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August 2017

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A PROTEIN FOR OUR FUTURE - Empyreal 75 • Investing in Nigerian flour milling - the time is now • Inside the Crop Trust • How to deliver plantbased compounds for maximum benefit to animals • Measuring protein quality using infrared • FVG Select 2017

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84 - The preservation of grains through cooling systems

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Products such as grains, seeds, oilseeds, nuts, and others that are similar are still alive when stored after being harvested

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FEATURES

46 The Global Miller’s Symposium

2 6-40

50 Lesser-known grains

62 How to deliver plant-based compounds for maximum benefit to animals

58 Investing in Nigerian flour milling

66 A protein for our future - Empyreal 75

54 Inside the Crop Trust

FACES

64 Omega-3 innovation

122 People news from the global milling industry ©Copyright 2016 Perendale Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright owner. More information can be found at www.perendale.com Perendale Publishers Ltd also publish ‘The International Milling Directory’ and ‘The Global Miller’ news service

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CASE STUDY

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70 Chain approach: safe feed 72 Measuring protein quality using infrared

74 Using instead of cooking in water 76 Explosion safety for mills

STORAGE

84 The preservation of grains through cooling systems

88 Flourmill project with storage silos completed in Mali

80 Rice processing

EVENTS

100 Event listings, reviews and previews

TRAINING

42 New grain transportation classes coming

COLUMNS

12 Mildred Cookson 18 Raghavan Sampathkumar 26 Roger Gilbert 31 Tom Blacker 38 Chris Jackson

4 GUEST EDITOR Joseph P. Kearns

94 MARKETS John Buckley

122 INTERVIEW Nicholas Braime

COVER IMAGE: Taken by the MIlling and Grain team on our recent visit to the USA, rail trucks transport huge quantities of corn from the local area to supply Cargill’s Blair production plant to produce a revolutionary high-protein Empyreal protein - see page 66

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS FLOUR

MILLING

Flour sack of the year

Investing in Nigerian flour milling: “The time is now”

Volkmar Wywiol presented in Hamburg the 2016 Flour Sack award to the Egyptian company Arabian Milling & Food Industry.

PAGE 48 GRAIN Inside the Crop Trust

The Global Crop Diversity Trust is responsible for the unprecedented mission of ensuring the long-term conservation and use of crop diversity for food security worldwide.

The team at Milling and Grain attended the IGC Grains Conference held in the QEII Centre, London on June 6, 2017. Here we report the presentation given by Rotimi Fadipe, Supply Chain Director, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, on ‘The future of flour milling in Nigeria’.

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COOLING SYSTEMS The preservation of grains through cooling systems

Products such as grains, seeds, oilseeds, nuts, and others that are similar are still alive when stored after being harvested.

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PROJECT Flourmill project with storage silos completed in Mali

Gmach, a company in the milling technology industry, has successfully completed the process of commissioning a turnkey flourmill project with 200-tonnes/day wheat processing capacity in Mali.

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FOOD

STORAGE

FEED

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OMEGA-3 New algal oil derived from natural marine algae

CORN FLOUR

Evonik and DSM recently announced to establish a joint venture for omega-3 fatty acid products from natural marine algae for animal nutrition.

Using steam instead of cooking in water

Ninety percent less water, no investment in wastewater treatment, higher yield, lower maintenance and a high degree of automation

PAGE 74 RICE Rice processing technology

In recent years, it has been gradually proven that functional ingredients derived from rice exhibit various kinds of functionality.

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NIR

PHYTOGENIC

Measuring protein quality using infrared

How to deliver plant-based compounds for maximum benefit to animals

At grain intake, most flourmills typically use near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and other laboratory techniques to inspect grain and measure parameters such as protein level, moisture, specific weight, and Hagberg Falling number

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As phytogenic feed additives (PFAs) become increasingly accepted by the feed and livestock industries, there is greater scrutiny as to whether products can fulfill the expected benefits.

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PAGE 64 AQUAFEED A protein for our future

Our sister publication, International Aquafeed magazine was invited to tour the production facility for a unique aquaculture protein product, at the remarkable Cargill production plant in Blair, Nebraska, USA.

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The importance of extrusion and some history

Roger Gilbert asked that I share some of the changes I've experienced over the years and what is in the future in terms of the importance of extrusion technology with an emphasis on nutrition and safety. That is a lot in a short article.

When I started over 40 years ago not many people knew what an extrusion cooker was..

We had to convince the industry it was a possible production method for many products.

Pet food was the predominate industry and was ever changing. In these cases, the process required proof of its ability.

Can an extruder run for 24 hours and not stop making good product?

Sometimes, but what happened when it did not do as intended?

It was hard work figuring out what the situation was, you would listen to the machine, as it would talk to you and point out the error in your assumptions. This is back in the day when screw profile development was the area needing improvement. Screw buildup, product sticking to the screws, was just one area and preconditioning.

Modern day extruders are equipped to handle all current existing possibilities without burnt product or the stickiness associated with inferior preconditioning. Single screw advanced profiles and twin-screw designs have eliminated this effect along with modern preconditioning practices.

As you can imagine, extruders were operated manually, it was an art, understanding what was going on and what to do to get the desired product. There were only so many things you could change in the old days; water and steam input to the conditioner or barrel, dry feed rate and barrel temperature were the main options.

If you can imagine putting indicator pointers on valve handles so you could see and record the fractions of a valve turn on steam inputs. Water rotameters were used so you had an idea of how much water was added. Operators did not work 24 hours a day so you had different conditions with each operator; they all thought they knew what was best. Controls changed slowly but the quantum leap was computer control, the point where extrusion turned from an art to a science. Everything could be set and flows controlled over a production period, even on the night shift.

Dryer advancements occurred after the extruder control developed giving an even-ness in many aspects to the product out of the extruder. The deficiencies of dryer designs became obvious. It used to be three to four percent moisture variance and now it is in the 0.5 percent range, greatly improving profitability as well as product quality.

Currently the industry has inline measuring devices allow for instantaneous data on the product density and moisture advancing control again to a new level. Other aspects can also be

measured greatly improving the extrusion technology.

The topic of safety covers many areas, mechanically and the safety of the product in terms of quality comes to mind as the top two. Ever see a die come off the extruder based on extreme pressure buildup? Engineering designs allowed for improvements to safely increased power input for increased capacities. How do you ensure the salmonella is eliminated in the product? Much advancement in both areas over the years has occurred. Experience of being the initial developer of the technology resulted in many trial and error situations and feedback from loyal customers that generated the vast development of this technology backed up by attentive engineers solving and advancing the designs.

The system can determine temperatures, hold the product to achieve a set point, usually 77 degrees centigrade is of interest, the point salmonella is eliminated. Specific Mechanically Energy can be controlled automatically with the in-line sampling devices and thus density control of products and the cell structure, porosity the product, for oil up take. Complete new designs exist to allow ultra-high fat or meat inputs in the extruder.

Amazing products in the pet treat arena are made by extrusion, which started by simply making a brown and round pet food.

Advancements in the pet food and aquatic sectors closely followed each other as they usually had similar situations; solving one solved them for both areas.

Human foods also have made vast improvements over the years. Expansion of the products made and their quality were demanded and tested. Water holding capacity in textured soy or meat replacements, breadcrumb processing with an eye on the freeze and thaw and frying cycles.

Starch modifications are a story all on their own. Shapes, varieties of colors as well as filled products are all made by extrusion for breakfast cereals and snack foods to mention a few.

What is the future of extrusion?

It seems endless; I am having a hard time thinking of one good challenge that was not achieved. Extrusion is a very versatile process, specialised machines made for exact processes or highly versatile designs that can do it all are available. As users of extruders or if you are interested don’t be bashful, ask and you just might receive what you are after, I can visualise the developments are just around the corner for your soon to be imagined product of the future.

Examples would include engineered ingredients, the use of byproducts combined to make ingredients of superior quality.

On the nutrition side, amino acids such as methionine, lysine and taurine can be attached to the normally included vegetable proteins in a feed or when creating an engineered ingredient when pumped into the process using the extruder as a production system and reactor to create the bond.

Good luck and keep up the good work.

Joseph P. Kearns Retired from Wenger Manufacturing, Inc.

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Milling

Cauliflower mushroom and rice embryo buds to cause “radical reform”

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ram, ‘Agricultural Corporation Aram Limited’ have released a product they believe to be instrumental for good health, better immunity and reducing cholesterol, amongst other nutritional benefits.

With the slogan “For the people who look for important nutrients from natural sources”, the product is made from rice embryo buds and cauliflower mushroom extract.

The company boast that the food contains β-glucans, which are considered to be classic pathogen-associated molecular patterns recognised by the innate immune system. There have also been studies regarding their medicinal properties in the field of cancer immunotherapy, although it is unclear how β-glucans mediate their effects.

Aram has stated their reasoning for combining the fungi extract and rice buds as, “It is well known that although good for health, rice embryo buds can be both bitter and tasteless. Hence the need to mix them with other foods for better flavour.”

The combination of ingredients include, rice embryo bud made in Korea - 99.85 percent and the cauliflower mushroom extract - 0.15 percent.

The target audience for the food is varied, from children, elderly, pregnant women and even those on a diet, amongst others. The audience is varied as the believed benefits of the product are also considered so.

The company asserts that the product improves learning ability, reduces the risk of liver disease and can also improve constipation. They list some of the included ingredients as eight types of vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, V6, vitamin C, vitamin D3 and vitamin E), assorted minerals as well as amino acids.

Aram promoted the creation finally as, “Taste and nutrition, in a stick. A very aromatic and delicious taste, no need to mix with other foods.”

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August 2017, and we’ve got a really interesting issue for you this month.

It seems as the year has progressed we have had a really steady influx of news and in-depth articles, and we couldn’t do what we do without it. Examples of this can be seen in our regular features such as “Industry faces” and from this month “Training”, we have always been proud of our “Events” section as we are lucky enough to attend so many that we also have plenty to share. Of course not every section can be as full as this but we certainly want to make the most of the space that we’ve got.

A few months ago we decided that in an industry as everexpanding as ours, it would only be dutiful to include as many people in the industry stories as possible, especially as were getting them so frequently. We have taken this approach this month from now forward with our training pages in Milling and Grain. As we have so frequently pointed out before, the key to sustaining and growing the industry is through regular training and education to upcoming millers, farmers, those in the feed industry etc. The courses are out there and unless you are actively searching for them it can be difficult to know what’s fully out there and what has occurred previously. We want to be this middleman for you – your go to place for training stories both past and present. We are developing this online too to hold a sort of “Training directory” also; the magazine will present a more in-depth display of these.

We hope this of use to you and we certainly look forward to developing this over the coming months.

Moving onto the general content for this month, in our key interview area we’ve got Nicholas Braime, Chairman of T.F. & J.H. Braime (Holdings) P.L.C. and Managing Director at 4B Components, Ltd. Mr Braime is Oxford educated and has worked for nearly five decades in the agricultural and engineering industries, his company is publicly owned although family run. He presents a particularly fascinating interview and his insights of what makes a world-class business and team, are definitely of note.

Our features this issue are bursting at the seams. We share two visits of our own with you, including an insightful presentation given at the IGC Grains Conference on “The future of flour milling in Nigeria” and a special visit to the Crop Trust, situated on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn, Germany. You may remember last month the mention of the current departure of our much-appreciated columnist Christophe Pelletier, we are going to be the proud displayers of a column written by the Crop Trust and their Executive Director, Marie Haga. We are very proud of this development and we cannot wait to share it with you.

Finally, for our events review, we share with you our experience of the highly successful FVG Select, hosted in Cologne, Germany, between June 13-14, 2017. We hosted our own conference there called GRAPAS, where we live streamed all of our reknowned speakers of which the videos can still be found on our Facebook page “Milling and Grain magazine” and our blog “The Global Miller”. The event was such a great opportunity, to both attend and be a part of and we are thoroughly looking forward to attending FVG Select Asia 2018, next year – we hope to see you there!

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Animal nutrition experts honoured

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he American Feed Industry Association honoured three Justin Bundy, Bill Barr & Co., Luis O. Tedeschi, Ph.D., TAMU, Xingen Lei, Ph.D., Cornell, individuals in the animal Inc., presents the Nonreceives Ruminant Animal received the New Frontiers in Ruminant Animal Nutrition Nutrition Research Award Animal Nutrition Award science field at the American Society Research Award to Sung Woo from Janet Remus, Dupont of Animal Science Annual Meeting Kim, PhD, NCSU in Baltimore, Maryland, July 9, 2017.

Sung Woo Kim, PhD, of North Carolina State University, received Non-Ruminant Animal Nutrition Research Award the AFIA-ASAS Non-Ruminant Animal Nutrition Kim is a professor of nutrition at North Carolina State Research Award; Luis O. Tedeschi, PhD, of Texas A&M University. He has built a world-class swine nutrition University, received the AFIA-ASAS Ruminant Animal research program, which has resulted in a significant Nutrition Research Award; and Xingen Lei, PhD, of advancement in knowledge about utilisation of protein, Cornell University, received the AFIA and Federation amino acids and other nutrients in growing-finishing, of Animal Science Societies New Frontiers in Animal gestating and lactating swine.

Nutrition Award.

Presten Buff, PhD, AFIA director of regulatory affairs Ruminant Animal Nutrition Research Award commented, “Each of these individuals has conducted Tedeschi teaches ruminant nutrition, precision diet exceptional research to provide better nutrition for food formulation, comparative ruminant production and animals. They are all experts in their field, and the awards modelling courses at Texas A&M University. His are well-earned.” research focuses on the integration of mathematical nutrition modelling and scientific data from research trials conducted both in his laboratory and at other universities and research institutions around the world.

Tedeschi has published multiple peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has presented at conferences and workshops worldwide. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Sāo Paulo and his doctorate from Cornell University. This award was presented by Janet Remus of Dupont on behalf of AFIA.

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New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award Lei is a professor of molecular nutrition at Cornell University. He has developed a new generation of bacterial phytases and determined their nutritional and environmental value.

He is converting poultry feathers and defatted microalgae into feed proteins. Additionally, he pioneered nutritional genomics of selenium in pigs and chicks and discovered dual roles of selenium in oxidative stress and diabetes.

Lei has authored more than 400 publications, advised more than 140 graduate students and served on multiple panels and editorial boards.

Lei received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in China and his doctorate from Michigan State University.

He has additional postdoc training from the University of Missouri; this award was presented by Janet Remus of Dupont on behalf of AFIA. The three awards are sponsored by AFIA as part of its continuing awards program that dates back to 1948. The ruminant and non-ruminant awards were added to the overall awards program in 1998, and the new frontiers award was added in 2003.

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The importance of adequate digestible amino acids

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odern Compound Feed Production, the 11th feed industry conference, took place from June 27- 29, 2017, at the International Industrial Academy in Moscow, Russia.

Dr Maria L. Domoroshchenkova and Dr Iani Chihaia, USSEC Consultants, attended the event with the goal to meet with the delegates from feed, livestock, trading companies and researchers from the Russian Federation.

The visit to Russia and the participation in the Mixed Feeds as one of the key events in the feed sector allowed USSEC to be recognised and stand out.

Individual contacts with Russian or International participants of the event may lead to follow-up contacts and did definitely increase the interest and visibility of USSEC and US soy.

The conference was organised by the Union of Compound Feed

Manufacturers of Russia, International Industrial Academy and All-Russia Mixed Feed Research Institute and supported by a number of national professional livestock and poultry associations and unions.

Over 140 participants attended the conference, among them important policy and decision makers, feed production managers, nutritionists and purchasing managers.

Organised since early 2000, the Mixed Feed Conference remains one of the traditional and key events for the Russian feed industry and is an opportunity to meet the regional Russian and C.I.S. community feed compounders and livestock and poultry producers.

The message delivered through the presentation was very clear: in today’s competitive environment designing adequate feeding programmes and formulating poultry and swine diets based on ideal digestible amino acids ratio are key concepts in achieving cost efficient feed strategies and in maximising economic return.

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Milling in Hull: Part one The flourmills of Hull continued

Loading a Keel at Swan Flour Mills

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by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK As I mentioned in last month’s article, my interest in the history of Hull as a flour-milling centre was kindled by our rescue of thousands of drawings of roller flourmills from the eighteenth century cellars of Gelder and Kitchen. This firm of architects worked closely with Joseph Rank from the 1890s before branching out to cover other milling firms and most of the country. The early part of the story is well illustrated by two articles in “Milling” in June 1904.

About a mile upriver from Rank’s Clarence Mills, which featured in the previous article, were the Swan Mills belonging to Messrs Rishworth, Ingleby and Lofthouse, owners of three established and important milling firms. Erected in 1899 using the Simon system, by 1904 the Swan Mills’ capacity had increased from 30 sacks per hour by adding a further 20 sacks per hour plant. The Swan Mills were in an excellent location for transport either by water or rail, being on the east bank of the River Hull and within easy reach of Wilmington Station for goods trains. The previous mills of Messrs Lofthouse and Hammond in Boroughbridge changed to other purposes, whereas the Albert Mills of the Rishworth Brothers in Leeds, continued flour production for a short time before the premises were bought by the City Corporation to make room for street improvements!

The third partners, JA Ingleby & Son of Tadcaster were part of the Ingleby family, who had long been known in West Riding flour milling. Mr Joseph Auton Ingleby had been a miller for some years at Harewood Bridge before purchasing the Tadcaster Mills and developing the mills into a fine property. His son, Mr 12 | August 2017 - Milling and Grain

JH Ingleby proved a worthy successor, joining the firm to build the new mills in Hull. Mr J Ingleby was to become a partner with Henry Simon, and in 1907 gave up the Chairmanship of Henry Simon Ltd, but retained his position as chairman of SimonCarves Ltd. The receiving house at Swan Mills was on the quay between the silo granary and the provender mill, and was provided with a ship elevator capable of lifting 50 tonnes per hour. The large building in the centre of the site with the sprinkler tower, near the middle, was divided into three sections. The longest being the mill proper, designed to contain two 30-sack plants. The opposite end held the wheat cleaning department and the middle section under the tower contained the rope alley for connecting the engine with the main line shafts. The roller floor was arranged with three lines of Simon double rollers, ten on the four breaks, being 60 inches, and sixteen smooth mills on the reductions, with 40 inch rolls, all of Simon’s heavy pattern.

“Milling,” reported at the time that one roller mill that had been recently introduced was of an entirely new construction. It was claimed it would create a sensation when put on the market, but unfortunately, it was still a secret at the time of the report. The guards round the pulleys and belt drive of the rollers were said to be the neatest seen and the appearance of the whole roller floor was noted as excellent.

On the second floor were 14 double Simon dustless “Reform” purifiers arranged in a single line. These machines all had auto-oiling baths for the eccentrics to run in, making them work smoothly. The arrangement of double sieves, set at opposite positions to each other in relation to the eccentric shaft, made the sieves reciprocate without jarring and enabled the operator to adjust the machine with much greater accuracy than in the case

Swan Flour Mills Hull

New Flour Warehouse, Swan Mills

of a single sieve purifier.

The scalping was done on the third floor with Simons rotary sieves working on the first and second break chops and Simon’s double horizontal centrifugals on the third and fourth. The flour dressing was all done on 40 three-sheet Simon centrifugals on the top floor, placed two high, giving a very neat arrangement. The system of milling might have been regarded as a long one, but it was longest in break roll surface and purification. The view of the four grades of flour, and the divisions being made, proved not only was the machinery perfect, but also well handled.

The wheat-cleaning house, or ‘grain laundry’ as it was called was very interesting. There were two large Simon washers and three Simon whizzers, two Simon rotary separators, a divider for feeding cylinders with equal streams of wheat, Simon’s dustless milling separator, 24 cylinders, four columns of conditioning apparatus, with hot and cold air fans and air heater.

There were also two “Monitor” scourers and two “Victor “ brush machines. An unusual novelty in the department was the covering on one of the Simon whizzers. It was apparently very difficult to describe, but basically the edges of the perforations were such that whatever water passed them could never enter the internal casing again. It was patented to Messrs Henry Simon Ltd of Manchester. The report suggested that millers who had trouble with whizzer covers should see this one. The floors of the new warehouse, 144 feet long by 44 feet wide, were of maple and were put together with secret nailing, the surface being quite nail-less and the boards would not splinter like those made from red wood.

The provender mill was as spacious as an ordinary ten-sack flourmill, and contained eight pair of millstones and oat rolls.

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Milling News The upper part was filled with silos for barley and maize, and was connected with the ship elevator suspended from the adjoining receiving house.

Other local mills of note included Wilmington Flour Mills owned

by Messrs D Hurtley & Sons Ltd and the Victoria Flour Mills of Messrs A & R Appleton Ltd. The Wilmington story is another instance of an old established inland milling business being transferred to the seaboard. In the early 1800s the grandfather of the present owners had a mill at Malton that was run by his two sons. This continued running until Wilmington mill was erected and a roller plant installed by G Luther of Brunswick. The mill was well situated on the River Hull and close to the North Eastern Railway Company where a siding was put in for the mill.

It underwent three remodellings and extensions by Henry Simon and at the time, 1904, was undergoing a fourth. The capacity was between 50 and 60 sacks per hour.

The Victoria Mills were built in 1879 by RT Kirby and taken over around 1898 by the newly formed A & R Appleton Ltd, established specifically for the purpose. Previously the Cleveland Steam Flour Mills of Thornaby with RH Appleton as chairman, they had taken over the mills and business of Messrs Appleton, French and Scrafton Ltd of Stockton, Middlesbrough and Bishop Auckland.

There is much more to tell about Hull as a milling centre, next month I will move on to the Grosvenor and Albert Mills of Messrs JG Thompson Ltd and, in nearby Beverley, Messrs Crathborne and Sons Grovehill Flour Mills.

The geographical and historical spread of our holdings at the Mills Archive mean that I can only provide snapshots; if you would like to know more please email me at: mills@millsarchive.org

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First industrial-scale insect processing plant in Europe

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ühler Insect Technology will build its first industrial plant to process black solider flies for animal nutrition together with its partner Protix in the Netherlands.

They will deliver the technology, equipment, and process know how for the rearing and processing of the insects and the feedstock preparation.

Start of operation is planned for the first half of 2018.

Andreas Aepli, CEO of Bühler Insect Technology, commented, “With this first industrial insect protein production plant we will make an important step towards a more sustainable global food and feed value chain."

Protein is an essential component of nutrition for both humans and animals. About 15 percent of the daily energy intake should be covered by protein, to build and repair the cells that sustain life.

Agriculture produces roughly 525 million tonnes of plant protein a year, found in corn, rice, wheat, or soybeans. However, today’s protein production is not sustainable: Only 25 16 | August 2017 - Milling and Grain

percent of proteins land as vegetable proteins on our plates, while 15 percent are wasted and 60 percent are used to produce animal protein.

Furthermore, with the growing world population, protein production needs to double by 2050. Experts agree this cannot be achieved using traditional farming practices and resources, which is why alternative sources for protein such insects or algae are becoming increasingly important.

Insects offer a sustainable alternative: Grown on organic residues, they can recover up to 70 percent of nutrients, thus recycling these underutilised streams back to the food value chain.

Largest insect-processing plant on an industrial scale in Europe In January 2017, Bühler and Protix founded the joint venture Bühler Insect Technology to serve the insect processing industry. Building the first black soldier fly processing plant in Europe together is the next step in this cooperation and will serve as a modular and scalable blueprint for future projects. The plant will be

situated in the Netherlands and will serve customers in the feed industry.

With construction starting this year, the plant is expected to be operational in the first half of 2018.

It will produce protein meal and lipids that are used in the animal nutrition sector to feed pigs, chicken, fish, and domestic animals. The black soldier fly larvae are fed carefully selected organic byproducts from local distilleries, food producers and vegetable collectors in the Netherlands, which further underlines the sustainability of the process.

The Raghavan Report Healthy eating in Asia: How can the global grain industry be a part of it

by Raghavan (‘Ragha’) Sampathkumar Healthy eating in Asia: I am continuing from my last column about the event focusing on indigenous seed varieties of field crops and trees.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the level of interest and attention it gained with the urban audience. For an agribusiness professional like me, nothing would be so exciting than this. In the current scenario of information overload, consumers hardly care to understand the logic and science behind tradition, customs, culture or even their own behaviour.

However, when an event like this can draw the attention of urban educated masses, it is definitely a great platform to disseminate correct information that they otherwise will never be interested in seeking.

It was a great opportunity for general public including young parents who brought their children to make them aware of different food crops such as millets, minor cereals, and pulses like horse gram, which used to be essential components of the diets of their generations. The kids were obviously excited and roamed around the stalls and got first-hand experience in learning about food production.

It also struck me that these kinds of indigenous cultivars from every country must be recorded and information must be made available to the researchers and academia so that breeders, for example, can pursue crop improvement programs.

The private sector also has a role to play here as it can further develop the varieties through using advanced techniques and commercialise. In this way, both the consumers and the farmers get benefitted.

In the recently concluded World Agricultural Forum in Singapore, similar points were raised to promote awareness among consumers since public perception now-a-days, perhaps plays the most important role in policy making.

It is important for the agri-food industry to promote awareness among consumers about the facts and science behind any technology and how it helps them in their everyday lives in terms of reduced price and/or enhanced nutrition. This is a shared responsibility in the agri-food value chain and cannot be left only to the production sector as the grain trade industry stands to gain when correct policies are made based on solid scientific data.

On the other hand, if not proactively addressed, lack of understanding and awareness can lead to confusion and negative public perception only to prevent useful technologies getting regulatory approvals.

When consumers have limited or no understanding on technologies such as genetic modification, marker-assisted breeding or CRISPR, obviously they will not be able to understand the implications of these technologies in their lives.

They end up assuming they are not gaining anything but the producers and the industry is profiteering at the expenses of their health and the environment.

Hence, it is really important to put efforts, time and investments in creating opportunities for fair and transparent dialogue between the consumers and the industry to clear the air about the benefits of these technologies.

Further, with the explosion of social media, they are often bombed with false information about any innovation from sources that have vested interests. This creates confusion and leads to resistance.

Events like the above mentioned ones could be utilised as platforms to spread the facts and help bust myths about technologies in agriculture. asmalltownkid.wordpress.com Raghavan (‘Ragha’) Sampathkumar is a seasoned food and agribusiness professional with 360 degree understanding of the complex political, socio-economic, environmental and cultural perspectives of the Agri-Food value chain. He has more than 13 years of experience working in various subsectors of food & agribusiness including agro commodities, international trade, agri-inputs, biotech, and animal nutrition sectors across Asia-Pacific.

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European commission authorises enriched yeast

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allemand Animal Nutrition has announced that the European Commission has authorised its selenium-enriched yeast. (Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC R397) as a nutritional feed additives.

It will come with a minimum selenium content of 3,000-3500 mg/kg for all animal species (Regulation (EC) No 634/2007).

Both ALKOSELR397 3000 and ALKOSELR397 2000 (formerly ALKOSELR397, minimum Se content of 2,000 mg/kg) will be now available for the EU feed producers; both are guaranteed to contain 97- 99 percent of organic selenium and at least 3150ppm and 4700ppm of selenomethionine respectively (63%).

ALKOSELR397 3000 is the first Selenium enriched yeast with guaranteed minimum selenium content of 3,000 mg/kg available in the EU market.

Optimal quality of our selenium enriched yeast Monika Korzekwa, Product Manager Antioxidants for Lallemand Animal Nutrition commented, “Since the initial authorisation on the European market ten years ago, we have committed to ensure our customers the consistent and optimal quality of our selenium enriched yeast.

Its benefits in various animal species are now largely documented and endorsed by its users.

The combinations of different seleno compounds (mainly selenomethionine as well as other compounds such as selenocysteine) are even shown to be more bioavailable than inorganic sources and synthetic selenomethionine products.”

They are produced in Lallemand’s own yeast plants in Grenaa, Denmark and Montreal, Canada, from the selected yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC R397.

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The new E B Bradshaw and Sons Mill by Omas Industries

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n December 2016 Omas was chosen to be the technological partner for the new mill belonging to E B Bradshaw & Sons. The mill will be constructed in a new building alongside the plants completed in 1990 and 2005.

The project submitted was chosen because the company combined the customer’s three main priorities: food safety and the purity of the flour to safeguard consumer health; reduced energy consumption and minimum CO2 emissions; architectural designs with reduced impact in an area with restrictive regulations in terms of hygiene and environmental safety.

The wheat cleaning line, as well as a vibrating separator, destoner and photo-separator, will be equipped with a ‘Giotto Steriliser’, the Omas separator provides optimum management of the degree of cleaning of the grain, due to the removal of the outer layers of lignin and cellulose.

With this process the surface of the caryopsis is scraped to remove the outer layers of the husk by varying amounts (from 0.2 to 2%), purifying it by removing all inorganic impurities such as fertilisers, weed killers, insecticides, soil, sand and metals, as well as organic impurities such as bacteria, fungi, mould and mycotoxins.

Milling a grain that has had all of its inorganic elements removed will reduce the ash content of the flour, improve the colour and eliminate the presence of metals that are banned in flour used to make baby food.

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fertilisers and chemical disinfectants is essential since recent studies have cited them as the origin of many food intolerances and allergies, previously blamed on flour and baked goods.

Milling wheat that is free from organic impurities not only prevents contamination of the mill itself, but the result is microbiologically purified flour and bran, which can then be stored for longer periods but which are above all, free from bacteria, moulds, and mycotoxins, with great advantages for consumer health as a result.

The energy savings are achieved with a series of technologies including the most important, which is the Leonardo S roller mill with "Kers" device. This technology uses electrical regeneration of the kinetic energy created between the milling rolls, meaning a reduction in the roller mill’s power use of 50 percent.

Probes and frequency changers (VSD) are applied to the motors with higher power to make sure that only the energy required for each stage in the process is actually used. During the winter season, the mill will also recover the heat produced by the fans present in the plant, redirecting it throughout the building and therefore optimising energy use. This will

in turn allow the plant to benefit from the tax breaks available with regard to CO2 emissions and to cut production costs to the benefit of all concerned. The mill will be remotely operated and thanks to independently controlled roller speeds, it will be possible to optimise milling yield according to the type of mix and flour.

As far as the new building is concerned, the construction work will be carried out by the client, following instructions and designs from Omas, making use of cutting-edge “Building Economy“ technology, which will cut the height of the building by a whole floor. The roller mill motors are fitted directly to the rollers and therefore, there is no need for an expensive, noisy transmission floor, which means building weight and foundations are reduced by 25 percent.

The roller mills will be raised above ground, making access easier for inspection and cleaning underneath the rollers, for an added guarantee of absolute hygiene. This will also benefit the power supply, which will come from above, avoiding the need for excavation or channels that are always a source of infestation.

The building will be windowless, but it will have an air conditioning and recirculation system that prevents noise and dust emissions, guaranteeing not only energy savings but also, in the colder months, a constant temperature inside the building, which in turn prevents the formation of condensation and mould. The work areas are compartmentalised using soundproof walls and materials, making it possible to operate the plant while remaining within the limits set by noise safety standards.

Bakery Innovation Centre presents Expert Conference opportunities

services like the evaluation of blending qualities, sponge dough and hydration tests, proportioning and weighing trials, the automation of complete processing systems, and a raw materials quality service.

ühler is taking the opening of its extended and modernised Bakery Innovation Centre at its headquarters in Uzwil as an occasion to hold the first Bakery Expert Conference in the German-speaking countries on July 5 and 6, 2017, with renowned expert speakers and around 80 attendees.

New user trends such as the growing demand for deep-frozen bakery goods and clean-label products and also digitalisation are bringing a new dynamism and new developments to the bakery industry.

In its Bakery Innovation Centre (BIC), the Group is for the first time ever presenting the know-how it has accumulated along the entire value chain to the bakery industry.

On over 1000 square meters, the Innovation Centre now also features Bühler solutions for the bakery industry, ranging from premix manufacturing to sponge dough production.

The Bakery Innovation Centre enables customers to join forces with Bühler experts in order to develop novel products together and to utilise its state-of-the-art infrastructure for practiceoriented training courses.

Bakers benefit from extensive training offering The training offered by the Bakery Innovation Centre ranges from standard modules to customised, special-purpose training courses.

Since the start of its training services for the bakery industry, Bühler has offered continuing education courses to more than 2000 customers in 250 training courses.

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Hubert Schneider von Resch & Frisch Production GmbH remarks, “With the Bakery Innovation Centre, our employees can be optimally trained on new technologies. Once we are in full operation, this just cannot be done on-site.”

The first Bühler Bakery Expert Meeting: a great success Bühler has taken the extension and modernisation of its Bakery Innovation Centre as an occasion to hold the first German-language Bühler Bakery Expert Meeting on July 5 and 6, 2017.

Eva Pahnl von Pfahnl Backmittel GmbH, commented, “The industry is changing. This Expert Meeting is a great opportunity to stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends.”

Innovation Centre offers solutions The BIC offers Bühler customers a unique test environment equipped with the latest processing and production systems. Its modular structure allows customised technologies and plant concepts to be tested for every conceivable application. They range from raw materials handling to processing and analysis of end products.

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Milling News Fortification An image from the World Health Organisation describing a child’s first 1,000 days of life and how nutrition and fortification can help fight stunted growth. The time span is from conception until the child’s second birthday.

It has been suggested that fortifying flour and rice that the mother consumers while she is pregnant is one way to improve the child’s nutrition for the first 270 of those 1000 days!

One of the suggested ways to reduce stunting is to improve maternal nutrition, the ‘Food Fortification Initiative’ suggest that fortification is one way to do that.

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Delacon and Cargill announce partnership elacon and Cargill have agreed to a strategic partnership that will advance the market presence of natural, plant-based feed additives on a global scale, and meet changing consumer preferences of what animals are fed and how food is produced.

The deal includes a minority equity investment from Cargill. Terms were not disclosed. The partnership will connect Cargill’s expertise in applied nutrition and global presence with Delacon’s experience in phytogenic feed additives, a category that uses natural ingredients, including herbs, spices, other plants and their extracts, such as essential oils, to improve animal performance and secure animal health for sustainable, wholesome food production.

The agreement also will allow the companies to expand their technical and go-to-market capabilities to meet customers’ needs around the world as they pursue the joint mission of growing the phytogenic feed additives category.

For Delacon, the partnership will give access to countries worldwide, where it does not have a market presence today. For Cargill, the investment expands its presence and capability in the additives space, with a focus on select markets outside the United States.

Delacon’s successful distribution and partnership network will be retained, and developed further to make plant-based feed additives more available around the globe.

Markus Dedl, chief executive officer, Delacon commented, “Our agreement with Cargill represents an opportunity to accelerate growth and invest in Delacon’s future and the future of phytogenic feed additives, as our customers are looking for solutions delivered in a natural, efficient and sustainable way - from feed to food.”

He continued, “Phytogenics are one of the most promising groups of feed additives, and are turning from a niche market into a mainstream need. We are entering a new era of phytogenic feed additives, and

Milling News the next five years are decisive for the developments in this growing market.”

This strategic partnership builds on the collaboration that they have built over the last several years.

By centralising these efforts with a strategic partnership, the companies are expanding their focus, presence and reach in the micro nutrition space.

Chuck Warta, president, Cargill Premix and Nutrition remarked, “Delacon has a strong reputation, recognisable brand and a deep commitment to scientifically driven customer solutions that focus on healthy animals, feed efficiency and performance in a sustainable manner.”

He summarised, “Cargill and Delacon share common values – a commitment to our customers, science-driven innovation and high product quality. We also value a positive and safe work environment for our employees, sustainable and responsible business practices and deep ties to our communities.”

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The ingredients for success he first edition of FVG Select saw global industry executives from the animal feed processing, grain processing, ingredients and additives, aquafeed, petfood and biomass pelleting industries travelling to Cologne in Germany on June 13 and 14, 2017.

Almost 1,000 visitors came through the doors of the KoelnMesse exhibition centre, coming from 59 countries and representing every continent.

Select by name and select by nature, there were a limited number of 55 exhibitors present at the industry expo.

The focus of the conference was networking, business matchmaking and gathering new industry knowledge. This was facilitated through an extensive conference and matchmaking programme.

The following conferences were organised in collaboration with the partners: AEBIOM, Aquafeed.com, IFF and Wageningen University, Perendale Publishers and WATT Global Media.

• FIAAP Animal Nutrition Conference 2017

• Aquafeed Horizons Europe 2017 • AEBIOM International Pellet Workshop 2017 • Petfood Forum Europe 2017 • GRAPAS and Global Milling Conference 2017 • VICTAM Feed Processing Conference 2017 The matchmaking programme consisted of a combination of an online tool, which allowed exhibitors and visitors to plan their appointments very efficiently and a personal approach

by Victam matchmaking consultants before and during the event and added between 10-20 percent meetings to everyone’s schedule.

Another new feature that was introduced during this event was the Victam News Room. Here is where speakers, visitors and exhibitors were interviewed about their expertise. The news crew also made running reports about the events through Victam’s social media channels.

FVG Select is an additional event to the large exhibitions and conferences in Cologne and Bangkok. The business matchmaking programme and the News Room will also be introduced during Victam Asia 2018 and Victam International 2019.

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“Study the past if you would define the future” - Confucius

Roger Gilbert, Publisher and M4L Trustee

As millers we must be acutely aware of our beginnings if we are to address successfully the challenges that confront the food industry of the future.

The history of cereals, and wheat in particular, can be traced back over millennia and which was the subject of a keynote presentation made at the recent Global Milling Conference in Hamburg, Germany in May, 2017. And although some of the detail that scientists use to reconstruct the development of wheat from Einkorn to its modern-day varieties on which the planet now depends still leaves much to the imagination.

Einkorn - an ancient cereal out of the ice

However, in June 2017 the Flour World Museum, which is a hall of fame of flour sacks located in Wittenburg just outside Hamburg, in norther Germany, and created by Volkmar Wywiol of the ingredient company Muhlenchemie GmBH, officially opened the ‘Ötzi’s Einkorn Room 08’ which is now home to the only replica outside Italy of the Ötzi Iceman, the almost undamaged body of a man found where his lived 5300 years ago. He had been preserved in a glacier in the Boizano Alps in Southern Europe and discovered in 1991.

Hidden in his fur coat were two grains of Einkorn; evidence of early agriculture in the alpine region. He had also recently eaten a meal of cereal prior to his death. Einkorn is the oldest cultivated wheat variety and as an ancient cereal it has become popular again today. The Wittenburg Museum is proud to display the only replica of this famous figure outside the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy.

Why is this important to us you may ask? The importance is that we can identify with this individual, who demonstrates clearly that mankind, in Europe in particular, relied on wheat to sustain himself through the ages and certainly from the Neolithic copper age period.

Our Milling4Life charity is aiming to assist the development of milling in transitional countries - those moving from poor or insufficient nutritional diets for their population to an adequate or sound nutritional base.

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highly digestible and nutritious foodstuffs for consumers.

In fact, we know that it takes very few milling companies to supply food to a vast section of the world’s population.

For example, last year’s Buhler Networking Days in Uzvill, Switzerland, drew together some 700 milling company representatives whose combined supply provides milled products to three billion of our world’s 7.3 billion people each day.

Our milling industry has the ‘reach’ to connect with every living sole on this planet and as we are the ‘gatekeepers’ of all milled cereals (and compounded livestock and fish feeds), I believe we have a responsibility to address the food needs of every person.

I would go so far as to suggest that food is a basic human right in the 21st Century!

Particularly when you consider how far we’ve come in our ability: to improve yield and nutritional values in crops, using both traditional and modern breeding techniques; in on-farm harvesting practices; in the adoption globally of trading arrangements, such as the invaluable WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Codex rules that preserve and protect the safety of traded foodstuffs; and modern milling technologies that bring almost operating theatre-like hygiene to the processing flour, rice and other cereals.

We have seen tremendous savings in overall production costs.

However, we cannot continue to ‘add value’ to our food products if they price them out of the mouths of those who can least afford them - and this is clearly explained by Mr Rotimi Fadipe of Honeywell Flour Mills Plc in Nigeria when he spoke at this year’s IGC Conference in London on how one country is trying to address this issue (see page 58).

Milled wheat, rice, millet and a range of other crops all play their part in sustaining all of us on this planet.

Milling is central to that endeavour and we need to take care of those who today cannot afford our milled products and who will tomorrow become our customers.

Milling4Life is an industry initiative undertaken by Milling and Grain magazine. The magazine will cover the administration costs so that all donations and contributions made can be spent on assisting the development of milling and millers in those countries where assistance is needed.

NOTE: The copper from Ötzi’s axe comes from Southern Tuscany. The results of the archaeo-metallurgy research, led

by Prof. Gilberto Artioli of the University of Padua, Italy, have been corroborated and were published in early July 2017 in the scientific publication PLOS ONE.

Activities and associations Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory July has been exceptionally active month for myself and for the directory. Arranging visits to visit two UK directory members, planning more for the website and the 2018 print version and confirming and updating many new companies are always a pleasure for myself to be responsible for.

All sorts of rice, feed, grain and handling organisations have recently joined from all continents of the world, increasing our membership size to record levels.

Please go to www.internationalmilling.com today to update or newly register your company with virtually unlimited choices of products and services categories.

It is a duty of the directory to provide breadth and depth of content and services for the industry, so that the directory will always be relevant and informative. Userfriendly changes that are due to be included in the 2018 directory are being agreed now and it is very exciting to work on these fine details that will make a large difference to you in the 26th edition.

Interestingly, the directory is not just a solely independent publication. It is the industry’s own and has always been reliant on co-operation from industry partners. Some partner associations in the grain industry have a lot of implicit influence and can inform the shape and direction of the current trends.

Whilst I have been busy recently, so have our partner associations. The Mills Archive Trust will host the London and South East Milling Society (LSEMS) in September. This is interesting as the world’s most international industry archive combines with, the UK’s largest industry society.

I personally have been very interested in industry organisations and their growth in relation to the directory. The LSEMS are actively calling for more members from the UK industry and more interest for joining their committee as they seek to enact a great set of plans, see their website here: www.lsemsonline. wordpress.com for more information and all necessary contact details.

Furthermore, the LSEMS’ current President, Nick Hinton will be speaking at the ‘Build my Flourmill’ conference CICFO in Beijing, China on September 11, 2017. This will be a highly interesting conference with an international line-up including Nick’s Turkish counterpart, TUSAF President, Gühan Ulusoy also speaking, so do not miss such an important event.

Associations provide a lot of added value to the industry and create new links between organisations and individuals but also the fabric and network of the industry, just in the same role for the International Milling and Grain Directory.

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Richardson acquires European Oat Millers

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ichardson International Limited has expanded its oat milling business with the acquisition of European Oat Millers.

Curt Vossen, President and CEO of Richardson International commented, “We are excited to build on our success in value-added processing and extend our food manufacturing footprint to a new geography.

As the largest oat miller in North America, we now look forward to building a presence in Europe to enhance our ability to compete in the global marketplace.”

Based in Bedford, England, European Oat Millers is a leader in the oat milling business. It is the second largest oat miller in Europe, producing a wide range of oat products, including various oat flakes, flour and groats, as well as wheat and barley flakes and extruded ingredients and products. Products are sold throughout the UK, with exports to continental Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Vossen continues, “European Oat Millers is a solid, family-owned business that is well-established in the UK We have been very impressed with both the quality of the business and its people and believe it is an excellent complement to our Richardson Milling division. Looking ahead, we will build on the investments that have already been made, including increasing manufacturing capacity, and will continue to seek opportunities to expand our global business.”

Bill Jordan, who co-founded European Oat Millers with his brother David remarked, “My brother and I are very proud of the business that we have successfully grown over the past three decades. We are pleased to be passing it on to a similar family-owned business that shares both our vision for growth and our core values and we look forward to watching the business evolve.”

Richardson first entered the oat milling business in 2013 with the acquisition of three oat processing plants in Canada - Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; Martensville, Saskatchewan; Barrhead, Alberta – and one in the US in South Sioux City, Nebraska.

Today, Richardson is the largest oat miller in North America.

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Norel opens in Sao Paulo orge Calil will be responsible for setting up the company and introducing Norel products into the Brazilian market.

This will bring the opportunity to service directly Norel core products such as butyrates, medium chain fatty acid salts, organic minerals, flavours, preservatives, fats or rumen enhancers into the always so competitive Brazilian market.

The Brazilian market is one of the main exporters of beef and poultry meat worldwide, currently exporting US$6,500 million and US$5,500 million respectively.

Due to the new context in the USA, in which the use of antibiotics has been limited to its medical use and restricted the use as growth promoters, Brazil will be required to produce with these new conditions.

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Akinwumi Adesina awarded “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture”

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kinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, president of the African Development Bank Group and Purdue University alumni, has been named as the 2017 World Food Prize laureate for his work to reform the agricultural sector in Africa.

The award, which is worth US$250,000, has over its 31 years in existence become affectionately known as the “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture”. It is the highest international honour recognising the achievements of those who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world.

Akinwumi will be the 46th recipient and the sixth African to receive the award.

Norman E.Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, founded the prize in 1986. Since then, the World Food Prize has honoured 45 individuals who have made vital contributions throughout the world. It annually hosts the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium and a variety of youth education programmes to help further the discussion on cuttingedge global food security issues and to inspire the next generations to end global hunger.

Adesina, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from Purdue in 2015, earned his master’s (1985) and doctoral (1988) degrees in agricultural economics from Perdue, he joins his universities faculty members Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 and Philip Nelson, 2007 as World Food Prize laureates. After graduating he returned to Africa where he launched his career. He has received global awards and recognition for his leadership and work in agriculture. In 2010 United

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Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon appointed him as one of the leaders to spearhead the Millennium Development Goals, along with Bill Gates, the Spanish prime minister and the president of Rwanda. Forbes magazine also named him “African Person of the Year in 2013”.

Ejeta, distinguished professor and director of the Centre for Global Food Security, expounded, “I have known Dr Adesina since he was a graduate student and I was a young assistant professor at Perdue. I have followed his growth and accomplishments over his entire professional career - a career in which he has created innovative financial instruments and policy changes that have transformed African agriculture. He is a brilliant man with extensive knowledge, experience and a gift for oratory that combined have enabled him to be a most powerful and constructive voice in African agricultural development.”

Adesina was appointed Nigeria’s minister of agriculture in 2011, and during his four-year term, he ended 40 years of corruption in the fertiliser sector by developing and implementing an electronic wallet system that directly provides farmers with subsidies at scale using their mobile phones. Within the first four years after its launch the system changed the lives of 14.5 million farmers. Under his leadership it is reported that Nigeria’s food production has expanded by 21 million metric tonnes.

Mitch Daniels, President, Perdue, commented, “Purdue’s researchers

and alumni have helped feed the planet by making significant contributions in science based agriculture and food science, and there is no calling that is both more noble and necessary.”

He continues, “Akinwumi Avodeji Adesina continues that tradition, and we join in congratulating him and celebrating this recognition of his achievements.”

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize, made the announcement of Monday June 26, 2017, he described Adesina as “someone who grew out of poverty, but whose life mission is to lift up millions of people out of poverty”.

Sonny Perdue, US Secretary of Agriculture, delivered the keynote remarks at the ceremony held in Washington DC. Jay Akridge, Perdue’s Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, remarked, “From our time together as graduate students at Perdue, it has been a privilege to watch Akin’s career advance and to applaud the difference he has made in the world through his combination of intellect, vision, passion and drive.

This singular recognition is most deserved, and for all of us in Perdue Agriculture it is truly exciting to anticipate what comes next as this very proud Boilermaker continues to invest his extraordinary leadership capabilities to end hunger and poverty in Africa.”

Commenting on his achievement, Adesina explained, “Africa must feed itself, rapidly unlock its agricultural potential and help feed the world. And we must end malnutrition in Africa.

That’s the life challenge and exciting task ahead of me now in my current position as president of the African Development Bank, to feed Africa. I know we can do it. The World Food Prize gives me an even greater global platform to make that future happen much faster for Africa.”

The ceremony will be held on October 19, 2017 in the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines.

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USDA urged to drop proposed biotech regulatory changes

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he National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), in a joint statement submitted recently with four other agribusiness associations representing the grain and oilseed value chain, urged the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to withdraw its proposed regulations governing the importation, interstate movement and environmental release of certain genetically engineered organisms.

APHIS requested comments on its proposed so-called “Part 340” regulatory revisions, which among other things would eliminate the notification process for certain genetically engineered organisms in favour of an affirmative permitting scheme.

The NGFA, Corn Refiners Association, National Oilseed Processors Association, North American Export Grain Association and North American Millers’ Association said the APHIS proposal was “premature” since governmental authorities in important US export markets have not been consulted adequately yet nor signalled acceptance of the agency’s proposed new regulatory approach.

A failure to obtain such acceptance could result in significant disruptions in trade of US agricultural commodities and processed products, the NGFA and the other groups warned. They urged the agency to withdraw the proposed changes and instead turn its focus to

engaging with international governments to build a better understanding and acceptance of the reasons the agency is seeking to modify its regulatory oversight.

The NGFA and the other organisations commented, “Above all else, APHIS needs to ‘do no harm’ by avoiding prematurely implementing a regulatory approach under its Part 340 rules with respect to advancements in genetic engineering technology that puts US grain and agri-bulk exports at risk.”

They continued, “APHIS should not be working at crosspurposes to undercut the administration’s focus on trade and exports.”

The NGFA and the same grain- and oilseed-based agribusiness organisations also submitted a joint statement in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) request for comments on the use of genome-editing techniques to produce new plant varieties intended for use in human and/or animal food.

The organisations recommended that FDA require notification from plant breeders that develop and intend to commercialise plant genome-editing techniques. This would enable the agency to be informed about the kinds of traits being developed so it can determine whether to advise seed developers to consult with the agency on any food safety or labelling-related issues prior to commercialisation of such gene-edited crops.

The statement summarised, “In the absence of a notification requirement, the FDA’s awareness about the presence of foods developed through various plantbreeding techniques in other countries or regions of the world would be limited severely.”

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Tornum acquires Silokonsult Göran Persson AB Leading the campaign for regular successful harvests

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG Here in the UK we are now well in to another harvest, but one thing that remains certain, despite all of the uncertain politics that surround our country and the world, there has always been a seedtime and a harvest. With some years better than others for crop yields.

Looking back at our uncertain world, very recently the harvest of vegetables in Northern Australia was destroyed by tornados, meaning a year’s production was lost.

We have seen such tragedies happen over the years and the in different continents demonstrating the need to have food reserves kept to fill such shortfalls.

Todays’ world depends on being able to move food across the continents quickly and in a manner fit for consumption a costly exercise for the wealthy western world. Certainly here in the UK the assumption is that our population will continue to be able to import its food needs. This leads to a continued challenge to produce more from the decreasing land space. Fortunately research and development are continuing to aid our farmers in their quest.

In addition, food is being produced in more innovative ways, for example, the continuing development of hydroponics for fruit and vegetables, more use of indoor production with plastic poly tunnels allowing longer growing times not to mention the development of the aquaculture industries for both fresh and sea water fish and crustaceans.

Production continues to rely on adequate supplies of water, another challenge as we see floods and droughts; fresh water needs to be contained when it is in over supply and re-distributed to areas of need. This is a particular challenge in countries such as Australia where the Northern Territory and Queensland have an over supply but politics stops that being made available via a canal or pie system to areas of more need.

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sources I was reminded at a conference last week, there is now serious competition between the species that are most able to quickly and efficiently convert vegetable into meat, such as poultry and fish vying for the most efficient convertors followed by pigs.

The luxury market being left for sheep, goats and cattle which by their very nature, demand a lot of land space but nevertheless make very significant contributions to farming incomes. This is especially so in the case of cattle where meat can be produced as a by-product of the dairy industry.

These intensive production systems that are necessary to produce food in sufficient quantities for our expanding population, are under constant threat from the challenge of disease and there is an overriding need in the world to make production possible without the need to use antibiotics continually in the production systems leading to anti microbial resistance in the human population.

The UK has been leading in this campaign for many years with a total ban on routine usage and where necessary, prescription use of drugs, strictly controlled by government veterinarians along with meat withdrawal from the food chain.

To help with this, efficient management and healthy production systems have been developed, at the same time as our geneticists have been looking for animal genes that control health.

Let’s refer to this as genetic development, farmers worldwide have been achieving this since man started to farm but in a time consuming way but progress was made with both animals and plants suited to local conditions. Now we have science to speed the progress.

So speaking from the UK with our enhanced cereal varieties, higher yields, and more efficient harvesting machinery, let’s hope that we have a bountiful harvest that will be good for our feed manufactures millers and ultimately to our population. @AgrictecExports

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ornum AB has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares in Silokonsult Göran Persson AB – a Swedish supplier of machinery and planning for the grain and milling industries.

The acquisition will strengthen the company’s position as a supplier of grain processing equipment for industrial customers in Sweden.

Revenues for the fiscal year ending in April 2017 amounted to approximately EUR6.5 million.

Per Larsson, CEO of Tornum commented, “The acquisition will provide us with products and skills that historically not have been core business for the company. A very limited number of companies in the Nordics have the same skill set when it comes to applications for the agricultural and milling industries. Further, we believe that our knowledge in the field of grain handling will have a positive impact on the performance of Silokonsult. All in all, we are certain that the merger will create growth opportunities for both the companies.”

Silokonsult Göran Persson is a supplier and planning company, serving customers all over Sweden.

The customer base is mainly in the grain, milling, feed, livestock and seed industries. The company is headquartered in Skara, but projects are carried out all over Sweden.

The founder and former owner, Göran Persson, will continue his engagements with the company. He explained that, “When I realised that Tornum was interested in acquiring my company I immediately had a good feeling. They are one of the most well known companies in the industry and I believe this is a perfect match for Silokonsult. I am confident that they have great longterm plans for the business and that the ambition is to grow the business going forward. Further, I believe that there is a demand for our type of services outside of Sweden and I am confident that we can utilise this opportunity together.”

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Insect protein in fish feed welcomed “Single market must now fast-track pork and poultry amendments”

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he European Commission is to be congratulated for officially approving insect protein for aquaculture feed, however now urgent action is required to allow safe and sustainable insect-based feedstock for the pork and poultry industries, nextProtein says.

The French-Tunisian agritech start-up welcomed the recent decision by EU regulators to officially allow insect protein to be fed to farmed fish, but said more must be done to ensure out-dated regulations do not slow progress in such a vital field of sustainable agriculture.

With an estimated global population of more than nine billion by 2050 and increasing concerns around food supply and waste, nextProtein aims to address land and resource scarcity through insect protein production. nextProtein have reported producing the equivalent amount of protein from 100sqm as 100ha of soy field.

The European Commission officially authorised insect-based processed animal proteins (PAPs) as feed for aquaculture animals on May 24, 2017, through a change to Annex IV of Regulation 999/2001, with the regulation text to come into effect on July 1 this year.

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Syrine Chaalala commented, “We welcome the European Commission’s official ruling on this important reform for the aquaculture industry. With then vast majority of farmed fish relying on fishmeal and the depletion of our marine ecosystems, insect-based proteins offer the aquaculture industry a more sustainable way to ensure fish for human consumption.”

She continued, “Our insects are fed on organic waste, namely fruit and vegetables from markets, so allowing insect-based protein supplies like ours we can alleviate the pressure on severely depleted wild fish stocks.”

Co-founder CEO Mohamed Gastli explained, “But what must now be a priority is ensuring outdated regulations are amended to ensure safe and sustainable insect proteins can be used in the poultry and pork industries.”

He continues, “Insect proteins are one of the most abundant sources of alternative proteins but until now the legal framework covering insect proteins needs has yet to fully catch up to the future of what businesses like ours can offer to modern agriculture.”

He summarises, “We now need the European Commission to amend regulations to include the poultry and pork industries and ensure safe and sustainable insect proteins, which are created using significantly less land, water and energy resources with less greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Training The IGP Institute is offering two new workshops for individuals interested in grain transportation and the understanding of marketing.

New grain transportation classes coming One goal of those who work in grain transportation is to ensure that grain products arrive to customers in exceptional condition.

To help share knowledge about the most effective ways to accomplish this task, the IGP Institute has joined up with the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission to offer grain transportation courses free of charge.

The first offering geared for farmers and other invited guests who are interested in grain transportation will be held of September 6, 2017 in Garden City, Kansas.

This training will cover discussion topics inclyding the Kansas rail and container transportation systems, Union Pacific (UPRR) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway transportation overviews and the future outlook. Speakers from the IGP Institute, UPRR and BNSF will present during the half-day programme.

A second class is planned for September 7-8, 2017, at the Kansas State University IGP Institute. The training will feature several topics covering Kansas rail and container transportation Participants in advanced milling course learn the impact of wheat quality on milling extraction and flour quality.

Milling training for milling industry experts With continued education, come different levels of training to gain experience. An updated course was held for those invested in expanding their flour milling knowledge and advancing their processing skills.

The IGP–KSU Advanced Milling Principles course provided an in-depth insight to various principles of flour milling, June 12–16, 2017 at Kansas State University.

The flour milling principles taught in this course included cleaning for grain quality, starch damage, conditioning and tempering, cumulative attribute curves, roller mills, sifter, purifiers, detachers, dusters, flowsheet design, and flour additives and treatments.

Shawn Thiele, IGP Institute’s flour milling and grain processing curriculum manager commented, “This course was very successful with millers not only from the US, but also from Ecuador, Mexico and the Caribbean.”

He continued, “The 11 participants all brought a unique view to the course with different experiences which added to the learning environment and raised many interesting topics of discussion.”

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systems; container logistics; export documents and county party risk and non-vessel operating common carriers. In addition to classroom discussions and presentations, there will also be a tour at the DeLong Co., Inc. container facility in Edgerton, Kansas.

Jay O’Neil, senior agricultural economist at the IGP Institute commented, “Both of these educational sessions will allow farmers to better understand transportation, and then to see any opportunities they could have in their own operations.” primarily for milling engineers, operation managers, production managers, head millers and shift managers with previous milling experience.

Jason Longo, operator mechanic at General Mills in Buffalo, New York expounded, “I really loved the hands-on part of the course when we were in the mill. One of the main things I learned is that we have been reading how to scale a product wrong, so just knowing that bit will really help us in the future at our mill to be more accurate.”

Shawn Thiele, course instructor, explains optical sorter optimisation during an exercise in the Hal Ross Flour Mill

Participants in the IGP–KSU Advanced Milling course learn how to evaluate flourmill streams in the Hal Ross Flour Mill

Effectively buying US food and feed grains can benefit those individuals in private companies who are new to US and international marketing, as well as to those with a moderate understanding of marketing.

Grain purchasing concepts This course was offered at the IGP Institute Conference Centre and included a visit to the Cargill Westwego export facility on the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Participants in this course learned how grain is traded and exported during the first week. This included USDA grading standards and how they are implemented, how to read USDA reports, how to establish a proper contract to get what you desire, international grain trade rules and international contracts and arbitration systems.

“With the interaction of the personnel from IGP and our teammates, I really think that we’ve not only built a strong relationship between all of us, but we’ve learned a lot from each other and each other’s experiences,” says Kamal Dieck, commercial director of Beneficio Dieck.

“Since it’s such a diverse group, you have wheat millers and managers, executives and people from both trading and purchasing departments. It really gives you a lot of great and useful knowledge of different aspects of the business.”

Participants in the course were primarily from Central and

USSEC and the IGP Institute team up to provide training course in feed and poultry nutrition for Japanese participants.

Feed and poultry nutrition course Recently, the Kansas State University IGP Institute hosted a group from Japan to learn about feed and poultry nutrition.

The US Soybean Export Council (USSEC)–KSU Japan Feed and Poultry Nutrition training was held for eight industry professionals June 12–16, 2017.

This collaboration was done with USSEC organising the group, the Kansas Soybean Commission helping sponsor the course, and the IGP Institute at Kansas State University hosting the group and providing the technical training.

The course covered a variety of topics that discussed both sides of feed and poultry nutrition. These topics included digestive tract structure integrity and efficiency, broiler breeder nutrition and management, feeding laying hens under heat stress and stressful conditions, ideal amino acid profile and requirements for broilers and layers, maintaining quality when importing US grain and mycotoxin control, quality control on a feed mill and pelleting process for poultry feed production.

Koji Gondo, Nihon Nosan, Yokohama, Japan commented, “I really enjoyed learning about the poultry nutrition from all of the professors in the course. I am in poultry nutrition in my company so I will be able to use this information from the course for my corporation.”

Along with classroom lectures and discussions, participants were also toured the O.H. Kruse Feed Technology Innovation Center in Manhattan, Kansas; Bill Manville’s farm near Winchester, Kansas; Midwest Ag Enterprises in Kansas City, Kansas; DeLong Container

South America, the US and India. The participants from India were most interested in learning how to import high quality US hard red winter wheat.

The group also traveled to New Orleans to tour an export facility along the Mississippi River and apply their classroom knowledge to real-life operations. During the second week of the course, the group focused on commodity price risk management.

Topics in this section included the workings of commodity exchanges, futures and options trading, hedging and price risk management, discussions on forward contracting and options and over-the-counter (OTC) contracts and how they are applied to a risk management strategy.

Facility near Edgerton, Kansas; and a poultry farm near Syracuse, Missouri.

Carlos Campabadal. Course coordinator and IGP’s feed manufacturing and grain quality management specialist explained, “The USSEC Japan Poultry course is a great example on how collaboration between organisations to enhance the usage and awareness of US soybean and soybean meal to an international market.”

He continued, “We hope that they had an excellent experience in Kansas and that they are able to apply their knowledge at their respective companies.”

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PRODUCT FOCUS August 2017 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.

IM 9500 Whole Grain NIR and USDA Certified UGMA AM5200-A Moisture Meter can be integrated into the MCi Auto-kicker from Mid Continent Industries.

By connecting the IM9500 NTEP approved, Whole Grain NIR and AM 5200-A Moisture to the MCi Autokicker, many inbound and outbound sampling points can be automated.

The system frees employees for other work by automating most sampling methods, including dockage, broken, shrunken, protein, oil content, starch content, fibre content, moisture, test weight, and temperature.

The system can process a sample every 45 to 150 seconds. This allows users to check every load coming in or monitor all outbound grain with faster, more accurate information.

“The Auto Kicker has already proven its value in the market and using the Perten instruments has decreased sample process time by as much as 30 seconds, which is crucial in most applications.”

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Brabender GlutoPeak The new method for the Brabender GlutoPeak enables good correlations with known measuring values for flour analysis, such as protein content, wet gluten, water absorption and the Alveograph W value.

In just a few minutes, the Brabender GlutoPeak provides a “rheological fingerprint” of the analysed flour sample.

It measures the aggregation behaviour of the gliadin and glutenin proteins in a sample, for the purposes of describing their baking properties.

Strong gluten produces rapid, high peaks. Weak gluten shows later, flatter peaks, or in extreme cases, no peaks at all, for example with biscuit wheat.

Rheological measurement is performed by measuring the torque, resulting in good correlations. Hence, conclusions can already be drawn on the gluten quality and its specific features before embarking on ‘analytical differential diagnostics’, with instruments like Farinograph, Extensograph and Amylograph.

The Milling and Grain team recently talked to Brabender about their latest range of products relating to flour and the characteristics of dough, here are just two products from the range of equipment that they produce.

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Brabender Farinograph-TS

Designed to eliminate cross contamination and operate with a very high static accuracy in the dosing and batching of micro ingredients, the VSS micro scale consists of weigh bin with pneumatically activated bottom wings for emptying.

The Brabender Farinograph-TS measures the flour water absorption and the kneading characteristics of dough.

The wings are Teflon coated and opens 90 degrees to ensure complete emptying between batches. The VSS design with three load cells, a sturdy and rigid steel frame, a dosing top, an outlet funnel and a rack provides market leading operational reliability and superior accuracy.

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It estimates the optimum water amount for a flour to form dough, predicts how flour will react in different stages of production and baking and assures a stable product quality.

A flour sample of is weighed and placed into a mixing bowl. A curve is recorded, according to the resistance of the dough against the mixing action.

The curve recorded, the Farinogram, shows the quality characteristics of the analysed flour, including; Water absorption: the amount of water taken up by the flour to achieve the desired consistency or optimal end result. The higher the water absorption, the greater the dough yield.

The Farinograph-TS is equipped with the web-based Brabender MetaBridge software, characterized by its easy and intuitive handling.

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SPECIAL FOCUS A crucial step in the production process within a feed mill is the mixing of raw materials. Wynveen International BV produces every available type of machine for the mixing process, from vertical mixers & continuous mixers to ribbon mixers & paddle mixers. Wynveen also possesses the expertise to optimise machines and processes for any specific application.

Fluidised zone

The single and double shaft paddle mixers create a central zone above the paddles where the mass of particles act like a liquid, resulting in fast and intensive mixing. Additives can be dosed into this so-called fluidised zone as an extremely fine mist through the use of spray heads in the top of the mixing chamber. This way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible to achieve a homogeneous mixing of oil or viscous fluids with powders.

Efficiency

The vacuum coater makes use of a vacuum to inject pellets and extrudates with oils and fats. The liquids are distributed evenly and efficiently among the pellets and, by creating a vacuum, the liquids are absorbed and sealed deep into the pellets. The vacuum coater allows pellets to absorb a higher percentage of liquids, creating an economic and efficient use of expensive additions. By coating the pellet from the inside out, there is less grease on the pellet itself. Resulting in a cleaner product and thus less cleaning of the transport systems following the coater. An added bonus of

Mixers and waterproof bombdoors the vacuum coated pellets is the increased pellet structure causing less breakage and crumbling.

Bomb door

Paddle mixers and vacuum coaters from Wynveen have dust- and waterproof bomb doors. Specially designed seals ensure that raw materials and ingredients do not escape from the mixer/coater.

Thanks to a special lever system, the bomb doors remain perfectly sealed even if the compressed air pressure is lost. Sensors also monitor whether the bomb doors are fully closed.

Discharge

Depending on the mixer, a gradual or all at once discharge can be achieved. Using an all at once discharge with bomb doors, the cycle times will be significantly shortened. The bomb doors from Wynveen mixers are wider than the housing, leaving very little to no residue during a batch discharge. Large hatches allow for quick and thorough cleaning of the mixer. This is particularly important to prevent contamination when the recipe is changed frequently.

Large capacities

Over the years the average production capacities of feed mills have increased, resulting in a growing demand for main mixers with a larger net volume. Next to the existing models with a net capacity of 10,000 and 12,000 litres, Wynveen can also supply systems with batch capacities of 15,000 and 20,000 litres.

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Highlights from The Global Miller’s Symposium

– An interview with a geobotanist and a breakdown of “The Flour Sack of the Year” awards

“Wheat cultivation needs to be massively expanded” – An interview with a geobotanist

Wheat is a staple food with a very promising future. According to FAO projections, demand will double by 2050. But as positive as this might sound for the milling industry, there is another side to the coin – production growth comes nowhere near to meeting the projected rise in demand. In order to supply nine billion people with wheat in 30 years, the area under cultivation needs to be expanded massively, worldwide.

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Küster of the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, called for a fundamental reorientation of agriculture at the Global Miller’s Symposium. Milling and Grain (Mühlenchemie) followed up with the renowned geobotanist.

Wheat is a cornerstone of world nutrition, and next to rice is the most important staple food. Does this mean things look good for the milling business?

Right now the situation is balanced. Supply meets demand. But this will change dramatically. World population will rise rapidly, and with it the demand for foods from wheat. If there is not a fundamental shift in agricultural policy, soon there will be a huge gap between supply and demand.

How is agriculture supposed to double the amount of wheat it produces in just three decades?

We urgently need to intensify grain growing. To do it, we will need to open up entirely new areas for cultivation, even if the soil and climate are not ideal. In addition, formerly cultivated areas will have to be taken back under the plough. For example, in many hilly regions agriculture has greatly declined. That was a mistake and needs to be reversed. In the past, ill-conceived incentives have been offered for growing maize and feed.

But maize is a major contributor to soil erosion. So there are good reasons to return to a stronger focus on wheat growing.

Who is responsible for this?

We need a cooperative effort by agricultural policymakers, farmers, economists and the food industry. A working group that develops strategies for the future. We need to think much more carefully about what products we should be growing in the future, especially in the industrialised countries, we should intensify agriculture again.

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What are the minimum requirements for growing wheat?

There has to be a wet phase, a rainy season, in which the seed can germinate and grow, of equal importance is a dry season so the grain can ripen. Given these conditions, wheat can grow in many parts of the world.

In the US, winter wheat cultivation of just 13.1 million hectares is expected for 2017 – 10 percent less than the previous year, where are the signs of expansion there?

This is a disastrous development. Wheat production should be expanded in the US, of all places.

The main growing area right now is the central plains, especially Kansas, but the western plains are also well suited.

Surely, they have longer dry periods, but that doesn’t need to preclude more wheat cultivation.

Do you go along with the efforts to grow more wheat in Africa?

Africa has some regions that are suitable for wheat. But there’s no point planting wheat in areas where it’s hot and damp all the time, like in the tropics. And there’s no point planting wheat in areas that are dry all the time. The cost for artificial irrigation is just too high.

So in my opinion Africa should choose another path.

What alternatives do you have in mind?

It’s simply a fact that wheat needs a combination of wet growing season and dry ripening season. Only a few areas in Africa offer this. It would be a better idea to concentrate on traditional plants that need little rain, like manioc, sago or oil palms. I think that would be more beneficial for many African countries. They can then sell these products to finance imports of wheat.

We’re seeing a return to old crops and varieties in Europe, with a boom in cultivars like emmer and einkorn, what do you think of this trend?

It makes no sense to push the old wheat varieties. Some of them might have a higher protein content, like spelt, which is closely related to durum wheat. But these varieties won’t solve our food supply problems. We could live with it well enough in Western Europe, but we also have to think of Africa.

What do you think about the lifestyle trend of avoiding wheat and gluten?

I don’t see anything at all bad about wheat. Wheat is a crop with

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The Global Millers Symposium – “The Flour Sack of the Year” from Egypt

The gala dinner for the 2017 Global Millers Symposium provided a noble setting, whilst Volkmar Wywiol presented in Hamburg the 2016 Flour Sack Award to Tarek Hafez and Montaser Hosny from the Egyptian company Arabian Milling & Food Industry.

The Flour Sack of the Year 2016 shows a proud Bengal tiger whose power and strength are depicted on the premium brand of this Egyptian mill. With this award, the winner of which is chosen by an independent panel of judges, Mühlenchemie honours flour sack motifs as carriers of regional cultures.

They are to be seen at the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg.

Arabian Milling & Food Industry is the biggest enterprise in the Egyptian food industry. One reason for its success is that it exports its products to countries of the African continent. Tarek Hafez, Milling Operations Director of Arabian Milling and Food industry in Egypt commented, “Although the tiger is not an African animal, its power is an excellent symbol of life in the jungle and therefore acts as a bracket for the many different cultures of that region. Its strength and dignity are a perfect way of conveying the claims we make concerning our company and the quality of our products. Like those of the many sacks before it, this year’s motif from the “Flour Sack of the Year” will find a place of honour in Mühlenchemie’s “FlourWorld”.”

With 3,400 exhibits from 137 countries, this museum near Hamburg houses the world’s biggest collection of flour sacks.

The unique exhibition is devoted to the cultural history of man’s

most important staple food.

As the museum’s central feature, the motifs on the sacks tell of the traditions of flour, its history and the myths surrounding it.

That makes this collection a “hall of fame”, a tribute to all the millers who provide man with flour – day in, day out.

The museum is to be enlarged continuously as a “forum of cereal science” in order to familiarise consumers, too, with the history and significance of corn for our daily bread. From a total of 244 new sacks, 10 were shortlisted for the 2016 award. The winning motif impressed the judges with its high emotional value.

In his speech, Volkmar Wywiol, the founder of the museum and a partner of Mühlenchemie, underlined the judges’ verdict, “The Bengal tiger gazes at the viewer with pride and confidence.

Above all, the tiger stands for the power and strength conferred on man by flour. The animal’s typical attributes – courage, speed and stamina – are associated with the quality of the flour. The success of its exports to other African countries is confirmation that the mill is right: good sack motifs are good selling points.”

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Interview: Tarek Hafez Operations Director, Arabian Milling & Food Industry Volkmar Wywiol presented in Hamburg the 2016 Flour Sack award to the Egyptian company Arabian Milling & Food Industry. Public Relations v.

Hoyningen-Huene spoke to the Operations Director of the mill, Tarek Hafez, about the award and his company.

What significance does this prize have for your mill?

My employees and I are very proud of this award. It is a great honour to us to find our ideas and activities as an enterprise acknowledged in this way, and as part of the global milling family. We also regard this award for our flour sack as a symbol of the successful development of Arabian Milling & Food Industry.

How did you come to choose the Bengal tiger motif?

One focus of our exports is Africa. The cultures of that continent differ widely. But one feature the equatorial regions have in common is their “jungle culture”. To them, the tiger is the symbol of power and strength. The flour and its motif constitute our premium brand, for which we use exclusively high-quality Australian wheat. The tiger represents this quality.

You mentioned different cultures, what other motifs do you use?

Our marketing department puts a great deal of thought into the design of our sacks. We have another 30 or 40 brands that are sold in different regions, where they are faced with strong competition. Unlike Europe, where there are numerous possibilities of B2B advertising, the only medium we have for telling the story of a product is the flour sack. It is our most important marketing and communication tool. The animal kingdom plays an important role in this context. We use other tiger motifs, a jaguar or even an American eagle. But traditional Egyptian motifs help to market our products, too.

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The Flour Sack of the Year 2016 awarded to Egyptian company Arabian Milling & Food Industry The Flour Sack of the Year 2016 shows a proud Bengal tiger whose power and strength are depicted on the premium brand of this Egyptian mill. With this award, the winner of which is chosen by an independent panel of judges, Mühlenchemie honours flour sack motifs as carriers of regional cultures.

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Does this make you successful?

Our company was established in 2004. Now, with a capacity of 2,000 tonnes of flour, we are the biggest enterprise in the Egyptian food industry as well as the country’s biggest mill. In future we are hoping to double our capacity. Such development is only made possible by close partnerships with companies like Bühler and Mühlenchemie.

What needs do you have for flour improvement?

For a long time, Egyptian mills only processed one kind of wheat. Then, during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, more and more grain had to be imported from other countries. That presented us with the challenge of equalising different qualities of the raw material. Egypt is now the world’s biggest importer of wheat, which means nothing goes without companies like Mühlenchemie.

"It makes you realise that flour is a global food, that the history of mankind tells us “we all come together in flour” How does cooperation with Mühlenchemie work?

Our parent company, the Abu Donkol Group, is the biggest wheat importer of Egypt. We are one of the few mills in the market that import wheat themselves. Mühlenchemie’s employees already advise us when we buy the wheat and can analyse samples for their quality at the Stern Technology Center at the company’s headquarters in Ahrensburg. Even before the wheat arrives, we know how to process it in order to produce quality flour.

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The future importance of lesser-known grains to global milling

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by Clifford Spencer, Goodwill Ambassador of the African Union, Chairman, Milling4Life and Aquaculture without Frontiers - as presented at GRAPAS & Global Milling conference at the very first edition of FVG Select, Cologne, Germany 13-14 June, 2017. he milling industry has been innovating and moving forward for decades in terms of technology and efficiency as the sector continually strives to advance.

With many developing countries coming to the forefront in terms of future food demand, and also new factors such as tackling the vagaries of climate change increasingly becoming the focus of future economic planning, there are these new major challenges to be met. The milling industries focus will increasingly move from temperate zones to tropical and from developed countries to developing ones.

There is in particular an area not directly under the milling industry’s control that needs deep industry involvement and rigorous future demands – that is in the area of agricultural policy and in particular feedstock supply.

In this I mean not just in the matters of quality, quantity, cost and availability of feedstock grains (which is always being continually improved by the industry and its suppliers) but the variety in crop grains and their intrinsic qualities on offer to the miller.

For years there has been a trend in the agricultural industry for increasing the scale of production and with this has come a drastic reduction in the number of crops receiving investment in plant breeding and agronomy including nutrition and protection from weeds, pests and diseases.

However since the 1900s, some 75 percent of plant genetic diversity has been lost as farmers worldwide have left their multiple local varieties and landraces to use genetically uniform, high-yielding varieties. The extension of industrial patenting, and other intellectual property systems, to living organisms has led to the widespread cultivation and rearing of fewer varieties.

This positively results in a more uniform, less diverse, but more competitive global market but now increasingly with some serious disadvantages emerging from this trend.

By way of example just 50 years ago there were 20 different kinds of grains in serious global production. Now there are really just three principle food grains being maize, rice and wheat in meaningful global production. Only one of these crops being maize is suitable for tropical production.

Furthermore, currently more than half of the world’s food energy comes from a limited number of varieties of these three “mega-crops”. This in historical terms is an incredibly fast development trend and one, which needs rapidly addressing

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in order to add more variation in the range of food grains we consume. If not, our food will all be the poorer for it and for a number of very important different reasons, both environmental and nutritional.

I am making these comments not just as a consumer looking for the highest quality nutrition to energise me and protect me and my family’s health, but equally as a long term experienced farmer that has produced a large number of crops in different countries and to the highest quality standard.

Indeed throughout my farming career I witnessed modern agriculture driven by agribusiness increasingly concentrate on a small number of crops and varieties designed for intensive farming. This has dramatically reduced the diversity of crop plants developed and therefore suitable and available for use but also dominated the funding of the research and development of these mega crops, which has effectively narrowed to that, needed for the full development of just these three primary grains. These trends, and the increasing industrialisation of agriculture, are key factors in this trend, which is best described as the “genetic erosion” of our plant based sources of food.

Not only has this trend been taken too far but also it is now pushing developing country agriculture thoroughly in the wrong direction. This is an important consideration that the milling industry needs to carefully evaluate for its long-term business health in these developing countries and markets.

In terms of farming fundamentals, there is a basic requirement in terms of producing the highest quality crops related to whether the crop is a so-called C3 or C4 crop.

Wheat, soya, barley and rye for instance are C3 crops and as such do not have the outright yield and quality potential in tropical climes as do C4 grain crops like Maize, Sorghum, Millet, Teff and Fonio.

To explain the basic difference, C4 plants are more efficient in photosynthesis than C3 plants in high intensity sunlight. C4 plants are able to more efficiently fix carbon in drought, high temperatures, and with limitations of nitrogen. As such C4 plants are generally native to hot, moist or arid non-saline habitats as experienced in the tropics. The indigenous crops to these regions that are C4 crops are currently produced without the benefit of the investment in plant breeding and agronomy currently enjoyed by C3 crops and thus the underutilised and underdeveloped C4 crops have enormous untapped potential.

Much work is now taking place in this area by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and in particular in Sorghum by the International Crop Research

Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) as well as these crops beginning to be developed by many of the larger agricultural corporates as their interest in these developing world regions expands.

However, there is an enormous mountain still to climb before these crops have received similar attention as C3 crops such as wheat, rice and soya for instance.

Traditional crop grains such as sorghum and millet have been ground for centuries but more often than not with a crude mortar and pestle fashioned from a tree stump and branch or by using flat stones or rubbing stones. All these types of grinding systems are still in common use in many parts of the developing world today.

Newer milling technologies have been introduced in more recent centuries and in the mid-nineteenth century, electric motors were invented. However this advance towards hammer and plate milling passed large areas of the developing world by, due to the lack of electricity and instead diesel engines and lower speed driven mills were installed but even their use was limited by the availability of fuel and spare parts.

This dearth of electricity particularly in sub-Saharan areas is now starting to be tackled and considerable prizes can be won by the milling industry as electrical power is installed in greater capacity across these areas and higher speed machines can be used in a greater number of regions. It is perhaps worth noting that in a continent I know well today some 645 million Africans have no direct access to electricity.

Per capita power consumption in sub-Saharan Africa is a paltry 181 kWh as compared to 6,500 in the UK and 13,000 in the US 90 percent of African primary schools have no electricity and as this electrical supply situation changes the opportunities for millers will escalate in magnitude.

Table 1: Nutrient Content of Various Millets with comparison to Rice and Wheat Crop / Nutrient Protein(g) Fibre(g) Minerals(g) Iron(mg) Calcium(mg) Pearl millet

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2.3

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7.3

3.6

2.7

3.9

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8

3.3

2.8

31

Proso millet

12.5

2.2

1.9

0.8

14

Kodo millet

8.3

9

2.6

0.5

27

Little millet

7.7

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1.5

9.3

17

Barnyard millet

11.2

10.1

4.4

15.2

11

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6.8

0.2

0.6

0.7

10

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11.8

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1.5

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Also in terms of human health and nutrition the need for high digestibility meal for human or animal consumption has also never been greater. Palatability and the need to expose the starch in the grain accordingly plus the need for nutritional additives is also crucial. Also avoiding the respiratory problems when fed dry or over-milled flour is important.

I will now briefly describe a couple of currently underutilised C4 grain crops worthy of much greater investment and this in reality can only come from demand pull by the milling industry together with the benefits of these grains, both environmental and nutritional, being extolled to your consumers.

Without this change generated from within the industry then modern agriculture will become ever more concentrated on a small number of varieties designed for intensive farming and this is ultimately bad for developing country grain farmers, their consumers and the milling industry that supplies them.

Also, given the less mature state of development of agriculture in developing countries the door is still open to avoid the

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Among other similarities to oats, sorghum also contains no gluten, making it useful for Energy 1,377kJ gluten-free diets.

(329kcal) In closing and by way of further example Carbohydrates72.1g of the power of the milling industry to Dietary fibre6.7g develop its nutritious feedstock grains I will Fat3.5g refer to two important underutilised African Protein 10.6g grains with which I am familiar due to my diplomatic position.

Vitamins Teff has an attractive nutrition profile, being Thiamine (B1) 29%) 0.33mg high in dietary fibre and providing protein and Riboflavin (B2) (8%) 0.1mg calcium. It is similar to millet in cooking but Niacin (B3) (25%) 3.7mg the seed is much smaller and cooks faster, thus Pantothenic acid (B5) (8%) 0.4mg using less fuel. Teff was one of the earliest Vitamin B6 (34%) 0.44mg plants domesticated and is believed to have Folate (B9) (5%) 20μg originated in Ethiopia and Eritrea where it is an important food grain and less so in India Minerals and Australia. It is now raised in the US, Calcium (1%) 13mg in Idaho and Nevada. In addition to people Iron (26%) 3.4mg from traditional Teff-consuming countries, What is good about these crops Magnesium (46%) 165mg customers include those on gluten-restricted currently in danger of being bydiets. passed?

Manganese (76%) 1.6mg Ethiopia had a long-standing ban in effect From a farming point of view – which Phosphorus (41%) 289mg on the export of Teff grain or flour from is the most important view currently for Potassium (8%) 363mg the country prompted by increasing grain developing continents like Africa - Millet Sodium (0%) 2mg prices. In 2015, that ban was lifted after the is favoured due to its productivity and short Zinc (18%) 1.7mg introduction of farming techniques which growing season under dry, high-temperature improved yields by 40 percent. This gives conditions. Millets have been important food staples in human history, particularly in Asia and Africa. They have an idea of the potential of this grain. It is also known as an 'emergency crop' because it is planted late in the spring when the been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10,000 years. growing season is warmer, and most other crops have already Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semi-arid, been planted. Over 20 years ago the US National Research impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and Council characterised Teff as having the “potential to improve Southeast Asia. Millets are not only adapted to poor, droughty, nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and and infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these support sustainable land care.” conditions than most other grain crops.

Fonio is a staple crop in West Africa which has continued to This has, in part, made millet production popular, particularly be important because it is both nutritious and one of the world’s as in countries surrounding the Sahara Desert in western Africa.

Millets, however, do respond to high fertility and moisture and on fastest-growing cereals, reaching maturity in as little as six to eight a per hectare basis, millet grain produced can be two to four times weeks. It is a crop that can be relied on in semi-arid areas with poor soils, where rains are brief and unreliable. The grains are higher with use of irrigation and soil supplements. traditionally used in porridge and couscous, for bread, and for beer.

Improved breeds of millet improve their disease resistance and However, the small grains make it difficult and time-consuming can significantly enhance farm yield productivity. But here is to remove the husk. Traditional methods include pounding it the thing in 2010; the average yield of millet crops worldwide in a mortar with sand (then separating the grains and sand) or was 0.83 tonnes per hectare. The most productive millet farms in 'popping' it over a flame and then pounding it, which yields a the world were in France with a nationwide average yield of 3.3 toasted-color grain. tonnes per hectare in 2010!

The invention of a simple Fonio husking machine only 20 So quadruple yields of these crops are in prospect if the bright years ago suddenly offered an easier mechanical way to dehull breeders and agronomists are funded by the grain industry to get the grain from which it had been difficult to remove the brittle to work. outer shell. Indeed for hundreds of years, African women carried There is also a lot to like about millets being gluten free on the out the painstaking task of preparing Fonio by pounding and nutritional side (Table 1). threshing the grain and sand mixture with a pestle and mortar.

Sorghum is native to Africa with many cultivated forms now but is Using this method after one hour of this tedious work, only also an important crop worldwide as food. Most varieties are drought two kilograms of Fonio were available for consumption and 15 and heat-tolerant, and are especially important in arid regions, where litres of precious water were needed to remove the sand. The the grain is one of the staples for poor and rural people. Sorghum is mechanical de-hulling invention has meant the whole process has efficient in converting solar energy to chemical energy and also uses been reduced from a one-hour job to a six-minute job! less water compared to other grain crops.

This currently 50kg device gently abrades the surface of the Again more to like on the nutritional side with Sorghum seed before passing it through a rotating mechanism which supplying numerous essential elements in rich content (20% or removes the husks and is an example of the power of milling more of the Daily Value, DV), including protein; fibre; the B technology to solve a significant problem in developing countries. vitamins niacin, thiamine and vitamin B6 and several dietary The ease with which it can be manufactured speaks volumes for minerals including iron (26% DV) and manganese (76% DV) the further potential of your great industry.

(Table 2). Sorghum nutrient contents generally are similar mistakes made in more developed agricultural economies. In terms of a parallel in other areas of agriculture then look no further than the milk industry.

This is changing direction as supermarkets engage with farmers for direct supply and production systems are becoming less intense to avoid the current untenable system facing systemic failure that has arisen out of unbridled agribusiness and processing fully let off the leash.

Agriculture is the ‘engine for growth’ in developing countries. With subsistence agriculture practiced by majority smallholder farmers, yield gaps are high and poor soils, amongst other constraints add to the difficulties for sustainable farming and incomes. Cereals like Sorghum and Millets are major staple foods.

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Table 2: Sorghum, grain - Nutritional value per 100g (3.5oz)

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Inside the Crop Trust with Milling and Grain

by Rhiannon White, Managing Editor, Milling and Grain magazine

The Crop Trust is responsible for the unprecedented mission of ensuring the long-term conservation and use of crop diversity for food security worldwide. Situated on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn, Germany, Milling and Grain visited their headquarters in June this year to learn more about their work and why crop diversity is crucial for our future.

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he Crop Trust is responsible for the unprecedented mission of ensuring the long-term conservation and use of crop diversity for food security worldwide.

Situated on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn, Germany, in June this year, Milling and Grain visited their headquarters to learn more about their work and why crop diversity is crucial for our future.

Introduction by Rhiannon White, Milling and Grain

With a global population estimated to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, food production will have to increase by 50 percent over the next 30 years if we are to feed the planet sustainably. Curling and creeping their way around the other corner are climate change and associated temperature increases, rising sea levels, stronger and more frequent droughts and floods, as well as pest and disease outbreaks.

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So why might crop diversity be one of our most precious collective possessions? The answer is simple. A fundamental way to produce more food that is more nutritious, using less land with less water and energy, is to improve plant productivity for both animal feed and human consumption. And one of the ways we will achieve this is if we have an efficient and accessible global conservation system of all crop varieties in existence.

As Lead Partnerships Coordinator for the Crop Trust, Brian Lainoff voiced to us, “We don’t assert that crop diversity is the only answer but we cannot forget that everything we do starts with a seed. Crop diversity is the raw material of agriculture, it’s the building blocks, and it’s the foundation."

A report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that a one degree increase in temperature could decrease agricultural output by two percent per decade. The wild relatives of our domesticated crops may hold the answers to climate change, be higher yielding, disease resistant, less environmentally

F corruptive or lead to nutrition enhancement. So in recognizing that every crop matters, we must also appreciate our international interdependency upon this system to work. Agriculture is the economic bedrock and feeder of all life in all countries, developed or not, and once the biodiversity of our crops is lost, it’s lost forever.

The Crop Trust

With rising populations, diminishing resources and the fact that breeding new varieties takes up to 10 years to produce, The Crop Trust’s mission “to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide, forever” is more urgent and more important than ever. Whilst worldwide, only 150 crops are cultivated on any significant scale, a recent study co-authored by the Crop Trust found that the planet’s food supply has grown increasingly dependent on only a few crop types over the past 50 years.1 This makes our food supply vulnerable to climatic changes and makes us vulnerable to a non-nutritiously diverse diet. The potato famine in Ireland is perhaps one of recent history’s most poignant testaments to the vulnerability of planting only one crop variety.

Meanwhile, the loss of a crop variety is as irreversible as the extinction of an animal therefore these factors alone place greater importance upon the conservation of the thousands of crop varieties that exist.

As we speak however, a staggering 20 percent of plant diversity is under threat from habitat degradation, invasive alien species and over-exploitation. Mr Lainoff told us “Since 1950, China alone has lost an estimated 90 percent of rice varieties whilst since the 1900s in New York, we had 9,000 apples and now we have 1,000 varieties.”

Nevertheless, Cierra Martin, from the Crop Trust

Communications and Partnerships team expressed to us “We must look forward, not back, and the way to do this is by collecting crops, conserving them and putting them to use.”

For now is the time to take care of what we do have, which is precisely what the 1,700 + gene banks worldwide are doing every minute of every day.

For anyone unfamiliar with the global seed network, a gene bank is an ex-situ conservation system that preserves raw genetic material of seeds, enabling plant breeders and farmers access to a combined amount of millions of crop varieties in order to develop new varieties with ever-improved traits. For example, there is current work underway to develop beans with higher levels of nutritionally available iron and zinc. Similarly there has been a breakthrough development of high-beta-carotene sweet potatoes, and given that annually more than 105 million metric tonnes, 95 percent of which are grown in developing countries, are produced globally, the implications are huge.2 The Crop Trust currently has oversight and financial responsibility for 11 global gene banks through the CGIAR Genebank Platform. Held in trust for the world, these are among the most comprehensive and widely used collections of crop diversity, “distributing around 100,000 crop varieties per year."

To demonstrate the scale of what this means, in the gene bank of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, there are over 121,000 varieties of rice whilst there are around 175,526 varieties of maize and wheat being conserved at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico.

Crucially, not all crops can be conserved in normal seed banks.

Vegetatively propogated crops, like coconut, yam and potato have to be conserved differently, in field genebanks, in vitro or through cryopreservation.

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From 2007-2012, the Crop Trust implemented activities to overcome a number of serious constraints to the development of a rational and efficient global system for the conservation of crop diversity in gene banks.

As part of the project, 'Securing the Biological Basis of Agriculture and Promoting New and Fuller Use of Crop Genetic Resources', nearly 80,000 varieties of crop diversity were rescued in 88 countries and 143 institutes, and safely duplicated under the terms of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).

This was the biggest biological rescue operation ever. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia supported these activities.3

Crop Wild relatives

The Crop Trust and its partner, the Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, have embarked on a global effort to collect, conserve and use the wild relatives of 29 crops of global importance for food security. The 10-year project, Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives, a USD50 million initiative funded by the government of Norway, is the most systematic and comprehensive bid ever to conserve the world’s wild crop relatives on a global scale.3 Mr Lainoff told us that the collection phase, which started in 2013, “supports national programs in countries such as Ethiopia, Peru, Costa Rica, Ghanda and Nepal for collecting this diversity by training them to find, collect and conserve the wild relatives.

For these ‘capacity building partnerships’, collection of crop varieties and pre-breeding will go on into 2018. By 2019 to 2020, we will be focusing on the deployment of this diversity to farmers and breeders.”

This material was also shared with international collections as well. He continued “phase three is now underway, which is making this diversity available for years on a multi-lateral system free of charge.”

Information systems

The Crop Trust has worked with Bioversity International and the ITPGRFA to develop Genesys, an online portal bringing together information from gene banks worldwide. This userfriendly window into some of the more than seven millions samples of crop diversity stored around the world allows breeders, researchers and other users to search multiple gene bank databases on multiple criteria, and acquire genetic resources simply and efficiently.3 Bringing to life the fragility of this information and the seeds themselves was the retrieval of 128 boxes from The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2015, which were taken to the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). As a result of the conflict in Syria, ICARDA had moved in 2012 to its current base in Beirut, Lebanon and needed to retrieve the seeds they’d previously duplicated and deposited at Svalbard, in order to continue their research. The seeds, which included ancient varieties of wheat and durum that date back to the birth of agriculture, are gradually being returned to Svalbard.

Conserving forever: A legacy for all of humanity

In fact, The Crop Trust also supports the ultimate failsafe for these and other collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where copies of seeds from almost every country beneath the 56 | August 2017 - Milling and Grain

arctic permafrost are backed up against an uncertain future.

150 metres deep into a mountain halfway between the North Pole and Norway, unique to any other seed bank, Svalbard is an insurance policy for other seed banks where priority is given to storing copies of crops that are important for food production and sustainable agriculture. It is the final back up and the world’s largest collection of agrobiodiversity.

Constructed in 2008, the Crop Trust supports the Vault in partnership with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resources Center (NordGen), which is responsible for its management and operation.

With the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples, currently 930,000 crop accessions are being kept at minus 18 degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and sealed in specially designed four-ply foil packages that are placed in sealed boxes and stored on shelves inside the vault. The low temperature and moisture level ensures low metabolic activity, keeping the seeds viable for decades, centuries, or in some cases thousands of years. Theoretically, the permafrost will still ensure the continued viability of the seeds if the electricity supply should fail. Mr Lainoff affirmed, “We’re aiming for the Vault to be absent from human life so in other words, we will not need humans to make sure that the vault runs.”

Eventually, all seeds will lose the ability to germinate and die.

Before this happens, seeds are taken from the stored samples and regenerated. Fresh, new seed is then harvested and placed in storage, perpetuating the original variety.4

Crop Diversity Endowment

The Crop Trust was established by Bioversity International on behalf of the CGIAR and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to help build and fund this global system in a sustainable way. Through the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund, the Crop Trust provides long-term grants to safeguard collections of unique and valuable crop diversity held in gene banks around the world. Priority is given to 25 crops among those listed in Annex 1 of the ITPGRFA, of particular importance to the food security of least developed countries.

Thus far, approximately 95 percent of the endowment’s value has been provided by 14 national governments, whilst the remainder has been provided by the private sector. Gifts of any size are welcome to the Crop Diversity Endowment Fund to support this conservation work.5 It requires, on average, only $625 to conserve an accession in an international crop collection for everyone, forever, and what price is not worth paying for unfettered access to unique and often hidden traits found in particular crop varieties that will inevitably feed our future?

To conclude, safeguarding the biodiversity of our crops is a life-sustaining mission both for the present and for the future, and the Crop Trust, alongside the world’s seed banks, are taking utmost care to actualise it. At Milling and Grain, we are therefore delighted to announce that our new columnist will be three-time former Norwegian Minister and current Crop Trust Executive Director, Ms Marie Haga. www.croptrust.org

References

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Investing in Nigerian flour milling:

“The time is now”

The team at Milling and Grain attended the IGC Grains Conference held in the QEII Centre, London on June 6, 2017. Here we report the presentation given by Rotimi Fadipe, Supply Chain Director, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, on ‘The future of flour milling in Nigeria’.

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ome to over 180 million people1 and producing a nominal GDP of US$405 billion in 20162, Nigeria boasts the largest population and economy on the African continent.

Keynote speaker at IGC Grains Conference 2017 and Supply Chain Director for one of the five major flourmills in Nigeria, Mr Rotimi Fadipe began by saying, “There are more babies born in Nigeria than in the US and Western Europe combined and by 2050, we reckon there will be around 400 million Nigerians. This will make Nigeria the fourth largest population in the world, and that is exciting.”

Why is this exciting for the flour milling industry?

To begin with, the agricultural sector in Nigeria employs a staggering 70 percent of its population and the activities of flour millers alone are helping to drive down the cost of food and improve affordability. “Nigeria is the second largest producer of millet globally (million MT per annum) and the third largest producer of sorghum (6.5 million MT per annum)”, Mr Fadipe also told the audience.

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by Rhiannon White, Milling and Grain acquisition, with mills coming together or those that have been bought over by companies from Europe or Asia”, he reflected.

Currently, he added that there are five strong mills in Nigeria including Honeywell Flour Mills and Olam, and together these five control 80 percent of the market; they dominate it to the extent that “currently US$2 billion worth of food is produced by these mills every year, including flour pasta, noodles and ball foods (local foods).”

Mr Fadipe explained to the conference delegates attending from 50 countries that, “due to a high incidence of poverty in Nigeria, the average person spends about 65 percent of their income on food.”

Therefore, in terms of sales of packaged food and beverages, Mr Fadipe announced, “we expect this to grow at 6.8 percent per year going forward for the next five years and that a key driver of business in Nigeria is prices. Due to the poverty levels, people are working just to get the cheapest products around and that’s what is driving the wheat imports.”

Boosting local production

Globally, Nigeria imports US$1billion of wheat annually, however this was not always the case. In providing a brief history of the relationship between wheat and Nigeria, Mr Fadipe told the delegates that in 1987, there was a ban on wheat imports followed by the introduction of the ‘Accelerated Wheat Production Programme’ (AWPP) which helped to stimulate local production to as high as 500,000 tonnes per annum.

Subsequent to the high cost of locally produced wheat, the flour mills were not able to produce bread at a competitive price to other staples, hence demand fell and numerous young mills closed operations. He confirmed that after lifting the ban, wheat

F imports resumed whilst local wheat production volumes fell drastically to just about 50,000MT/annum.

Over the last one to two years, Mr Fadipe pointed to the fact that, “there have been a lot of government efforts to see how we can go back to develop wheat farming again including the launch of ‘The Green Alternative’ with the objective being to see grains that we can focus on as Nigerians to develop, encourage and create incentives for local farmers. They are also putting tariffs on levels of imports to discourage and make it more expensive.”

Today, wheat production is growing “so much so” that the flour millers of Nigeria have had to sign a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ with the farmers. The conditions of this agreement include all wheat produced by Nigerian farmers being bought at an agreed price.

As an example of demonstrating the areas in which the government has taken steps to support local farmers and to encourage the millers to support them, Mr Fadipe reminded the audience, “there is currently a total prohibition on the importation of spaghetti, noodles and cassava flour into Nigeria.”

He added that the farmers are also encouraged to develop different varieties of wheat, which are suited to local climates.

EU and Black Sea take over from US and Canada

Nigeria remains one of the largest importers of wheat annually and over the last decade, “the imports have grown by 30 percent.”

Although, Mr Fadipe drew the delegates’ attention to the fact that, “imports from the US have decreased so much by about 50 percent between 2011-2015 because people are looking at wheat origins that are cheaper, so you can see that we are favoring the Black Sea because prices drive decisions.”

He stated that in the last three years, “we have experienced

some serious economic challenges as a country so it has been very expensive bringing in products from developed countries, and that wheat quality from the Black Sea has improved, with cheaper shipping rates too. The Federal Government of Nigeria has done a lot to encourage importation from some of these countries because apart from the product price, you also have to apply the duty rate so it makes it more difficult. So even though the Nigerian import market for wheat is growing, the dominance of imports from the US and Canada have clearly been taken over

by The EU and Black Sea origin.”

What tomorrow may bring

Mr Fadipe presented that there are likely to be more mergers and acquisitions leading to fewer players whilst there will also be entry of foreign players from Asia and Europe with huge capital flow. He added that there would be “a lot of backward integration as well”.

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F In terms of the diversification of grains, “Nigerian mills are looking at different grains that can come into being, with the invention of products that the locals will be willing to consume.”

Some of these are coming through millets and sorghum so he says, “that there will be an increase in local sourcing of grains, especially if the existing gap between origins widens.”

Mr Fadipe illustrated a picture of prosperity, “As we speak, we have limited wheat products, so there is room for a lot of development of new products. There will be plenty of opportunity for people with great ideas to support production, processing and vision of these products. Due to the strength of Nigeria’s economy and location with many seaports, we think it is a great place to serve the western region of Africa.”

He continued, “If foreign players are willing to bring a lot of capital, they will make a lot of money. Some of our mills are producing 70-80 percent capacity right now.” So what are the implications? “We need a lot of products that can come out of wheat and when investors come to develop these, the Nigerian government is willing to support them and the Nigerian system is very conducive to accept such individuals. There is a lot of opportunity for traders, suppliers, and data and risk managers to help millers in Nigeria. For example, in a bid to encourage manufacturing, the government has classified the flour milling industry uniquely so that any equipment imported is duty free.”

Nigerian grains market: A warm welcome to the future

Mr Fadipe concluded, “The outlook is very positive given the rising population and its exciting demographic” – a whopping 63 percent are below the age of 25. This, combined with a stable growing economy, tells us that there is more than a market for

tomorrow. In terms of capital consumption of wheat, Mr Fadipe asserted, “we are just about one of the lowest you can talk about at 23kg per individual compared to peer African countries like Egypt (207kg) or South Africa (62kg), which means that more and more wheat will be coming from less expensive sources.”

In days to come, he suggested “we are looking at smaller sizes of wheat flour than the current 50kg bags so wheat flour will increasingly be applied in higher margin branded fast-moving consumer products.” Indeed he added “the Nigerian market is moving from B2B to B2C in order to address the consumer directly” and that we should expect to see further backward integration to increase product portfolio beyond wheat-based products.

Without sidestepping the feed industry, Mr Fadipe acknowledged, “there is also a growing demand for more protein sources so people likewise want to develop this industry.”

To conclude, there are many ways of looking at the future of Nigerian milling and all of them are pointing in one direction.

Given its rapid population growth and urbanisation, combined with a large emerging middle-class who will experience a rising disposable income, spread on top of a diverse agricultural playground; the economic, technological and consumer-market potential is extraordinary.

Leaving his audience inspired, Mr Fadipe declared, “The time to make strategic partnerships is now, and the next place to do so is in Nigeria.”

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by Carina Schieder, Biomin Holding GmbH, and Pia Gottschalk, Biomin Research Center s phytogenic feed additives (PFAs) become increasingly accepted by the feed and livestock industries, there is greater scrutiny as to whether products can fulfill the expected benefits. One key to success is product design that ensures the plant-based bioactive compounds are delivered where they are needed to be most effective, which requires the right formulation and encapsulation.

Biomin has developed a proprietary encapsulation technology for essential oils and phytogenic active compounds, the Biomin® Duplex Capsule, and an advanced formulation of Digestarom® DC, which represents a new approach to phytogenics, one that aims to provide a superior solution in animal feeds.

Why encapsulation matters

In the food and feed industry, encapsulation commonly serves to protect flavors from oxidation, to increase a product’s shelf life and to provide controlled release of substances over a period of time.

While numerous phytogenic compounds are known to have benefits for feed and livestock, various phytogenic compounds exert different properties. Essential oils and their active compounds in particular are highly volatile and heat sensitive—less than ideal characteristics in the context of modern feed production and pelleting.

The challenge is to make sure that substances that have an insufficient shelf life, or be broken down in the digestive tract before they can exert their biological active properties on animals, are instead delivered where they are needed to have a positive effect.

Breakthrough encapsulation technology

To improve the applicability of essential oils and their active compounds in feed, Biomin developed a unique method of microencapsulation (a term for particles with a diameter between 1 and 1000 microns). The Biomin® Duplex Capsule combines two encapsulation techniques — matrix and core-shell encapsulation.

With core-shell encapsulation, a protective coat surrounds a core comprising essential oils and active compounds, providing better product stability and ensuring targeted release further along in the gastrointestinal tract. In Digestarom® DC, the coat and core contain different essential oils for appetising and gut modulation modules, respectively. Both layers are matrix encapsulated, meaning that the active compounds are finely dispersed in a solidified matrix, which provides slow, controlled release.

Biomin proprietary encapsulation technology results in double capsules with a uniform and narrow size distribution ranging from 120 to 500 microns, allowing for more homogeneous distribution of active compounds in Digestarom® DC and eventually in the feed, meaning continuous delivery of active substances in the animals.

In addition, the particles have a very high essential oil content compared to other commercially available products. Furthermore, the Biomin® Duplex Capsule structure gives Digestarom® DC enhanced pelleting stability over 90°C.

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F flavoring substances, e.g. menthol, etc., that enhance palatability and support feed intake. These plant compounds stimulate endogenous secretions such as saliva, bile and mucus to support better digestibility, which is a key reason that many feed and livestock professionals use phytogenic feed additives.

Gut microbiota modulation

In the digestive tract, the core releases its gut microbiota modulating contents, derived from oregano, thyme and caraway oil. The application of these encapsulated essential oils has been shown to improve performance and apparent ileal digestibility in broilers and piglets. Several studies have shown that Digestarom® increases villi height in broilers, which is associated with better nutrient absorption. Furthermore, the results of a scientific study suggest the establishment of beneficial gut microbiota in PFA-fed birds.

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Omega-3

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New algal oil derived from natural marine algae Evonik and DSM recently announced to establish a joint venture for omega-3 fatty acid products from natural marine algae for animal nutrition. This breakthrough innovation will, for the first time, enable the production of omega-3 fatty acids for animal nutrition without using fish oil from wild caught fish, a finite resource.

Milling and Grain magazine caught up with Dr Christoph Kobler from Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH and Dr David Nickell from DSM Nutritional Products Ltd to find out more about this ground breaking idea.

Christoph Kobler is Head of Product Line Sustainable Healthy Nutrition at Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from University of Stuttgart.

David Nickell is Vice President for Global Marketing & Business Development, Animal Nutrition and Health at DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. He received a PhD in Aquaculture from University of Stirling.

Can you give the readers an overview of what your breakthrough is?

Kobler: We are the first to offer a liquid, non fish-based alternative source of long chain omega-3fatty acids. By the help of natural marine algae, we produce an algal oil that contains a natural balance of both essential omega-3-fatty acids EPA and DHA – a true market first. Also, the exceptionally high concentration of active ingredients at greater than 50 percent, increases the flexibility in feed formulation.

Nickell: Furthermore, our new algal oil can be

applied in feed production in the same way as fish oil. That means feed and pet food producers can easily introduce it in the process. To meet the increasing demand for omega-3-fatty acids in animal nutrition, we will manufacture at an industrial scale. The initial annual production capacity will meet roughly 15 percent of the total current annual demand for EPA and DHA by the salmon aquaculture industry.

What prompted the joint venture?

Nickell: The success was only possible thanks to

the complementary competencies that both of our two companies bring to the collaboration. DSM has expertise in the cultivation of marine organisms including algae whilst Evonik’s focus has been on developing industrial biotechnology processes and operating at large-scales. Our teamwork across companies, countries, and cultures is fantastic and

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we consider our joint venture the perfect way of collaborating.

Can you give me an overview of the development process with regard to the time taken and the testing criteria?

Kobler: Our joint development agreement

signed in 2015 was a starting point for very intensive work on the algae strain as well as on the production process. We gained the micro algae “Schizochytrium” from the marine environment. It is a heterotrophic organism producing both EPA and DHA and therefore particularly suitable for largescale production processes, as it does not depend on sunlight, for instance.

What is the main benefit to the aquaculture industry?

Nickell: Our algal oil enables the aquaculture

industry to keep up with the increasing demand for EPA and DHA. As a non-fish source of these nutrients the algal oil is vital for further growth of the industry.

It solves the problem of an already looming gap between the supply and demand of EPA and DHA, which currently is primarily sourced from fish oil. In light of this, we expect our algal oil to play a role in curbing overfishing and helping aquaculture grow in a more sustainable way. For the first time, chances are good that the fish-in-fish-out ratio in the aquaculture business eventually reaches zero.

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Kobler: We are in dialogue with various key stakeholders all

along the value chain from fish feed producers, fish farmers to retailers. Some of them are already undertaking pilot trials to test our product in practice. There is more collaboration to follow, as we are in the midst of negotiations with several key customers interested in the product. Also, since our announcement on the 8th of March and our presence at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen, the positive response has been overwhelming.

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What are some of the challenges that you have overcome, both in development and production?

Nickell: There were several challenges we had to master just

like in any development process. For instance, it was very difficult to turn algal biomass into highly concentrated oil. Also, it was necessary to optimise fermentation conditions to maximise the yield of EPA and DHA and in this respect; up scaling from a research environment to a commercial scale had been a challenge.

Furthermore, we have designed a very sustainable process, because biomass surplus from the oil production is a promising product for other sorts of feed, such as that used for beef cattle.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our new algal oil can be applied in feed production in the same way as fish oil.

That means feed and pet food producers can easily introduce it in the process" Can you tell me a little bit about the future plans for the innovation?

Kobler: Currently, the establishing of the joint venture is subject

to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

We plan to build a production facility for our algal oil coming on stream in 2019. The new facility will then allow for a commercial scale. Meanwhile, customers will be able to receive sizeable quantities of the product for pilot production. These quantities are currently being produced at the DSM site in Kingstree, United States.

Are there any applications for this outside of the industry, which can be applied to human health for instance?

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Nickell: Aquaculture and here especially farmed salmon, trout,

and shrimp is our most important target market. Also, pets utilise significant amounts of omega-3-fatty acids in their diet, which makes pet food another focus market for us. Moreover, we are developing applications for other aquatic and terrestrial animal species. The scope of our joint venture, however, entirely comprises animal nutrition.

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A PROTEIN FOR OUR FUTURE Empyreal 75 Made of fire and a world apart’

by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, International Aquafeed

Our sister publication, International Aquafeed magazine was invited to tour the production facility for a unique aquaculture protein product, at the remarkable Cargill production plant in Blair, Nebraska, USA.

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hat is in a name? - Take Empyreal® for example. Was it introduced into our consciousness simply to brand a new product coming onto the market and required a catchy new name? No, there appears to be more to it than that, a lot more to it.

‘Empyreal’ carries the meaning, in both Greek and Latin, ‘of the highest heaven’ or ‘the celestial, sublime or exalted.’ It is ‘of the sky’ or ‘of the heaven’ and is ‘made of pure fire’!

An impressive meaning to be given to a product in our industry!

But can any product live up to such formidable claims or association, you may ask? Surprisingly, we at International Aquafeed and our sister publication Milling and Grain, think it can and will.

The product is a revolutionary vegetable protein.

Protein is the building block of human civilization itself. Without protein and the right kind of proteins in their amino acid profiles, we would not have achieved our current intelligence nor status within our small galaxy, nor can we expect to maintain that position over time without increasing the supply of the highest-quality proteins for our domesticated livestock and fish production and in turn ourselves.

Empyreal® 75 carries the meaning behind the word, and is the brand name for this ‘new’ protein product that is at last being produced in volume, efficiently and economically and is finding growing demand within the global aquafeed processing industry and is creating demand and application in intensive livestock production systems.

As it says on the label, this product has a 75 percent, highly digestive protein content with an attractive amino acid profile that is made from that humble maize or corn kernel that in its natural stage contains just eight percent protein.

Producing a concentrated protein from maize or a corn-gluten meal is not new, but never at the concentration above 75 percent that is being achieved today.

The technology behind the processing - “Is staggering”

Milling and Grain and International Aquafeed magazines were given a unique opportunity to tour the production facility manufacturing this unique product at the massive Cargill production plant in Blair, Nebraska, USA; which is located right at the western edge of the corn belt and is adjacent to the Union-Pacific Railroad, the Missouri River and US Highway 30.

From across the valley the plant could be mistaken for a traditional chemical plant and consisting of silver silos, glinting pipework and masses of stainlesssteel buildings. There is a regular convoy of trucks entering and leaving the site.

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Empyreal 75 in its raw state on the production line. Jered Anderson, the project and optimisation manager at the plant shows the production process.

Cargill’s Blair plant is sited on 250ha in an attractive, farming environment with hardly another building in sight.

We were hosted around the plant, referred to as a ‘campus’, by the company’s Product Line team headed by Jered Anderson, who has overall responsibility for the production of ‘Empyreal 75’.

Included in our group were Claudio Paredes, global aquaculture sales director, Michael Klapperich, director of sales in North America and responsible for Empyreal product distribution and Eric Bell, AVP product line manager from Cargill Starches and Sweeteners North America.

‘Empyreal 75’ is one of many products from this plant, with additional products produced by a number of independent and joint-venture companies operating from the ‘campus’ site, and

Trucks transport huge quantities of corn from the local area to supply Cargill’s Blair production plant to produce a revolutionary highprotein Empyreal protein.

utilising the infrastructure and the various products of the corn milling process.

Plant construction started in 1992 and started grinding corn in 1995. With over a billion dollars invested in this site so far, it is one of Cargill’s largest investments, which has had various expansions over the past 20 years.

Each day the plant consumes thousands of tonnes of corn to manufacture various products. It operates 24-hours per day for 365 days a year. It employs 550 permanent staff and almost 400 on-site contractors. It has a dedicated team of pipe fitters, electricians and mechanics and other services contracted to maintain production and resolve issues should they arise.

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F The operation

Cargill has hundreds of trucks coming into the facility each day unloading locally sourced corn from the farmer, which is crucial to keep the non-stop facility running at full capacity.

There are five main elements that are used in the refining process of corn, four of these are within the kernel itself: starch (63%), protein (8%), fibre (10%), and germ (4%). Moisture (15%) is needed to soften and separate the kernel into these four parts. In its simplistic format, corn is steeped, ground, separated and washed. It takes 25 incoming trucks to fill one of the ‘tanks’ used in production and to which water and SO2 are added to break down the corn kernels in the initial step.

Mr Anderson explained, “Historically, this type of corn wet milling process would extract and separate the corn starch and merchandise the rest.”

However, the core business for the value added feed ingredients is within the valuable protein and fibre fractions of corn and these are primarily used for the Empyreal® and Sweet Bran® products that constitute the company’s animal feed division within Starches & Sweeteners North America.

Mr Anderson expanded, “The starch and protein are found in the inner portion of the corn kernel and have a distinctive yellowish coloring. The outside is the bran portion and then there is the germ, which is found in the tip or cap of the corn. This gives a lot of starch and very little of the protein and germ in comparison, but the germ and protein are the most highly valued fractions on a per unit basis.”

In brief, the grain is steeped and then moved to the grinding section where the germ, fibre, starch and protein are all separated in various ways which includes the use of centrifuges.

The first stage of grinding

The first stage of grinding and the technique utilised is revolutionary.

There are two sets of plates that face opposing ways. The corn kernel drops through and is ground and broken to extract the germ. The germ is extracted via a three-stage milling process.

The third stage grinds to a fine mixture where the fibre can be completely removed.

Corn milling has exactly the same steps, but it is washed after separation, de-watered and then dried.

Post-milling there is a seven-stage screening process that further separates fibre from the starch and protein fractions. Cargill utilises large screens that act like sieves.

At the first, second, third and fourth stage, there are large gaps in the screen, which get progressively smaller. This allows more of the bran to be caught and less of the protein and starch.

Mr Anderson illuminated on the process, “If you look at your first stage that is your dirtiest fibre, the seventh stage is your cleanest fibre and then with the counter current flow, the fibre gets cleaner as it goes one way, which the starch and protein is more concentrated in the opposite direction.”

He continues, “It is vital at this stage the separation of fibre from starch and the protein is done correctly, as this affects the amount of protein that can be recovered. But further processing the starch and protein is critical to the outcome of ‘Empyreal 75’.”

Adding, “We fail if we send too much protein with the starch and we fail if we leave too much starch in the protein, which will downgrade both products.”

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getting levels down to 0.3-0.35 percent.

Coping with such a high-quality, high-valued product this product has to be handled extremely carefully.

It is not bagged on site, but dispatched in bulk by railcar for other facilities across the country for packaging and further distribution. Three or four days of output can be held on site however; demand ensures that product does not need to be stored for long. One single railcar holds approximately 100 tonnes and multiple railcars can be shipped at a time.

Mr Anderson says great attention is paid to the railcar container, specifically designed by the company for the purpose of moving product. They are cleaned, inspected and inspected again before use and departure.

“There’s a pre-load and a post-load inspection” he explains saying that the cars are automatically loaded and closed hermetically to avoid contamination. Each shipment has samples taken and analysed for protein, moisture, fat and a number of mycotoxins prior to dispatch.

Animal and human food products

Fibre is processed into ‘Sweet Bran’ for cattle feeds with other ingredients added such as milled solubles to lift the nutritional value of the product.

When asked about the use of the fibre for Sweet Bran cattle feed, we were informed that once the germ and fibre is separated, just the starch and protein is left. If there is too much protein with the starch, it means the Empyreal formula is wrong, and the same goes for Sweet Bran.

The centrifuges previously mentioned can pump 700 gallons per minute of material processed in a very rapid pace and the speed or flow of the material can be adjusted by a simple value.

The result is, speeds of around 3000rpm let the lighter material rise to the top and the denser raw materials fall to the bottom.

This works in conjunction with clarification, which is another centrifugal force, but with a slightly different configuration.

Clarification separates just the water from the mixture and moves the consistency of the protein from five to 14 percent solid. At this stage there is still 25 percent starch content. At the end of the process, we were told that, “there’s only about 0.3 percent ratio of protein left to starch, and that’s where we will be sending it to be turned into the dextrose or high fructose corn syrup.”

Also from the starch by-product high fructose corn syrup, fuelgrade ethanol, dextrose and fermented products such as lactic acids and low calorie sweeteners are produced and supplied to other partners on the campus for processing into products such as Lysine.

Cargill’s diversification on the site has given rise to new products.

Together with its joint venture partner for example, Cargill is also making corn-based biopolymers or plastics on the site.

Mr Anderson noted that, “Cargill’s model for its campus is plug-and-play. We supply all the utilities such as water, water treatment, chemical handling, heating and electricity, etc., to those companies joining us.”

For example the site uses and treats, and returns 13 million gallons of water per day to the Missouri river, more than twice the amount the local community of Blair uses and the same as the city of Omaha.

Expanding he commented, “The focus is on short supply chains, the efficient utilisation of natural resources such as the adoption of heat exchanges in the production process which has reduced the consumption of energy and results in more value to its customers and helps meet the output goals that have to be met by the company.”

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Cargill started out as a small grain handler in 1865 and were based in Conover, Iowa. The company came from modest, family beginnings with just one elevator, but soon expanded to more advanced equipment, and in greater quantity, which allowed a complete solution from sourcing grain, handling and of course, processing.

The expansion was largely due to the use of the railroads, all of which had grain elevators.

It was reported that, “A lot of the initial expansion of Cargill followed the railroads in the early days so essentially wherever there was a railroad, there was typically a grain elevator.”

These were an efficient way of transporting grains and goods across the United States and gave Cargill a foothold for their fledgling business.

Now in 2017, Cargill has 150,000 employees worldwide and have diversified their business to allow for further expansion. It currently has nine corn refining facilities across the USA with multiple locations across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

Cargill Starches & Sweeteners North America specific to the Empyreal product has a number of third-party partners who load and unload at various sites including Seattle, Kansas City and New Orleans, along with a fleet of railcars and trucks to move large volumes.

After touring this leading-edge facility, it became apparent that Cargill is committed to helping its customers feed a growing world by providing innovative animal nutrition solutions like Empyreal 75.

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Joint and individual responsibility for safe feed

by Johan den Hartog, Managing Director of GMP+ International

o matter how serious an individual company is about its responsibility, safe feed can never be the result of the efforts of a single party. The weight of safe feed rests on the shoulders of all links in the chain.

Issues regarding own responsibility and (deflecting) blame are as old as humanity itself. The holy books of the three great monotheistic religions all contain the famous story of Adam and Eve. When Adam took a bite of the forbidden fruit in paradise, he blamed Eve for it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; after all she had eaten it first and had given him the fruit. Eve, in turn, pointed the accusing finger to the devious snake that had seduced her.

According to the tradition, God did not accept these apologies: it was the responsibility of Adam and Eve to not eat from the tree and they could not blame anyone else for it.

That wisdom is still valid today. It is not hard to see the similarities with an integral chain approach for the production of safe feed: the mistakes of one can affect the other, but that never relieves the latter party of its own responsibility for the choices it makes.

Too late

The chain is as strong as its weakest link. That is why feed safety assurance should not only be focused on individual companies, but on the chain as a whole. Companies can seek certification for this through independent assessment. Such an approach means, in reality, that companies that are certified for safe feed can only purchase products and services from suppliers that are (equivalently) certified as well.

Fairly quickly after the GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance (GMP+ FSA) certification was established we saw the importance of involving the entire chain in the pursuit of safe feed. Initially (19921999), the quality requirements and standards only applied to the factory where the compound feed was produced.

But no matter how strictly the company adhered to the rules, the factory always had to deal with supplied ingredients. If there was something wrong with it, the requirements and standards of

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F the factory could not resolve that anymore; it would simply be too late for that. So, in 1999, the decision was made to require a GMP+ FSA-certificate from suppliers as well.

Later, this was further expanded into other parties in the chain, such as transporters, intermediaries and storage companies.

Own responsibility

It became clear that every company in the chain has to take responsibility for the assurance of the safety of feed products. Evading or running away from these responsibilities is unacceptable. A GMP+ FSA certificate is granted after an audit by an independent certification body approved by GMP+ International.

Subsequently, they are audited annually. This work method expressly does not mean that suppliers only have to wave their certificate and can then deliver their products or render their services without any questions. The chain approach lays a firm and important foundation for safe feed: it guarantees to a large degree that all links in the chain assure the quality of feed and services in a uniform and transparent manner (HACCP, prerequisites, system requirements and product limits). But due to the independent certification, the buyer also takes its responsibility.

The GMP+ FSA certification stipulates that suppliers are assessed and that the accepted batches are evaluated periodically. These are the so-called supplier assessments, also referred to as second party audits. It does not serve to replace the certification audit (third party audit), just as the certification audit does not serve to replace the supplier assessment they are two independent elements that jointly bring the production of safe feed a big step closer.

Shared interest

In essence, supplier assessments mean that information is exchanged and that insight is gained into the quality assessment applied by the supplier. This supplier assessment underlines the importance of the responsibility of every link in the chain.

The unique chain approach used by GMP+ International brings the better of two worlds together: individual and joint responsibility. Every link in the chain must make effort for the shared interest of feed safety.

When all parties together adhere to the limits and applicable law and legislation, we, the feed sector, contribute to safe feed, sustainability and greater trust among the end customers.

Possibility of gatekeeper options

The requirement to buy from GMP+ FSA certified suppliers applies to feed (feed additives, compound feed and premixtures) and services (transport, storage and transshipment and laboratory work). For certain products and services it has proven impossible to demand GMP+ FSA (or equivalent) certification. For these situations, the gatekeeper option is a possibility.

In those cases, the buying or hiring GMP+ FSA participant adopts the responsibility of the supplier. www.gmpplus.org

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Measuring protein quality using infrared

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by Dr Antony Hartell, NIR Product Manager, Rapid Analysis

rotein quality is an important parameter for the assessment of milling wheat. The ability of dough to maintain its shape during the baking process is critical and depends on gluten strength, which in turn relates to protein quality. Protein quality falls with wheat milled from grains of lower specific weights. Unfortunately, this is difficult to pick up with routine testing, as even when protein quality falls the overall apparent protein level can appear near constant. This is a consequence of a larger contribution from bran protein, which could go undetected when measurements of protein content only are relied upon.

At grain intake, most flourmills typically use near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and other laboratory techniques to inspect grain and measure parameters such as protein level, moisture, specific weight, and Hagberg Falling number.

Unfortunately, no rapid analysis technique exists to measure protein quality. The only way to assess this parameter is to mill the grain and then use the flour to produce test bakes. This is a time consuming activity.

NIR is a well-established rapid analytical technique used to assess wheat quality since the 1970s. Millions of samples each year are analysed by NIR with many different instruments available to those involved in the milling and grain industries. NIR is attractive due to the ease of use and lack of sample preparation. No chemicals are required and modern spectrometers come supplied with ready-touse calibrations that only require minimal set up times.

Basic NIR instruments provide acceptable predictions for protein and moisture content only. At the opposite end of the scale, advanced NIR systems are able to predict not only compositional parameters but also can predict rheological parameters and use advance statistical methods to classify wheat and flour by type. Hardware has been developed that has taken NIR out of the lab and placed it firmly at the production line; either as a robust version of the lab instrument (e.g. BUCHI NIRMaster) or mounted directly to the production line as with 72 | August 2017 - Milling and Grain

"At grain intake, most flourmills typically use near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and other laboratory techniques to inspect grain and measure parameters such as protein level, moisture, specific weight, and Hagberg Falling number"

BUCHI NIR-Online range of sensors and accessories.

BUCHI Labortechnik AG supply ready-to-use NIR packages designed around the specific needs of the milling and bakery industry. The packages contain all of the hardware, software, calibrations and support packages needed to get started with NIR. Users are able to tailor the software to meet their specific needs as the software has an open structure. As the end-user confidence increases, they are able also able to manipulate data and calibrations increasing the versatility of the instrument.

In addition, data entry and sample acquisition screens can be customised. Well-developed pre-determined calibrations are available to select, not only traditional chemical parameters such as moisture, protein and ash but also farinographic and alveographic rheological parameters including, for example, baking absorption, extensibility and starch damage.

Increasing demands are placed on the hardware as the complexity of the NIR prediction increases. In particular, the ability to acquire accurate spectra with high levels of repeatability that completely cover the full NIR spectral range is a key requirement when predicting rheological parameters.

Additionally, the instrument must not be sensitive to environmental changes such as temperature and humidity otherwise measurements can appear to drift. Modern spectrometers are much more robust than those of old and operate well in many different environments.

Once a solid hardware platform and robust calibration are established, NIR can provide much more than just moisture and protein measurement and because of this, it is likely that further measurements could also be developed, including protein quality.

One of the first steps to develop a new NIR calibration is to define a robust reference technique. Once this has been selected, samples are presented to the spectrometer and the reference (Laboratory) values of each of these samples determined. The calibration is developed from these two sets of data. It is clear that in order to develop NIR, as a rapid analysis tool specifically for protein quality, the reference analysis method needs to be established. Currently this is the key issue preventing the development of this analysis and needs addressing by the industry at large.

In summary, the milling and grain industry requires a rapid method to measure protein quality and the well-established method of NIR is a promising candidate. Previous work with NIR shows that rheological parameters can be determined, in addition to chemical measurements, hinting at the potential of NIR as a rapid measurement method for protein quality.

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The new Bühler process for manufacturing nixtamal corn flour for tortillas and tortilla chips

by Alexandra Londoño Baderschneider, Product Manager, Bühler

inety percent less water, no investment in wastewater treatment, higher yield, lower maintenance and a high degree of automation: the new Bühler process for manufacturing nixtamal corn flour for tortillas and tortilla chips meets the highest expectations.

Tortillas and tortilla chips made from nixtamal corn flour are a firm feature on the menu in all Central American countries.

Already the Aztecs made and ate corn tortillas. It is hard to imagine the American cuisine nowadays without them. In North and Central America, more than 13 million tonnes of corn are processed each year to produce nixtamal corn flour.

Corn tortillas have also conquered eating habits in other regions of the world. Tortilla chips have actually made their mark throughout the world; currently more than 1.3 million tonnes are consumed worldwide.

Nixtamal

Corn was originally cooked on a fire. In Central America, ash was also added to the corn when cooking as a flavor carrier.

The ash provided the special flavor, which is also characteristic of tortillas and tortilla chips made of nixtamal corn flour today. The nixtamal description for the new Bühler process for manufacturing nixtamal corn flour derives from the two Aztec words ‘nixt’ and ‘damalli’ or ‘ash’ and ‘cooked corn’.

Energy-intensive

Corn tortillas and tortilla chips are made from specially treated nixtamal corn flour. In traditional production the corn is cooked for several hours in water and burnt lime is added before grinding.

The nixtamal corn flour treated in this way gives the finished tortillas and tortilla chips their typical lime flavor.

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contaminates this large volume of cooking water, which requires expensive reprocessing equipment to clean the wastewater.

Environmentally friendly solution sought

In 2010, Bühler began to develop an environmentally friendly manufacturing process for nixtamal corn flour for tortillas. In the new process, the corn is no longer cooked but simply steamed. The “Prime Masa Nixtamal” process therefore uses around 90 per cent less water. Nor is any wastewater produced in this way, which makes expensive reprocessing equipment superfluous. Nevertheless, the Prime Masa process enables the production of tortilla flour with its typical flavor, as well as high quality and yield.

The nixtamal process

The Bühler process for the environmentally friendly production of tortilla flour is similar to that for manufacturing cereal flakes.

The corn kernels are cleaned after intake. The corn kernels are conditioned for preparation. To do this, the corn grits are moistened with limewater and finally steamed in the steamer that is central to the nixtamal process stage. After steaming, the corn grits are flaked on the flaking roller mill, then cooled and dried.

The resulting corn flakes are finally ground into fine nixtamal corn flour, which is enriched accordingly with iron, vitamins or other ingredients as required by the consumer. This is then made into dough by adding water, to be processed into tortillas and tortilla chips.

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The advantages of the new Bühler process for manufacturing tortilla flour are obvious. Instead of 1500 litres of water to process 1000 kilograms of corn into nixtamalised corn flour, only 150 litres are required. The steaming process is also shorter than the traditional cooking process, which in turn leads to energy savings.

The greatest advantage of Bühler’s nixtamal process is that wastewater is eliminated. No wastewater means there is no need to build and ultimately maintain wastewater-cleaning equipment.

Comparing the equipment and operating costs for traditional tortilla flour equipment with production plant according to the Prime Masa Nixtamal concept also represents a clear financial advantage for this process innovation. The investment costs are similar, but the operating costs for the nixtamal equipment are considerably lower (factor of 0.7) than for a traditional plant.

The new process has other benefits besides the savings. The process runs very reliably and leads to higher flour yield as well as consistent flour quality at a high level.

The flavor is unchanged

The most important factor, however, is that the new process does not have any effect on the flavor of the tortilla and the chips.

Numerous tests and tastings with specialists and consumers have shown a uniform result: no difference from tortillas made from traditionally produced nixtamal corn flour can be identified.

This year, the first large plant becomes operational in the USA. Other providers of tortilla flour have also become aware of the new Bühler process and have already successfully carried out tests in the Bühler Application Center. A few customers from North America have also indicated their interest in further plants being built.

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EXPLOSION SAFETY FOR MILLS

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by Sandra Fuchs, REMBEÂŽ GmbH Safety + Control, Germany

t is in the nature of a mill to have metallic parts that collide with one another at high speed, so that ignition sources are highly probable. Again, this is a closed container with a high concentration of dust, which may include oxygen, making an explosion extremely likely.

Many mill manufacturers therefore offer their machinery in a design that is resistant to explosion pressure (up to 10 bar). Depending on the size of the mill, this may be very expensive for the operator. Alternatives would be flameless venting solution.

In either case a decoupler should be attached both above and below the mill.

One particularly smart solution for the air intake of the mill is to install a Q-Rohr LF. This is a modified version of the Q-Rohr, well known in flameless venting, which does not contain the explosion vent that is normally included. As a result, it is possible to aspirate air under normal operation, and the air can then be fed through the stainless steel mesh filter without any trouble.

If an explosion occurs, this filter removes the resulting heat and protects the environment from the flames and the explosion pressure.

Explosion isolation

In a production facility, pipelines always connect the individual parts of the plant. The purpose of explosion isolation is to ensure

Figure 1a and 1b: Quench valves, open and closed

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Figure 2: Flameless explosion suppression by the Q-Rohr

that the pressure and the flames cannot propagate and so that any adjoining parts of the plant are protected. A distinction is made between active and passive isolation systems.

An active system is alerted to an explosion at an early stage, when an explosion begins to develop. This is done through sensors or detectors that register the rise in pressure or the formation of flames and respond by activating the relevant isolator, e.g. a quench valve.

Passive isolation, on the other hand, responds purely mechanically to the spreading or loss of pressure, on account of its structural characteristics.

This also applies to explosion valves. Under normal operation, an explosion valve in a pipeline is kept open by the available flow. When an explosion occurs, the valve is closed by the spreading of the pressure front, thus effectively prevents the pressure and the flames from propagating any further.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is in the nature of a mill to have metallic parts that collide with one another at high speed, so that ignition sources are highly probable.

Again, this is a closed container with a high concentration of dust, which may include oxygen, making an explosion extremely likely" Flameless venting

If a plant is situated within a building, however, explosion vents are not suitable for pressure relief purposes, as the safety area around them is inadequate to relieve the emerging dust and flames. Such an arrangement would pose an enormous safety risk to humans and machinery. This problem is often solved through the use of vent ducts, which channel the spread of an explosion to the outside. The disadvantage, however, is that it prevents any processoptimised plant design and is usually very expensive: the longer the distance between an explosion and its source, the higher the pressure which the vent duct and the plant need to withstand. This results in higher (production) costs for the vent duct.

Flameless venting, on the other hand, is an option that is economical and effective. Different manufacturers use different technologies in flameless venting.

Let us have a look at one particular technology at this point. The special mesh filter that is used in a Q-Box or Q-Rohr efficiently cools down any flames, preventing both flames and pressure from emerging and ensures particulate retention.

The typical increase in pressure and noise that accompanies an explosion within a building is reduced to an almost imperceptible minimum, thus protecting both humans and machinery. In addition to the special stainless steel mesh filter, the Q-Rohr and Q-Box each have an explosion vent with an integrated signaling system that alerts the process control system when the explosion vent has opened.

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RICE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY THAT SATISFIES BOTH DELICIOUSNESS AND HIGH FUNCTIONALITY

by Dr.Hidenori Mizuno and Mr Masafumi Haramoto, Satake Corporation, Japan

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n recent years, it has been gradually proven that functional ingredients derived from rice exhibit various kinds of functionality.

Most notably, GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) is known to contain curative properties against lifestyle-related diseases, menopausal symptoms, high-blood pressure and burdens of stress. Sprouted brown rice is the representative of GABA-enriched rice.

As many Japanese people have been familiar with milled white rice, these were the reason that sprouted brown rice did not become part of the regular Japanese diet. Therefore consumption of sprouted rice has continued to grow at a sluggish pace.

In the context, the “Rice processing technology that satisfies both deliciousness and high functionality” was established. It makes it possible to enrich white rice or rinse-free rice with GABA on par with that of sprouted brown rice.

Functional ingredients of brown rice

Both bran and embryos, which are removed from rice during milling, have nutritional components and functional ingredients.

Moreover, as presented above, it has been revealed that each functional ingredient increases in the sprouting of brown rice by various actions of enzymes.

We list functional ingredients and those effects that were confirmed in Table 1.

Satake have developed both enriching technology and equipment to include a functional ingredient – GABA into rice with good taste and

texture at similar milling yields to normal brown rice (Figure 2).

Also, we have solved the weak points of the conventional process (water soaking, micro hydrolysis): lengthy process time, frequent occurrence of brown rice cracks from rapid absorption of water, decrease of milling yield associated with such, requirement of wastewater treatment and steaming process before drying to prevent bacteria multiplication and to pregelatinise (to stop germination and deativate the germination enzyme).

Table 2 indicates an example that several varieties got GABA enriched by an actual machine (0.8 tph type). Each variety has over 10mg/100g d.b. of GABA on GABA rinsefree rice condition. The conversion rate from glutamic acid to GABA is average 78.6 percent and the GABA transfer rate from germ to endosperm is on average 68.6 percent.

Generally, normal white rice contains one to two mg/100g d.b. so it has approximately five to 10 times of GABA comparing with normal white rice.

Figure 1: Moist Air heating and humidifying method – an overview of the new manufacturing process and enriching equipment of GABA rinse-free rice

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The Complexity of Balancing Sanitary Drying and Efficiency

In addition, the number of viable bacteria is decreased from the 1.0 x 105 (cfu/g) - which brown rice has, to 1.0 x 102 thanks to a moist air heating and humidifying process, so a sterilsation effect is expected.

Five flavours of the normal rinse-free rice processed from the same material (lshikawa-produced Koshihikari in 2013) were compared by the AISSY taste sensor, the result is shown on Table 3. GABA rinse-free rice compared by the Satake cooked rice taste analyser (model: STA1A).

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Table 1: Functional ingredients contained in rice and those effects Functional ingredients GABA

Inositol

Effects Inhibition of blood pressure elevation Inhibition of increase of neutral fat Relief of menopausal symptoms Relief of an autonomic ataxia Prevention and amelioration of presenile mental disorder Amelioration of liver function Calming effects etc.

Alleviation of fatty liver Prevention of arteriosclerosis Promoting absorption of calcium Amelioration of hypercholesterolemia Promotion of the growth of an infant Depilation prophylactic effect etc.

IP6 (Phytic, Phytic acid)

As an acid, having the pH buffering action Prevention of the deterioration and discoloration Antioxidant action Enhancing immunity Anticancer effects etc.

Îł-oryzanol

Alleviation of autonomic ataxia Suppressing effect of menopausal symptoms etc.

Alleviation of a whiplash injury Effect of ultraviolet ray absorption Antioxidative effect Actions of promoting on sebum secretion etc.

Ferulic acids

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The double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel-group comparative study was performed to evaluate the efficiency of GABA health function on factors such as blood-pressure lowering and stress relief.

Rinse-free rice was used for the test rice to continuously intake; Hokkaido-produced “Yumepirika” brand in 2012 was used for the test rice. GABA rinse-free rice is for active control, and general rinse-free rice is for placebo. The intake amount of GABA per day by GABA rinse-free rice was set to about 17mg which is about four times the placebo.

This test was set for 46 Japanese men and women (effective persons: 39) between 40 and 64 years old and having high blood pressure. These regularly took 150g-test rice (about 300g of cooked rice) per day over an eight-week period to verify the blood pressure lowering and anti-stress effects and to evaluate the availability.

Also, neutral fat lowering, blood sugar level improvement, intestinal regulation and sleeping quality improvement were discussed as the sub effect to comprehensively evaluate the QOL improvement.

As for the result, the blood pressure on awakening of the active control group was a significantly lower value (P<0.05) compared with placebo after an intake of between six and eight weeks, and after one week of finishing the test. The results showed that GABA lowers blood pressure.

As for anti-stress effects - cortisol in the blood, which decreases according to decreased stress, exhibited a tendency to decrease (non-significant, 0.05<P<0.1) compared with placebo after an intake of eight weeks. For the visual analogue scale questionnaires, which included “peaceful” and “having anxiety”, the active control was significantly improved (p<0.05) compared with placebo after an intake of four weeks.

It suggests the possibility of stress relief due to GABA. In other blood tests, adiponectin in the blood of active control exhibited a tendency to increase (0.05<P<0.1) after an intake of eight weeks, but GABA didn’t affect other blood components (plasma noradrenalin, blood sugar level and blood fat level) or composition.

The above results conclude that GABA rinse-free rice is effective at preventing and improving high blood pressure and is expected to relieve the stress.

GABA rinse-free rice can be cooked in the usual and is as tasty as regular milled rice. GABA rinse-free rice has the ability to become a popular functional food in Japan because rice is Japan’s staple diet.

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Figure 2: GABA Enriching System (5 tonne Type)

Table 2: GABA Enrichment Result Year, Variety

Nagano-produced Koshihikari in 2011

Hiroshimaproduced Hinohikari in 2012 Hokkaidoproduced Yumepirika in 2012 Ishikawa-produced Koshihikari in 2012

Ishikawa-produced Koshihikari in 2013

Hokkaidoproduced Nanatsuboshi in 2013

Sample

GABA (mg/100g.d.b)

GLU (mg/101g.d.b)

Conversion Rate (%)

Transfer Rate (%)

Brown rice

3.2

28.6

66.4

69.8

GABA brown rice

22.2

8.3

GABA white rice

16.9

8.6

GABA rinse-free rice

15.5

7.6 89.5

72.0

76.2

63.8

88.0

63.8

65.7

73.1

86.1

69.3

Brown rice

3.2

15.2

GABA brown rice

16.8

3.6

GABA white rice

13.1

3.2

GABA rinse-free rice

12.1

3.0

Brown rice

5.7

17.2

GABA brown rice

18.8

3.7

GABA white rice

13.2

3.4

GABA rinse-free rice

12.0

3.3

Brown rice

6.4

12.5

GABA brown rice

17.4

3.8 3.9

GABA white rice

11.8

GABA rinse-free rice

11.1

3.5

Brown rice

5.5

13.7

GABA brown rice

14.5

3.7

GABA white rice

10.8

4.4

GABA rinse-free rice

10.6

4.2

Brown rice

3.6

15.1

GABA brown rice

16.6

4.8

GABA white rice

12.5

4.4

GABA rinse-free rice

11.5

3.8

AVG.

78.6

68.6

Table 3: Comparison of Five Flavors Sample

Sweetness

Saltiness

Sourness

Bitterness

Umami

General rinse-free rice

2.44

1.21

1.13

1.12

1.95

GABA rinse-free rice

2.88

1.28

1.12

1.11

2.41

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The preservation of grains through cooling systems

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by Noemi Reyes, Consergra, S.L.

roducts such as grains, seeds, oilseeds, nuts, and others that are similar are still alive when stored after being harvested.

Their vital activity consumes their own mass and oxygen, generating carbon dioxide, water and heat. These create a multitude of well-known troubles such as stored product weight loss and quality decrease.

Insect infestation is a particular problem in poorly stored grains.

Insects eat and infect the stored product, which is also reheated due to their vital activity. Insects start their presence from 13°C and up, although the real insect infestation occurs from 18°C and up with a peak between 30°C and 40°C for most insect species.

Mould presence and subsequently dangerous toxins, some of them carcinogenic, may enter into the food chain. When using chilled storage most of the micro-flora growth stays under control, since most micro-flora species develop at temperatures between 20°C and 40°C. In addition, water condensation appears inside silos and warehouses making grains stick to the internal silo/warehouse wall and rot.

In the case of grains with a high oil or fat content, their quality decreases quickly due to the fat oxidation. Heat speeds up this unwanted process.

Some products like rice, change flavour and colour under inadequate storage conditions. For example, rice changes its color from white to yellowish, and later to orange. Color change is a clear indication of product damage during storage, and its market price drops a lot.

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The evidence

Graph 1 shows different the effects of storing a product (in the case, the shown graph is suitable for wheat, barley and corn) under different conditions of temperature and water content.

From the graph it is evident that a high product temperature, or moisture, or both, will damage the grain irreversibly.

Table 1 shows the weight loss that typically occurs during any grain storage depending on different grain conditions. In just three months, the weight loss may reach the three percent of all storage. Quality loss occurs as well, although it’s not accounted for in the table.

Solving storage issues

Traditional methods trying to solve these issues include natural aeration. In cold weather, ambient aeration is an excellent

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practice. It must however be expertly used since the different ambient air conditions between day and night may create uncontrolled drying or re-wetting of the stored product.

Under hot or hot and humid weather conditions, aeration is not applicable since the air doesn’t have the right conditions to be blown into the stored product. If air is blown into the product in such conditions, there is a high risk of product reheating and or product rewetting that will ruin it soon.

To reduce insect infestation, a common practice is the use of

fumigation. Chemical products have to be expertly and carefully managed for safety reasons and they don’t lower the grain temperature.

Practices like turning the grain to cool it have little success and waste lots of energy, also breaking some percentage of grains.

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no risk of rewetting the grain. The system is based on the making Conclusion of constant conditions under which grain storage is easy, natural, The system has demonstrated for nearly 50 years to be the safe and profit earning. most natural and cost-effective way to preserve grains, seeds and There are many direct savings and benefits related to a correct perishable granulates during storage. A low grain temperature not chilled conservation. only reduces the product vital metabolic activity but also most of The most important are: the troubles of storage without control.

• Avoiding fumigation, it means operation cost savings and safer Typical users of chilled aeration are from small farms with as product. little as 100 metric tonnes storage up to the largest plants with • Less weight loss, in other words higher product output at the storing capacities of 100,000, 500,000 and even more. end of storage time.

Rice mills, flour mills, feed mills, malting plants, oilseed • Higher product quality, it means a higher selling price. crushing plants and grain storage facilities can all benefit from • Higher head grains after the milling process. This point is Conserfrio® technology. especially important in the rice industry.

One of the key points in the successful chilled grain conservation • Energy saving in the drying process. It is possible and safe is experience. Consergra has many decades of experience and is to store product with slightly higher moisture content if grain a pioneer in the application of chilled aeration for many products, temperature is low. A drying-cooling combination achieves with units installed in many countries all over the world. relevant energy savings.

Over the years, Consergra has gained lots of experience in All of these benefits give a very quick payback of the capital the bulk preservation of products such as paddy rice in all its investment in the chillers, typically varieties and lengths, cargo rice, milled rice, maize, achieved in one or two years. wheat, barley, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, cotton Table 1: Weight loss of grain during storage Conserfrio® system is suitable seeds, beans, soybeans, green coffee beans, nuts, to Case Grain name just a few. to be used in silos (made of metal temperature To benefit both human and animal health, as or concrete, flat bottom or conical weight loss, MT well as the environment, grains and seeds must be bottom) and warehouses, not needing Product Corn responsibly treated as if they were the finished food. additional civil works. The cooling Amount 1000 MT Consergra is a Spanish company. The units need electric energy only, and Moisture 15% manufacturing plant is stablished near to Barcelona, replace traditional aeration fans. The Storage time 3 months where the machines are designed and manufactured chilled, dry air is introduced into the Chilled grain 10°C 0.5MT keeping most accurate control of all fabrication silos through existing ducts. steps. The company is ISO 9001:2008 certified In warehouses, the chilled air may be Temperate grain 20°C 6 MT for the design and manufacturing of industrial and introduced through ducts placed under Non-chilled grain 30°C 9 MT agricultural machines. Conserfrio® is the registered or over floor. In both cases a ducting Non chilled grain 40°C 30 MT system must be previously installed. brand of the Consergra coolers.

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STORAGE PROJECT Flourmill project with storage silos completed in Mali Gmach, a company in the milling technology industry, has successfully completed the process of commissioning a turnkey flourmill project with 200-tonnes/day wheat processing capacity in Mali.

They have commissioned the full capacity wheat mill in nine months as mechanical and civil construction way for the company, which is active in the flour trade sector in Mali.

Investors in Mali are turning towards to technologically new mills that can meet todays needs.

The company applied to Gmach with the request of establishing a more profitable turnkey flour mill which is equipped with the latest technology, thanks to its modern new facility with the latest technology installed, now it has entered the market with 100 percent capacity and efficiency.

Labour and cost savings

The flourmill, which is constructed as a steel construction system, includes installation of machinery and construction, as well as laboratory and storage silos.

It is a five-storey flourmill that also includes; Full automation, automatic blending, automatic dampening, extraction and carousel bagging systems. With this automation system, the company will save considerable cost from both the labour cost and the cost due to the reduction of the labor.

A quick plant

The building installation took place within four months, Gmach emphasised in its statement about the subject: “We have commissioned this five-storey steel construction flour factory in Mali; Steel construction building components, in-building wheat and conditioning silos, in-building flour and bran silos, roof-facade panel cladding and machine application. We are very pleased to have established a smooth, quality and quick plant for our customers.”

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Greater use of measurement technology

The most common technology used to quickly analyse soybeans for protein and oil is near

by Dan Corcoran, United Soybean Board farmer-leader and soybean farmer from Piketon, Ohio infrared reflectance (NIR). This technology can document soybean oil and protein levels, while also capturing moisture content. The The promise of each growing season begins with a seed. As we plant United Soybean Board is working with NIR companies to document each seed, we’re focused on getting it off to a strong start. Our goal is to care for that seed and use it to produce as many soybeans as possible. consistency and accuracy of this technology, and has ambitious goals to see it more widely adopted across the value chain.

After all, that’s how we’re compensated and rewarded for a job well Greater use of NIR technology at the elevator level, for example, could done. lead to increased protein and oil content for the entire crop by providing For the last 50 years, those of us at the beginning of the soybean value better information to farmers. chain have focused on volume and bushels. While at the end of the With this additional information, farmers can select seeds with traits value chain, customers demand quality meal and oil products. that end users want, and that in turn motivates seed companies to This disconnect results in a disjointed system where seed companies, emphasise such traits in their plant-breeding programmes. farmers and elevators don’t often think about how we’re producing a Measuring protein and oil content will also enable the elevator to protein and oil product. Additionally, we are not getting a strong signal segregate soybeans based on those levels, allowing them to capture from the market that these levels are important. more value to meet end-user demand.

Meanwhile, end users purchase the meal and oil we produce, at some price, and seek alternatives when soy products are deficient.

Converting measurement data into financial rewards

United Soybean Board’s focus on the future

Just as we envision the future for that tiny seed we plant at the beginning of each season, farmer-leaders with the United Soybean Board, the national soy checkoff board, are working to build value and create the future for our industry.

While quantity will likely remain a focus going forward, we know a greater emphasis on customer needs and soybean constituents, such as protein and oil, is key to ensuring long-term profit potential for soybean farmers and the entire soybean industry.

Adding more value to the industry means changing the way our soy products are evaluated and purchased. We are examining multiple strategies to align our collective focus on keeping demand for US soy strong.

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icron Bio-Systems is an international biotech company that produces feed preservation additives, mycotoxin remediation treatments and probiotic feed supplements for livestock including beef and dairy cows, calves, lambs, pigs and

chickens.

Blending of these nutritional supplements is a critical step of the manufacturing process due to the diverse sizes, shapes and bulk densities of ingredient particles, supplement-to-feed ratios as low as one to 400, and the need to achieve 100 percent batch-to-batch uniformity.

Micron Bio-Systems blended its products successfully for more than 40 years using a 708 litre Rotary Batch Mixer from Munson Machinery, Utica, New York, so when increased demand for its products called for higher throughput, the company specified a new 1415 l version of its original mixer design.

Updating a proven process

Shannon Lineberry, Production Manager, Micron Bio-Systems explained, “The original mixer was reliable, and we replaced very few parts on it over the years. The new one also gives us a good homogenous blend with uniform ingredient distribution, even though the materials have varying particle sizes and densities.”

Whereas the original unit had a screw drive that augured raw ingredients in from a hopper, the new feed system features an overhead hopper into which an operator manually empties bags of ingredients. The company is also upgrading to an automated bulk bag discharger with programmable logic control to feed primary ingredients into the new mixer.

Achieving uniformity with disparate ingredients, dustfree

To suppress the dust generated when blending clays, dried cultures, extracts, vitamins and other ingredients, the new mixer, model 700-TH-50 AR, is equipped with a nozzle that sprays a mineral-based oil onto a large bed of moving material during the mixing process.

Staggered right-hand/left-hand mixing flights create a four-way mixing action that cuts, turns, tumbles and folds as the drum rotates. The design achieves uniform distribution of ingredients with little or no degradation or frictional heat that could adversely affect the finished blend.

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batch runs daily and it is always a good mix, always in spec. We have not had any rejects or complaints from customers about our products. And even though the mineral oil sprayed on the dry products for dust suppression tends to ball-up sometimes, the mixing flights gently break it up.”

Rapid mixing yields high throughput

The unit’s mixing action achieves uniform blends in one to three minutes per batch, regardless of whether it is filled to 100 percent or 10 percent of capacity. It runs one eight-hour shift per day, five days a week. In Micron Bio-Systems’ applications, the total cycle time for each one tonne batch is about 15 minutes from loading to blending to discharge.

One noticeable difference between the original blender and the new one is a pneumatic air-cylinder option that Micron BioSystems chose for the inlet door opener. It includes a safety switch that stops the mixer if the door opens.

Mr Lineberry recalls, “Our former mixer had a manual slide gate.

If vibration during operating would open that door slightly, there was always the chance for product contamination.”

The new mixer precludes that possibility.

Once the product is blended, it is discharged to a paddle track conveyor that feeds a 23kg bag filler.

Mr Lineberry expounds, “We can fill between 400 to 440 of those bags – about 10 tonnes of product. We like that the mixer provides a complete, 100 percent discharge so there is no ‘shrinkage’ for lost or wasted ingredients that would cost the company money.”

Total discharge allows rapid cleaning

Most of Micron Bio-Systems’ livestock feed supplement products incorporate similar ingredients, albeit in slightly different proportions. Since no medicated products are involved, and because the self-emptying design of the rotating drum’s lifters evacuates the entire batch, Mr. Lineberry simply runs the mixer with an abrasive, granular cleaning agent and absorbent as part of a monthly preventative maintenance program.

Summarising, Mr Lineberry pointed out, “The new unit was also easy to install. It was basically ‘plug and play’.”

WORLD FEED & GRAIN MARKET REVIEW

by John Buckley

Despite the broader wheat surplus, the market had already been primed for some upward movement by the steep downturn in this year’s US wheat crop, as detailed in our previous review.

Wheat prices jump on crop quality fears Drought and heat waves threatening quality wheat crop yields in the US, Australia, Russia, Ukraine and parts of Europe itself have been pushing prices to higher levels across the board this past month. Chicago soft red winter wheat futures, the most-followed world benchmark, rose to its highest levels since June last year, Paris milling wheat futures towards one and a half year highs and US hard spring wheat to its most expensive since mid-2014.

The bullish movement, which has more or less ignored this year’s record supply of ordinary soft wheats, was led by hard spring types, the high-protein end of the market. As things were shaping up in early July, it seemed likely that the premiums charged for these best grade bread wheat will continue to increase and probably stay unusually high well into next year.

Despite the broader wheat surplus, the market had already been primed for some upward movement by the steep downturn in this year’s US wheat crop, as detailed in our previous review.

The USDA’s annual June 30 planting update has now estimated total planted area at a record low 45.7m acres (18.5m hectares) which is 400,000 less than it expected in its March planting intentions report, 4.1m below last year’s acreage and 9.3m under the 2015/16 season’s 55m acres. Even that may not be the end of the story as the dry weather in the US spring wheat crop’s Northern Plains heartlands threatens to turn yet more planted acres over to hay or cattle grazing.

Average wheat yields have also been predicted by the US Agriculture Department to slide from last year’s hefty 52.6 bu/acre to 47.3 after a series of weather issues including snow and too much rain, even some flooding, on winter wheat crops approaching maturity. That may result in lower proteins in both hard and soft red winter wheat.

But it is the prolonged drought affecting the hard spring wheat states that is causing most concern. In the principle producer states this has become ‘severe/extreme’ in 40 percent of North Dakota and moderate/extreme in at least half of South Dakota. Other neighbouring states are also in trouble with lack of rain, resulting in just 40 percent of the total spring wheat crop making a ‘good/excellent’ rating versus almost double that at this time last year. Clearly yields of these highly prized grades will be down too.

Not surprisingly, the price of any better protein wheat is rising sharply. US Dark Northern Spring wheat 14 percent protein has recently shot up to US$317/tonne for export (fob US Gulf ports).

That compares with under US$240 in late April. In context, spring wheat comprised just over one fifth of the last US wheat crop and about two thirds of its goes to export customers around the world, frequently for blending up flour grist with the cheaper, lower-grade bread wheat.

The possibility of hard spring wheat shortages has already begun to divert more demand to the better quality US hard red winter wheat, which forms the largest component of US production – about 47 percent of last year’s crop and about 30 percent of its total wheat exports. The premiums charged for 12.5 percent protein hard red winter wheat over ordinary grades have already shot up to around US$87 per tonne from about US$30 back in the spring (fob Gulf).

Demanding some restraint from speculators, traders and others now backing a decidedly bullish world wheat market, it should be remembered that the world has been awash with growing surplus supplies of ‘ordinary’ (largely soft) wheat for the past few years.

In the US itself, 31.6m tonnes was being carried into its new marketing year that began last month - two thirds as much as it currently hopes to produce from the 2017 crop and a probable record large starting stock.

Russia is also bringing record old crop stocks of about 11m tonnes

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into 2017/18 – double what it carried over last year – and, despite some recent jitters over dry/hot weather in its southwest regions – it currently hopes to turn out its second biggest crop ever. The USDA has this around 69m tonnes (72.5m last year) but some Russian sources are allowing for up to 71m.

Even so, Russian export prices have been steadily rising, partly in tandem with the world market trend led by US futures, partly in response to good importer demand for this origin, especially from top buyer Egypt, and partly due to some caution towards the weather issues in Russia itself.

In global terms, the world is carrying forward over 256m tonnes – the largest surplus wheat stock ever recorded and, if the coming global harvest meets expectations (USDA says it will be down just 1.8 percent from last year’s record high at about 740m tonnes), then world stocks will grow to an even higher level in the year ahead (261m according to the USDA’s June forecasts).

But there are several caveats to this comforting figure. One is the fact that about half the world wheat stock is held in China (128m tonnes). No one outside that country (and probably most within) has much idea how much of this grain, some of it quite old, is actually of useable quality, especially in terms of human food consumption.

Another is some lower estimates recently coming out of other major wheat producing regions. In the EU itself, the Commission has recently knocked another two million tonnes off its crop forecast for soft wheat which now stands at just under 139m

tonnes after recent hot dry weather trimmed yield prospects.

Australian crop forecasters have also reported lower plantings and a probable yield downturn there suggesting a crop of 24/25m tonnes compared with last year’s massive 35m tonne (another record) harvest. Although extra stocks are left over from that crop, they will nowhere near make up the difference.

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current dry hot weather in key exporting states like Western Australia continues to stress recently-sown crops. Australia, of course, has long been one of the main sources of higher quality food wheat.

So is Canada, where the government has just marked down its estimate of 2017 sown wheat acreage by 900,000 acres from an earlier forecast after planting delays from some very mixed spring weather - which continues still. Fortunately for consumers, the spring bread wheat acreage is actually estimated two percent higher than last year’s. However, durum wheat customers will take a hit from a much steeper cut in expected in Canada’s sown acreage for this grain.

Argentina’s crop – another key component of the bread wheat export market - was still being sown as we went to press and that, at least, is seen similar to or a little better than to last year’s at 17.5m tonnes.

Summing up, the world wheat market faces some trimming of the overall crop production number – but the overall supply, plus stocks, will remain very large. That should help put some sort of anchor on the upward price trend and may held dissuade funds and other speculators from trying to recreate the sort of bull market we saw back in the period 2011-2013, when Russia, Ukraine and several other major producers crops got damaged by drought, heat waves and other weather problems (let alone the conditions seen in 2008/09 when CBOT wheat futures hit a record US$13/bushel or about US$480/tonne!).

Higher-grade wheat supplies will likely be down more significantly, especially at the top end of this market, keeping bread/other food wheat price premiums unusually high well into next year.

That could help drive speculative interest and result in prices going higher than the +11 percent indicated by the CBOT market a year hence but such a move would more likely be a price spike rather than a sustained rise in the value of ordinary wheat.

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Another question is how import buyers will react. In the past few weeks of worsening US spring wheat crop conditions, most of the big buyers seem to have kept their nerve, rather than chasing prices up.

However, some import tenders are now appearing and if a ‘stocking up’ mentality does start to emerge, that could encourage the funds to get more heavily involved. Certainly the big Middle Eastern buyers who bought wheat heavily in May or June must feel they got some bargains compared with offers ruling now.

price support and are being deliberately wound down by the government. This trend is more of a matter for China’s internal market rather than overseas maize users and is unlikely to result in a surge of import demand.

The other salient features of the world maize market at this point remain the two opposing factors of the Latin American supply surge versus potential reductions in EU/FSU crops (if the hot, dry weather on this side of the Atlantic returns/persists).

The South Americans have grown 41m tones more maize this year than last – a rise of about 43 percent. This will be flowing for some time yet into export markets, helping to keep costs restrained, provided the US gets reasonable weather for its main growing season.

At the moment, the main concern is for US crops developing at an unusually wide pace after some planting delays and some mixed weather since. With potential for a heatwave in latter half July, there was some unease about how much of the crop might get caught in the key yield-making stage of pollination, when it needs cool weather. That will at least become clear by the time of our next report.

Global maize consumption isn’t expected to grow much in the coming season – about seven million tones or less than one percent - compared with 90m tonnes or 9.3 percent in the current 2016/17 marketing year and will likely be static in the US and increasing only slowly in Europe and most of the big Asian feed

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First, the good news for the consumer, the official estimate for US planted area has not been trimmed in USDA’s June 30 update as markets expected but has actually been hoisted by almost 900,000 acres to 90.9m, if remaining below last year’s by about 3.5m. Harvest area has also gone up from 82.4m to 83.5m acres (last year 86.7m) which with the 170.7 bu/acre yields that the USDA was using recently, suggests the next crop could be around 362m tonnes compared with357m forecast in June and last year’s record 385m.

Adding on big stocks carried in from this season (58.3m tonnes –up by 14m) gives an adequate supply that will not need to draw down stocks to meet domestic and export demand if it does not exceed the forecast 363m. In other words, US stocks will stay at a high level at the end of next season in September 2018.

World stocks of maize are expected to decline by 25m to 30m tonnes but that takes place mainly within China, where they have become huge and burdensome in terms of storage cost and

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consuming countries. That takes much of the demand pressure off the market as it attempts to reflect the increases in the wheat market (through the feed link between the two grains).

Futures markets have maize a year ahead at a 10.6 percent premium. The USDA is hedging its bets on forward price forecasting with a wide range that allows for average US farm prices to either fall 10 percent or increase 13 percent from the current season’s median range of around US$3.35/bu. Of course, if the US does get a summer drought/heat wave or stressed EU/FSU crops do start to get serious weather issues, all bets are off.

Oil meals Heavy soya supplies from all the major supplying regions should mean cheaper meal is here to stay. Certainly the current global supply/demand balance offers no justification for price rises. For the current season that ends in September, estimates have recently been raised for South American soyabean crops, the three main producers (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay) expected to jointly produce over 182m tonnes – about 20m more than last season.

That comes on top of a record 117m tonne crop in the USA (+ about 10m), which, because demand is not quite keeping up will end this season with a surplus of over 12m tonnes – seven million more than last year.

The South Americans got off to a slower start with their own marketing season (which started last spring) so they too will

have more than usual to sell as the next US crop comes on line from September onward. That too will be a whopper again if the weather stays favourable.

As we go to press the USDA has reaffirmed US soya bean acreage will jump this season by a hefty 6.1m acres to a new record 89.5m, largely because of farmers turning away from less remunerative maize crops. Based on the USDA’s trend line yield projection of 48 bu/acre, that suggests the coming crop will be close to 116m tonnes. With good weather, it could even exceed last year’s record one.

Since soya beans supply about 70 percent of world oil meal production – and are the market leader in terms of protein and standardisation of quality – where soya meal prices go, the rest of the meal market must follow to a large extent.

But even without this record soya bean supply (new crops plus stocks), the meal market is being dealt a generous hand by supply of the other leading oilseed crops. Bigger Canadian, Ukrainian, possibly European and Russian, rapeseed crops are expected to boost rapeseed meal output while Europe east and West should produce more sunflower meal too. Along with larger supplies of cottonseed, palm kernel, copra and groundnut meal; the current forecast for world meal supplies in 2017/18 is about 12m tonnes or 3.7 percent greater than this season’s.

The soya glut has already pushed prices of soya meal in the EU down to a 14-month low in US dollar terms and it could get cheaper still if the US crop comes through as indicated.

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Women in Agribusiness Summit set to impress Having addressed the issues facing women operating in agribusiness, this year’s Women in Agribusiness (WIA) Summit will be lightning-focused on presenting information that guides attendees to be the most competent, knowledgeable experts in their field to “Know Their Business Better.” Sharing these insights at the 2017 Summit here at the Hyatt Regency, September 26-28, will be more than 600 women from across the agribusiness value chain.

While the popular Summit, now in its sixth year, will still include cutting-edge professional development breakout sessions, the main focus will be on key forward-thinking topics presented by well-known experts in the sector. Examples include: • Jack Bobo, senior vice president and chief communication officer of Intrexon, who will address, “Can Ag Feed the Planet Before It Destroys It?” • Julie Borlaug, associate director for external relations at the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, who will present on how companies can partner for innovation.

• Carol Kitchen, president and CEO of United Farmers of Alberta, who will speak to the challenges that producers are facing.

“With the opportunity in this forum for attendees to express their opinions, learn from others, and share best practices, we seek to support women’s advancement by demonstrating that they are knowledgeable experts in their industry,” said Event Director Joy O’Shaughnessy. “That does not need to focus on the fact that they are women, just the fact that success is attainable the more one ‘Knows Their Business Better.’ This Summit will be the conduit to knowledge, networking and know-how.”

Guiding this entrepreneurial spirit is an accomplished National Advisory Board that this year welcomes Heather Anfang, vice president of marketing for U.S. Dairy Foods, at Land O’Lakes; Kristine Thompson, enterprise brand strategy director and CHS Women in Leadership, at CHS; and Jennifer Braasch, vice president and senior relationship manager for Commercial Banking National Food and Agribusiness Specialty Group, at Wells Fargo. Other members of the board hail from Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Dow AgroSciences, Bunge Ltd, Cargill and more.

Of greater importance in highlighting this event is the passion and inspiration felt by its attendees, who at last year’s event represented 39 US states and more than 200 agricultural companies, and can be summed up through the comments of Elizabeth Bolt, senior marketing manager at Deloitte Consulting: “I have found Women in Agribusiness to be a very strategic connection in my own career in supporting professional service providers focused in the food and agriculture industry. WIA has provided an opportunity for me to learn on a national scale from women on various levels and in various roles within the industry. Finally, I found it an inspiring organisation to be part of, challenging me to broaden my knowledge and experience through the eyes of others.”

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Internationalising the livestock market in one of the fastest growing countries in Asia.

Indonesia is considered as the largest economy in Southeast Asia. The middle class is set to become a prominent force in the country. This is due not only to their huge demographic, but also to their strong income growth prospects.

Investors will find in Indonesia the ideal balance between booming demand for livestock products and an abundance of agricultural and natural resources. As Southeast Asia’s largest country (and the world’s fourth most populous at about 250 million people), Indonesia has witnessed a major boom in demand for livestock products such as red meat, milk, eggs and beef and cattle. Of which the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture is more focused on strengthening at the moment.

The Indonesian Minister of Agriculture commented, “This effort is the government’s commitment in pursuing self sufficiency of cattle production, targeted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, to be reached in 2026. This effort is also to realise an independent country in terms of the fulfilment of livestock products, and at the same time, to improve the welfare of farmers.”

The Minister of Trade also remarked that Indonesia should be self-sufficient on livestock and be able to export these products. He said, “The welfare of farmers is rising, and the poverty rate is decreasing. That is the governments target.”

VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific and Federasi Masyarakat Perunggasan Indonesia together announced investment platform entitled, ‘ILDEX Indonesia 2017’.

It is the third edition of its kind, focusing on international livestock, dairy, meat processing and aquaculture exposition. It will take place at the Jakarta International Expo in Hall D1 and D2, Jakarta, Indonesia on October 18-20, 2017.

More than 8,000 trade visitors are expected to participate and interact with 250 international brands. The show will feature three industry zones which will include; feed and animal health, feed milling and farm equipment and genetic, breeding and processing.

The exhibition will also present two country pavilions (China

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and South Korea) and a special pavilion for pet food.

Mrs Panadda Atthakowit, Head of Competence Center of Livestock of VNEAP explained that, “Indonesia represents 40 percent of ASEAN’s total population and middle-income economies. It also represents a growing domestic and regional consumer base. With a professional industry partner, FMPI, we are strongly confident that we can offer the qualified market place that may create value and business opportunities for today’s livestock market. At ILDEX Indonesia, visitors will be able to meet many top companies such as Big Dutchman, Charoen Pokphand Indonesia, Japfa, Famsum, Cheil Jedang Corporation, Elanco, Emtech and King Techina.”

ILDEX Indonesia 2017 will feature a long list of supporters from the Indonesian government and local associations including the Department of Husbandry), Department of Marine Agriculture and Food Security, Faculty of Animal Science, Bogor Agriculture University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federation of Indonesia Poultry Society, Indonesia Layer Farmer Association, Indonesia Poultry Farmer Association, Indonesia Poultry Veterinarian Association, Indonesian Association of Veterinary Public Health, Indonesia Feedmills Association, more from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Republic of Indonesia.

Deddy Kusmanagandi, Chairman of Indonesian Poultry Industry Association expounded that, “ILDEX Indonesia is the event that the Indonesian people are waiting for. We told our members and farmers in our association to come to this event because it is the right platform where we will meet top quality exhibitors and buyers.”

In the previous editions of ILDEX Indonesia, 94 percent of visitors gave positive feedback and recommended this show to their friends and colleagues. More than 88 percent were satisfied with the qualities of the trade visitors and they intend to visit the expo again.

Edy Purwoko, country manager of PT Ceva Animal Health Indonesia commented that, “The quality of the visitors is very good. It exceeded my expectation and Indonesia is one of the largest countries we will continue to invest in during the next edition. Next year I think the number of participants will grow significantly and be even better. So, I’d like to invite everyone to come to ILDEX Indonesia 2017.”

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Industry events

FVG Select 2017: A unique event for millers across all sectors

J

ust shy of 1000 visitors eagerly made their way to the historical German city of Cologne, for the first FVG SELECT being organised by Victam International BV, from June 1314, 2017.

This international event welcomed attendees from every continent and from 59 countries in total. Visitors included those from animal feed processing, grain processing, ingredients and additives sector, aquafeed, petfood and biomass pelleting industries.

This was a unique set-up with little or no equipment on display and with just a select group of 59 companies exhibiting their latest products and services across the two-day event. This afforded plenty of time to meet up with new and current customers and exhibitors in a personal yet productive fashion.

Well-informed and welcoming to their booths, company representatives included those from Dinnissen Process Technology, Van Aarsen, Famsun and more.

A winning line-up of conferences

Alfonso Garrido, Rafael Cadete and Alberto Baena from Symaga

Anders, Michael and Michael from Sukup Europe

Atilla Aydin from Bastak

Andreas from Petkus and Stefan from Buhler

Brian Lainoff from the Crop Trust

Danielle Carson and Laurence Millington from Vortex

Alongside this unique expo event, three separate conferences were held on each of the two days. They were organised by Victam in collaboration with industry media partners including Perendale Publishers, AEBIOM, IFF & Wageningen University, aquafeed.com and Watt Global Media.

Just under half of all participants attended at least one of these conferences, which included FIAAP Animal Nutrition Conference, Aquafeed 106 | August 2017 - Milling and Grain

Hans Boonen, Maril van Kempen, Harold Schroijen, Bashir Omar and Roger Ubags from Van Aarsen

Holger Niklasch - Perten Germany

Ingmar and Knut from TEWS Elektronik

Jianye Sun and team from Sun Magnetic

Jan Jensen from Dol Sensors

John De Bat and Patrick Gijsil from Symach

Joost, Mingji, Xiong and Jerome from Famsun

Josef Barbi and Bulent from E.S.E. INTEC

Laurent Morillon from Morillon

FVG Select 2017

Francisco Sanchez from Fundiciones Balaguar S.A.

Horizons Europe, AEBIOM International Pellet Workshop, Petfood Forum Europe, GRAPAS & Global Milling Conference and the Victam Feed Processing Conference.

Chaired by Publisher Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain’s conference ‘GRAPAS & Global Milling’ conference for millers, was split into three sections with 10 30-minute presentations given by experts from around the world including Thomas Ziolko, Product Manager Industrial Milling for Bühler Switzerland discussing food safety in the milling process.

Our Chinese editor Professor Winben Wu from Henan University of Grain Milling, also presented, highlighting the present situation and development of Chinese roller machining technology.

You may also have read Goodwill Ambassador of the African Union, Clifford Spencer’s presentation, ‘The future importance of lesser-known grains to global milling’ published in full in this issue (see page 50).

Streaming live through our Facebook page ‘Milling and Grain’, tweeting the videos from @millingandgrain and posting them on our ‘The Global Miller’ blog, meant that we were, in fact, joined on the day by a virtual audience of over 1600 people - the cumulative number from all videos - which had been ‘viewed’ over 550 times.

In the 14 days post-conference they had been viewed an additional 340 times.

“It was an incredible response given that none of our readers were aware of the possibility to view the conference live on the day,” says Milling and Grain Publisher, Roger Gilbert.

“There certainly is interest in the subjects our speakers presented with food safety and baking formation being two of the highest viewed videos.

“In the conference room we had registered 40 attendees. For each of our speakers to take the time and effort to prepare meaningful presentations it is extremely rewarding for them to not only reach a selective audience on the day within the confines of the conference room, but also be appreciated by viewers from around the globe both at the time and subsequently.

“I’d like to thank all 10 speakers once again and on behalf of those who viewed their presentations online. This has been such a good experience we will do it again for future GRAPAS and Global Milling Conferences,” he says.

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Dinnissen Process Technology Booth

The Dinnissen Team

What makes SweetÂŽ grain handling systems the best choice for you?

Erik, Ben and Christian from KSE

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if in the UK we are providing enough trained millers, what the mechanisms of structure formation in baked products are and why lesser known grains may well be the future of global milling.

Matchmaking and the News Room

VG Select 2017

In a successful effort to generate worthwhile connections between attendees and exhibitors, FVG SELECT incorporated a unique matchmaking program that combined Victam participants arranging on-the-day meetings with online planning of appointments and reviewing of profiles (JUBLIA) prior to the event.

A testified 10-20 percent of meetings were added to because it really could not have been easier to form and maintain those all-important business partnerships that our industry thrives off.

On top of this, the Victam News Room was another new feature that kept everyone at the show and connected with a constant stream of high-quality interviews from speakers, visitors and exhibitors alike being shown on screens at the event and shared via Victam’s social media channels.

Imparting their expertise, interviewees included Director of nabim Alex Waugh and AwF Chairman Cliff Spencer. Both of these services will also be introduced at Victam Asia 2018 and Victam International 2019. If you didn’t catch them live, you can easily watch these unique interviews by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCx-7qPMqe0XOnPZrgB6b_Sw

Kabir Chowdhury from Jefo

Michael MArtin, Mike Sankari and Gregory Kamnik from Insta-Pro

Milling and Grain & International AquaFeed Stand

Regis Labrue from CETEC

Selçuk, Nihat and Selcuk from Yemmak

Timothy Rocholl and Jens Peters from DMN Westinghouse

Touraj Goudarzi and Thomas Kisslinger from NEUERO

Laurent Morillon with Stif on their stand

Oscar Diaz from Ferraz

Simon Prince and Jean Luc Montegut from Vibrafloor

Van Mourik group

Great feedback for a first edition

Germany has long been seen as a gateway for business development with Eastern Europe so there was ample talk of projects taking place across this region of the world, with visitors from Asia and Africa also benefitting from FVG Select’s location and networking arena.

Testament to this, following the exhibition on the first day, a very relaxed and food-filled networking reception took place where attendees could share knowledge in an even more sociable way.

Export Salesman for Sukup Europe, Michael Christensen affirmed that they’d obtained “some really solid leads” whilst promoting their leading industry solutions at the show. Meanwhile, Sales Manager UK for Hydronix Ltd, Neal Cass, asserted how “great it’s been to directly talk with an internationally diverse range of senior level customers,” alongside promoting their new HydroMix XT sensor.

Furthermore, Van Aarsen invited all attendees to their seminars being held at their booth including ‘Getting a grip on grinding’ presented by Harold Schroijen. He reinforced that grinding isn’t just about reducing particles sizes but rather about improving the reaction rate of a raw material, which will only add profit if carried out to optimum energy efficiency and also improve palletability and nutrient quality of feed.

Overall, FVG Select proved to be a great success and we have confirmation that it will be back by 2021 latest!

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FVG Select 2017 EXPERT OPINION

Perry Konings Commerical Manager at Dinnissen

Perry Konings, Commerical Manager at Dinnissen explains virtual reality in the feed industry.

How good is it that a customer on the other side of the world can do a design review before you have even

started to build the process?

This is what we’re doing design and development in the feed industry nowadays. A customer comes to us and they look at our design, he brings his technician, operator and processor and together we can look at the design through virtual reality and solve things when they see then.

It is somewhat a teleportation into the design. You have your glasses and you are actually moving in the factory. You can go to the mixer for instance and the processor can open it, see if it’s accessible, and see if they can clean it whilst the technician can check if it’s all right for maintenance.

This system saves time and gives clearer communication for both sides, so in the end virtual reality is a win-win situation.”

Laurent Morillon CEO, Morillon Laurent Morillon CEO, Morillon, France talking about the show and Morillon’s current projects.

As usual it was a good show, very new for us to see this event without machines but with the appointments made by the Internet, we have probably seen people that we would not have seen usually. It was a good way to make something different.

We have promoted mainly the bin sweeper for grain storage because there is a great demand for the flat-bottom silos in quality storage in the wheat or rice industry.

We have been facing a lot of demands in this field for quality material and the second equipment for the by-products or for the waste like the wheat bran or rice bran and so on for the industrial process. We have also had enquiries many times for new projects so it was a good show.

Currently, we have different projects in Asia, particularly in Vietnam for feedmills with bigger and bigger storage for products like soyamilk for instance with a completely automated process, unloading silos first-in-first-out. We also have more and more projects in Africa for paddy rice storage.

Over the last five years, we have invested a lot in information for the machine especially the machines difficult for foreign material. I would like to say that these machines can ‘speak’ now – with the hydraulics and electronics, our machines can talk to the customer. We can also ask information from a distance with remote access.

From my point of view, this is a good improvement in terms of maintenance because when you don’t have all these elements people say it works so that’s good. But it’s like when you go the doctor, you can say ok you are good but you must do this and you must do that because the maintenance is something you must not forget in the process, and electronics can give very good opportunities for the feedmills and the process industry to have better maintenance.

In a much more simple way in the grain industry, we work so that the people don’t go inside the silo because this is also dangerous and a case that we must avoid to the maximum.”

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Erik Heemskerk General Manager, Victam International BV

Our overall impression of the show was really good. Looking at the numbers we exceeded our own expectations by about 30 percent. Visitors appreciated our event with a grade of seven or higher on a scale of one to 10, which is really good for a launch event and most exhibitors would like to participate in the next FVG Select.

The show highlights were in order of appreciation: the conferences, matchmaking program and catering.

Feed production technology, feed ingredients and petfood technology were the top three topics that visitors were interested in and about 50 percent of all the attendees visited the event to join one of the six conferences - respectively Feed Processing Technology, Animal Feed Nutrition, Aquafeed, Petfood, Flour & Grain Milling and Wood Pellets. This makes the Conferences the best-rated part of the program. More than three out of four visitors were ‘very satisfied’ about their visit and about one third of the visitors took part in the matchmaking programme, which they rated as good in most cases.

For that matter, visitors who took part in the matchmaking program had the best event experience. Last, but not least, most people attended the event both days.

The goal of the News Room is primarily to extend the value and benefit of our events beyond the event itself (that is, to attract an online audience that was or has not been able to attend) and secondarily for promotional reasons of our own.

We know from the on-site experience with the News Room that the exhibitors around it were very happy to be in the picture literally all the time and online we‘ve had about 1,500 views for the different interviews held during the event in the FVG Select News Room.

Of course this is not the unique number of people viewing, the best-viewed video had more than 250 views, yet still a formidable result for our first go at it. The News Room will therefore be back during Victam Asia 2018 for sure to build on the first steps taken this year.

Matchmaking

The matchmaking programme, as mentioned above, was very well received by our visitors. The feedback from exhibitors is more black and white; there were as many exhibitors very enthusiastic about it as there were disappointed exhibitors.

Interestingly, those that did participate in the matchmaking programme pro-actively had a better event experience versus those that didn’t, providing more than enough reasons to continue to build upon and to be continued during and around Victam Asia 2018.

Both during the event and based on the output of our visitor and exhibitor survey we recognise that there were still some people that expected the usual Victam exhibition which has respectively over 350 and 250 exhibitors and displays the latest feed manufacturing machines and equipment across the board and which FVG Select was NOT. At FVG Select we only had 59 exhibitors –as was our deliberate choice- and hardly any machines or equipment on display. The reason for not allowing for machines and equipment to be displayed is quite simple: 80 percent of our customers prefers to have the Victam International show to be held once every four years and the Victam Asia event once every two years.

The aim of FVG Select is to provide for a networking platform in-between and is therefore focused on conferences and an extensive matchmaking program together with a limited industry expo.

It is now up to us to discuss with our customers when and where the next edition of FVG Select will take place. As it is a much more scalable event both in terms of logistics and numbers we are very flexible in organising it anywhere we want to. In other words, FVG Select will be back!

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Nicholas Braime

Nicholas Braime joined 4B in 1972 after graduating from Oxford with an MA in Modern History.

Initially Nicholas trained in the drawing office and production departments, while doing day release engineering courses at Kitson college before continuing his formal studies, with a diploma in management studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.

In 1976, Nicholas took on the responsibility for developing the sales of components used in the bulk material handling industry. In 1984 he moved to the USA to set up a branch office of the new subsidiary 4B Elevator Components Ltd, before returning to the UK in 1987 to take responsibility as Sales Director for Braime Pressings Ltd. Nicholas was elected Chairman in 1987. He is responsible for the operational management of the company and for developing group strategy.

4B Braime is located in Leeds, England and is the original and UK based subsidiary, and also the HQ, of the ‘4B Group’; consisting of seven subsidiaries located worldwide and developing and selling products into the global material handling industry in more than 50 countries.

4B Braime was founded 128 years ago by your grandfather and his brother. Would you say that a family ethos extends throughout the business today?

The business is a publicly owned company on the Stock market, managed formally according to the regulations of that Market and the Board of Directors have responsibilities to its shareholders and employees.

However, control of the company is still in the hands of my immediate family and myself and the business still has the ethos of a family business.

Braime were the first to manufacture them as seamless steel pressings, which enormously increased the strength and the life of the product. By 1905, Braime already had a range of over 500 sizes and styles, developed to suit the characteristics of the product being handled.

In the 1970s, Engineers from the Braime Group patented the ‘STARCO ‘Bucket System for elevating grains. The STARCO system uses shallow buckets, closely spaced, running at high speeds on small pulleys, discharging the product centrifugally

Engineers dominate the company and are encouraged to define their own role, to take the lead in setting their targets and to pursue their own ideas, providing they fall within the overall strategy and plan.

This system revolutionised grain handling in Europe, achieving much larger throughputs in smaller machines and led to a significant increase in efficiency. Over time this system has largely been adopted globally, where it is now commonly called ‘a low profile’ bucket system.

The founders of the business were two young engineers, who started with nothing except drive and the skills they had been taught as Engineering Apprentices; yet within a generation, the company employed over a 1,000 people.

The brothers were entrepreneurs and their success was rooted absolutely in their ability to constantly innovate by taking commonly used products and making them “better by design”. This was achieved by adding practical features, often patented, and by improving the product quality by using an entirely different method of manufacture. They always focused on design which gave tangible benefits to the engineer using the product.

As the sheer volumes of cereals being stored and processed increased, dust explosions in grain & feed facility’s became more frequent and a significant number of such accidents started in a bucket elevator or conveyor, where the grain dust was ignited by an overheated Bearing or by the frictional heat generated by a slipping or misaligning belt or blockage.

In the 1980s, 4B Braime developed the Watchdog, a ‘4 in 1’ Monitor which would give an early warning of the increased risk, sound an alarm, and shut down the machinery if the risk continued. The Watchdog became the ‘market leader’ in North America and the signature product of 4B.

This is the real ethos which continues to run through the business today. 4B is not a simply a sales or distribution company but is first and foremost an engineering company focused on practical innovation by engineers for engineers.

The Patented “Hazardmon” System, which won a GRAPPAS award for innovation at Victam, is the latest major development at 4B. Hazardmon is an independent cloud based system collecting Realtime information enabling management, locally or remotely, to monitor machinery throughout each Facility and also predict the need for preventative maintenance.

How do you inspire and motivate your team to consistently deliver world-class products and service?

Fundamentally, you have to take a lot of care in the first place to recruit staff who you think have the potential to flourish in the culture above. If you choose the right people and give them freedom and encouragement, this opportunity is itself inspiring.

With subsidiaries worldwide, where do you see the future for 4B Braime?

It is not fashionable to join a company for life and we do not look it at that way.

The opportunity for our engineers for innovation in the grain industry worldwide is literally endless. There remain major opportunities geographically; these would include Russia & Eastern Europe, the Indian sub-continent, and China.

However, in reality our staff turnover is extremely small. As a growing company, we have the opportunity for people to progress. At the same time, growth requires us to keep employing more skilled people who bring us new ideas.

The global population is projected to rise to 9.5 billion people come 2050, what is 4B`s role and long-term vision for meeting these demands?

Which products are you most proud of and believe has impacted the feed milling and/or grain terminal industries most beneficially?

One of the earliest products offered by Braime were Elevator Buckets. Formerly made as folded & welded fabrications,

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4B Braime are fortunate to be involved globally in the handling & processing of food - a huge natural growth industry – and the important part 4B Braime can play is to contribute to the ongoing improvement in the both safety and efficiency in the processing and distribution of food across the globe.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Chuck Middleton becomes Dairy Nutrition Consultant

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huck Middleton, residing in Idaho, joined Nutriad as a Dairy Nutrition Consultant. He has had a successful career in agricultural supplier organisations and has served on various advisory boards in the industry. Mr Middleton attended the University of Idaho and received a BS in both Agricultural Education and Animal Science.

Chuck Middleton

Nutriad recently announced this new appointment with Grady Fain, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development commenting, “At Nutriad we are dedicated to building our sales team with top industry talent for providing best in class service to our valued customers. Our new hires confirm that commitment and we are excited to have him as a Nutriad team member.”

Kevin Stephens is Regional Sales Manager Southeast USA

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evin Stephens, residing in North Carolina, joined Nutriad as Regional Sales Manager Southeast USA. Kevin brings extensive experience in the poultry, food and agricultural industry. Mr Stephens received his BSc at Marshall University.

Grady Fain, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development commented in relation to his appointment, “The US market faces new regulations; pressure on use of antibiotics and sees continuous consolidation. In that environment Nutriad is committed to take leadership in providing solutions for the challenges producers face today as well as future challenges.”

Kevin Stephens

Constance Samuels becomes manager at AFIA

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onstance Samuels joins the American Food Industry Association as their new manager of meetings and events.

She will work with Veronica Rovelli, AFIA senior director of meetings and events, in planning and executing events, partner educational programs, committee meetings, Board meetings and webcasts.

Constance Samuels

Ms Rovelli commented, “Connie brings a wealth of diverse experience, and I’m excited to have her on board.” Ms Samuels joins AFIA from Envision EMI, where she served as contracts and events manager. She has additional experience in the events industry from the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau in Madison, Wisconsin, and White Lodging Services in Austin, Texas. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from Virginia State University and is a certified meeting professional.

Vince Peterson becomes US Wheat Associates President

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ince Peterson became the fourth President of US Wheat Associates (USW) on July 1, 2017.

Mr Peterson, who has been with USW for 32 years, has replaced Alan Tracy who retired as President after 20 years. Vince’s most recent role was as Vice President of Overseas Operations before the USW Directors unanimously selected him as the new President in November 2016.

Vince Peterson

The USW President serves the US wheat farmers on its Board of Directors and is responsible for implementing board-directed policies and for managing staff; exports market development programs and finances.

Vince commented, “I am very optimistic about the long-term opportunities for US wheat exports as I start my tenure as President. The farmers we represent produce the variety and quality of wheat needed to meet rapidly growing demand around the world. Under Alan’s leadership, and with amazing support from our farmer leaders and wheat commission members, we built a strong base of export sales and talented staff that are well prepared and strategically placed to take advantage of this opportunity.”

Sam Paquet retained as independent manufacturer representative

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am Paquet has been retained as an independent manufacturer representative in Eastern Canada for Brock Grain Systems.

Mr Paquet will provide Brock’s sales team with sales and dealer support services in Ontario and other Eastern Canada provinces for the company’s line of storage, handling, conditioning and structural products for grain.

Sam Paquet

With over 17 years of experience in the poultry and livestock equipment business, Mr Paquet has sold and supervised the installation of products such as commercial laying barns and new style sow gestation crates.

He is fluent in both English and French and currently resides with his family in Cowansville, Quebec.

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