Aarsen has optimised its heavy parts separator by automating the removal of metal objects and stones and by the combination of this removal with the screen exchange process. By ensuring that the automated removal of heavy objects and the exchange of the screens take place at the same time, the downtime of the hammer mill is reduced and its capacity is increased.

In order to provide a controlled release of pressure in case of an explosion, the company has also fitted the bin beneath the hammer mill with a pressure relief valve. This feature ensures that the hammer mill also complies with the specific ATEX standards that apply in Germany for hammer mills.

Maximising the service life of screens The new feeding device has a compact design and can easily be integrated into the GD hammer mill and the automated screen exchanger.

Besides minimising the risk of explosion, the new feeding device also prevents damage to the screens. As the hammer mill is ATEX-certified it therefore complies with the strict European guidelines for the prevention of explosions.

Van Aarsen also offers a range of other options for further minimising the explosion risk associated with the grinding process, including temperature monitoring and spark detection.

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African milling group chooses Fawema for flagship project in South Africa

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he Bakhresa Group of Companies is already firmly established in several East African nations since the company first moved into the milling industry from their base in Tanzania in the early 1980’s.

The group’s chairman and founding father Mr. Said Salim Awadh Bakhresa, from humble beginnings, has developed a highly successful business empire based largely on his own personal ethics of hard work and integrity coupled with exceptional vision and superb management skills. The group’s ambition for further expansion in Africa saw them recently establish Bakhresa South Africa (Pty) Ltd. and purchase a site in Durban, Kwazulu Natal on the Indian Ocean coast, an ideal logistical and geographical location.

The chosen site was actually an existing mill that had been non-operational for several years – the Union Flour Mills was originally built in 1906 but required total redevelopment, expansion and of course - re-fitting with new, 21st century machinery and equipment.

The new mill would have a daily capacity of 750 metric tonnes. For the flour packing machinery, Bakhresa turned to Fawema, safe in the knowledge that Fawema had already supplied equipment for all their other mills in East Africa over the years.

Fawema’s vast wealth of knowledge and experience As this was Bakhresa’s first venture into South Africa, they were also able to tap into Fawema’s vast wealth of knowledge and experience of the market, which in terms of packaging, is very different than that of East Africa.

Mark Wild, Fawema sales manager for Africa explains, “in East Africa, the standard retail flour pack sizes are 1 kg and 2 kg. Those packs are then baled into 24 kg baler sacks for storage and distribution. In South Africa the standard pack sizes are 1 kg, 2.5 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg and 12.5 kg; with the 1, 2.5 and 5 kg bags being collated and shrink wrapped in plastic bundles for storage and distribution.

Therefore, right from the start of the project, we had to calculate correctly what the throughput volume targets

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should be on each bag size and plan-in the most suitable packing machinery for the task, bearing in mind also that floor space had to be utilized in the best way possible”.

A commercial and technical proposal was tabled by the Seller and accepted by Bakhresa and immediately afterwards, Fawema’s design department in Germany set to work with the necessary floor plan layout for a total of four fully-automatic packing lines and commenced building the new flour packing lines. Once manufacturing work was completed, the FAT (factory acceptance test) was conducted at Fawema’s large workshop and HQ near Cologne in Germany.

The mill manager, himself from South Africa, personally attended the pre-delivery inspection and testing and this

offered the perfect opportunity to acquaint himself with the machinery and to gain direct hands-on experience of every aspect of the equipment. It was also a chance for him to personally meet with key Fawema personnel involved on the project and to engage in question and answer sessions around the various machines on the shop floor at Fawema to ensure that everything was totally clear, ticked and understood.

When the equipment finally arrived at the mill in Durban, Fawema’s local service team based near Johannesburg took care of installing each of the four packing lines and

Milling News ensuring that the flour feed system to each machine was correctly fixed in place. Once the mill was up and running and flour was readily available, a Fawema commissioning engineer arrived from Germany to carry out final start-up work on the machinery which went very smoothly thanks to the FAT testing already carried out in Germany.

“A remarkable achievement” Sudhakar Akella is the mill manager at Bakhresa South Africa; he’s a man with plenty of milling experience, the last 15 years of which have been spent within the Bakhresa Group operating at various locations in Africa, but this new project has been the most exciting and satisfying challenge so far. Sudhakar explained, “Our new mill project in Durban has been a very exciting time. Bringing back to life one of South Africa’s historic mills has been a remarkable achievement.

Due to the history of the building, large parts of the structure are protected under the national heritage law and consequently a lot of very clever and innovative

planning work needed to be implemented to ensure that the mill was re-designed to be a modern, 21st century fullyfunctional facility. This we have achieved and the result is magnificent.

We had no doubt or hesitation in contracting Fawema to supply the flour packing machinery as they have always supported us on all of our previous projects throughout Africa and I’m delighted to say that also this flagship project in Durban has been successfully concluded in a disciplined and thoroughly professional manner and our flour packing section is functioning exceptionally, just as we envisaged”.

Fawema wishes to thank Mr. Sudhakar Akella and the Bakhresa Group for their contribution and permission to publish this article.

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The 1888 Plymouth Milling Convention Part 1 Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK Milling conventions and exhibitions were and still are an excellent way for the milling profession to keep abreast of the latest developments in technology and milling practice.

They also attracted commercial organisations, keen to display their latest innovations in a

rapidly changing world.

Not surprisingly the media of the time, represented by the weekly journals Milling and The Miller were in attendance. As a result, we have at the Mills Archive a detailed historical record of the steady replacement of millstones by roller machinery.

One such event was the NABIM Plymouth Milling Convention of 1888, whose programme was described and illustrated in July 1888 of The Miller, giving us an overview of the state of milling in the south of England at that time. The events had three main elements: technical papers, mill tours and a “ladies’ programme”.

The technical papers, read by such people as Henry Simon and J Harrison Carter, and the tours of local mills would still work 130 years later, but this lady miller, would not be pleased to be offered a ladies’ programme, even with the military band concert promised!

Government Flour Mills and Bakeries The first tour by steamer up the River Tay, allowed a view of the Royal Navy’s “Royal William Victualling Yard” designed and built by the famous engineering partnership of John & George Rennie in the 1830s. The complex contained the Government-owned flour mill and bakeries housed in large buildings situated on the quayside.

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The mill contained 24 pairs of stones and the bakery contained twelve ovens. Finally completed in 1883, the mill building was 74 metres long, 18 metres deep 21 - 22 metres high. Two wings each contained twelve pair of stones which were driven by two engines of 45 horse power. The millstones were four ft in diameter, and turned at 123 rpm. The grain cleaning and bolting machinery worked simultaneously with the grinding.

In 1870, when the GH Bovill’s patent for the improvements in the manufacture of flour was causing a stir, six pairs of French four ft stones were taken out and replaced by Belgian stones of 4ft 6ins diameter and to each of the six pairs of stones was attached an exhaust.

Bovill patented the use of an air blast and exhaust between the millstones. This plan was first adopted in the government dockyards, and once its advantages were found to be so great, it became generally used by millers.

About this time a Mr Hosken and Sons Roller and silk reel of 30ft was Other Mills, Hayle, Cornwall installed. When in operation at least five of the Belgian stones were always in operation, and these could grind 4,000 to 5,000 lbs of wheat in an hour. The east wing, in addition to the twelve pairs of French stones, had two pairs of Peak stones used to make oatmeal.

Mr WR Mallett’s Exwick Roller Flour Mills One of the many interesting mills that convention visitors could visit was Mr Mallett’s Flour Mills in Exeter. Set up on the Simon System, the mill was built on or near the foundations of a medieval flourmill with a well-defined history. The Exwick flour mill had been in the possession of the Buller family since 1859.

The mill that was visited in 1886 building had a five sack an hour roller plant. The mill location was particularly advantageous, as it was close to the railway and in the

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centre of one of the best wheat districts of the fertile West Country.

Built into the wall of the mill was a stone showing the date 1325, recording the fact that the building stood where the Benedictine monks of the Priory of Cowick worked its predecessor in that year. The mill was powered by the cheapest method, since the medieval origin gave it ancient water rights so Exwick flourmills had a practically unlimited supply of water drawn from three rivers, which together drained about one half of the whole county of Devon.

The power came from a waterwheel cast at the Bodley Foundry in Exeter and was 11ft 8in diameter by 16ft wide, built of steel and powering the mill to produce five sacks of flour per hour. The wheel was a Poncelot type, quite rare in England, even though their curved paddles improved the efficiency of undershot waterwheels from about 30 percent to 70-80 percent.

The drawing from the Bodley Foundry shows the design of one of their Poncelot wheels and is one of several hundred original drawings that the Mills Archive helped to conserve when they were rescued from the demolished drawing office when the Foundry closed down.

On the ground floor the waterwheel shaft turned the pit wheel of 10¼ feet diameter, which in turn connected to a

2¼ foot pinion. The first floor had the roller mill for breaking the wheat on the system of five breaks and flouring the middlings and semolina in eight reductions.

The old mill, while connected to the new, was separated from the roller mill on the first floor by iron doors. It still contained three pairs of stones for grinding feed and a store for placing empty sacks.

The millstones were connected to the same waterwheel, which drove the wheat cleaning machinery of the roller mill.

Although the traditional mill was not constructed to take a roller mill plant of modern design, from both the outside and inside the four storey Exwick Mill was a success with its striking feature of a 20ft high arched doorway. It also had on each floor a line of water buckets and a London fire brigade hand pump ready for use should the deadly foe of all flour mills, fire, occur.

Other mills visited Other mills visited in Devon included Mr Samuel Coles New Roller Mill at Lifton (Dell’s System) and Mr R Harvey Daw’s Marsh Mills at Plympton (Carter’s System).

The latter was noteworthy for its use of a 61-80hp Vortex turbine, installed by Gilkes of Kendal.

Tours continued into Cornwall, including Messrs John Lake & sons Truro (Robinson System), Mr T Hitchins’ Grenance Mill St Austell (Childs’ System), Messrs Hosken & Son’s Loggans Mill, Hayle and Messrs JH Trevithick & Sons steam flour mill also in Hayle. The Cornish mills will be the subject of my next column.

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.

Similarly, if you would like to receive my regular newsletter on our progress in building the world’s first public roller flourmill archive and library, please email me.

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A first for SA Pork CRC Industry Placement Program

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lice Weaver, whose PhD was supported by the CRC For High Integrity Australian Pork, is the first person to be awarded an Industry Placement Program appointment under the South Australian Government’s $500,000 funding to the Pork CRC. Dr Weaver officially commences as a Technical Officer at Jeff Braun’s ‘Myora Farm’ at Mt Gambier, South Australia, on August 3 and will be responsible for the implementation and coordination of the piggery’s research and development activities.

Pork CRC CEO Dr Roger Campbell said the SA Government funding was a welcome boost to Pork CRC’s existing successful Industry Placement Program (IPP), where it placed supported graduates with industry, in particular with its participants.

Graduates are then trained in the business of pork production and remain active in research and Pork CRC activities.

“It is a partnership where funding and training is shared, young people get a start in industry and industry benefits from their enthusiasm and injection of fresh ideas and knowledge, which is often cutting edge science.

“It’s a win-win for everyone and we thank the SA state government and its Minister for Science and Information Economy, Hon Kyam Maher, for recognising this and stepping in to further fund and advance the initiative,” Dr Campbell said.

Pork CRC has supported six IPPs to date and the new funds will help enhance the competiveness of the SA pork industry and provide significant opportunities for graduate and postgraduate students to contribute to what is a vibrant industry.

Pork CRC IPP recipients and their IPP employers, so far, include Dr Rebecca Athorn, Rivalea Australia, Tracey Muller, CHM/SunPork, Dr David Lines, APFG/SunPork Farms, Claire Payne, Craig Mostyn Group and Vanessa Morris, Chris Richards Group and Anthony Martyniuk,

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SunPork SA. Dr Weaver’s Pork CRC supported PhD at University of Adelaide, ‘The induction of a fertile oestrus in lactating sows and the subsequent effect mating in lactation has on oocyte quality and embryo survival’, has developed further understanding of sow reproductive potential.

Addressing commercial cost, benefit, risks and bottom line gain will be ongoing for the industry.

Myora Principal and owner Jeff Braun has had a lifelong interest in pig genetics.

According to Mr Braun, the business of pig farming was entirely dependent on having healthy, happy animals, cared for by well trained, skilled staff.

“This is where someone so highly skilled and scientifically qualified as Alice will make a real difference.

“I applaud Pork CRC and South Australian Government for joining forces to make more Industry Placement Program positions available to such talented young people,” he said.

Dr Weaver said she had already enjoyed working at Myora and is excited about the opportunity to implement her knowledge and research skills in a commercial environment.

“The IPP award, gives both parties more certainty, with a minimum three year contract appointment and the opportunity to make a real difference in a commercial operation while gaining on-the-job practical experience,” she said.

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AFIA to offer free FSMA webinar series as compliance dates draw near

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n order to continue its mission in educating the feed industry on the implementation requirements of the Food Safety Modernisation Act, the American Feed Industry Association along with Feedstuffs, announces its latest training options. Thanks to industry sponsorship, AFIA will host a series of four, free webinars that focus on the rule spanning from late August through September.

“This rule is massive, there’s much to comprehend and limited time remaining to do so,” said Richard Sellers, AFIA senior vice president of public policy and education.

“We have divided the webinar series into four parts to cover the most amount of material--with time for questions--in an efficient manner, and are very grateful to those members who offered to sponsor these webinars.”

Each webinar will last two-and-a-half hours. The first three webinars will build upon each other, the forth will focus on topics related to pet food and pet food ingredients. Speakers for the webinars include AFIA staff experts and officials from the US Food and Drug Administration.

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IGC PREDICTIONS RING TRUE

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s many of the speakers predicted at the recent IGC Conference, China’s imports of corn and feed grains are set to slump after the government increased the amount auctioned from state reserves and domestic prices dropped to a decade low.

China is currently the world’s second-biggest corn consumer, and its government is offering about 7.9 million metric tons of corn from its stockpiles for a third week; compared with six million tons offered in auctions held July 21 and 22 and about two million tons offered July 12-13, which included poor quality grain.

This news comes as last week Chinese corn futures tumbled to a decade low amid increasing sales from state reserves.

Almost 13 million tons has been sold since auctions began on May 27, according to data from the National Grain Trade Center compiled by Bloomberg. Imports may slump 69 percent in the year starting October and purchases of alternative feeds barley and sorghum will also drop, according to the China National Grain and Oils Information Center.

“Imports of corn substitutes have become almost impossible,” said Feng Lichen, chief analyst at Chicorn, a private consulting firm to Bloomberg Markets. “Domestic futures prices have already fallen below prices for imported barley and sorghum.”

The quantity of corn that has been earmarked for January delivery, after China’s harvest, fell to 1,438 yuan a ton on August 2nd on the Dalian Commodity Exchange, the lowest

for the most-active contract since October 2006. Futures were at 1,453 yuan on Wednesday, a 12 percent discount to the September delivery contract. The price of U.S. sorghum imported to China including taxes was at 1,689.12 yuan a ton on Tuesday. Australian barley was at 1,545.06 yuan a ton.

China’s sorghum imports dropped 45 percent in June from a year earlier and barley purchases fell 51 percent, according to official customs data. Inbound corn shipments plunged 92 percent in the period, stated a Bloomberg Markets source.

The Chinese government is expected to sell about 40 million tons of corn in 2016, including 20 million tons sold directly to the market earlier this year, according to Feng’s estimate.

The government has about 230 million tons of reserves, data held by JCI shows; which is more than double as recent U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate.

All of this comes as China is grappling with a corn glut after the government began subsidising output in 2008, acquiring grain at above-market prices to protect farm incomes. The government is set to end the stockpiling system, replacing it with other subsidies to make it more market based, and is reducing the area planted to corn for the first time in a decade.

China’s 2016-17 corn harvest is still set to exceed annual consumption, CNGOIC estimates.

“Enterprises are very cautious in building stocks as they expect a further drop in prices,” stated Zhang Zhixian, senior researcher at Cngrain.com, a state-affiliated researcher. “If farmers are having problems selling their harvests, local governments may have to stockpile this year.”

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[ Museum Story No. 8 ]

Reaping the rewards of another successful harvest season

GENIUS UNDER THE WIG

Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory In July, a proud total of sixteen companies from around the world joined the International Milling and Grain Directory, which is double the number that joined in June. This is a great achievement and I hope the directory continues to grow at this rate well into the future.

In addition to updates from the directory’s existing members, these new companies, from countries as diverse as Bangladesh, China and Turkey are very welcome indeed.

On another note, the team here at the International Milling and Grain Directory are very happy to be a media partner for the upcoming IAOM MEA international conference and exhibition in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As mentioned in my previous column, the International Milling and Grain Directory’s website promotes many events and training via its website: www.internationalmilling.com/events With a theme of the wheat harvest in this issue, it is proper that I address this from the perspective of the directory’s members. The questions that we will have to answer together at the end of the harvest is, how much investment can low wheat commodity prices bring? What are the expectations for the coming year in quantities of mills, storage sites or infrastructure projects, staff training or recruitment? Where are the growth regions and highest potential of investment in the industry? What will the harvest of 2016-17 bring from upstream in raw materials of wheat, feed, etc to our sector? And what will this year’s harvest affect from downstream in working with customers in this sector — for example, such customers as bakeries, grain co-operatives and researchers?

The International Milling Directory has its own community centred around the directory itself. We connect the industry and are an ambassador for our members, promoting them at every given opportunity. We offer a wide range of advertising options for both new and existing companies; so to place your products and services in the industry’s brightest shop window, why not take a browse through our great advertising deals and rates?

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“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, portrait by B. Kraft

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave concerts at the court of Emperor Leopold, or on other ceremonial occasions, he wore his best wig. In the 18th century, wigs with curls arranged horizontally were the latest fashion. Those who wanted to keep up with the trend dusted their hair with powder – or in Mozart’s case with flour, the cheaper alternative.

Grain was the beginning With its collection of over 3,000 flour sacks from 130 countries around the globe, the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg, near Hamburg (Germany), is unique in the world of grain. It is an initiative and cultural project of Mühlenchemie and a token of thanks to all millers. The museum shows the history of flour and its significance for mankind: FLOUR IS LIFE. Every new sack with an interesting motif is welcome in the Sackotheque and will find a permanent home there.

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The Pelletier Column From curiosity to action

by Christophe Pelletier In my previous column, I wrote about why curiosity is a great asset when it comes to facing and preparing for the future. However, that is not quite the whole story. Food and agriculture are not intellectual exercises, they must deliver concrete products and results. It is nice to be curious but what do you do with that? The answer to this question is quite simple: action!

According to the saying, knowledge is power. Knowledge is only truly power when it is active and circulating.

Knowledge that remains in a brain or in a drawer is not very useful for the greater good.

The first step that I advise curious people to do is to always share what they learn. It is even easier today with the Internet, and there is a lot of knowledge out there. By sharing, I do not mean simply copy and paste or click the share button. Before sharing, it is essential to make sure that what you share is quality.

There is too much information that is spread on social media while clearly not critically reviewed, not to say not even read; as is quite often the case. The mindset here is a mix of enthusiasm, critical thinking and practical service orientation. The knowledge must be correct and the message must come over.

It also must be useful to the recipients; it must connect to their needs and add value to them. The final result has to be better food through more efficient and sustainable systems that are financially viable. In the food and agriculture sector, it must lead to always more collaboration and knowledge transfer in all directions within the entire value chain.

Often, the weakness of communication is that it stays too long in the same circle and other links, and consumers in particular, are kept too long out of the loop. It results too often in misunderstanding, distrust and erroneous perception.

Through collaboration and brainstorming, curiosity helps create a more accurate and achievable vision of the future, on which action can further be carried out to shape the future. From this angle, there is no doubt that collaboration between all stakeholders is certainly an ongoing process; this is especially true with technology.

There are new developments all the time and it certainly takes a curious mind to be able to keep up with novelties.

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also takes minds that can connect all the dots, and also connect with each other.

Although time consuming, through back and forth collaboration, together with ongoing feedback about performance and new demands, all links of the chain will become much more aware of what the objectives are and how to foster ongoing improvement.

As many new technological developments come from outside of the food and agriculture sectors, I believe it is critical that the food producers be proactive in the development of technologies and applications, but stating clearly what they expect from technology suppliers and tell them what they expect from them.

It is never too early to let them know what your problems, limitations and/or objectives are, so that they can work on it as soon as possible. Being proactive will help speed up the development of the right products, systems and applications.

Leadership is essential to create the right dynamic In this process, leadership is of the essence. Leadership is essential to create the right dynamics to make knowledge transfer happen, fast and well. The role of leaders here is to make knowledge transfer attractive and stimulating for others, so that more stakeholders participate in the development of innovation.

The more pressure that is put on suppliers to bring better solutions to the food sector, the higher the chances of it actually happening. Leaders must also foster connections and networking across the disciplines; especially with partners outside of the food and agriculture sector.

A vision that includes the bigger picture will have more chances of stimulating the cross-discipline and crosssector collaboration. At the same time, it is crucial to stay practical. The goal is to produce food, and that must be in the minds of all participants.

Curiosity is really just the starting point. It feeds an entire chain of ideas and decisions that are the basis for improvement. There is no doubt that fortune favours the bold. In the never-ending quest towards better foods and better agricultural practices, such a process becomes an illustration of “the best way to predict the future is to create it”. This saying may have not been so true as today, progress and food security depend on it.

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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COMPANY UPDATES Farming has a lesson for us all in making us adaptable, innovative and patient

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG Once again I have had the privilege to visit other countries and see first hand other farming systems This time I have returned again from Indonesia where along with my colleagues at Perendale Publishers Ltd we were represented at the Indo Livestock event in Jakarta along with other UK companies.

This event, which showcases some of the best technologies available worldwide to an audience of managers and decision makers, clearly demonstrated the need for innovative and forward thinking companies to continually promote their products on a world stage. A few years ago, the western world was largely the exhibiting innovators now we seem many other countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand; to name but a few. These nations are clearly aiming to penetrate developing markets, of which Indonesia is a prime example.

With a Government determined to increase both agricultural and aqua cultural outputs and still with a huge rurally based population, there are so many ways that elevating production can be achieved at primary production level to the benefit of rural communities.

In order to achieve this, training and motivating and incentivising the workforce must be a priority. Achieving these targets is vital to efficient production and demonstrates how simple technical improvements can have an impact when increasing outputs, which is a crucial part of increasing living standards and the well being of rural populations.

Improving techniques and increasing profits Often during my visits, whilst I often see well-qualified and highly motivated managers, it seems to me that their messages do not reach the staff working with them.

One of my goals is to set up basic training in rural areas given by practical teachers who understand both the local culture and challenges, providing trainees with first hand experience of the industries needs.

Once improved techniques have been demonstrated leading to increase profits, then other issues can begin to be addressed.

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The first of such issues is the need for investment in seed stock, buildings and equipment, without which continued improvements and profitability will not be able to be sustained.

So often when you work continually in a system, you cannot see where problems lie and how improvements can be made.

During my most recent visit for example, I was taken to some small farms where you could clearly see the need for better livestock food production.

All of the raw materials were in place along with pre mix, which although it was arranged according to animal weight, it was mixed by hand so there was no way of assessing the quality of the diet fed to the animals leading to waste at all levels. However, It is too simple to just suggest using mixing equipment as this would take away jobs, or at the very least, a deployment of labour Without properly constructed rations our livestock industry cannot function properly and we need our industry to continually produce more from less if we the farmers are to feed our urban cousins.

The reliance on in-feed antibiotics For me it was also interesting to see the reliance on ‘in-feed’ antibiotic use, the significance of which I am sure was not recognised by the staff, but without it, I am sure the underlying disease issues would multiply out of control. Once again some basic training and understanding would be most beneficial leading to better quality of products and profits Then when I arrive back in the UK to find our summer weather not at its best and I see harvesters stood idly by whilst it is raining, we are once again reminded that farming is not a perfect in that to make growth and harvest possible it is totally reliant on the weather and fossil fuels.

By the time of my next column I will have made yet another visit to China where we see the extremes of industrialised farming down to subsistence level, where the shear number of people make very interesting and challenging opportunities I hope that we will see some of our readers at VIV China, held in Beijing Agri Link in the Philippines and Vietstock in Ho Chi Minh City. @AgrictecExports

Azelis, a leading global speciality chemicals distributor, announces today that it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Milan-based Ametech, a leading distributor for a complementary product basket of speciality chemicals for agrochemical and fertiliser formulations, feed and veterinary, polymerisation in emulsion, industrial applications and other markets. With its Italian, French and Spanish operations, Ametech is a market leader in agrochemicals for the distribution of adjuvants and surfactants and employs around 30 employees who will all become part of the Azelis Group.

The Joint Venture between the Danish feed company BioMar and Turkish seafood company Sagun officialy opened a state-of-the-art fish feed factory in Turkey on Thursday 25th August.

The BioMar-Sagun fish feed factory based in SĂśke, Turkey opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by more than three hundred guests. The factory has 50,000 tons production capacity and will supply locally produced high performance diets including grower feeds for trout, sea bass and sea bream. BioMarSagun will mainly serve Turkey, but it will also start export sales to some of the neighboring countries.

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United States scientific community discovers Silica+ at ADSA-ASAS joint meeting

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“Concerning the effect of Silica+, feed intake was improved by 4.13 percent in the post-weaning phase, compared to the groups without Silica+ (729g/day versus 700g/ day; P<0.05). In addition, groups fed Silica+ showed an average daily gain of 3.26 percent higher than groups without Silica+ during the same phase (607g/day versus 588 g/ day; p<0.05). This effect leads to an improvement in piglet’s weight at the end of the post-weaning phase of 2.2 percent (24.52 kg versus 23.99 kg; p<0.05),” Yan Martel-Kennes explains.

“It was concluded that, under our trial conditions, adding Silica+ to piglet feed (0.02%) increases feed intake, growth rate and piglet weight at the end of the post-weaning phase.”

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ilica+ was unveiled for first time at the 2016 Joint Annual Meeting ASAS-ADSA held in Salt Lake City, USA raising lively interest from the scientific community of the United States and Worldwide. The presented study shows the effect of Silica+ on piglet growth performance and has been selected for publication in Journal of Animal Science (vol 94, E-Supplement 5).

According to the trial conducted on piglets by a top government affiliated research facility in the province of Quebec (Canada), Research Centre in Animal Sciences of Deschambault (CRSAD) and supervised by the centre’s scientific director Yan Martel-Kennes MSc agr, piglets with Silica+ have shown improved feed intake, daily weight gain and final weight.

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Schothorst Feed Research, South China Agricultural University, University of Beijing (in association with MAFIK) and University of Montreal concluded that adding only 0.02 percent of Silica+ to swine feed increases final weight of finisher pigs from 2 to 3 kilos and reduces the feed conversion rate by 9 points.

Likewise, the effects of Silica+ in poultry and aquaculture have been published in Poultry Science journal and Aqua Culture Asia Pacific and show an improvement of all performance parameters including significant differences in FCR. Silica+ is a crystalline silicon dioxide of high purity (micronised to particles of 40 μm) that has undergone electromagnetic treatment under the unique technology of Ceresco Nutrition. When added to feed, Silica+ will accelerate the ionic exchange within the digestive tract thus improving enzymatic activity, digestibility of proteins, and mineral absorption.

This mineral additive could offer potential economic benefits to swine, poultry and aquaculture producers.

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BALANCE IS EVERYTHING!

Clifford Spencer

Welcome to Milling4Life a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of poverty, financial hardship and malnutrition and enhancing food security through promoting sustainable milling.

Our first project is to introduce the benefits of modern milling technology and practice to a wider audience on the African continent through targeted knowledge transfer.

For example, the charity plans to invite two African candidates from each selected African country to visit a major milling event (be it a conference or exhibition) for an intensive week of knowledge acquisition. These candidates will benefit from sponsored travel and accommodation with the visit purpose being to intensively acquire knowledge of the milling industry.

The candidates will then return home armed with this knowledge and with continuing contact with the parties they have met in that formative week.

We have the great advantage of the advice and experience of the African Union’s agency ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (NEPAD) in this task. In particular the agency will assist in the initial selection of candidates and for this we are exceptionally grateful to this esteemed organisation which sits at the heart of African continental policy.

Our first and formative meetings of the Milling4Life charities trustees and interested organising parties will take place at the IAOM Conference and Exhibition at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 24-27, 2016 (http://iaom-mea. com/IAOM-ETHIOPIA-2016/page/program) NEPAD will participate in an opening Panel Discussion on Tuesday October 25 the subject, ‘Feeding the Fastest Growing Economies of East Africa.’

This panel discussion will be moderated by Buhler African Milling School’s Martin Schlauri (you will find elsewhere in this issue the importance the Buhler Group is now placing on the milling industry’s to respond and meet the food demands of a world of nine billion by 2050) and already includes Abubaker Bakhresa, Nick Hutchinson and the Ethiopian Millers Association as confirmed panelists.

We will also arrange a reception on the afternoon of Thursday October 27 as a closed invitation where we will outline in more detail the role of Milling4Life working with NEPAD. The agency will also give a more detailed explanation of its work and role in Africa.

In our modern high-tech world it is difficult to contemplate the reality that many people still cannot afford to pay for milled grain products – or for animal protein products produced through feed milling. Milling for Life wants to play its part in bringing about change in a range of milling sectors.

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Grain trading is a necessary, but not an easy task. Factors including why, how and when to exchange grains makes the U.S. trading industry complex. To enhance knowledge on this topic, the IGP Institute held the IGP–KSU Risk Management Course August 1-5, 2016. Seven professionals traveled to the IGP Institute’s Conference Center for the training, five of which stayed for the advanced section on the final two days of the course.

IGP Institute holds risk management course for better trading practices According to Senior Agricultural Economist and Course Manager Jay O’Neil, the risk management course was well done with international flour millers and domestic ethanol producers.

“It is always interesting when we get to the last day and conduct the trading simulation and watch how the participants apply what they have learned. During the simulation exercise, we are able to observe how the students balance their urges to speculate in the futures market against their needs to manage the risk for their respective companies. This brings the objectives of the course into focus for everyone,” O’Neil says.

The course was split by level of experience, basic and advanced.

Students learned many skills and techniques for risk management

including why we have futures markets, fundamental Course Manager and Senior Agricultural and technical analysis, Economist Jay O’Neil lectures about the futures spreads principles principles of future options. of hedging, principles of risk management and basic trading, and principles of futures and options trading.

During the advance session, participants learned risk management through the use of option and over-theCourse Manager and Senior Agricultural counter (OTC) markets.

Economist Jay O’Neil lectures about the Participant Gabriela principles of future options.

Moraes, market analyst at M.Dias Branco in Jaboatao dos Guararapes, Brazil says she enjoyed everything about the course and it was a good experience for her and her company.

“I learned what we could do to minimise our risk when buying grains. I also learned a lot about other things in the market, like U.S. wheat and U.S. grains,” Moraes says.

This is just one example of the trainings offered through the IGP Institute. In addition to grain marketing and risk management, the institute offers courses in the areas of flour milling and grain processing, and feed manufacturing and grain quality management. www.ksu.edu/igp

The training register For a long time the International Milling Directory website has acted as the go-to platform for members of the aquaculture and milling industries in order to stay up-to-date on tradeshow and conference events around the globe, by using it online Events Register.

International Milling is promoted on multiple social media streams including Twitter and Facebook, on all Perendale Publisher’s blogs such as ‘The Global Miller’ and ‘The Aquaculturalists’, as well as via its weekly newsletter.

On top of this the International Milling application for smart devices has been launched to further extend the content’s reach, allowing members of the industry to stay up-to-date while on the go.

This month we have launched our new Training Register. It will operate on the same platform as the Events Register, running side-by-side. Our vision is to produce an easily accessible hub which will list aquaculture- and milling-related training courses, workshops and educational opportunities from around the world, much the same as the Events Register does for conferences and expositions.

“We recognise that the only reason the Events Register has reached its current scale is due to the relationships we have built with the industry and the willingness of organisers to supply and update their information for us to promote. It is this that has led to International Milling Directory becoming such a reliable reference for industry events,” says Mr Roger Gilbert, publisher of the International Milling Directory.

“If you, your company or organisation is organising a milling or aquaculture course we would like to hear from you. No training course is too big or too small for any of our readers to attend.”

This promotion service is currently offered free-of-charge.

Please send information on your training or course event to peterp@perendale.co.uk.

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Conveyor Components Company: Model RS pull cord

PRODUCT FOCUS SEPTEMBER 2016 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 Model RS pull cord, manufactured by Conveyor Components Company, is a rugged safety stop control that provides a quick positive shut off of dangerous equipment in emergencies. The outputs of the Model RS can control up to four separate circuits, depending on the model chosen.

These alarms can include one for machinery shutdown and one for alarm. The Model RS was developed to meet the stringent requirements of safety agencies throughout the world. This control is designed to act as an emergency stop for conveyors and other moving machinery.

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PMPE Chain-Vey MPE’s Chain-Vey® is ideal for the unique layouts and tight constraints of brewery facilities, but also provides a unique alternative when it comes to the transportation and clean-out of spent grain.

Traditional cavity or fluid pumps used to transport spent grain to outdoor silos require more than routine maintenance and spare parts, eating into a brewery’s production time and bottom line.

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CropScan 3000F The CropScan 3000F is our latest NIT analyser to be released by NEXT Instruments. It has been designed to provide flour millers with a single instrument to measure both whole grains of wheat as well as flour, semolina and meal.

With a built in touch screen computer the CropScan 3000F automates the data handling and reporting functions required by today’s flour milling industry.

The most significant advance in the CropScan 3000F is that the rotating dish sampling system handles whole grains and powders quickly and accurately. Simply load a sample, scrape across and you are ready for analysis.

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High-compression PesaMill™ MDGA The high-compression PesaMill™ has been specially developed for the production of various flour qualities including Atta flour, wholewheat flour for flat breads, dark flour and standard bakery flour. As part of a seamlessly integrated grinding system for producing flour, PesaMill™ sets new standards in terms of food safety, flexibility and energy. PesaMill™ is the key grinding component for both CombiMill and Atta flour processes.

PesaMill™ has a flexible grinding gap adjustment. This allows for flexible production of various flour qualities.

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SPECIAL FOCUS Innovation at Sweet. The company has invented, designed, perfected and manufactured in-house a very clever multi-purpose heat processor called the ‘CalorMatic’.

It offers a new concept for the economical, efficient, uniformed and clean thermal treatment for a large variety of products, byproducts and materials.

It basically roasts, toasts and dries grains; for example, it takes moisture out of the soybeans making the soy a better protein for the feed industry, giving better enzyme activity and conversion for bette§r feed energy.

It’s a hybrid product, it’s more like a dryer.

These units are available in different sizes. Sweet indicated that they have sold multiple units to a customer in the U.S. that processes specialty products for the dairy and animal industries.

I was taken outside to see first-hand this awesome machine, this working model is kept onsite to run tests for potential customers to see if it will extract the right amount of moisture from the different products received.

This CalorMatic has a powerful fan that pulls air from the outside and forces it through a flame burner which fills a chamber with heated air under the conveyor.

This super-hot air passes underneath the product.

The product never touches the flame; however, you can see the burner through the window. The fan will blow over the burner, thus blowing hot air over the product. The heated air will push through the product, so six inches of product depth will go in and as you see this the material will be wet at the beginning then it will become super-heated with the air and will take out the moisture in just one run.

The company has a long-time European dealer in Italy who has sold multiple CalorMatic® units

The Sweet Calormatic throughout Europe over the past 20 plus years.

This awesome piece of equipment is very instrumental in the feed industry and for roasting beans. The importance of such a dynamic product was referenced in a panel discussion at a recent Feed industry conference in the U.S. A senior executive on the panel from a prominent industry cooperative indicated how important it would be for all feed mills and cattle related operations to have provisions for a roaster for their facilities. The CalorMatic® is an awesome piece of equipment indeed!

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by Phillip Clancy, Next Instruments, Australia

IR analysers are now available for use in all aspects of food production; right from ‘farm to factory.’ Australian company Next Instruments specialises in designing and manufacturing NIR analysers for use by farmers, grain traders, grain processors and food manufacturers. The challenge has been to design instrumentation that is powerful yet simple to operate and maintain.

Firstly, farmers do often have science and engineering degrees, but their primary job is to grow and reap their crops.

Therefore, the tools that they use to assist them in this process need to be easy to use, rugged and reliable.

Figure 1: Schematic Secondly, grain buyers and of Diode Array Spectrometer grain processing companies typically have a laboratory, or at least an office to operate instruments.

However the instruments still have to perform the tasks quickly and simply; Lamp with the information generated easily accessible Sample in this digital age.

And finally, food manufacturers want to use information to improve their product quality and their operational productivity. NIR analysers can play a useful role in the process of taking grains and oil seeds from the farm to the supermarket shelves.

Description

Next Instruments’ broad range of NIR analysers is based on a simple diode array spectrometer that has a relatively small footprint, has no moving parts, is fairly low cost to manufacture; whilst still being both rugged and reliable.

Figure 1 shows a schematic of this diode array spectrometer.

Light from a tungsten halogen lamp shines through a sample of grains, powder, slurry or liquid. The light energy is absorbed by the protein, moisture, oil and sugars present in the sample. The transmitted light is focused into the spectrometer where the light gets separated into its component wavelengths.

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used in photocopiers and flatbed scanners. The detectors in the array measure the intensity of the light that hits each receptor, with protein absorbing at a specific wavelength - 1020nm, whilst water absorbs at 970nm, oil at 905nm and sugars at 820nm. By measuring the amount of light that hits each detector element, then the amount of light absorbed at each wavelength can be calculated. This allows the instrument to measure the concentration of each component. The more light that is absorbed, the higher the concentration.

Typically this simple diode array spectrometer typically weighs approximately 7kg and is the size of a lunch box. The spectrometer can be fitted to an instrument chassis with the appropriate sampling mechanism to make a NIR analyser for many different applications.

On Farm NIR Analysers

The CropScan range of On Farm NIR Analyser includes the CropScan 1000 and 3000 configurations. The CropScan 1000G (see figure 3) is a portable whole grain analyser designed to provide farmers with the ability to measure their grains before the truck leaves the farm gate.

The 1000G can be run from a Slit Diffraction grating car adapter and suits operation in a utility vehicle, a tractor or a combine. Grain can be analysed in less than 60 seconds for protein, moisture and oil.

The farmer can use the information to segregate the crop by protein and oil in order to capture ‘higher-grade’ premiums. The superior accuracy of the NIR for measuring moisture provides farmers with the ability to know when to strip and when to dry their grains.

The CropScan 3000H On Combine Analyser is the only proven whole grain analyser to operate on virtually any combine harvester. The 3000H consists of three main parts.

1) Remote Sampling Head, 2) NIR Spectrometer and 3) Touch Screen PC Controller (See figure 4).

Grain travelling up the clean grain elevator on the side of the combine falls into the Remote Sampling Head where it is trapped for several seconds while the NIR spectrum is collected.

The light that passes through the sample is transmitted back to the NIR Spectrometer located inside the combine’s cabin. The

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Figure 2. NIT Spectra of Grains and Oilseeds

NIR Spectrometer is described above. The Touch Screen PC Controller generates the NIR Spectrum and applies the calibration models stored in the PC’s memory. The protein and moisture, for wheat and barley and protein, moisture and oil for canola, are displayed on the PC screen.

The PC controls the remote sampling head whilst also enabling the flaps to be opened, causing the grain to drop out and return to the downside of the clean grain elevator. The flap then closes and the sampling head fills up; meaning that another NIR Spectrum is collected. The system collects data at approximately 12 second intervals; with each reading tagged with the GPS coordinates so that ‘Real-Time Protein Paddock Maps’ can be displayed on the PC screen (see figure 5).

The CropScan 3000H can send the data to the internet where it can be remotely monitored from a Smart Phone, Tablet or office PC. The CropNet Grain Data Management Software suite provides all the tools necessary to store the data in the Cloud and then access it from anywhere in the world. Figure 6 shows an example of the CropNet software.

NIR is used throughout the world for determining the protein, moisture, oil, fiber and starch in grains and oil seeds. In the 1970 to 1990 period, NIR analysers worked in reflectance and measured ground or powdered materials. From the mid 1990’s whole grain analysers working in transmission have virtually superceded the reflectance analysers for buying and selling grain.

Whole grain NIR analysers are faster, easier to operate, less dust, no sample preparation and measure a lot more grain to provide a more accurate result for protein, moisture and oil.

The CropScan 1000B and 3000B (See figure 7), are popular whole grain analysers used around the world. The 1000B includes a built in Test Weight Module and comes with adapters to measure seeds from canola and linseed to cereals such as wheat, barley and oats to large seeds such as faba beans and corn. The 3000B is a more sophisticated system with a built in Touch Screen PC. The 3000B software allows the operator to enter a number of data fields that are important for grain traders, ie, variety, farmer ID, tonnage, test weight, screenings and retention; along with the protein, oil and moisture. The big difference between the 1000B and 3000B lies in that the 3000B does no require adapters to handle small to large seeds. The ‘pathlength’ of the sample cell is adjusted automatically for each seed type.

Both the CropScan 1000B and 3000B can be interfaced to the CropNet Grain Data Management Software. CropNet can read a weighbridge monitor, the CropScan analyser, a falling number analyser, a GAC moisture analyser and a Seed-Count image analyser so that all data related to the grain’s quality, source, tonnage, storage location and grade can be stored in a single spreadsheet. The data is automatically sent to the Cloud and can be accessed remotely from anywhere in the world through the CropNet web site.

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Figure 3: The CropScan 1000G is a portable whole grain analyser designed to provide farmers with the ability to measure their grains before the truck leaves the farm gate.

Figure 8. MultiScan Analysers - MultiScan series 2000 NIT analyser, Series 4000 FTNIR analyser and Series 5000 in line analyser,

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CropScan Whole Grain Analysers Cropscan 1000B whole grain analyser, Cropscan 3000B whole grain analyser

Figure 4. CropScan 3000H On Combine Analyser Components

Figure 5. Protein Paddock Maps

NIR Analysers for Grain Processors and Food Manufacturers

Companies that process grain into animal feed, flour, meals etc, use NIR in the laboratory as well as in line analysers in the factory. Likewise food manufactures use NIR for discrete testing of raw materials, goods in process and finished products. Food manufacturers not only measure grain and grain based products but also dairy and meat products as well as ingredients.

The major benefits offered by NIR analysis are speed and simultaneous multiple component measurements. However NIR is only a secondary technique and must be used in conjunction with laboratory or wet chemistry methods. As a guide, if a manufacturer or processor requires five tests per day, then wet chemistry methods should be used. However if the number of tests increases to 20 or 50 per day then a NIR analyser can be an economical and fast way to measure 90 percent of the samples but still use the wet chemistry methods for the other 10 percent. This ensures that the NIR method is monitored and if necessary, to be updated as new samples become available. The counter side to this argument is that if there are no wet chemistry methods available to monitor the NIR method then the accuracy and precision of the testing will be unknown.

Next Instruments offers a number of NIR analysers for grain processors and food manufacturers (see figure 8). The MultiScan Series 2000 Near Infrared Transmission Analyser provides the ability to measure grains, powders, pellets, liquids and slurries. The MultiScan Series 4000 FTNIR Spectrometer is designed to measure powdered materials such as animal feeds, flour, milk and whey powder, chemicals, soybean products, corn starch, corn flour, rice and rice flour, powdered egg, sugars and starches.

The MultiScan Series 5000 In Line Analyser provides continuous measurement of multiple components in a flowing or moving stream. These systems have software included to collect, store, plot and send the data to the internet or intranet.

Conclusion

Figure 6. CropNet Software

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NIR analysis is possibly the most diverse technique available in analytical chemistry. No other technology can measure five to six components simultaneously without any sample preparation. No other technology can be used to measure such a wide range of samples and forms of samples, ie, grains, powders, pellets, slurries, liquids and solids.

NIR analysis is not a panacea for all analytical problems.

It is generally not suitable for trace component analysis.

The limit of testing is generally one percent for any single compound. NIR analysis is a secondary method and must be supported by primary analysis techniques. But overall, NIR analysis is the only technology that can be used from Farm to Factory.

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Analysis & testing TOUR

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PART 2

by Andrew Wilkinson and Malachi Stone

EXCELLENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND INVESTIGATION

ust on the outskirts of the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden, set amongst the Cotswold stone buildings, you will find the head offices of Campden BRI. Campden BRI is a dynamic, cutting-edge research organisation, which counts some of the biggest global players in the food and drink industry as its members. It has been supporting the food and drink industry for over 90 years.

Boasting a total of 3,000 square metres of labs and 3,500 square metres of pilot plant, the team of 350 staff at Campden BRI provides the food and drink industry with practical scientific, technical and advisory services needed to ensure product safety and quality, as well studying the efficiency of both processes and production. They also train thousands of food and drink specialists each year.

The work carried out by Campden BRI covers four main areas: analysis and testing, knowledge management, research and innovation and operational support.

Analysis and testing

Relevant, reliable and timely analytical results are essential for the food and drink industry. The analysis of food – from the raw materials and ingredients and through processing to the final end product – is an important part of managing food safety, quality and authenticity. Results are the basis for many big decisions.

Campden BRI offer a wide range of analyses, including assessing ingredients’ suitability for purpose, and microbiological and contaminant testing, to determining the composition and authenticity of food, foreign body analysis, packaging and sensory analysis.

During our tour we were shown Campden BRI’s state of the

DEMO #1 - Flour quality, proving the difference

The technicians at Campden BRI ran a demonstration to show the importance of flour quality. They split us into four groups and allocated a flour from one of four nabim ratings to each group. Groups One and Two got standard white bread flour, though Group One’s was best - an artisanal variety called Centurian, with vitamin C added as an oxidising agent. Group Three were given biscuit flour, while the fourth group were given a low-grade, high-bran formulation of the kind used for animal feed.

In each group, the flour and other ingredients were mixed together thoroughly using a spiral mixer. The physical action of mixing aids in the development of the gluten structure, we were told.

As the mixing progressed, it became more and more obvious that there was something fundamentally different between the flours - while the higher quality doughs became beautifully stretchy, Group Four’s took a great deal of mixing to get it to stay in one piece.

Indeed, by the time it was well enough mixed to move on to kneading, Group One were already putting their loaf to prove.

Hand kneading helps spread air through the dough, but industrial bakeries go further: we were shown a machine employing what looked like a chain mail sushi mat to roll the dough. This made doubly sure the air bubbles were small and evenly distributed.

The dough was then placed, seam side down, in the tin it would be baked in. To prevent sticking, an emulsifier was used on the tins not butter, as it has a relatively low burning point. The dough was then put in a kind of metal cupboard heated to 40 degrees to speed up the proving process.

Once the dough had proved fully, it was removed and given its final touches before baking. Scoring the upper surface with a very sharp knife has a similar effect to scoring a pork joint - it causes it to crisp nicely in the oven. Spraying with a little water likewise aids crust formation, as well as helping in the adherence of any seeds sprinkled on by the baker.

The loaf was then placed in a steam-assisted oven to bake for 35 minutes at 220 degrees.

The results were very clear. Loaf One was structurally everything you would expect from a supermarket bread: light, resilient and springy. The next two were less so. They were also smaller, not having risen so well during baking. Worst of all was Loaf Four: stunted and somewhat doughy in the middle (it also smelt vaguely of grass).

None of this should come as a surprise when you consider the provenance of the flours. Much of a dough’s consistency and that of the resultant loaf is down to the levels of functional protein it contains.

Flour One had 11 or 12 percent functional protein; Flours Two and Three had nine or ten percent, and eight or nine percent, respectively. The bran in Flour Four contained a lot of protein, but of the wrong type for forming structures during mixing and baking.

Additionally, fragments of bran will also coat gluten particles that are present and block them from linking with each other - an essential process in the formation of effective protein structures in a dough.

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F art sensory facilities. Many retailers and manufacturers call on Campden BRI’s help when developing new products to carry out discrimination tests - such as triangle tests - to investigate potential taint problems or the effects on the product of changes in ingredients or process.

This is all carried out in the company’s sensory analysis laboratories – a suite of 24 booths with controlled lighting, decoration and air flow – where their consumer panel of ‘tasters’ give detailed feedback on all aspects of a product.

Campden BRI work for many government departments and agencies. Campden BRI’s expertise in analysis and testing has been recognised as a centre of excellence for food authenticity testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

They are also active in many areas of food authenticity testing, including meat, fish and seafood speciation, olive oil analysis, and spice adulteration. Methods used include real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, DNA sequencing, immunoassays, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), microscopy, and a wide variety of liquid and gas chromatographic techniques.

The company carries out analysis of goods imported into the UK from outside the EU for HMRC. Some of the questions the company is asked to investigate include: Is this lamb fat or lamb meat? Is this rice really brown rice? Has this food product labelled fresh been frozen? Is this wheat really Durum? The answers affect how a product is classified, which is crucial for the HMRC so it can apply the correct tax or duty.

Campden BRI also develops new test methods and have several research projects underway including one looking at the potential for new and emerging analytical technologies to provide rapid and cost-effective ways of ensuring the authenticity of foods

and drinks and detecting adulteration and another researching how micro and nano-scale bubbles can be used to improve the effectiveness of washing and cleaning food contact materials.

Knowledge management

The area of knowledge management is the term used by Campden BRI to describe the area of work that they conduct that includes the provision of information for industrial best practice, guideline publications, a wide range of training courses, seminars and conferences, industrial member interest groups, databases, and expert technical and legislation information and advice.

Their vast information library allows them to provide detailed advice on topics ranging new technologies to food law and beer labelling.

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The practical application of technical excellence lies at the heart of everything Campden BRI does, so all its activities are underpinned by a robust programme of industrially relevant research and innovation. Each year, they invest £2 million in its annual member funded research programme.

The company currently has 26 projects underway, which are voted for and steered by its industrial members. The programme not only generates new knowledge and practical services for members, but also drives Campdne BRI’s skills pipeline.

Operational support

The final of the four main areas of the work carried out by Campden BRI is Operational Support. In all areas of the industry, problems can arise that require urgent or specialist help. This

DEMO #2 - Cutting edge research: the quest for the perfect slice of bread

A researcher’s life can be quite demanding. Understanding your subject is one thing; teaching others about it can be quite another. Thankfully, not only are Campden BRI’s experts highly skilled at what they do, they are also really rather good at explaining it.

Our tour group was treated to a set of lectures offering fascinating insights into the various attributes of baked goods and the wheat varieties they are made from.

Head of Primary Production and Processing, Simon Penson opened with a presentation on ‘Food structure characterisation’.

Scanning and imaging technologies are being used more and more to understand the changes that go on in the structure and composition of foods as they are processed, he told us.

For example, the distribution of moisture in a loaf can be clearly seen by means of NIR imaging, while CT scanning can be employed during the proving and baking processes to record changes in the loaf’s structure as they take place.

Items such as pieces of fruit show up well in an NIR scan due to their high moisture content. This has useful applications: if, say, we bake a fruit cake with flour that is low in protein or contains a lot of bran, NIR scanning will show that as the cake expands, the fruit pieces remain at the bottom as the weak structure of the dough is unable to support their weight. Although we cannot directly see the (relatively dry) bran or the protein molecules in NIR images, we can certainly see the effects of their presence or scarcity.

A leading chocolate bar manufacturer had a problem: one of their products wasn’t keeping as well as they would have liked. Hyperspectral NIR analysis by Campden BRI showed that moisture was migrating from the bar’s caramel component to the biscuit component situated directly below it. The result was that the caramel was getting too hard and the biscuit was becoming too soft. A greater awareness of exactly how this was happening proved invaluable in the chocolatier’s work to counter the problem. Fat and sugar distribution can also be mapped by this method.

Micro-CT scanning is used for smaller samples, but the images have much higher resolution. The process is non-destructive - a scanned grain can still be planted and grown afterwards. This technology allows us, for the first time, to make a detailed assessment of such things as bubble structure and distribution - for example, in aerated chocolate. It is also used to understand the effects of different additives and processes on the structure of biscuits and crackers. Such insights are invaluable for devising and improving the variety of crispiness, crunchiness and other attributes involved in the ‘mouth feel’ that consumers want and expect in a product. CT scanning can also be used to assess salt distribution, as salt crystals are very dense and thus show up readily in such scans.

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might be to troubleshoot product or packaging problems or help might be needed to validate a process, develop or reformulate products, implement safety assurance or find out what consumers think about a product.

Campden BRI’s main role is to deliver commercially relevant solutions. Sometimes the help they provide is based on advice and on other occasions they draw on their extensive pilot plant areas. We were shown their areas for heat processing, chilling, freezing, malting and brewing, soft drinks, milling and baking, as well as for emerging technologies.

The pilot plant is pivotal in linking small scale development to full scale commercial production. Using the pilot plant removed the need for costly interruptions to production, reduces waste and provides an opportunity to assess production implications on a manageable scale. industry,’ dealt with research into the suitability of new wheat varieties for end-use applications. Simply put, your crop may well stand up to a Siberian winter, but is it any good for biscuits?

To save time and resources, we were told, a wheat sample is milled using a small Chopin lab mill to produce just enough flour for a 28-gram sample loaf, which is then tested and a straight ‘yes-or-no’ decision made as to its suitability for baking.

It is important to understand a wheat variety’s key quality parameters and what controls and influences them. Mostly, it’s down to genetics, but environment and nutrition can also play a strong or weak role. For example, endosperm texture, so important for creating the starch damage needed for baking processes, is primarily controlled by genes, but weakly influenced by the environment. However, the last few harvests have been notable for problems in creating starch damage. This appears to be due to the environment - probably the weather. Currently nabim are sponsoring tests to see how water absorption influences starch damage.

Protein content is very important for good bread. Current wheat yields for a 13 percent protein wheat are at best roughly seven tonnes per hectare for a nitrogen application of 250kg/ha. With current wheat strains, any attempts to increase this yield with the same amount of fertiliser would simply dilute the protein content: a 25 percent increase in yield would mean 10.4 percent protein.

Actually, 13 percent protein makes for a rather hard bread. Much nicer doughs can be obtained with 11 or 12 percent protein. But 10.4 percent is too low. We need new wheat varieties with improved nitrogen-use efficiency and improved protein functionality.

The final lecture, ‘Assessing bread quality’ was given by Gary Tucker, head of the Bread and Cereal Processing Department.

C-Cell analysis is used on bread to assay the size of the bubbles (‘cells’), their number and the thickness of their walls, he explained.

One side of a slice of your average supermarket loaf will show about ten thousand cells. A premium loaf has roughly 13,000. These cells cause a scattering of the light that hits them, which makes the slice appear whiter than it actually is. So a slice from a premium loaf will look ‘cleaner’ and whiter than regular bread. Naturally this will affect consumer choice.

The orientation of the cells in the slice is important too, particularly so in the case of sandwich bread: it needs to be soft, but it also needs to be strong to endure the shearing force of a knife spreading butter on it.

However, we tend to spread butter on a slice in a particular direction, so if the cells are oriented in this direction, the slice will have greater resilience against shearing without having to be more chewy.

What was the take-home point in all this? For me, it was simply that the degree of research and design that goes into a humble slice of bread is nothing short of incredible. Whether it’s a breakfast croissant, my lunchtime panini or that cheeky muffin before bed, one thing is certain the bakery products on my plate will never look the same again.

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ecent studies have shown that at the current rate of growth, by 2050 the human population will have swelled to 9.5 billion. Recent FAO statistics have also shown that we do currently not have enough land set aside for cultivating crops to cope with this population surge.

So to meet this increase in demand, we will need to find new ways of getting food to those who need it most. One of the most effective ways of meeting this deficit would be to grow the food at source – even in some of the world’s most hostile climates.

Why millet?

mechanical thresher. The plant can quickly come to head, so it must be managed accordingly because as the plant matures the value and palatability of feed reduces.

Pearl millet should be harvested as early as possible to minimize losses due to birds, and bad weather. Mature grain pearl millet in the field usually contains about 30 percent moisture. At moisture levels higher than 25 percent, the seeds are too soft to withstand the threshing action. The ideal moisture content for harvesting grain pearl millet is about 20 percent. However, it is worth noting that thin stems, heavy panicles, and profuse tilling may result in lodging of the plants.

The seeds in the panicles of lodged plants germinate in the moist field and thus affect grain yield and quality. Hence, the plants are tied together to prevent lodging of plants.

Starchy endosperm

Millets are a group of versatile, small seeded, resilient, cereal Storage Style crops that are used widely around Storage of crops is an essential the globe for both food and component of the whole production animal feed. system, and millet is no exception.

Corneous One of the key factors in the This stage in the process facilitates spread of millet is that the crop has several of each farmer’s key proven itself throughout history to objectives, such as ensuring that Floury be particularly drought resistant. excess food is made available for Millet also boasts an impressive the future; whilst also presenting an Peripheral wealth of health benefits, as well opportunity to prevent against food as being gluten free. shortages. The storage stage can also Aleurone However, among cereals, millet provide seed during the next growing ranks sixth in the world in terms season, allowing the farmer to keep of area production behind wheat, the grain aside for a time when they Germ maize, rice, barley and sorghum will be able to sell at a much more Scutellar epithelium according to FAO statistics. favourable price.

Annual world production of However, in previous years, not Scutellum millet grains is currently 762712 so much attention has been paid by tonnes - with India the top scientists to establishing the most Embryonic axis producer at 334 500 tonnes. favourable conditions for storing In sub-Saharan Africa millet millet, and according to McFarlane, is the third most widely grown et al. (1995), this attention, “has Hilum crop, with the world’s top millet been considerably less than that for producers being India followed other cereals.” The main reason for Schema of Pearl Millet Seed Structure.

by Nigeria; with Nigeria and this, according to the FAO, is that (Source: Rooney and McDonough, 1987 Mali producing the third and sorghum and millets are regarded fourth highest yields respectively. as, “minor grain crops despite their Presently, the African continent produces 56 percent of the world’s relative importance as food staple in many growing countries.” output, of which 99.9 percent is produced in sub-Saharan Africa.

The other notable reason given by the FAO is that farmers in the arid and semi-arid countries where millets are grown achieve “quite impressive” storage performance with regards to millet by Harvesting employing relatively simple traditional methods.

Once the grasses and seed heads have turned golden brown, Most millets have excellent storage properties and can be kept millet can be harvested either by hand or with the use of a

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for up to 4-5 years in simple storage facilities such as traditional granaries. This is because the seeds are protected from being eaten by insects by the hard hull covering the endosperm, and because grain is usually harvested and stored in dry weather conditions (FAO and ICRISAT, 1996). So , although there may be large year-to-year variations in production, stockpiles can easily build up over a number of years.

Following drying and threshing, millets can be stored as loose grain in bags or or in loose containers (McFarlane et al, 1995).

The most common method then involves leaving the grains on the field, prior to threshing, in stacks or piles of harvested plants.

That said, the detached heads may also be stored away from the field, in exposed stack or in traditional storage containers.

However, the essential pre-requisites for storage of millets are the same as those for other grains.

Processing on an industrial scale

At present, industrial methods of processing millet are not as well developed as the methods used for say, processing wheat and rice; which

in most places are considered to be much more useful than millet.

Attempts have been made to develop improved industrial techniques for milling millet. One such attempt was made by Ngoddy in a study carried out in 1989. It was found that custom milling “has had a significant impact” in several African countries where it had recently been introduced.

In Nigeria alone, the study found that where about 80 percent of millet was custom milled into whole flour, just over 2.5 million tonnes of millet had been processed in this way.

Urban markets

One of the key issues facing global the spread of millet grains is that they are still mainly limited to populations in rural areas and are often milled manually within a household. This, according to the Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety is due to the lack of “innovative millet processing technology” which would enable “easy-to-handle, ready-to-cook, ready-to-eat and safe products and meals at a commercial scale that can be used to feed large populations in urban areas.”

For millet to be used more globally, developments would have

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most digestible grains available. Millet protein is also high in fibre, B vitamins and magnesium.

According to a study carried out by researchers from China’s Agricultural University in Beijing and Assiut University in Egypt, the potential health benefits of eating millet includes “preventing cancer and cardiovascular diseases; reducing tumor incidence; lowering, risk of heart disease, cholesterol and rate of fat absorption.” Many of these health benefits owe much to millet’s Effects of milling on millet relatively high antioxidant levels. The study also found that millet The effects of milling on nutritional contents of millet grains grains have the potential to be “useful in preventing diabetes and and their milling fractions have been studied by a number of for treatment of diabetics” due to its high poly-unsaturated fat researchers. One such study, carried out by Haryana Agricultural content.

University in India, found that the milling of pearl millet changed However, millet does its gross chemical come with a slight health composition. However, Nutrient profile comparison of millet with other food staples warning. The grain is said baking it did not cause Sorghum Proso Synopsis Cassava Wheat to contain small amounts a significant change in Rice Sweetcorn Millet Millet composition: of goiter genic substances nutrient content of raw Component that can limit uptake of pearl millet flour. It was (per 100g portion, raw Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount iodine to the thyroid. These also found that milling grain) so-called “thyroid function and heat treatment during Water (G) 60 13.1 12 76 9.2 8.7 inhibitors” can cause chapatti making lowered Energy (Kj) 667 1368 1527 360 1418 1582 goiter when consumed in polyphenols and phytic Protein (G) 1.4 12.6 7 3 11.3 11 large quantities; this may acid but increased both Fat (G) 0.3 1.5 1 1 3.3 4.2 explain the correlation the protein and starch Carbohydrates (G) 38 71.2 79 19 75 73 between millet consumption amino acids.

Fiber (G) 1.8 1.2 1 3 6.3 8.5 and goiter incidence in In a second study that developing countries was conducted by India’s Sugars (G) 1.7 0.4 >0.1 3 1.9 where millet constitutes a University of Mysore, Iron (Mg) 0.27 3.2 0.8 0.5 4.4 3 significant part of the diet. two pearl millet varieties Manganese (Mg) 0.4 3.9 1.1 0.2 <0.1 1.6 were milled into whole Calcium (Mg) 16 29 28 2 28 8 flour, semi-refined flour, Global warming and Magnesium (Mg) 21 126 25 37 <120 114 and a bran-rich fraction the increased demand Phosphorus (Mg) 27 288 115 89 287 285 and were evaluated for for millet Potassium (Mg) 271 363 115 270 350 195 nutrients, anti-nutrients, Millet’s versatility and and mineral bioits reputation for drought Zinc (Mg) 0.3 2.6 1.1 0.5 <1 1.7 accessibility. The results resistance, could prove key Pantothenic Acid (Mg) 0.1 0.9 1.0 0.7 <0.9 0.8 of the study indicated to preventing a possible Vitb6 (Mg) 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 <0.3 0.4 that nutrient content of impending global feed Folate (Μg) 27 38 8 42 <25 85 the semi-refined flour crisis. With cultivation Thiamin (Mg) 0.1 0.38 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.4 was comparable to whole areas soon to be under Riboflavin (Mg) <0.1 0.1 >0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 flour, with the exception higher demand than ever, Niacin (Mg) 0.9 5.5 1.6 1.8 2.9 4.7 of its fat content, which hardier crops such as was at 1.3 percent. Why millet, which are able to be would people choose to stored for longer periods of consume millet flour over its more widely consumed counterparts time, could soon be key to ensuring those that live in the most such as wheat or rice? arid of climates are fed well into the future.

With the threat of global warming also looming, much more of our planet could soon be classed as arid, so with the changing Potential health benefits climate will come the need to adapt and diversify – which could Millet boasts a wealth of health benefits, as well as being see crops such as millet become much more commonplace in gluten-free. Millet is also an alkali, which makes it easy to digest both our diets and our fields. and is widely considered to be one of the least allergenic and to be made in industrial milling techniques to ensure that the grain is more widely available and at lower cost. A cost effective milling process would need to be employed to ensure that the versatile grain was reaching those who needed it most; those in poorer, urban areas. Does milling millet have any effect on its composition?

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The Truth About Mycotoxin Binders in Feed

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By Michele Muccio, Product Manager at BIOMIN

inding, or adsorbing, specific mycotoxins to limit their negative effects in livestock is a wellestablished method for mycotoxin deactivation. While a large number of binder products containing clay minerals such as bentonites are commercially available, there is a certain amount of confusion in the market regarding claims authorised by the European Commission.

This matters to many feed and livestock producers, since it relates to product safety and effectiveness, which in turn impacts animal performance and profitably.

What can be bound?

This can be answered on two levels: one answer being scientific and the other - purely legal. Starting from the chemistry, mycotoxins such as aflatoxins have a relatively flat chemical structure and can be trapped between the layers of bentonites; much in the same way as a slice of meat sits between two slices of bread in a sandwich.

Once the mycotoxin enters the binder layers, the electric force generated by the atoms of both compounds tightens the bond.

The not-so-flat chemical structure of other mycotoxins like deoxynivalenol (DON) or zearalenone (ZEN) results in less effective adsorption. Legally speaking, only aflatoxin binding claims are authorised in the EU.

What makes a good binder?

A multi-year research project between BIOMIN and IFA Tulln, the world leader in research on fungi and mycotoxins, tested more than 300 different materials such as organic binders, cellular components, aluminosilicates, activated carbon, etc. for their ability to bind aflatoxins. The researchers found that five key characteristics defined a successful material, namely: adsorption capacity, irreversibility, specificity, safety and in vivo biomarkers studies.

1. High adsorption capacity: The method developed by IFA and the BIOMIN Research Center requires that 200 grams of the adsorbent be able to bind more than 90 percent of 4,000 ppb of aflatoxin at a pH of 5.0. This is a rather high bar, as the chart below shows that only 3 out of 30 commercially available products tested met the requirements. The European Union Reference Laboratories (EURL) later adopted this set of requirements as a reference for testing adsorbent materials.

2. Irreversibility: It is important that the aflatoxin binding is strong e.g. not easily undone—otherwise the bound toxins could be released again and have a negative impact upon animal performance.

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3. Specificity: Specificity means that only the targeted material (aflatoxins) is adsorbed. A material that is not specific would bind all sorts of other things, such as nutrients, and reduce the quality of feed—a particularly undesirable effect when it comes to feed additives.

4. Safety: Any binder used in the food and feed chain should by definition be safe for animals, consumers and the environment.

In practice, this means that the substance should be non-toxic and have no carry-over into meat and other animal products.

5. In vivo biomarkers studies: Data from a minimum of three in vivo studies performed in at least two different locations showing statistically significant effects must be provided to demonstrate efficacy at the lowest recommended dosage in a specific species.

Demonstration of efficacy must be provided according to scientifically recognized biomarkers for target species.

And the winner is…

These five criteria are reflected in the EU authorisation process that governs claims of mycotoxin deactivation. The BIOMIN – IFA project allowed researchers to identify a particular bentonite for its outstanding aflatoxin binding abilities. This bentonite was scientifically evaluated by EFSA and obtained the EU authorisation for mycotoxin deactivation—a testament to its safety, efficacy and purity.

EU authorisation

In 2009, the European Commission opened a new functional group of technological additives in order to ensure safety, purity and efficacy of mycotoxin deactivating compounds. EU registration is considered as a benchmark for quality by the industry and markets by countries both inside and outside of the EU. Feed and livestock producers are able to make decisions more wisely knowing that they are purchasing quality products.

In total, two official documents report the necessary requirements to obtain registration: The Regulation (EC) No 429/2008, a basic document for the preparation of an application.

The scientific guidance document issued by the European Food

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So far, only one company (BIOMIN) has achieved EU authorisation for substances able to detoxify mycotoxins: one authorisation for the bentonite (Mycofix® Secure) plus two other substances (FUMzyme® and Biomin® BBSH).

Apart from BIOMIN, five other companies tried to receive EU authorisation for their product for aflatoxinbinding, but none of them succeeded so far and four of them have already withdrawn their dossiers.

Misguided claims

In some cases, companies that produce binders will claim to have included some proportion of bentonite or have EU authorisation for their products without having had the product evaluated for safety and efficacy. This warrants caution by feed and livestock producers, as the product on offer may not contain the correct bentonite or the appropriate amounts in order to be effective.

Moreover, those binder providers expose themselves to investigation of the claims by national control authorities, which can demand the evidence of scientific backing.

Bentonite is a natural clay and differs largely depending on the origin. Only the specific bentonite sold exclusively in the Mycofix® product line has undergone the complete EFSA evaluation with all experiments and trials for identity, safety and efficacy and succeeded in a final authorisation.

Buyer beware

Described by the EU authorisation as “substances for reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins,” binders are a must in terms of quality for feed and livestock producers. In the case of the bentonite 1m558 as aflatoxin binder, this authorisation is based on the dossier submitted by BIOMIN and on the bentonite available from the company.

We at BIOMIN have proven that our bentonite works with an extensive dossier positively evaluated by EFSA and meeting all of the requirements of efficacy, selectivity and safety. Potential pitfalls of a bentonite lacking this scientific evaluation could include poor effectiveness, reduction in feed quality, concerns around safety and wasted money.

Given the highly competitive nature of today’s global animal protein markets, robust scientific data and proper authorisation can offer both performance (in terms of adequacy) and peace of mind.

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GRAIN FORTIFICATION Birth defect estimates highlight two key growth areas

by Sarah Zimmerman, Food Fortification Initiative

In 2015, an estimated 35,500 serious birth defects of the spine and brain were prevented because wheat and maize flours were fortified with folic acid, according to research published in July 2016.

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hile the figures above are a tremendous accomplishment, the study noted that the total only represents 13.2 percent of the birth defects that could be prevented by adding folic acid to grain products.

“The difference between what is being done and what could be done points out two areas for growth related to flour fortification – increasing political support for fortification and monitoring for quality and compliance,” said Scott J. Montgomery, Director of the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI). “As we make progress in each of these areas, more children will be born healthy. And, as flour fortification usually includes iron, we’ll greatly reduce the risk of anemia from iron deficiency.”

Folic acid is a form of vitamin B9 used in flour fortification.

Its color does not affect flour’s sensory properties, and the nutrient content is stable when exposed to heat. Women who

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have enough folic acid prior to conception and in the early days of their pregnancy are less likely to have infants with neural tube defects (NTDs) of the spine such as spina bifida. Infants born with anencephaly, another NTD affecting the brain, die shortly after birth.

Anemia is defined as low hemoglobin. It causes debilitating fatigue, which reduces productivity. Anemia also keeps children’s minds from developing fully which limits their future earning potential. Anemia while women are pregnant creates multiple risks for the mothers and the infants. Iron deficiency is the single most common cause of anemia.

Increasing Political Support

Most countries in the Americas have fortified wheat flour with iron for decades, and folic acid was added 20 years ago. Several countries in the Middle East began fortifying flour in the late 1990s. Countries in Africa are adapting fortification, and maize flour and rice are beginning to be fortified as well. But countries in Europe and Asia are fortifying very little of their cereal grain products. To make progress in those regions, policy makers will

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need to be convinced of the value of fortification.

Fortification is a long-term process to improve nutrition. Some of the health problems it addresses, such as anemia, are invisible.

As a result, it can be difficult to convince politicians to introduce and support legislation for fortification. Governments also need to provide the human and financial resources required for regulatory monitoring.

Cost effectiveness is the message most likely to motivate policy makers, according to an advocacy working group formed in 2015 in response to a Global Summit on Food Fortification. The working group included representatives from FFI, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the International Federation for Spina Bifida, the Iodine Global Network, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For governments, fortification represents a significant savings in healthcare dollars. This is particularly true with spina bifida.

In the United States, fortifying wheat flour, maize flour, and rice with folic acid has reduced the number of live-born infants with spina bifida by at least 614 annually.

Infants born with spina bifida will undergo a lifetime of surgeries and face many health issues. Consequently preventing spina bifida by fortifying grains in the US represents a net savings of US$ 603 million annually.

When anemia is prevented, people are more productive and children are more successful in school. One study found that fortification yields $84 for every dollar spent on reducing iron deficiency anemia prevalence.

“We recognise that millers usually the buy premix for fortification, while the government or insurance program enjoys the savings from averted healthcare expenditures,” Montgomery noted. “We always encourage governments to exempt premix from import taxes to give millers a little financial relief. We also

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Monitoring for Quality and Compliance

Millers are most likely familiar with the internal monitoring process for fortification. It begins with ordering quality premix and ensuring that the Certificate of Analysis matches what was ordered. Regularly checking the flow of premix from the feeder and conducting the iron spot test are other steps in internal monitoring. But millers may not be as familiar with the government’s role, which is often called regulatory monitoring.

“At FFI, we like to provide monitoring training for millers and government leaders simultaneously,” Montgomery said.

“Effective monitoring is a partnership of the public and private sectors. They need to know and respect each other’s roles.”

FFI recommends that government monitoring at flour-mills be done by the same staff who inspect production facilities for food safety. This prevents multiple trips to the mill by different government staff. Inspectors may want to see premix orders to be sure a consistent supply is being used.

They may inquire about and observe the mills’ quality assurance and quality control processes and gather documents for auditing.

They may also conduct an iron spot test or collect composite samples to send to a laboratory for further analysis.

In addition, the government’s role may include import and commercial monitoring. Import monitoring is done at border control sites. It also involves ensuring that paperwork is in order and periodically sampling products to be sure they comply with the country standard. Commercial monitoring is when government inspectors go to retail outlets. An inspector visits shops, talks with the proprietors about the source of the flour or

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rice they sell, and reviews the labels. Commercial monitoring may also involve periodic laboratory sampling of the product.

Globally, regulatory monitoring for food fortification programs suffers from a lack of resources. Monitoring requires human resources for inspectors, who often have a broad range of responsibilities beyond food safety. In some countries the same inspectors responsible for enforcing food fortification may also be responsible for water quality, pollution, restaurant hygiene, and human health and quarantine. Beyond inspectors, any lab analyses requires either lab capacity or additional expenses to outsource analyses.

Another challenge can be unclear roles and responsibilities between government agencies. With limited time and funds, it is essential that responsibilities are clear so they do not duplicate each other’s work. In addition, monitoring fortification is often not a priority when compared to risks of food-borne diseases.

People will not get sick if food is not fortified, although unfortified foods do put consumers at greater risk for long-term health conditions.

FFI recommends that countries establish a monitoring program that outlines the responsibilities of each group involved. This clarifies expectations and makes it easier to follow the system.

Monitoring results can also be shared in an open and transparent system with other government agencies or consumers.

“Ideally monitoring is a win-win situation,” Montgomery said. “All millers know what is expected and can easily meet the country’s standard. The government incorporates fortification monitoring into its existing food control system without requiring additional staff, and most importantly, the population benefits from better nutrition in foods they already enjoy.” http://bit.ly/FFI_Monitor

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THE BÜHLER NETWORKING DAYS

Johannes Wick, CEO Grains & Food, Bühler Group

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ühler and Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions, two experts in the areas of the Internet of Things and food process technology, are joining forces. The companies have decided to expand their research and development partnership.

Contractual proceedings to form a commercial partnership were completed on August 22, 2016 at the occasion of the Bühler Networking Days.

The cooperation provides great opportunities to leverage Bosch know-how in electronics, sensor technology and software for the food processing industry. The two companies successfully cooperated in a two-year research project to integrate cutting-edge Bosch microelectro-mechanical systems sensors into food production technology.

The results are very promising: Individual rolls in rotating machines can now be equipped with wireless sensors to measure in real time temperature and vibration during the production process. This allows monitoring and optimization of the end product through better alignment of the rolls.

Operators also benefit from predictive maintenance services, reducing down-time and operating costs. First applications from this intensified cooperation will be launched in 2017.

“Following our successful R&D partnership, we are pleased to take the next step to form a commercial partnership. We are excited to utilise this partnership to create process solutions and services that improve yield and performance at reduced operating costs for our customers,” stated Johannes Wick, CEO Grains & Food at Bühler.

Thorsten Müller, CEO of Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions says, “We are not only optimizing our own worldwide manufacturing base, we are also actively seeking to work with partners like Bühler to build a value creation network beyond company boundaries and turn Industry 4.0 into reality.”

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750 millers who provide food to 4 billion people daily met in Uzwil, Switzerland, to assess their industry's future direction

Stefan Scheiber, CEO of the Bühler Group

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ow to feed nine billion people healthily and sustainabily? Bühler addressed this challenge, together with key customers, scientists and partners at its first Networking Days in late August in Uzwil, Switzerland.

“We take the responsibility of the food and feed industry for a sustainable world very seriously. It is time to step up and make a difference,” says Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler Group.

Around 65 percent of global water consumption and 25 percent of all energy use is related to food and feed production. The world population is still growing and more than 30 percent of all food is wasted.

Developed countries suffer from obesity while an estimated 840 million people suffer hunger.

Feeding over nine billion by 2050 healthily and sustainably poses a huge challenge for the agricultural systems and the entire food industry.

Furthermore, even today’s production of animal protein is not sustainable. Only 40 percent of vegetable proteins land on our plates, with the rest ending up in the stomachs of livestock or as food waste. Despite all efforts and political climate agreements, no turnaround to a sustainable economic set-up and grain value chain has been achieved so far.

“It’s time now that the private industry steps up and makes a difference,” says Mr Scheiber.

Bühler has made the commitment to address this challenge globally, with its key customers and partners at its newly established ‘Bühler Networking Days’, where around 750 leaders from industry and science are discussing megatrends that are shaping the grain-processing industry: nutritional trends, sustainability, food and feed safety, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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CAN WE FEED 9 BILLION PEOPLE SUSTAINABLY BY 2050? (ABRIDGED)

by Ian Roberts, Chief Technical Officer at Buhler Group in Uzwil, Switzerland

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an we feed nine billion people sustainably in 2050 - that is the question? If I look at the audience we have here, it is hard to imagine a better group of people to discuss this with.

In fact, we have been looking at how many lives we touch across the whole grain value chain together, and I think it’s possible, that in this room, we touch the food for four billion people a day with our products and services. This is absolutely staggering.

It is a remarkable achievement but it comes with a burden.

Almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases emitted are associated with agriculture. Almost 70 percent of the world’s water usage is through agriculture. One-third of the world’s energy goes into food production.

But, one-third of the food is lost or wasted: so one-third of one-third of the world’s energy is utilised to produce waste. And one-third of 70 percent of the world’s water is utilised to produce waste.

We must solve a massive efficiency problem across the value chain if we are to become sustainable.

Nine out of 10 of the world’s warmest years have been in this century. So we are not on a good track. And that comes back to this food waste problem. The FAO has identified ‘food waste,’ if it were a country, as the third biggest contributor to greenhouse gases after the industrial power houses of China and the USA.

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Hunger

At the same time as we waste food, over 800 million people go to bed hungry and 159 million people are stunted.

Stunting relates to diet. It relates to the first 1000 days of life, from conception to two-years-of-age. If you have inadequate nutrition, your mental development is stunted, your physical development is stunted and you have immune deficiencies.

And you do not recover; it is not reversible. There is nothing you can do about it. You are condemned for life, from your first 1000 days.

On the other side is an unpleasant fact that 2.8 percent of global GDP is spent treating deceases directly related to obesity, such as the early onset of Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all of associated ailments.

At the same time as GDP grows we have increased demand for protein, and an estimated protein gap by 2050 of 265 million tonnes.

This is a vast amount, when arable land is decreasing, soil erosion is an issue and we have major inefficiencies in conversion rates for protein from our livestock.

Currently, there are 50,000 deaths per year result from antibiotic resistant bacterial infections - just in Europe and the USA. We heard here today that this will be a bigger threat to the health of mankind than cancer.

Evidence suggests that two-thirds of the antibiotics that are produced worldwide go into animal feed, and these include antibiotics such as the very common penicillin, which has been identified as critical for human health and safety.

And the other part of this problem is that the antibiotic pipeline

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is drying up. We only have had two new antibiotic species created or discovered since the 1990s.

It is inevitiable that the human population will reach nine billion somewhere around 2050, whether it will get to 11 billion is a moot point, and it whether reaches this in 2045, 2050 or 2050 is irrelevant. We have to prepare a food system that enables us to feed nine billion people; and to do it sustainably.

Business responsibility

We cannot rely on politicians. We cannot rely only on academic experts advising politicians, nor on the great forums such as the Cop 21 which are very important. They are clearly not solving the CO2 problem.

We have a business responsibility, and it is great one. GDP will grow 40 percent between 2010-20, which means our markets will grow. Over 24 percent of the world population is middle-class, which means that people will continue to value processed food, they will want new products. And this is good for business.

However, inequality has been growing since 1980. The gap of what the top one percent owns when compared to the rest of the population closed up to 1980 but it has now broadened and it gets wider and wider. The 80 richest people on earth have the same wealth as the three and a half billion poorest.

This drives frustration because in an age of social media, there is nowhere to hide between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots.’ The wealth gap is visible at all times and news spreads like wildfire with communications reaching all places. This does not only lead to frustration, it leads to conflict and we have seen this first-hand around the world in recent years.

We currently have 65 million people forcibly misplaced by war, genuine refugees; the highest number since the Second World War. We have to drive equitable growth and it has to be in the hands of business to create employment and wealth. This is why we believe that it is as an industry that we have to step up to the challenge. We have to be clear that we are developing sustainable businesses by leading for future generations.

This is not about ignoring profit, nor about ignoring business success. A resilient value chain is one where people can create wealth along that chain in the absence of subsidies and with a fair price of resources.

And it is a business imperative.

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The alternatives

If we go back to the protein challenge, what are the alternatives to meat?

Pulses are a fantastic sustainable option, not to replace meat, but to close the gap. We could make vegetable protein steaks.

We all love meat, and everyone enjoys eating meat as it has a wonderful flavour and is a great experience. It is important in our lives. The experience of dining is critical for family and friendship.

Insects are a fantastically sustainable resource, they consume organic waste turning it into protein and that protein is valuable and can be used it for poultry, for aquafeed and for human food.

Legislation is coming.

Algae brings huge opportunity. This is one of the reasons why we partner so closely with academic institutes.

Food safety

Reduce risk, cleaning efficiency, reducing the cost of cleaning.

If you think about it, a lot of time is lost when a line is not producing because we are cleaning. What we should be able to do is clean efficiently by design and by intention, to ensure we are utilising lines to produce.

In the mid term we must develop technologies for non-thermal kill steps that do not damage nutrition.

If we understand the role of bacteria we can be selective.

Instead of killing everything, we can just kill the pathogens, and then reinforce the other bacteria that are beneficial.

There is clearly opportunity in this space,

Can we eliminate mycotoxins early in the value chain?

This would have a nutritional benefit, a food security benefit and clearly stop us from processing things that we are going to throw away.

The digital age

The big opportunity comes from the digital age, if you look at all of these amazing companies that we have seen disrupting industries in the last few years such as Uber, which now transports more people on earth than anyone else but without owning a car. What this and other companies have done is they have used the digital age to utterly disrupt a value chain.

What is the opportunity we have if we work together to disrupt the food value chain to bring about greater efficiencies?

I think it is very important that we look at the low-cost sensors now available on a massive scale, at data storage that has gone down in price, at cloud solutions with massive connectivity and at today’s massive processing power.

We are beginning to bring solutions into the space, be it smart sensors in rotating parts like rolls, be it in the form of product quality controls such as particle size distribution or be it remote access or a complete digital interface which allows customers to work in the digital world effectively and efficiently.

I have three nice examples in the areas of industrial internet; Drones, 3D printing and robots.

What is the beauty of drones? You can fly these inside machinery and you can inspect things in places you would never want to send a person. They can do crop analytics using hydrospectral cameras to give us an understanding of what is happening at harvest, if there are diseases to deal with for example.

Imagine what 3D printing could do? They can print alternative layers of both plastic and metal. This means you can print electrical connectivity. You can print functionality into parts that you couldn’t traditionally.

This last one is from the robot world. It is an arm with seven axis of freedom. It doesn’t need a safety cage, it works next to you. If you want to program it you move its wrist and arm, you make him do the job by moving it through all of the pieces, directions and motions. This instructive motion becomes the programme and no programmer is required.

Collaboration

These opportunities are enormous. As a result we transformed our innovation model to a collaborative model, working with customers and suppliers for innovation.

What an incredible forum we have here to innovate and cocreate. We have fantastic global academic networks, business model innovation think tank at HSG, innovation think tanks, World Systems Centre at ETHZ, , integrated nutrition food centre at EPFL, Unitech working with 10 universities across Europe. We are also building this up in China and in India and working with our employees, the start-up world, and brilliant young people - 65 percent of whom are going to do jobs that we don’t even know exist today.

So if you ask me if we can feed nine billion people sustainably by 2050, the answer is an unequivocal, Yes! Of course we can.

We cannot do it without a highly-efficient grain value chain and I cannot tell you what that grain value chain looks like. That is the challenge we face. It is clear we will have new technologies, it is clear we need new business models to drive disruption, it is clear that we need transparency across the value chain and it is certain that we will need a massive degree of collaboration to make it happen.

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INNOVATIONS

TUBO THE TUBULAR PUSH

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In terms of flexibility, the new TUBO conveyor system sets new standards in plant engineering and was specifically designed for use in the food industry with its high requirements in terms of hygiene.

This uniquely versatile machine, which operates on a ‘push’ rather than a ‘pulling’ process, attracted much attention at the recent Buhler Networking Days in Uzwil and in fact, won the event’s most innovative prize with over 20 percent of the attendees’ voting in favour.

In comparison to conventional conveying systems, energy consumption can be considerably reduced and the bulk material can be conveyed far more gently.

In order to achieve consistently high product quality and efficient production processes for the processing of bulk materials such as grain, rice, break-stock, bran and flour, the products must be conveyed in the production plant as rapidly as possible, but at the same time also gently and hygienically.

Bühler’s TUBO is an innovative conveying system that sets new standards for the conveying of bulk materials, says the company. In contrast to today‘s systems, the bulk material is conveyed, without the need of a pulling-cord, in a closed pipe using TUBIT pusher elements.

Thanks to three-dimensional plant layouts, plant engineering is considerably more flexible.

Furthermore, additional advantages with respect to sanitation, energy efficiency and gentle conveying ensure sustainable investment pay-off in a very short time.

More creative freedom in bulk materials conveying: • Flexible plant engineering - minimum space requirements through three-dimensional conveying • Highest sanitation standards - residue-free product conveying without cross-contamination and segregation • Highest energy efficiency - minimal friction and fewer transfer points required • Gentle conveying - fewer broken kernels and higher yield

Tubo won the award for most advanced innovation and the team that designed it celebrates with CTO Ian Roberts

Dr Eliana Zamprogna stands next to the Tubit units from the Tubo which help to push product along the conveyor

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Hydro-Mix A simple and cost effective way to accurately control moisture and to improve the quality of your final product is to mount a Hydro-Mix moisture sensor into our new ducting system.

Specifically designed for grain, rice and pulses and easy to install into existing ducting, our system diverts a portion of the main flow of material across the sensor head providing the most accurate, real time moisture measurement available.

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Advanced Feature Dryer

The Complexity of Balancing Sanitary Drying and Efficiency

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CASE STUDY

Based on PesaMill technology, the CombiMill process allows whole-wheat flour for flatbreads, dark and standard flours to be produced using the same milling system.

Flatbreads are an important staple food in India, Arab countries and many African nations. The flour used for flatbreads has specific properties, such as high water absorption. Indian Atta flour, for example, is traditionally made on stone mills. However, these mills consume vast amounts of energy and require frequent maintenance.

In addition, they are not suitable for hygienic processing because abrasion of the stones and binding agents may potentially contaminate the product. For these reasons, Bühler developed PesaMill.

This high-compression mill grinds grain using a highpressure shearing action, which generates relatively high temperatures. Compared with the stone mill, it has higher yields, improved food safety standards, requires less maintenance, and consumes significantly less energy.

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Now, Bühler has successfully combined the PesaMill with traditional roller mill technology in a single milling system. The result is the CombiMill, which offers a high level of flexibility.

In addition to the whole-wheat flour typically chosen for flatbreads, it is also ideal for the manufacture of other products, such as various types of dark and standard flours.

This means that milling companies will now be able to successfully set themselves apart in the market by producing different kinds of end products with a single milling system.

The first CombiMill machines are already up and running in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

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by Brandon Schade, Dryer specialist from Chief-Agri

rain drying is an essential part of the grain management process that needs to be considered pre and post-harvest.

Due to the steady drop in corn prices over the last few years, many farmers and handlers have held onto their grain in hopes to find a better profit in the future. Maintaining the moisture and the temperature of your grain as it is stored can heavily impact the length of time it can be stored; as well as its overall condition.

Continuous mixed flow grain dryers for optimal drying performance For maintaining the optimum quality of your stored grain, Chief Agri offers innovative and dependable grain dryers for farm and commercial use. To make sure you have the drying system that is right for your operation, Chief will carefully assess your operation and find the energy efficient solution thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right for you.

Chief currently manufactures two main types of grain dryers, these are Chief

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F Commercial Dryers and Caldwell Dryers; with both systems relying on continuous mix flow technology to maintain optimum quality of stored grain and efficient dependable service.

Continuous Mixed-Flow Dryers are used for drying commodities such as corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice, with a reputation for durability, energy efficiency, dependable performance and advanced technology.

Caldwell Dryers

Rather than the conventional screen drying method, in the Caldwell dryers grain is gravitationally separated and continually mixed as it cascades and gently tumbles around honeycombed ducts. The larger holding capacity results in grain being heated at a slower rate which reduces the likelihood of grain cracking due to stress. The longer exposure of the heated air to the grain results in air exhausting with a higher moisture saturation. This system also offers greater energy efficiency Caldwell Mixed-Flow Dryers provide 40-45 CFM (67.9 - 76.4 m3/h) of air per bushel compared to 80-100 CFM (135.9 - 169.9 m3/h) of air per bushel with conventional cross-flow dryers.

Fan-under Mixed-Flow dryers

The fan under Continuous Mixed-Flow Dryers offer capacities of 1,150 - 7,000 BPH (34.5 mtph - 210.2 mtph) using five point moisture removal dry and cool. The fuel efficient Maxon Burners can either be fueled by propane or natural gas. Single burner, gas train and ignition are standard on all models.

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Chief Agri/Industrial originated in 1961 and has grown to offer a full line of grain and commodity storage, aeration and material handling products throughout the world.

The success of our company is directly due to the strong relationships we have created with our customers. Listening to their needs has led to innovative products that help producers minimize storage costs, protect the quality of their product, and maximize the selling price of their commodities. Our comprehensive product offering includes: grain storage, grain handling, Caldwell grain conditioning, and dryers.

CHIEF AGRI'S TOP FIVE DRYER TIPS FOR HARVEST

Since Chief is in the business of manufacturing two quality grain dryers they have come up with the following “Top 5 Dryer Tips for Harvest”.

1: Proper cleaning/housekeeping

It’s imperative that your dryer is cleaned inside and out. Make sure all grain columns and air ducts are clear from last season’s foreign material that may have collected during the emptying process. Also, the discharge system must be clear of foreign material and rotating freely. If you have a Maxon line burner, it will need to be cleaned out and check that the burner holes are clear.

2: Enough fuel

Ensure that there is an ample fuel supply prior to harvest season, especially if running off liquid propane. Pressurise your fuel train on the dryer and check for leaks.

3: Test all electrical components

Make sure all fill switches, temp sensors, starters, relays, modulating valves etc are working properly to avoid a delay in operation during drying season.

4: Start it up before you need it

Prior to harvest, start your dryer to make sure it is runs properly. Look for proper flame color and pattern, and if fans and all moving parts are functioning correctly.

5: Ensure all safety features are working properly

There are a few safety features that you will want to check before your harvest operations are in full swing. Purging at start up, high temp limit switches, chain break sensors, and air prove switch are the main features you will need to check regularly.

By following all of the steps above, teamed with Chief’s exceptional standards of design and engineering, you will ensure that your grain is stored safely and cost effectively in the months and even years following this year’s harvest season. www.agri.chiefind.com

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Solid start to new season exports at Great Yarmouth

After loading the landmark one-millionth tonne of grain last campaign, the Gleadell Terminal in the outer harbour at Great Yarmouth has made a solid start to the new harvest with 35,000 tonnes of farmers’ grain already loaded and shipped across Europe.

This has helped local growers reach overseas market and the momentum is continuing, with Gleadell this week loading 27,500 tonnes of feed wheat on the “MV Miedwie”, destined for Spain.

France in particular, but also other EU countries, has suffered from poor yields this season as cool, wet weather has impacted on yields and undermined quality. Whilst the UK has seen wheat yields fall back to the five-year average, the quality so far is good and this should provide export opportunities this campaign.

UK farmers planted 34 percent of the wheat area with Group 1 and Group 2 varieties this season, producing a surplus of quality wheat, which could go to market outlets opened up by the disastrous harvest in France. For example, France traditionally sells a significant volume of different milling grades to North Africa, but this year buyers will be forced to look at alternative origins, one of which will be the UK. Paul Dowson, Gleadell’s East Anglian wheat trader said: “We are seeing overseas interest and are hopeful that the port will enjoy another busy season loading all grades of grains and oilseeds, providing marketing opportunities for local farmers.”

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Storage project

SI-LOW

The issue of postharvest loss of grain in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely significant, both environmentally, economically, and in terms of the welfare of the farmers who grow it. Si-Low is a product designed to counteract this by providing an affordable way for smallholder farmers in the region to effectively store their crops for long periods of time. Si-Low aims to provide hermetic storage of grain for farmers close to the poverty line who currently cannot afford it.

Anthony Brown, Creator of Si-Low talks to Milling and Grain

I designed Si-Low for the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Student Design Awards, an international design competition aiming to promote design for social change. I was fortunate enough to win the award, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waste not, want notâ&#x20AC;?, which tasked entrants with designing a way to reduce food waste.

As a result of winning this award and the fantastic feedback and recognition that I gained from it, I am starting to turn SiLow from a design into an actual product and launching it in sub-Saharan Africa. In this article I will explain the problem the farmers are facing, how my design aims to solve this problem, and what the future holds for the project.

Preventing postharvest loss in Sub-Saharan Africa

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transporting of crops. The area I focussed on is the storage stage, where large amounts of wastage occur due to spoiling caused by improper storage conditions.

In sub-Saharan Africa, 37 percent of available food is lost in handling and storage. Such wastage can usually be avoided using techniques such as refrigeration and hermetic storage. However it is techniques like this that are often not found in the developing world because of their high cost. The developing world, and in particular, Africa, represents a significant proportion of global food production; Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for 23 percent of global food production.

The world relies on the crops grown in Africa and the rest of the developing world, where a much larger proportion of the population rely on farming to earn a living. It is therefore of vital importance that such a key global food supply is as efficient as possible, particularly in a world where a global food shortage is becoming more significant with every year that passes. Cutting postharvest losses in the developing world in the storage stage could represent a substantial improvement in food supply levels, as well as considerably improving the livelihoods and welfare of farmers.

Postharvest loss is very prevalent in grain production

Grain is a commodity, which is crucial to the economy of subSaharan Africa in particular, and the people that produce it. It is very commonly grown in the region, with crops such as maize, barley and wheat among the crops grown. Postharvest loss is unfortunately very prevalent in the production of grain in the area.

For example, the percentage of maize crops lost to post-harvest losses in Kenya and Tanzania reaches upwards of 25 percent.

In the developed world, the growing of grain is usually undertaken on a large scale, often by large corporations and businesses. As such, crops can be protected from postharvest loss through investment in modern technologies. In sub-Saharan

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The design uses HDPE plastic, rather than galvanised iron, because this allows for a mass production process called rotational moulding to be used. Using rotational moulding means that producing large amounts of silos makes them far cheaper, whereas with one-off manufacturing the cost is always the same no matter how many are made.

Africa, smallholder farmers very often grow grain, the farms are small, and are usually owned by a single family. It is these small plots of land which people in the rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa depend on.

These people live off the land and are extremely vulnerable to issues such as postharvest loss and famine. They live close to the poverty line as a result, with very small amounts of short-term capital available to them. What money they do have is spent on school for their children, food, and other basics. It is because of this that storage practices for harvested grain in the area are far from ideal.

Farmers do not have the money to invest in improved storage facilities, and so continue to use traditional methods that leave grain vulnerable to spoilage caused by disease and pests. Grain is either stored in poly-woven bags or in traditional wicker huts, both of which are extremely vulnerable to pests, and do not produce a sealed environment to isolate the grain.

To prevent losses farmers often sell all of their harvested grain on local markets straight after harvest. This reduces waste but represents a significant reduction in potential income because the price of grain is far lower during harvest season, and so the farmers are receiving far less for the crops that they grow.

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Farmers are often priced out of effective storage

The technology does exist that could provide effective storage in the region. Metal silos and PICS (Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage) hermetic bags are designed for and target sub-Saharan Africa, however the farmers who need them the most are usually priced out of purchasing them. Those that can afford them often do not have a high enough level of trust or understanding to invest their hard-earned money in such long-term, unknown technologies.

Many saw metal silos as a potential solution to this important issue. These silos are designed to be handmade by local craftsmen out of sheet metal, and are very simple to use. When set up correctly they produce a hermetic seal which protects the grain from spoilage. Local farmers were found to prefer metal silos over PICS bags and similar products because of their durability.

They are effective at storing grain such as maize for up to three years when used correctly, compared to the weeks that grain currently lasts when stored traditionally. On paper they seem like the ideal solution, however I found in my research that their uptake is extremely low.

According to the Postharvest Loss Reduction Centre at the University of Greenwich, in Kenya adoption is “very limited”, in Tanzania “adoption is still very low”, and in Zimbabwe “adoption is very limited”. The primary reason for the poor uptake is down to cost; prices vary greatly due to variances in the size of silos and the craftsmen who make them, but they usually cost upwards of US$200.

Such prices represent a short-term investment that most smallholder farmers in the region simply cannot afford or risk.

As a result the silos are not purchased, or indeed manufactured, and the problem still exists. The reason for the high prices is down to the way they are made. Hand-crafting one-off items is always a costly endeavour, it was the reason behind the industrial revolution, in which mass production drove down production costs.

It was this discovery that sparked the initial idea for Si-Low. If I could design a silo that could be mass manufactured and still had the functional capabilities of the metal silo, then I could potentially have a solution to a major problem. If farmers could have an affordable way to effectively store their grain, then their income could increase, crop wastage could be reduced and their livelihoods could improve.

Developing a potential solution

It is from this research into the root cause of the issue that I was able to develop a potential solution. I developed the design to be as affordable as possible, whilst still performing the function required of it by the farmers. The design uses HDPE plastic, rather than galvanised iron, because this allows for a mass production process called rotational moulding to be used.

Using rotational moulding means that producing large amounts of silos makes them far cheaper, whereas with one-off manufacturing the cost is always the same no matter how many are made. To make the manufacturing cost as small as possible, I tasked myself with designing the silo to have only one manufactured part. Doing so would mean that only one mould needs to be purchased, cutting costs considerably because mould tooling is the biggest contributor to the cost of manufacturing plastic products.

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This proved to be a challenging task because of the restrictions of rotational moulding, as well as the need for the silo to be stackable during transportation to cut distribution costs. I managed to design a novel solution to achieve this, and so production and distribution costs were cut significantly.

The inlet and outlet of the Si-Low are designed to be sealed using bought-in bore caps which simply screw onto the main unit. The use of bought-in parts in this instance allowed for my aim of one manufactured part to be realised. As a result of the extensive design development I undertook at the University of Nottingham for this project, I had designed a mass-produced alternative to the metal silo. The design work I undertook means that manufacturing costs are kept as low as possible, and the ability for the parts to stack vastly reduces the cost of transporting the units across sub-Saharan Africa.

Stacking means that far more units can be packed into a particular space, such as the back of a lorry, and so fewer trips and fewer lorries are required.

Functionally, Si-Low is designed to perform the same way as metal silos, producing a hermetic seal, which isolates the grain from the external environment, and protecting it from disease and pests. The unit holds around 500kg of maize, a capacity chosen because a local expert in Tanzania informed me that on average, local farmers store around five 100kg bags of grain at a time.

I conservatively estimated Si-Low at costing below US$40 per unit, with US$20 per unit being entirely possible. This represents a huge cost saving over the options that are currently available to the farmers, thus providing them with a way to store their grain for a price that they can actually afford.

Award winning design

Having won the RSA Student Design Award for Si-Low, I received funding from Finnish company Fazer, who sponsored the award, to help take the design further and turn Si-Low from a design into a finished product that could help the lives of thousands. There is, however, a long way to go before SiLow can be used by the farmers of sub-Saharan Africa. More investment is required, as well as an extensive process of further development and testing of the design to ensure it functions exactly as expected.

The real challenge now begins, being a 22-year-old design graduate I lack the experience to launch a product in Africa, and so I am seeking the expertise of others in order to develop a plan of how Si-Low can come to life. A plan is needed on how to approach the task of producing and distributing the product.

One approach may be to use industrial backing in order to obtain the necessary funding, infrastructure and contacts needed to launch Si-Low. Many organisations look to fund projects such as this in order to facilitate positive social change and provide an image boost for their company.

Working with a charity could also be beneficial, as they would have the local knowledge and distribution networks required. My aim is not to make money but to get the product off the ground and to those who need it, using a charity could allow this to happen.

The issue of postharvest loss of grain in sub-Saharan Africa is real, and it affects the lives thousands of families. It is my hope that this design could in some way help solve a problem that, with modern scientific knowledge and advances, is so avoidable. abbrown1994@gmail.com

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Staff and service at the heart of success

by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain

s we know, Turkey is a developing country. What we might not know is that it accounts for over 20 percent of world’s flour trade in exports.

Now supported by Konya Borsa, a new local market trading board, it is well positioned to accelerate both the means and ease of the county’s business operations for all customers, both domestic and international.

As a major manufacturer and supplier working within the Turkish milling industry and meeting the needs of customers around the world, Molino is one of Turkey’s major drivers in milling development.

Molino was formed in 1964 by industry stalwart Dr Omer Lutfi Alaybeyi, the son of Salim Alaybeyi who had established an original company in the 1950s which focused on wheat merchandising and bakery activities. After graduating from university in France in 1953, Dr Omer turned his attention to the production of milling machines and their ancillary equipment manufacture.

Today, the company has over 54,000 square meters of open factory area and a massive 30,000 square meters under cover.

“Our company successfully executes all steps from research and development to the establishment of turn-key factories.

We are a leading company in our sector and we operated with professionally throughout and follow-up with dedicated after sales service,” says today’s Vice President Salim Alaybeyi, the son of Dr Omer Lutfi.

Molino supplies all the equipment a miller needs to operate flour and semolina mills, grain silos, seed cleaning units, pulse sieving and packing plants, pneumatic and mechanic conveying systems, etc.

“Our company defines its basic principles in all activities as low cost and high quality flour production,” he says.

Customers come from a range of countries besides Turkey; from France to Syria, Morocco to Eygpt, from the Dominican Republic to India, especially Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Russia, Ukraine, UAE, Germany, Greece and Yemen.

In April this year, Professor Dr Hikmet Boyacioglu MAG’s Turkish editor and I met with Salim Alaybeyi, Ahmet Yalcinkaya and Abdullah Ghandoura at the Molino headquarters in Konya, Turkey.

This was my first visit for three years and it was great to return and discover what has changed.

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The importance of quality staff

“Staff are extremely important to Molino and our operations,” says Salim Alaybeyi.

With over 250 staff, Molino has the flexibility to operate around customer needs.

“Our staff are innovative and lead the way for technological solutions that are taken up around the world, all from the heart of Anatolia,” he says.

International guests would have seen the prestige and heritage of this company’s traditional culture from the Konya region of Turkey when visiting its exhibition booth at IDMA 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey, there were local dance troupes and an Anatolian theme to their castle-like exhibition stand and where ‘çai’ (tea) was provided to all.

In our conversation, Ahmet and Abdullah described how they had both recently returned from three months of business visits in Eastern Africa.

This had been an inspiring time and very positive for their machinery and services across many countries and industries.

They are the people who believe and display the way that Molino pride themselves on co-operating closely with customers. Customers’ expectations are surpassed because they provide so much more than just their machinery.

From Molino’s research and development, to its wide know-how and advice all goes hand-in-hand with its success and all round care.

The company is able to provide a general yet wide range of individual consultancy services. Whether it is on matters of access to finance, maintenance and upkeep of the mill or turnkey project, market knowledge or education and access.

Whether it be logistics or project management, Molino focuses on providing a service to its customers from start to finish. For example, its staff speak many of the world’s major languages. In fact, their first machinery sale was to France in 1981 by their founder, Dr Omer Lutfi Alaybeyi.

As reported by this magazine in a 2013, Dr Omer is an innovator. He was able to combine his vision with business. Serving the flour milling industry has now grown to incorporate serving other milling industry needs such as silos, seed cleaning, pulse sieving, packaging, pneumatic and mechanical conveying.

With a 30,000m² space of factory floor in Turkey, and ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality management systems, Molino is a supplier that is of recognised international standing. A new website (www.molino.com.tr), set out to provide a user-friendly experience whilst keeping the values and unique position of Molino clearly identified.

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Improving raw material quality for millers When China discovered that they were losing a significant amount of harvested crop through poor storage, it was decided that something at a national level had to be done about it; that’s what is happening there today

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by Roger Gilbert for Milling and Grain nlike many developed countries, where quality deterioration of crops can see three to five percent of stored materials become unusable, the figure in China can be as high as 15 percent.

Government recognition of the problem has resulted in support for farmers, starting from immediate post-harvesting, to ensure drying is

carried out successfully.

One milling industry player has stepped forward to provide the equipment necessary for such a change in handling methods, and that company is Satake.

“In China a lot of rice is damaged in storage due to humidity and this is particularly an issue on farms where farmers do not have the machinery to dry,” says Satake Manufacturing (Suzhou) Co Ltd General Manager Nagafuchi Eiichiro.

“Many are still using radiant heat from the sun, which is extremely primitive, to do the job and this leads to a lot of waste.”

China’s agricultural department is now convinced that farmers should be using machinery to dry their crops.“While we are still concentrating on our flour milling and colour sorting business, we want to diversity, so we are also entering the agricultural industries so-called pre-harvest area in rice and other crop drying.”

With equipment now to hand it’s just a matter of farmers receiving the governmental subsidy in order for the sales to be made, he added.

Think Satake … think sorter

When you think Satake you think colour sorters and as an industry leader, it was very much appreciated when they invited Milling and Grain to visit the company’s Suzhou factory to tour its facilities late last year.

General Manager Nagafuchi Eiichiro, Tanak Toshiyuki and their team of specialists, which included our guide for the afternoon, hosted us.

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Colour sorters of all shapes and descriptions are completed on the production line at Satake’s factory in Suzhou, China

and started production a year later in 1998. 2017 will mark its first 20 years in the country at its location on Jinfeng Road in the new district of Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province is in excellent condition. Today, it employs 260 people including five Japanese nationals at the factory.

Satake System Manufacturing (Suzhou) Co Lt started out manufacturing rice-milling equipment, which accounted for 7080 percent of production, to meet early demand for this type of machinery in the country 20 years ago.

However, the introduction of colour sorting in recent years has seen a significant switch to providing the grain and rice milling sectors throughout China and the Asian region, with what has become an essential piece of milling equipment; with sales in 2015 achieving a turnover of 290 million RMB with a profit margin in the region of 20 million RMB. For a foreign company working in China, turnover is not the only guide to success. The exchange rate has an ever-present impact on profitability and the appreciating Yuan - which has improved from 8Yuan:US$1 some 10 years ago to 6.25Yuan:US$1 today - means that it’s increasingly more difficult to do business within and from China.

“This is an overall appreciation of the Yuan of between 30-40 percent and that has had an important effect on exports to other Asian countries,” says Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro.

“We export about 50 percent of our production from Suzhou to other Asian countries, namely India, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. We are affected by the RMB appreciation very much.”

However, this has not overshadowed the complete success of Satake’s strategy of building a production hub in China to meet the demand from its local and international marketing departments.

“Our research and development is carried out in Japan and that brings to us the technology which we then manufacture for the market commercially and economically,” adds Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro. Orders for overseas markets come via the company’s Japanese head office.

“Ten years ago, China had a competitive advantage - but that’s no longer the case,” stated Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, who also added that, “Today, Government regulation is very strict particularly on environmental requirements which can effect such things as our painting lines through smell, noise and chemical materials we use.”

Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro recognises that there are a number of competitors in the market providing this type of equipment, with many of the smaller competitors located in Wuhan and Ampire provinces, but the main competitors in this high technology sector

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The range of grains and cereals plus other products that can be successfully sorted is ever increasing Yimin Tang, Satake System Manufacturing’s optical sorting development, with Zhao Bin demonstrating the sorting capabilities of the Satake machines in the demonstration facility

in China are AMD and Meyers colour sorters.

“We calculate that there are over 40 different major colour sorter manufacturers operating in China today,” says Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, who added that, “Many of these companies started out imitating our machinery, but they are now getting stronger. This is why we target the top companies in each of the sectors we supply.

However, we continue to support colour machines which provide higher performance and lower prices to compete with these lowcost, mass producers in China.”

Other foreign equipment manufacturers have also formed

subsidies in China to exploit the market with low-end colour sorters. According to research carried out by the company, shorter grain rice is grown in the north of the country alongside Japanesestyle production and where the farms are relatively very big.

“As a result we have concentrated on the markets in the north,” says Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro,“Southern rice is longer and farms are smaller and that is what we are tying to modify/customize our machines to their process,” adding that, “Many of our customers are located in the northern areas of the country where our equipment the most suited.”

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Mr Yimin Tang, Satake System Manufacturing’s optical sorting development manager - for products other than rice was kind enough to show us around the company’s laboratory and its testing and research facilities on the Jinfeng Road site in Suzhou.

According to Mr Yimin Tang, “These machines are capable of processing rice, wheat, corn and cereals such as millets, etc; there are special machines for coffee beans and for finished flours.”

However, he also stated that, “The more difficult to process products are nuts, peanuts and frozen blueberries; all products that have a high retail value. After these products are sorted they can achieve a higher price in the marketplace making the return on investment in this equipment higher than you can achieve from the standard machines.”

Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, agreed with this statement by suggesting that, “Colour sorters are more profitable when processing higher-valued products,” he then went on to say that, “while 100 percent of all Japanese rice is colour sorted prior to processing, China is also experiencing a revolution in rice quality with has shown marked improvements as the country has become richer.”

But according to Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, “The Japanese are concerned about the quality and taste of rice and any small, broken rice is of concern to the Japanese consumer. That’s not the case here in China, but things are changing rapidly.”

Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro then stated that in his opinion, “appearance is everything,” and that, “Traditionally speaking, we need to polish and polish rice to enhance the appearance but that doesn’t mean it’s more healthy. That’s why we have develop the GABA rice process.”

In the south west of China consumers “prefer the long-grain rice,” according to Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, while the majority of Chinese eat short-grain rice. As a result machine set-ups are different. Smaller capacity machines, such as the ones we were shown in the demonstration area process coffee and other

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Hands across the oceans

The most recent milling liaison involving Satake of Japan, and the one that has gained most headlines, is the working agreement signed between it and Alapala of Turkey, which aims to see more Satake equipment sold into that country, and through Alapala’s global network.

However, sales of Alapala equipment, via Satake, into China are also a possibility, stated Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro, General Manager of Satake Systems Engineering (Suzhou) Co Ltd of China. Satake will be providing flour-milling equipment to the Turkish industry through its new arrangement with Alapala, “… and it may well that the we also import Alapala equipment into China for the industry here,” he added.

However, this is not the only arrangement Satake has agreed over the past year or so that involves the milling sector. Satake Corporation, Hiroshima, Japan purchased 100 percent of renowned silo and bulk handling supplier Dennys Silo and Engineering of Allora, Queensland with the deal finalised at a signing ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand in mid-June, 2015.

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THE GABA RICE REVOLUTION At the beginning of 2012 Satake launched rinse-free GABA rice. GABA stands for an amino acid, gamma amino butyric acid. That may be an amino acid unfamiliar to most of us but it carries many health claims with a key one being the lowering of anxiety in the consumer. This specially-processed rice increases the amount of gamma aminobutryic acid from brown rice, producing a softer grain.

GABA (gamma amino butyric acid) is a functional component found in high quantities in germinated brown rice. The germination process adds a variety of nutrients through the activation of dormant enzymes, while also softening the bran layer. The rice kernel is germinated until the flavour and nutritional benefits are maximised; with GABA rice is an easy way to introduce this important amino acid into a daily diet.

Satake’s long experience with rice processing technology enabled it to develop the ‘Rinse-Free GABA Rice’ production process in 2009 and introduce ‘Rinse-Free GABA Rice’ to the world.

Once milled this rice contains 13mg of GABA per 100g of rice, there is also 10 times more GABA in the sprouted brown rice than found in traditional white rice, and three times more GABA than in regular brown rice. ‘Rinse-Free GABA Rice’ also has the same taste and texture as milled rice.

Growing consumer demand in Japan encouraged Satake to began selling its ‘Rinse-Free GABA Rice’ through the Omusubino-GABA store and then making it available through its website. The consumer product comes in two package sizes 1kg and 5kg packs. Annual sales target in the first year was 7000 packs.

“We sold two GABA processing plants in 2015 and we expect more this year. Consumers are increasingly concerned about health and food security,” stated Mr Nagafuchi Eiichiro,“Today we are producing five million tonnes of GABA rice annually.”

The acquisition of Dennys provides a multi-faceted benefit to both organisations - it gives Dennys access to a new global and expanded domestic sales network with particular focus on South East Asia and the Pacific Region, providing the perfect growth platform for Dennys to take advantage of opportunities in the much-touted “Asian Century”.

The deal provides Satake access to world-class bulk handling and storage equipment, further enhancing their capabilities as the leading Asian supplier of rice and grain handling solutions in the world.

The purchase of Denny’s by Satake looks to be incredibly beneficial for both parties as Dennys will continue to operate normally with a strong focus from both sides that the nature of the existing business is to be preserved. Retaining the elements that made Dennys a successful business over several generations. All staff were retained in the change of ownership process, with Mr Denny continuing in the business as Head of Sales and Special Advisor to Satake.

Satake Australia will enhance their sales portfolio through their existing network of sales staff and agents, with existing presence in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand. International sales will be coordinated through Thailand and Japan.

MARKETS OUTLOOK The other side of the story “In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”

-John Stuart Mill

By Pedro H Dejneka, AGR Brasil, AgResource

With vast speculation taking over the commodities sector since early March giving way to historical vertical-like price moves, there has been a “race” to try and matchup “fundamental reasons to justify” the rally.

As “enlightened” as such statement by what Stanford University calls “the most influential English speaking philosopher of the 19th century” is, one could easily make an argument that when it comes to commodity market analysis the statement seems to be as useful as a bicycle to a fish.

In the world of commodity analysis, there seems to be a constant attempt to “prove the unprovable” on the part of the trade.

With vast speculation taking over the commodities sector since early March giving way to historical vertical-like price moves, there has been a “race” to try and matchup “fundamental reasons to justify” the rally. It seems as though even the best and brightest get caught in this game of cat and mouse. Significant changes to South American soybean crop totals as well as intense early year demand by the Chinese and now, more than ever, speculation over the potential for drought-like weather conditions for the U.S. crop, have indeed provided some much-needed fuel to the soybean market in Chicago.

These conditions have given way to heavy speculation about U.S. and South American balance sheets, which has been exacerbated by the lack of significant data-points between late March and early July, creating a true “free-for-all” in balance sheet estimates.

The dominant feature of this past month in many “insider” comments and analysis has been the extrapolation of Chinese demand pace and of cuts to South American production with 15/16 and 16/17 U.S. soybean balance sheets. Two things are very interesting to note: 1: The trade seems ready to simply assume that U.S. yields will be, at best, trend. Many analyses we have come across recently show yield scenarios going only down from 4646.5 bpa. Such is the power of the El Niño to La Niña effect in people’s psyches. Yes, the weather has been drier than normal and hotter to much hotter than normal in parts of the U.S. Midwest, however, it is indeed only June – and crop conditions in soybeans are at the highest level ever for this time of the year.

2: The use of constant demand figures under different yield and total production scenarios. This one is astounding as it completely throws out the basics of supply x demand law, assuming demand for U.S. soybeans as completely inelastic.

Well… we beg to differ and as you can see by the attached table, doing our best to try to show “both sides of the story.

Note that only yields nearly 10 percent below trend would seem sufficient to take soybean endingstocks in the United States near or below the 200 million bushel and 5 percent stock-to-use mark.

Such levels would still be around 2x the level of ending stocks in 2014/15, when soybean prices peaked near $10.60. Yields near or above trend, even with unchanged soybean planted area, would take stocks to much more comfortable and near historic levels of 400-500 million bushels (translation: 400+ million bushel stocks do not inspire the need for rationing of supply through higher prices).

“But you are using demand numbers that are too low given the cut in South American production in 15/16 and the pace of Chinese demand!”

Ahhh, we were hoping you would make such comment.

We caution against extrapolating demand switches to the U.S. for the 16/17 crop year due to cuts in 15/16 to the South American crop. One must keep in mind that by late February of 2016, Brazil is locked and loaded to supply soybeans to the world. Furthermore, South American production in 16/17 is likely to have a new record potential, even with the expected slight reduction in

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16.17 US SOY BALANCE SHEET Under different weather/area scenarios Soybeans

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AREA UNCHANGED INCREASED IN AREA Argentinean area dedicated to soybeans.

Planted 82.2 82.2 82.2 83 83.5 84.5 AGR BRASIL currently sees the following for 16/17 production potential (in MMTs): Harvested 81.4 81.4 81.4 82.2 82.7 83.7 Brasil 100-110 Yield 43 46 48.5 43 46 48.5 Argentina 53-58 Production 3,499 3,743 3,947 3,533 3,803 4,059 Paraguay 7-9 Carry -In 370 370 370 370 370 370 Others 6-8 Imports 30 30 30 30 30 30 Under such scenario, the ‘worst case’ figure (without considering “black-swan” type weather events) would Total Supply 3,899 4,143 4,347 3,933 4,203 4,459 be 166 – only 6 MMTs below last year’s all-time Crush 1,850 1,870 1,900 1,850 1,870 1,900 record and in-line with this year`s expected production Exports 1,800 1,850 1,925 1,800 1,850 1,925 of 165-169 MMTs. S+R 120 125 130 120 125 130 The ‘best-case’ scenario would bring about production Total Use 3,770 3,845 3,955 3,770 3,845 3,955 of around 185 MMTs, surpassing last year’s record by Ending Stocks 129 298 392 163 358 504 over 12 MMTs! Even if Chinese demand next year swells to 87-90 Stock/Use Ratio 3.4% 7.8% 9.9% 4.3% 9.3% 12.7% MMTs, it is important to understand that South America is here to stay when it comes to soybean effects of severely reduced yields and increased demand to U.S. exports and that the U.S. and not Brazil or Argentina will be the and world soybean balance sheets, it is also prudent to also ‘holder of stocks’ for the foreseeable future. consider the other side of the story and the implications it too Although estimates of 1900 to 2000 million bushels of soybean could have on international prices. It is premature at this point to exports out of the U.S. for 16/17 are possible, they are only likely assume “extreme” balance sheet scenarios for the 16/17 U.S. crop under a scenario of serious stress to the 16/17 South American year. U.S. stocks below 200 or above 500 million bushels are both crop. Otherwise, a range of 1700-1900 cannot be ruled out, which possible for next year, but both should be considered “outliers” at in turn give way to the balance sheet scenarios here presented. the present time, until more is known about the 16/17 U.S. crop.

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SPACE 2016 Parc-Expo Of Rennes Airport La Haie Gautrais 35170 Bruz France http://www.space.fr

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Global Grain South America Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.globalgrainevents.com

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Summit 2016 – The Future of Farm Certification Damrak 243, 1012 Amsterdam, Netherlands http://www.summit2016.org

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International Baking Industry Exposition Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.ibie2016.com

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FIGAP 2016 Expo Guadalajara, Caballo Arete, Guadalajara, Mexico http://www.figap.com

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Vietstock 2016 Expo and Forum Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam http://www.vietstock.org/

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The Micronutrient Forum Global Conference: Placing women’s nutrition at the centre of sustainable development

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he Micronutrient Forum Global Conference Will Take Place In Cancun, Mexico 24-28 October 2016. Registration and an additional full day of symposia will proceed the week-long program On Sunday October 23rd.

This event is designed to build on the success of the 2014 meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which marked the revival and revitalisation of the MN Forum and brought together 1000 participants from 65 countries, providing them with a wealth of knowledge and insight into the science and delivery of micronutrients by 244 speakers in 80 sessions.

The 2016 Conference marks the Forum’s first visit to Latin America. Mexico was the chosen location in recognition of its achievements in addressing micronutrient deficiencies at the population level, and because of its commitment to the design and implementation of evidence-based public health policies and programs.

While maintaining the broad interest in all aspects of micronutrients, the theme for the 2016 Conference will highlight the importance of placing women’s nutrition at the centre of sustainable development.

Women are both a prime focus of nutrition interventions and key partners in the delivery of programs – for children, families and communities.

The health and well-being of women and girls are, consequently, critical to achieving several of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The time has come to better understand the burden, the context and the most innovative and effective solutions to improve policy, and the design and delivery of programs, for the increased equity, survival, health and well-being of women and girls.

There is much to learn and share by bridging scientific discovery and program delivery across multiple sectors, and the Micronutrient Forum provides a space where different disciplines and interested stakeholders come together to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices.

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THE BÜHLER NETWORKING DAYS

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Dr Eliana Zamprognna Rosenfeld explains efficiency in pasta drying During three-days in late August Bühler hosted keynote speakers to provide valuable insights into the latest developments in the areas of nutrition, food and feed safety, sustainability and Internet of Things.

Break-out sessions, expert tours and a major ‘solutions space’ created an inspiring environment, in which over 750 invited guests exchanged and developed ideas, networked, and discussed how the grainprocessing industry could address the challenge of feeding nine billion people healthily and sustainably.

Bühler’s long-standing commitment to educating and training was also reflected at the event, with the presence of the Swiss and the African Milling Schools, as well as the Swiss Institute of Feed Technology and the Training Center in Uzwil.

Every year, Bühler invests up to five percent of its turnover in research and development. The resulting innovations make a big difference in feeding a growing world population and reducing energy and water usage. Over three days Bühler presented more than 30 innovations in the specifically-built exhibition area at its headoffice in Uzwil, Switzerland, that covered 1800 square meters.

Milling and Grain will report on a number of these newly-developed solutions over the coming months, such as the latest generation of the pasta-drying solution, Ecothermatic, with energy savings of up to 40 percent and the high-precision scale Tubex, which reduces energy costs by over 90 percent.

Details of the program are here: https://event.buhlergroup.com/program.html

Bühler staff were on hand in the exhibition hall to give visitors first-hand insights into more than 30 innovations and exclusive production launches

Helene Züllig, Project Manager Weighing & Packing

Joern Degasperi project manager for rollDetect

Prof Dr-Ing Werner Bauer (left) of GEA Group with Dr Stefan Paiser of Nestlé

Stefan Nuussli and Daniele Lorenzi from the Oil Group

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The Digital Group - Front from left: Patrik Mueller, Wolfgang Steiner, Arabella Stock, Nico Staub, Michael Brühwiler, Stefan Streibel, Kurt Geiger, Ralph Hauselmann, Hinrich Potgier, (second row from left) Stefan Krivanec, Stuart Bashford, Christian Krämer, Beat Schoppmann, Beat Lang, Mirco Miotto and Thomas Duft

TUBO - Winner of the Innovation Challenge. Left, Stefan Rakitsch head of R&D for Grain Components and Reto Rechsteiner, TUBO Product Manager from Business Development Grain Logistics

Nicholas Trounce, Product Management Industrial Milling

A seven channel colour sorter on display

Juste Hahne, Product Engineer

Isabelle Huggler and Urs Santschi, from Technology team of Specialty Milling

Alfred Anderegg, Area Sales Manager Grain Milling and Mattias Meili, Process Engineer

Marcel Linder, Life Cycle Management

Peter Wirz, Life Cycle Management

Andreas Kleiner, Product Development Weighing & Packing and other colleagues

Marco Callo and Andrea Hermsmeyer of BĂźhler Feed Solutions

Carsten Petry, Product Management Nutrition

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On stage at BNW16 (left) Daniel Müller of the Swiss Institute of Feed Technology, (below left) Chief Technical Officer Ian Roberts and Johannes Wick, CEO of Bühler’s Grains and Food Division

Delegates had ample time to visit the 'Solutions Floor' where numerous technologies were on display, many for the first time

Jörg Maurer of the Swiss School of Milling

Dr Béatrice Conde-Petit group expert food science and technology

Bühler's Emanuel Reiter (left) works together with Bosch's Ralf Pfisterer in the development of the iRoll

Experts in food and feed safety Dr Nicolas Meneses (right) and Martin Herschel with the eBeam

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From left: CTO Ian Roberts, CEO Stefan Scheiber and CEO Grains and Food Johannes Wick face the press

Uzwil was the ‘Davos’ of the grain industry for three days in August

Roman Grundler, Giuseppe Cappelletti and Patrick Guster from Customer Service

Experts for Grain Drying Technology Robert Wieseckl Product Manager)and Simon Strehler Project Manager Automation

Above: Bühler staff demonstrate and discuss a range of aspects of their innovations and new developments with visitors to the first Bühler Networking Days from August 22-24, 2016 Visitors enjoyed the warm weather in the Networking area

Above left and right: Typical Asian flatbread made on Bühlers innovative PesaMill and Latin food snacks prepared on the 'Solutions Space' of the exhibition using grain products milled on the company's machinery

Below: The night sky in Uzwil, Switzerland, where Bühler hosted an evening Networking dinner for delegates

"Break-out sessions, expert tours and a major ‘solutions space’ created an inspiring environment, in which over 750 invited guests exchanged and developed ideas, networked, and discussed how the grain-processing industry could address the challenge of feeding nine billion people healthily and sustainably"

Industry events

EUROTIER 2016

S

ome 2400 exhibitors have already signed up to participate at EuroTier 2016, which takes place later this year in Hanover, Germany. More than 1300 of these companies are coming from some 54 countries to exhibit at the event, which takes place from 15th to 18th November.

EuroTier organiser DLG is expecting the final exhibitor number to reach 2500 by the time the exhibition gets underway in four months. The top international exhibitors that will be showcasing their innovations for the livestock sector at the event are the Netherlands with 230 companies, followed by China (170), France (150), Italy (130) and Turkey (60).

“The number of registrations already underlines EuroTier’s position as the world’s leading exhibition for agricultural animal production,” said EuroTier Project Manager Dr Karl Schlösser.

“The exceptionally high exhibitor interest from abroad already represents an increase of about one-third compared to 2014, which is a clear sign of the growing importance of the EuroTier as a hub for the international markets.”

Every aspect of livestock production is covered

With its comprehensive offering of products and services for animal production across all species, EuroTier is a key meeting place for livestock farmers wanting to learn what current solutions are available, as well as what will be coming in the future.

The leading companies operating in the dairy, beef, pig and poultry sectors will all be represented in Hanover later this year with also a smaller section on sheep at the exhibition. And there will be a particularly strong poultry presence this year, as the World Poultry Show will also take place within EuroTier 2016.

The range of products and services on display at EuroTier this year will be larger than previous editions of the fair, especially in the cross-species sectors such as feedstuffs, equipment for milling, mixing and pelleting of feed, and animal health, but there will also be air conditioning equipment being shown this November.

Other areas covered at the fair include: breeding stock, breeding programs and reproduction technology; feed storage; animal housing, including controlled-environment technology;

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2500 EXHIBITORS FROM MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES EXPECTED

machinery and equipment for animal husbandry and feeding; milking equipment and milk storage systems; machinery and equipment for storing and handling solid and liquid manure; food processing equipment; and advisory, management and consultancy services.

Bioenergy developments will be showcased

EuroTier 2016 will also feature EnergyDecentral, which will showcase a broad range of technological developments in the areas of bioenergy, renewable energy and the technology and concepts surrounding decentralised energy. Located in dedicated exhibition halls at the Hanover Exhibition Grounds, this specialist section has excellent synergy with the agricultural livestock technologies featured at the fair.

EnergyDecentral project manager Marcus Vagt says that more than 300 companies have already booked stands to appear at this international trade fair for innovative energy supply. Biogas, cogeneration, energy from straw and wood, and wind power are among the largest product groups to be featured, while the decentralised energy section will include intelligent networking, energy storage and contracting.

EnergyDecentral also gets a special feature for 2016 where the topic is “CHP – Maintenance and Service”. This will shows clearly what is required for maintaining and optimising highly complex Combined Heat and Power systems.

In addition, the German Biogas Association will hold its new BIOGAS Convention on the EuroTier site for the first time during this November’s exhibition.

Worldwide innovation showcase

EuroTier is recognised as a global innovation showcase for technical machinery and equipment for professional animal husbandry. Numerous exhibitors will time their innovation launches to coincide with EuroTier in Hanover, where they will be able to display their new products to the international markets.

DLG’s neutral and international commission of experts will once again be judging entries for the EuroTier innovations awards.

Selected according to strict criteria, the best products will be awarded DLG’s highly prized gold and silver medals.

Industry events Beef and dairy genetics on display in the Top Tier Treff

All the leading national and international cattle breeding organisations will be represented in the presentation of daughter animals at EuroTier’s “Top Tier Treff” (top cattle genetics show). In Hall 11 the dairy breeds Holsteins, Angeln, Brown Cattle, Simmental, Brown Swiss and German Simmental are expected to be presented at the Hanover Fairgrounds. Expected beef breeds that will be represented include: Angus, Aubrac, Blonde d’Aquitaine, Charolais, Galloway, Hereford, Highland Cattle, Limousin, Uckermark, Wagyu cattle, and Welsh Black, and possibly the rare dual-purpose breeds Grey Mountain and Pinzgauer.

This presentation of cattle diversity caters to the steadily increasing need for information on the part of cattle breeders from all over the world. The breeding companies and organisations will provide information about the top sires in their breeding programmes, with details of the corresponding hereditary performance and merits.

Aquaculture at the EuroTier 2016

Aquaculture is an international growth market and an integral part of EuroTier 2016. Leading companies – including suppliers of modern fish farm technology related to husbandry, feeding and feed, networks and innovative water treatment systems, have already registered, and will present their latest developments in Hanover.

For the first time, an AQUAculture InfoCenter can be found at the fair. With the title “Growth in the water instead of on the surface”, it offers advice and a special area for living exhibits: fish, seaweed, shrimp, shellfish. Practical lectures, discussions and an extensive consultation area will complement the wide range of exhibitors.

New: Special “Future-proofing pig finishing “

The way in which pigs are kept is no longer the focus of pig farmers alone. Increasingly, society in general is calling for more say in how animals are produced and the environment protected.

In many countries, this has already resulted in policies being introduced to influence housing systems. But, how can we create enough confidence in the pig sector to encourage the investment required to improve existing housing and develop husbandry systems that take into account these new environmental and animal welfare objectives?

These questions will be answered at this year’s EuroTier special feature targeted at the pig industry. “Future-proofing pig finishing”, organised by the DLG (German Agricultural Society) together with Bauförderung Landwirtschaft (BFL), follows on from Specials examining novel ideas for the group housing of sows (2010), the management of farrowing sows (2012) and the care of piglets (2014).

Another issue that is becoming increasingly important is the search for alternative marketing opportunities for pigs. This is not only driven by the poor current financial returns, but also the ending of castration without anesthesia, which will require alternative production methods to be adopted.

The EuroTier Special will be closely integrated with, and sited near to the venue of, this year’s Pig Forum presentations. And independent consultants, as well as professional pig stockmen, will be present at the special feature to answer visitors’ questions and discuss the topics being presented.

New: Special “Indoor Emission Control – measures to reduce emissions”

Dust, ammonia and odour emissions from poultry buildings can affect the environment both inside and outside the barn. In this

bpt Congress again coincides with EuroTier

The German Federation of Veterinary Practitioners (bpt) is holding its annual congress and associated exhibition “Veterinary Medicine” to coincide with EuroTier 2016. Jointly organised by the DLG and bpt, the “International Animal Health Event” will also take place. This will serve veterinarians primarily in Germany but international veterinarians may take advantage too.

New: Special “Healthy udders throughout the year”

At EuroTier 2016, the “Healthy udders throughout the year” special feature can be found in Hall 12. Here, milk producers will find a large area dedicated to practical solutions and recommendations for improving udder health. The feature will give dairy farmers the opportunity to learn about new consulting concepts with a view to assessing the health situation of their own herd and how to improve it. They will also be guided through the dairy cow “work year”, broken down in the three sections: lactation, transit and dry period.

The assessment of the herd status via the udder health indicators of the German Association for Performance and Quality tests (DLQ), and important factors related to this, will be displayed clearly and practically. Experts will be available to discuss udder health for the duration of the fair.

Exhibitors at EuroTier can participate in the Udder Health Special with technical papers, posters or video clips. The aim is to provide visitors with simple and actionable messages that will help to improve the udder health in individual animals and the herd, and ultimately contribute to economic success of the dairy farmer.

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Industry events year’s EuroTier poultry special feature, exhibitors will provide information about “indoor” process-integrated measures to minimise these emissions.

Methods will naturally include exhaust air purification systems that have clear anti-pollution effects, but there will also be other approaches and methods – including special bedding materials or litter additives, feed additives or customised feeding and air conditioning – that could also bring positive effects on animal health and animal welfare, and the working conditions of the stockmen.

The special feature will be situated close to, and planned in coordination with, the presentation series in the Poultry Forum.

Here poultry experts will be available to answer questions and to take part in discussions on forum topics.

Future forum on professional animal husbandry

EuroTier provides the world’s leading forum looking at the future of professional animal husbandry. Here, technology trends related to modern animal husbandry and animal breeding are traditionally identified and fully explored.

Together with partners from industry, academia, consultancy, associations and organisations, the DLG will once again present an extensive technical program to complement the offerings of the exhibitors. This will include international conferences and events on current trends and important developments in the industry.

On the eve of the exhibition opening (November 14, 2016), the Hanover Fairgrounds Convention Centre (CC) will become the meeting place for top international farmers and advisors taking part in the EuroTier Cattle & Pig Event and the International

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Poultry Event. These are important events for knowledge exchange that will take on current topics and thus provide pioneering insights from high-level speakers.

Young farmers day

Also looking to the future, EuroTier 2016 will again feature a “young farmers’ day”, on November 17, for young farmers and students of agriculture from home and abroad. The program includes a EuroTier jobs forum, a future farmers Congress and meeting places to meet and exchange experiences with other young farmers. The highlight of the day, however, will be the popular “Young Farmers Party”.

Campus & career

With the Campus & Career section at EuroTier 2016, DLG offers a platform for professionals looking for a career in science and research. Taking place in Hall 26, this section provides the opportunity to get in touch with companies looking for staff to inform themselves, as well as finding out about possible teaching, study or training opportunities, or even the latest developments in research.

Multilingual information on the Internet

The DLG has made a wide range of information about EuroTier 2016 available on the internet in German, English and several other languages. The EuroTier website is constantly updated and includes information about exhibitors, the innovations at the fair and about the technical program. International visitors can also find the DLG-Travel Service, which has contacts in nearly 50 countries.

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WHERE SCIENCE MEETS BUSINESS IN BEIJING

VIV CHINA 2016 B

igger than ever and earlier in the year than its previous editions, the major international Feed to Food trade fair platform VIV China returns to Beijing in September when it will form an important part of a week full of activities and information for professionals from the global animal protein industries.

VIV China 2016 takes place at the New China International Exhibition Centre (NCIEC) in the Shunyi district of Beijing, close to the airport. The show opens on Tuesday 6th September and runs until Thursday 8th September.

Strategic partnership

The dates allow the 9th edition to run in parallel with the 2016 World’s Poultry Congress. This congress of the World’s Poultry Science Association is held every four years. The latest is organized by the Chinese branch of WPSA to be in Beijing on dates of 5th-9th September 2016.

The strategic partnership agreed between VIV worldwide and the congress organisation will see two events cooperate closely. Indeed, World’s Poultry Congress 2016 has chosen Wednesday 7th September as industrial day, with an afternoon session of company-sponsored seminars and activities that actually occurs at the VIV China venue.

To cement the link even more, free shuttle buses are being arranged on 6th and 7th September to carry congress delegates to VIV China and return them later in the day.

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The Department of Food Agriculture and Farm Products of Ghana

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“VIV China 2016 and its international conferences will be co-located in Beijing with the latest World’s Poultry Congress. It promises to be an excellent week, for science and business!” world can learn all about the latest research and new thinking on technological developments at their own scientific forum and discover at VIV China 2016 how these ideas are being applied in a practical way,” comments Anneke van Rooijen, show manager at VIV worldwide.

More exhibitors, more nationalities

On the trade show itself, VIV China 2016 will now fill three complete halls at the NCIEC showground because it has needed to accommodate more exhibits for suppliers from both inside and outside China. In 2014 it had 440 international exhibitors; this has now increased to 550.

Including the home contingent, Anneke van Rooijen calculates that 27 nationalities will be represented by the exhibitors in September. The number is boosted by various national pavilions that include one for the USA which is about 33 percent larger than in 2014.

Clear navigation, bi-lingual signage

As in 2014, the organisers are creating zones of exhibits according to theme of pork, poultry or aquaculture. Clear navigation to these zones is provided by bi-lingual signage and a visitor pocket guide that is also in English and Mandarin.

About one-third of the international companies who will be represented on VIV China 2016 stands are suppliers of feed ingredients, additives or animal health products. Another 28 percent specialise in housing or production equipment, mainly for poultry.

Those offering processing equipment for meat or eggs comprise about 12% of companies present, approximately nine percent provide feed manufacturing systems and six percent are genetics companies.

Within the domestic Chinese representation, half of all companies are in the feed materials or animal health business and 41 percent in housing or equipment for pigs and poultry. Most of the remainder is made up of suppliers of feed milling, breeding and processing systems.

Conference highlights pork

“VIV China has always been strong on poultry,” says Anneke van Rooijen, “and that will certainly be true again for the 2016 edition, but the pig sector is also strongly represented.” The pre-show day of Monday 5th September brings the Pork Production Conference segment, being organized by Watt Global Media/Pig International China with Shanghai Lyja Cultural Media Co. It discusses sustainable and efficient pork production in a Chinese context and it will be located at the China National Convention Center venue of the World’s Poultry Congress 2016.

Attracting visitors from other countries

A VIV China 2016 promotion campaign in Asian focus countries including South Korea, Philippines and Indonesia is emphasizing the information value of the week in Beijing also for non-Chinese visitors.

Foreign visitors at VIV China 2014 comprised around 20 percent of the total attendance.

The aim this time is to at least equal that percentage, within a growth of overall visitor numbers to exceed 15,000 over the three days of the show.

VIV show manager Anneke van Rooijen says, “VIV China 2016 and its international conferences will be co-located in Beijing with the latest World’s Poultry Congress. It promises to be an excellent week, for science and business!”

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the interview

Clifford Spencer

Mr Clifford Spencer of the UK has been appointed chairman of the newly-formed ‘Milling4Life’ charity which aims to assist the relief of hunger through advancing milling practices in developing and transitional countries. Currently Mr Spencer leads the Global Biotechnology Transfer Foundation (GBTF), which with support from global organisations, makes up a strong delivery mechanism for the Foundation's aims. The GBTF was formed with the intervention of the United Nations and is dedicated to promoting the potential for biotechnology to support sustainable, long-term, socio-economic development.

‘Technical biology’ is to gain a better understanding of a subject in which we operate and excel. Thus, bread-making, brewing and composting are as much a part of biotechnology as the genetic work that is often disproportionately associated with the subject. The Foundation is currently involved in activities ranging from promoting community bioenergy programmes to the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture. ‘Milling4Life’ is privileged, and honoured, to have Mr Spencer as it Chairman.

In your livestock farming period, what type of animals did you farm and what were your key motivations at that time?

In my lifetime my family farmed every form of livestock but pigs. However, I was taught by the foremost pig-breeding expert in the UK at university, thus making up for that shortcoming. The reason pigs were excluded from our enterprises was my grandfather suffered overwhelming loss due to the ravages of Swine Fever and this experience put my late father off farming the animal.

We produced everything from the winning turkey at the UK national poultry show and which subsequently went on to provide Her Majesty the Queen’s Christmas dinner on more than one occasion, to high-quality milk, eggs, specialist sheep with highly productive and out of season production attributes to working actively in artificial insemination in cattle in its early days in the 1950s and 1960s in my teenage years.

What have you done in the area of crop production and research and why did you focus on this area of activity?

In the late 1960s and 1970s our farm was a frequent entrant across the Atlantic Ocean in the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair based in Toronto where we ultimately secured the Supreme Champion title for a winter wheat crop produced on our farm.

I have also broken various yield and quality records in cereal, pulse and oilseed crops throughout my active farming career.

I have personally grown some 60 species of plants whilst being involved in leading on-farm research work with many industrial and academic partners for over 30 years, for example the first introduction of hybrid cereals to the UK with Shell in the 1980s and hybrid oilseeds in the 1990s. I chaired the pulse panel at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany helping select the best varieties of peas and beans for UK farmers as well as serving on the levy panel at the Processors and Growers Research Organisation, where this charge on all UK pulse growers helped provide leading research for these crops.

I was also a leading nucleus seed producer for an extensive range of crops and indeed our business was UK leading in that respect. Our seed was exported around the world due to its quality and purity.

How do your experiences in livestock and cropping impact the work you do today?

I took over the family farm at a very early age and indeed ended my university education prematurely due to my late father’s ill health. As he said at the time he was not retired but just plain tired! That baptism of fire in my teens has thoroughly grounded me in the need for practical commercial thinking when assessing global farming systems.

This is in particular regard to facilitating change at farm level whatever the objective whether that’s soil health, animal welfare, broad ecosystem/environmental factors, human diet & health, climate change or production performance and efficiency.

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How did you become involved in international aspects to your business and to the work that you are now doing?

Apart from food and seed supply, with the advent of the 1990s I became heavily involved in producing advanced medical and industrial crop seeds and fibres which attracted increasing media attention.

Areas from the production of nervonic acid (a human acid also produced in a plant) used to mend nerve sheaths in humans through to producing industrial slip agents from oilseed plants and further on to providing lightweight crop fibres from crops such as flax and hemp for advanced aircraft construction (as well as oil for advanced nutrition) were all in my practical sphere of feedstock crop production.

From this came interest from the United Nations and the opportunity to travel extensively advising at the highest level on agriculture and bioenergy and on a global basis for over a decade.

Can you explain in a little more detail about the positions you hold today, the work you do with international bodies and how this might impact the supply of food to those in most need?

I am the Goodwill Ambassador of the African Union (AU) with special responsibility for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). I have also been involved in highlevel support of the EU’s Climate Key Innovation Centres programme overseen by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, for which I have also acted as a project assessor.

I was also variously a business adviser to a multi-national bank, a national farm judge, a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) project assessor and a featured director of the Institute of Directors. I have also been lucky enough to experience the personal company and views of various national leaders and have presented in the UK House of Lords.

You’re a trustee and chairman of the newly formed Aquaculture Without Frontiers (UK) CIO charity which represents ‘Milling4Life’. Can you explain as Chairman of the Board what the objectives are for the milling industry?

This new and what I believe will become an industry leading charity is dedicated to the promotion and adoption of sound food and feed milling processes and storage technology in developing countries.

This is for the benefit of the public good and the overall improvement of nutrition in the diets of individuals in both developing and transitional countries. I see, for instance, a strong role in its core activity to providing invaluable assistance to the African continent’s current drive to radically alter its agricultural output and feed its own peoples and stimulate strong and enduring economic growth for the benefit of its citizens.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES ConAgra Foods names David Marberger Chief Financial Officer

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onAgra Foods, Inc has announced that David Marberger has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective August 29, 2016.

Mr Marberger will report to Sean Connolly, president and chief executive officer of ConAgra Foods, Inc, and will succeed John Gehring, who previously announced his plans to retire from the company. Mr Gehring will remain with the company until the end of September to assist with Mr Marberger’s transition.

David Marberger

Mr Marberger brings more than 30 years of finance and leadership experience to ConAgra Foods, including significant consumer packaged goods expertise. Previously he served as chief financial officer at Prestige Brands, a provider of over-the-counter healthcare products with a portfolio of over 80 brands.

Prior to joining Prestige Brands, Mr Marberger served as chief financial officer of Godiva Chocolatier for seven years, where he was instrumental in spearheading efforts to establish the company as a standalone business under new ownership and delivering significant improvements in overall performance.

Prior to joining Godiva, Mr Marberger served as chief financial officer at Tasty Baking Company (then NASDAQ listed) and spent 10 years at Campbell Soup Company, where he held finance roles with increasing responsibility. He began his career at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Mr Marberger holds a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BBA from the University of Massachusetts.

Key leadership promotions at Diamond V

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on McIntyre, PhD, PAS has been promoted to Director, Global Research & Technical Services. Dr McIntyre was previously responsible for Diamond V’s North America Poultry Research & Technical Services. His experience prior to joining Diamond V in 2012 included R&D positions at Hybrid Turkeys and Oscar Meyer. He worked as a poultry production manager for Louis Rich and Pilgrim’s and was president of British United Turkeys of America (BUTA) and Colorado Quality Research (CQR). Dr McIntyre also held technical service positions for Hendrix Genetics and Adisseo North America.

Don McIntyre

Additionally, Dr McIntyre currently serves on the Foundation Research Committee of the US Poultry & Egg Association (USPEA). He is assistant section editor for the Poultry Science Journal and past president of the Southern Poultry Science Society.

Dr McIntyre is certified by PAACO as an Animal Welfare Auditor and Trainer specialising in poultry.

His 30 years of experience in the poultry industry includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Poultry Science Association, USPEA, North Carolina Poultry Federation, South Carolina Poultry Federation, and National Turkey Federation.

Hilary Pavlidis, PhD has been promoted to her new role as Director, Global Poultry Research and Technical Service. Previously, Dr Pavlidis served as Pedigree Geneticist with Cobb-Vantress in Siloam Springs, AR and as Program Geneticist with Aviagen Turkeys in Lewisburg, WV. She earned her BS in Animal and Poultry Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then both her MS and PhD from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Hilary Pavlidis

She is past President of the Poultry Breeders of America and a member of the Poultry Science Association where she has served as associate editor for the Breeding and Genetics section of the Poultry Science Journal.

Nutriad appoints new Sales Manager for South America

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utriad have appointed Angela Maria Mejia Vargas as Area Manager for all South American countries outside Brazil. With a strong presence in Brazil since many years, Nutriad now aims to expand its market share across Latin America.

Angela Mejia, a veterinarian and zoo-technical engineer, with a strong technical and commercial track record in poultry and swine nutrition. A Colombian citizen, she is currently finalising her Master degree in Nutrition from the Caldas University, with emphasis on monogastrics.

Angela Maria Mejia Varga

“I am excited about this next step in my career” said Angela Mejia, adding that she is, “looking forward to joining the Nutriad team as I am convinced that the solutions Nutriad provides can help feed producers in South America in managing complex nutritional and health challenges.”

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