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84 - Adapting to the challenges of COVID-19 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

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38 The Bühler Virtual World

46 The FMSR series Optical Sorter 50 Modern wheat 54 By-products 56 Amino acid balancing

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62 Grinding challenging recipes for premium pet food?

66 Future feed tech

68 A new NIR service

72 Anti-nutritional factors in piglet feed

114 People news from the global milling industry

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76 A tale of two mills 80 Flour mills and bakeries joining in the war against COVID-19

82 What steps can the government take to mitigate the effects of COVID-19?

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84 Adapting to the challenges of COVID-19

88 Insect infestation

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It’s been a frantically busy month

Roger Gilbert

We have all settled into lockdown (at least those of us unable to return to normal work patterns and are restricted to our homes).

However, we have had to put in extra effort to keep the ‘wheels’ of our business turning while working from remote locations.

As a result we have turned to digital solutions wherever possible to replace visits, meeting and attending expos to the supply and commissioning of equipment and plant: such as the new 300-tonne-per-day flour mill that Alapala has commissioned in Somaliland, remotely, during the lockdown and in the month when it held its May 18th, 2020 anniversary of independence!

There are plenty of examples throughout the food production chain where industry has gone to exceptional lengths to ensure foodstuffs reach supermarket shelves and, ultimately, onto the food tables of nations.

We have also become acutely aware that returning to ‘normal’ might not be possible and that we should take this opportunity to alter our work and consuming practices to provide more fulfilling and productive lifestyles while at the same time protecting our planet.

Expos vs digital experiences

Two diverse but major companies in our industry – Bühler and Alltech - offered digital solutions in the past month. The former to replace not being able to attend Interpack 2020 in Germany and the later to host its planned The One event in Lexington, USA. Bühler held Bühler Virtual World 2020, which drew in 10,000plus attendees and created over 500 one-to-one meetings over its three-day offering in May, while Alltech registered over 20,000 visitors for its three-day Virtual Experience event.

Both digital events were held in mid-May with many of the presentations they offered now available on demand. Our congratulations go to both for their quick responses to a changing landscape under pandemic conditions and the way they put the interests of their digital visitors at the forefront of their offerings.

At the heart of the Bühler Virtual World 2020 event was its virtual Interpack booth which helped to set the scene for its overall programme which had a cocoa, snack food and meatalternative focus, supported by bakery production, through processes ranging from storage and processing to many more.

The event also included a heavy focus on pulses and their nutritional value.

Meanwhile, the Alltech One Virtual Experience was firmly focussed on livestock production with keynotes on a range of topics from space travel to air quality, the future of science in food farming and an insight into changing consumer behaviour to the confidence in an uncertain global market. All delivered by renowned specialists in their respective fields and well worth the time to watch.

Bühler’s Virtual World 2020 and Alltech’s One Virtual Experience 2020 have laid the groundwork for others to follow.

It’s not going to be a future of “We’ll just produce a webinar for our potential customers” approach, thinking people will have time on their hands. These types of events have to compete with traditional expos and conferences that will certainly be fighting back to retain their positions in delivering independent and physical platforms which they will modified to account for social distancing and other acceptable COVID-19 practices.

It will be most interesting over the next 18 months to see how this digital approach by companies plays out in the real world of exhibitions, conferences and events that have stood the test of time and provided such good value for money.

Will we be returning to ‘normality’ as we knew it, or will we be developing new business practices that don’t require as much personal relationship building yet provide the confidence, efficiency and personal safety we need while delivering greater value for money?

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During the Virtual World Tour, Bühler hosted a variety of presentations informing their customers of the innovative solutions they can offer all stages of the food and feed production chains.

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n this months featured video, Milling and Grain’s Publisher Roger Gilbert is joined in the Rongorongo Live Studio by Chris Jackson, Director of UK TAG. Readers may be familiar with Chris as a regular contributor to our publication and in this video, he discusses his experiences with livestock production throughout the world, as well as the threat of COVID-19 on the food supply sector.

COVID-19 is an unprecedented pandemic that is affecting the entire world, but Chris notes that the effects the virus have on the livestock industry vary greatly from place to place. In some countries, the prices of meat have decreased due to a lack of demand from restaurants, whilst other countries have seen a surge in prices due to consumers eating more meat at home. Raw material and transport prices have also been subject to fluctuations, which Chris explores in more depth, as well as the topics of biosecurity and the future of the meat industry in the long-term following the pandemic.

VIDEO: Interview with Chris Jackson, Director of UKTAG

One particular innovation that many industries have witnessed as a result of COVID-19 is the implementation of virtual webinars and conferences. As the world has embraced social distancing measures to minimise the spread of COVID-19, exhibitions have unfortunately been forced to postpone until the global situation improves. Until that time, many companies have decided to embrace this challenge and host their own virtual exhibitions to showcase their new solutions.

In this issue of Milling and Grain, one webinar we examine at length is Bühler’s Virtual World Tour, which took place in mid-May but, due to popular demand, has continued to run throughout the entirety of the month.

Bühler Virtual World was a massive project that was created as a space for customers and industry members to discover more about Bühler’s solutions from the comfort of their own home. The Virtual World had an amazing scope, with presentations, interactive software and networking opportunities readily available for members of the food and feed supply chain.

Other companies are also embracing the internet as a means to showcase their new solutions, with Alltech ONE also taking place in May, as well as various other exhibitions announcing that they will provide online networking sessions and presentations for clients. The Milling and Grain team have been very impressed by the digital offerings members of the industry have to offer and wonder if, perhaps, in the future these online webinars will become much more widely implemented? gfmt.blogspot.com

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Delacon publish new dossier on gut health

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ecently, Delacon published a new scientific publication. The latest dossier addresses intestinal health in monogastric animals.

Delacon attaches great importance to research.

In over three decades the company has gained enormous knowledge about the phytogenic universe. This is only possible through high specialisation in this area. But for Delacon it is also important to share knowledge and help educate the industry.

Delacon has published a new scientific publication. External scientists and phytogenic experts from Delacon gathered for the dossier ‘What about gut’. Especially written for experts in animal nutrition and veterinarians. Readers will get new insights about intestinal disorders in pigs and poultry.

Some of the topics include the impact of nutrition

on performance and intestinal health, global trends in ABF-production in poultry and swine and the role of the intestinal microbiota for intestinal development and health in young pigs and poultry.

As there are increasing occurrences in intestinal disorders, gut health becomes more important.

“Phytogenics can modulate the intestinal microbiota which can help to regulate inflammatory responses and oxidative stress – an important factor in today’s gut health management,” says David Harrington, Species Leader Poultry at Delacon.

‘What about gut’ (2020) is now available for free at the Delacon website: www.delacon.com/phytogenics/techtalk /whitepapers-dossiers

Alapala installs the first flour mill in Somaliland

The steel structure for the mill building was also supplied

by Alapala Construction, which specialises in the design, supply, and construction of industrial buildings worldwide.

The mill has a total of 110,000mt of annual wheat processing capacity, using hard and semi-hard wheat to produce high-quality bakery flour mainly for domestic consumption. The mill has an advanced automation system, combined with Scada software that overall provides an excellent ability for process control and traceability. The system allows centralised monitoring of the entire process from wheat intake to flour packaging, offering remote connection possibility for real-time error diagnosis and intervention as well.

The Scada software is also combined with a sophisticated yield monitoring system, which collects weighing data from six different places in the process and analyses the data to generate detailed production reports.

The installation of pneumatic and mechanic transport equipment is fully made in conformity with EU standards, and individual precautions were taken to ensure safe and hygienic product transfer in the mill.

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he first flour mill in the country, NFMC’s new plant in Somaliland was commissioned by Alapala in April 2020. Alapala is very active in the African market through its local branches, country offices, and a wide representative network; as well as numerous flour, semolina, and maize mills located throughout the region ie. Senegal, Zambia, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Ghana.

The National Flour Mill Company, as the newest reference mill of Alapala in Africa, started its operation at Berbera Port region in Somaliland. The mill was installed and started trial production in April 2020, and the company has started preparations for distributing the nationally produced flour all over the country.

Alapala built the mill and installed all equipment as part of a turnkey project which included the 300 TPD capacity flour mill and four 7.500-tonne capacity steel storage silos.

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Gericke significantly expands its global footprint

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appointed additional partners and agents, adding a significant expansion to the network. In these difficult times with international travelling coming to a near standstill, being close to the customer is now even more important than ever before!

In Europe, Gericke has appointed Mespo AB as their partner for Sweden. Together with the already established cooperation with Mespo Denmark, Gericke can now rely on a very experienced local representation in these Northern European markets.

Tek4Process is a new company in Portugal, founded by Pedro Ribeiro.

He brings a lot of experience from the powder handling and processing industries and is a welcome addition to Gericke’s network in Europe.

With the Russian branch of the German Rieckermann group, Gericke is now also closer to the existing and new customers in Russia.

Both India and Africa are significant developing areas.

Not only multinational companies build up local production capability, also many established local manufacturers play a key role in these countries. The multinational as well as the local producers welcome and appreciate the access to Gericke’s offering, combined with easy accessible local support and service.

Gericke has a broad installed base in many African countries. With the appointment of the South Africa based PMD Packaging Systems (PTY) Ltd, Gericke is now even closer to the fastgrowing food and chemical markets in South Africa and neighboring countries.

PMD Packaging has been established in 1965 and is widely recognised by many long-term customers as a leader in packaging and related processes.

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Dinnissen Process Technology visits spring fairs digitally this year

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ince various trade fairs can’t take place for the time being, many businesses are not able to present itself this spring.

Dinnissen Process Technology is one of those companies.

However, this frontrunner in process technology found another way to keep its business relations informed about its latest developments and innovations. Dinnissen decided to set up a digital exhibition stand on its website. On their purpose-designed online exhibition page you can find five videos about their latest machines, innovations and developments. Including a sneak preview of their new production facility. In addition, clients and relations can schedule personal video conversations with Dinnissen’s advisors on this page.

“The spring fairs are very important to us. Here, we can present the latest developments and we get the chance to catch up with our customers and relations. We also get a better picture of what is going on with our clients in various sectors” notes Rieks Reyers, Sales Manager at

Dinnissen. “Once we realised that the spring fairs would not be able to take place for the time being because of COVID-19, we acted fast. We came up with the idea to present our exhibition stand online this year, by producing videos of our latest innovations and developments. Of course, we prefer to have one-on-one contact with our customers, so from now on they can schedule personal video conversations with our experts.”

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Kemin Industries partners with Pacific Genetech to bring salmonella vaccine to poultry industry

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emin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services, has signed an exclusive agreement with Pacific GeneTech (PGT), a biologics company that develops and commercialises next-generation vaccines for areas of high unmet or underserved needs in food safety and animal health, to license PGT’s Salmonella vaccine for poultry.

PGT’s Salmonella vaccine addresses multiple serovars of Salmonella. It was developed from the company’s proprietary Aegis platform, which is applicable to multiple pathogens, including bacteria, parasites and viruses. Both the platform and Salmonella vaccine were originally developed by the University of Arkansas’s Poultry Health Laboratory, in collaboration with other US and Canadian universities and with support from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

“Partnering with PGT on this vaccine will allow Kemin to deliver the technology needed to address Salmonella contamination in poultry, a common pathogen that threatens food safety and the health of consumers,” said Dr Chris Nelson, President and CEO, Kemin. “I

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am thrilled that we will be able to bring this vaccine to market around the world. This will make the vaccine more accessible which, in turn, may help reduce the incidence rate of Salmonella in consumer poultry products.”

As part of its partnership with PGT, Kemin will focus on developing the Salmonella vaccine and registering it in the United States and other countries, beginning with the European Union. Kemin will also begin expanding the Salmonella vaccine’s availability in Southeast Asia and Africa.

“Kemin has the technology, technical expertise and scientific experience to scale PGT’s Salmonella vaccine and deliver it to a global audience,” said Tim Collard, CEO, PGT. “We are excited to partner with Kemin because we believe that the superiority of our vaccine, coupled with Kemin’s innovation, commitment to animal health and global presence, can make Salmonella prevention more attainable for many.”

Kemin Biologics, a business initiative of Kemin Industries focused on developing vaccines as the first line of defense against disease to reduce the use of antibiotics, entered this partnership with PGT in February 2020, and has begun the product registration process in multiple countries.

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Proagrica launches omnichannel platform for agricultural retailers

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roagrica, the largest tech and data business serving the global agriculture market, has launched an omnichannel platform for agricultural retailers looking to unify their customer experience. The new offer strengthens customer relationships by integrating retailers’ existing systems and sales channels into a single online portal for customers to easily place orders themselves.

Graeme McCracken, CEO at Proagrica, says, “Best practice from market leaders in the B2C space means ag retailers are now being judged by the standards set by the likes of Amazon and Apple that are differentiating through data-led experiences. Consequently, growers increasingly expect the same types of slick and seamless customer experiences. If incumbents don’t act fast, they will see their market position chipped away by digital-first challenger brands.”

Research into US ag retailers Proagrica completed earlier this year revealed that over three-quarters of ag retailers still use legacy tools such as manual spreadsheets to manage relationships and only 16 percent employ CRM systems.

Agriculture generates more data than any other industry McCracken comments, “Agriculture generates more data than any other industry and, historically, it’s been challenging for ag retailers to unlock the inherent value this presents. Consequently, key information gets missed or isn’t available at point-of-sale, so conversion opportunities are lost. This has made ag retail experience frustrating for all parties.”

Proagrica’s omnichannel platform enhances existing channels to customers by eliminating interoperability barriers and securely connecting the retailer’s supply chain data from disparate systems and sales channels. This includes customer-specific pricing, and ties in interactions with agronomists and reps, whether these have been conducted in-field, in-store, over the phone or online. It overlays this information with customers’ own agronomic data and account information which they can add and update using a self-service interface.

Growers can also place, evaluate and track orders 24/7, view their account balance and review messages within a user-friendly interface that is branded to the retailer’s specifications. The integrated portal supports growers’ preferences, regardless of how they prefer to buy. Flexible payment options include pre-pay, pay by account and the option to pay by bank transfer.

“The immediate advantages to the ag retailer are improved customer engagement and loyalty. It breaks down the barriers between grower and retailer, building trust to elevate the supplier/client relationship to the status of valued partnership. However, Omnichannel can also open up new revenue streams in allowing reps to recommend products and services that will help customers future-proof their operations.”

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Five more ICU proning beds in Italian hospitals thanks to Ocrim’s generous donation

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crim have generously donated €100,000 euros which has enabled the purchase of five proning beds which are now being used in hospitals in Cremona and Crema. Italy has been one of the countries worst affected by COVID-19, as currently there have been over 220,000 cases.

“These are very special beds that assist in the treatment of patients with severe respiratory failure.

They are in fact actual therapeutic tools that promote the patient’s recovery in a shorter time. They make the work of healthcare professionals easier, promote patient comfort and reduce the risk of bedsores to a minimum. State-ofthe-art equipment that will be useful to everyone,” said Marina Zanotti, Head of Arco Onlus Fundraiser.

Matteo Tedoldi, chairman of Arco Onlus thanked Ocrim for their kind donation. “I wish to thank Ocrim, which responded to our appeal and made a very substantial donation that allowed us to donate these very sophisticated

beds, not only in Cremona but also in Crema. COVID-19 has hit our area very badly, and it has reacted with tangible, extreme generosity and this is an example.”

Ocrim CEO, Alberto Antolini, commented, “We are proud of what we have been able to accomplish together. In an emergency like this, the least we could do was support our healthcare system and the incredible work carried out by our doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals. Thanks to the strong bond that the Arco Onlus association has with the region, we have managed to make the donation immediately accessible”.

Statement about wheat purchase from TMO General Manager Ahmet Güldal

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ccording to the statement made to the Anadolu Agency by the General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board, Ahmet Güldal, TMO will also start purchasing products in regions where wheat harvest is started after the Ramadan Feast.

Evaluating the prices announced by President Erdoğan and the period of disclosure, Güldal said, 'Thanks to the determination of pre-harvest prices, we give producers the opportunity to follow sales and market policies.'

He added that they determined the announced prices by taking into account domestic and foreign market prices, inflation rates, farmer expectations and general market conditions.

Expressing that there is a decrease in wheat cultivation areas due to the transition to other products and,

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therefore, a decrease in production, Güldal noted that wheat production should increase to 22 million tonnes.

He said that a policy was developed in favour of wheat for this purpose, that the ministry provided good purchase prices together with the premium support, and this procurement policy will continue in the coming years.

Stating that they received positive feedback from producers and farming organisations after the announced prices, Güldal stated that he expects increases in production and, as a result, also in terms of yield.

He announced that wheat prices are currently US $247 per tonne (1.650 TL), three percent quality Premium.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry provided cereal support and licensed warehouse support, so the price would reach $300 (2,000 TL).

Reminding that they will make purchases with an appointment system at 260 points for 125 licensed warehouses, Güldal said that the payments will be made within 10 days at the latest, and they always try to support farmers as the ministry and Turkish Grain Board.

Milling News Calcot Mill in the 1920s

Mr Joseph Hunt: 50 years a roller man

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

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Previous discussions with our publisher have centred around paying tribute to the role that individual people have played in the milling story. The launch of the Milling Hall of Fame in the March issue of Milling and Grain has given me the opportunity to think about who I would recommend for inclusion. I thought that this month rather than considering the pantheon of the greats such as Pillsbury, Rank or Simon, I would consider the story of a different type of hero.

I was aided in my quest by editions of Milling from 1950, when they ran a series entitled “Men in the Mill” and specifically one about Joseph Hunt. Here was a story about just one man who went quietly about his work for 61 years without seeking any reward, other than the satisfaction he got from improving the output of the mills in which he worked.

Popularly known among his friends as Joe, a native of Berkshire, Joseph Hunt was born on 21st January 1875 in the small village of Sulham, near Reading. He was a man of his time, who worked his way up from the age of 14 to become not only a master miller but also a millwright and engineer.

Joe’s first job in 1889 was with Smith Brothers at Calcot Mill, pleasantly situated on a tributary of the River Thames, known as the Holy Brook, a channel of the River Kennet in a suburb of Reading. The mill at the time contained a combined millstone and roller plant, shortly afterwards to be replaced by a two-sack plant installed by C Hopkinson, milling engineers of Retford.

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Roller mills at Jordan’s Mill, opened as a Heritage Centre in 2013

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Swallowfield mill around 1900

suffered a serious fire and in 1897 he went on from there to W Looker’s Exchange Mills in Luton, where he helped to install a new two and a half sack Turner plant. He stayed there for two and a half years as mill foreman. It is interesting to note that a little later the youngest of Joseph Rank’s three sons, J Arthur Rank, also did a thorough apprenticeship at the Looker Mill.

From Luton, Joe went back to Berkshire to Swallowfield Mill, only five miles from Reading. He was a shift rollerman in a two and a half sack Simon plant for seven years before returning to Bedfordshire. He was employed at William Jordan’s Holme Mills at Biggleswade, which had by this time been rebuilt after their fire, and was fitted out with a new three sack roller plant by ER & F Turner.

In 1911 he left Jordan’s for Fleetham Mill, Bedale in North Yorkshire. At that time, the mill was occupied and worked by Thomas Burgess and contained a two-sack plant by Ashley’s of Louth.

Joe Hunt made several improvements to the plant at Fleetham Mill. He was very handy at doing repairs and renewals, and one of his outstanding achievements was the remodel of the scalpers, making the new machines himself and installing them into the difficult space available. These new scalpers and other alterations, which were done by Joe during his time at Fleetham, greatly improved the mill’s performance.

When this mill was given up in 1921, Joe transferred with the Burgess family to Thornton Dale Mill which was then a remodelled four sack plant containing machines by Simon, Turner and Armfield.

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Milling News He still worked London, held a competition open to occasionally at Grove Mill every British miller, irrespective of the after retirement, and the size of plant, for the best milled flour accompanying photograph from British Empire wheats. The First of him was taken on the day Prize Gold Medal and Diploma was before his 75th birthday awarded to Thornton Dale Mill with when he just took off his Joseph Hunt as the miller in charge on overalls for a few minutes that occasion. before dinner hour and was In 1934 he moved from Thornton back at work again in the Dale to Worksop where he afternoon. superintended the starting up of a The article concluded, “A Simon plant, eventually increasing the lifelong Churchman, and in capacity from three to five sacks per 61 years a miller, 39 years hour. with two generations of In 1940 he was in charge of Thomas Burgess & Sons, installing another plant, this time at there was never a record of Grove Mill Retford, a mill of four him being late for work on sacks capacity in premises devoid of any day. He is an inspiration anything except four spacious floors to all who respect and and a grain silo at one end. During war admire the activities of a real time this was a truly commendable Joseph Hunt the day before his 75th birthday English Craftsman.” job because he drew the flow sheet, I intend to write about more arranged the machinery, helped to install it and, with but four assistants entering the premises on 8th mill people (not all men!) so I would be pleased to have any suggestions of suitable candidates; email me at April 1940, the mill was making flour on 17th September in the mills@millsarchive.org same year.

Grove Mill was described as a demonstration to the genius of Joe as a “proved expert”; it was claimed that in small and medium capacity flour mills it would have been difficult to find a better all-rounder. Moreover Joe’s “quiet pleasing manner and www.millsarchive.org genial nature” made him popular with all who knew him.

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NSPO and ENSELCO: Two great projects

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he installation of two new projects in two key countries for Symaga consolidate the continuous growth of the Spanish company. The new plants have been constructed in Egypt, which serve as expansions to the largest storage project in the world, supplied by Symaga in 2015. The second project, currently still under assembly, is located in Ukraine, the country where Symaga silos are most present, with more than 5 million m3 of storage built.

Bühler has opted for Symaga storage solutions for their new project National Service Projects Organisations of Egypt (NSPO). The mill, located in El Sadat City near Cairo, has a plant of 14 silos of 19.86m in diameter each, 17 rings-high, 6500m3/5000t per silo. Also constructed was a wheat storage plant with a total capacity of 91,000m3/70,000 tons, which will play a key role in logistics and storage within the Egyptian food safety strategy.

In Ukraine, Enselco Agro, Kernel Group company, a global reference trader in the agricultural market, has once again selected Symaga for the development of its new storage plant in Starokonstantinov. The plant boasts 12 silos of Symaga’s SBH3208/25 model, the largest capacity silo of the range, with a 32m diameter and a total height of 37.51m, and a total capacity of 306,000m3. This reference is strategic, because Enselco is a trader that belongs to a group of 42 companies, which constitute Enselko Agro, a TOV corporate family, with 1,478 employees and US $115.1 million in sales. This project is the second one that has been supplied to Kernel group. In 2018, Symaga supplied six SBH3208 silos for the Transgrainterminal company, a total of 134,564m3 of storage for the Ukrainian terminal of Chornomorets.

With more than 35 years of experience, Symaga is a great partner for storage. They are proud of their increasing presence in consolidated countries such as Egypt and Ukraine, which serves as an endorsement of Symaga’s constant and optimal product quality and service.

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Hamlet Protein supports local US communities

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s millions of Americans struggle with the impact of the coronavirus, a series of devastating tornados hit the Southeast US. Hamlet Protein Inc joined forces with some of its customers and local relief organisations to support communities in general and agricultural industry employees and their families in particular.

In April, tornados struck communities in the Southeast US, damaging and destroying numerous homes and business buildings. Hamlet Protein donated to volunteer fire departments in the area that have shown tremendous commitment in helping families in need.

Food banks across the United States support families and individuals through the donation of food. The economic impact of the corona virus has prompted an increased demand for food donations. Hamlet Protein Inc contributed to foodbanks in Oklahoma to support their efforts.

Hamlet Protein Inc also donated to the ‘Meating the Need Campaign’ that provides food and support to families impacted by COVID-19 in the upper Midwest.

“Hamlet Protein is part of the food chain. Through

the health of farm animals, we contribute to feeding the world. In times like these, when a pandemic and storms collide, we feel it is important to support those in need. Through our donations we join forces with many other organisations aiming to make a difference to local communities,” commented Grady Fain, Regional Director NCA at Hamlet Protein.

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ccording to the statement made to the Anadolu Agency by the General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board, Ahmet Güldal, TMO will also start purchasing products in regions where wheat harvest is started after the Ramadan Feast.

Evaluating the prices announced by President Erdoğan and the period of disclosure, Güldal said, “Thanks to the determination of pre-harvest prices, we give producers the opportunity to follow sales and market policies.”

He added that they determined the announced prices by taking into account domestic and foreign market prices, inflation rates, farmer expectations and general market conditions.

Expressing that there is a decrease in wheat cultivation areas due to the transition to other products and, therefore, a decrease in production, Güldal noted that wheat production should increase to 22 million

tonnes. He said that a policy was developed in favour of wheat for this purpose, that the ministry provided good purchase prices together with the premium support, and this procurement policy will continue in the coming years.

Stating that they received positive feedback from producers and farming organisations after the announced prices, Güldal stated that he expects increases in production and, as a result, also in terms of yield.

He announced that wheat prices are currently 1.650 TL per tonne, three percent quality Premium.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry provided cereal support and licensed warehouse support, so the price would reach 2,000 TL. Reminding that they will make purchases with an appointment system at 260 points for 125 licensed warehouses, Güldal said that the payments will be made within 10 days at the latest, and they always try to support farmers as the ministry and Turkish Grain Board.

The Rex Wailes Collection The Rex Wailes Collection: Rex Wailes visits the USA and surveys Long Island and Nantucket windmills

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive Trust, UK I have mentioned previously that travelling formed an important part of Rex’s lifestyle. In 1929 he took a threemonth trip to North America and spent much time on the Eastern Seaboard as well as in Canada. His trip to Long Island and then to Cape Cod and Nantucket produced a wealth of information from photographs and the notes he made. His diary of the time, now at the Mills Archive, outlined his approach: “Next morning, Saturday, I met Mr Fuller as arranged and we walked up to the mill which he unlocked and left me with a flashlight, and instructions to return the key to him at 1pm. I spent all the morning there, measuring up and taking photographs.” This mill is still standing for the visitor to see today.

His eye for detail was impressive as can be seen from the images here. Some such as the broken glass plates of the interior details from two of the Long Island mills did not benefit from the rigours of intercontinental travel almost 100 years ago. Digitising has rescued the images and the plates are carefully stored so no more harm can come to them.

Rex subsequently published his American work in a series of articles, which had significant impact in America and then internationally as his reputation as an adventurous and meticulous researcher and photographer began to grow. He encouraged local historical societies to take more notice of their industrial monuments and made lasting trans-Atlantic friendships.

On his return in July 1929 he discovered that an article had appeared in the Daily Mail on 17 June 1929 entitled “Our Vanishing Windmills: How you can help save them”. This was to change his life and that of many others.

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Yemmak signature in Turkey’s top producers in 2020 emmak, one of the leading Turkish companies in the feed machinery sector, has announced that 2020 is proving to be a very successful year for them. Company officials stated that many major compound feed facilities that will be operational this year within Turkey are or have been constructed by Yemmak.

Sharing information on their upcoming projects, Halil Yırtımcı, Deputy General Manager of Yemmak, who has an impressive 55 years of industry experience, says, “As one of Turkey’s leading machine manufacturers, we continue to make great strides within the country as well as abroad. Five feed producers from different regions have opted for the Yemmak seal of quality for six new facilities.”

Proyem, operating as part of Matlı Food Group, selected Yemmak for its 100 tonnes-per-hour compound feed facility in the Polatlı district of Ankara. The plant, which will produce durable pellets with five pellet lines, three of which are double pelletising lines, is planned to be operational at the beginning of June. The facility will be capable of producing five different feed types at the same time and all feed types on offer for livestock.

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stakeholders within the industry, also selected Yemmak for its 75 tonnes-per-hour capacity plant in Menemen, following its factory in Ödemiş. It is stated that the factory under assembly will begin production in September. Tarım Kredi Yem, which gathers 12 feed plants under one roof, also assigned Yemmak to construct two plants, one in Şanlıurfa

and the other in Tire, both of which will have a capacity of 50 tonnesper-hour. The one in Şanlıurfa will be the first high-tech feed factory in the province. Özlem Yem and Sivtaş have also chosen Yemmak for their plants in Adapazarı, Söğütlü (50 tonnes-per-hour capacity) and Sivas (20 tonnes-per-hour capacity) respectively.

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TRAINING The course will have an in-depth discussion of various flow sheets and approaches for successful milling. Understanding the influences of both the raw material and the applied milling system to optimise the production.

Buhler–KSU Flowsheet Technology Course topics include the cleaning and conditioning of wheat (advanced flow sheet technology in the cleaning section, systems and designs, practicals in the Hal Ross Mill); in-depth flow sheet technology of the milling process, new approaches in a

Through hands-on training in the Kansas State University milling facilities and classroom discussions at the IGP Institute, this course will help participants develop a conceptual understanding of the milling process with a focus on mill balance, understanding critical control points in the milling system, and milling different wheat classes.

IAOM-KSU Basic Milling Principles Participants will be provided with a greater knowledge of

The objective of the course is to understand the underlying principle of the milling process and the parameters that can be influenced by either the raw material or the milling system; understanding the challenges of the operating staff; and learning which critical control points to check in order to judge whether an operation is running well.

Bühler – KSU Executive Milling Course topics include raw material (kernel structure, influence of wheat characteristics on yield and mill performance, usage of

The course will cover various aspects of extrusion technology, equipment and product development (including snack foods, soy chunks, breakfast cereal, pet food and aquatic feed processing). A significant new feature is a hands-on session on the science and practice of sensory evaluation and consumer acceptance studies for new products.

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mill flow sheet to improve extraction, operational reliability and finished product quality of a mill; flour mill operation (different approaches to milling wheat); novelties in the finished product handling section (new machines and measurement equipment for product safety).

Production manager, head millers, and experienced shift managers should attend. Theoretical and practical milling background (milling school or university, prior advanced milling course from IAOM or Buhler Training Centre), please forward a copy of the certificate, KSU milling science graduate with two years practical experience or five years of shift milling experience. This course will take place November 16–20th, 2020.

the milling process and controls that are influenced by the raw material and the milling systems including cleaning, conditioning, milling, and finished product; understand how employees impact and control the process.

Topics to be covered include wheat classes and uses; wheat testing practices and methods; wheat cleaning and conditioning systems; importance of wheat quality and preparation; milling process specifics and associated equipment; basic flowsheet terminology and understanding; advantages of wheat and flour blending; granulation curves; flour and dough quality testing; and practical hands-on experience in the Hal Ross flour mill and KSU milling labs.

various types of wheat for different finished products); cleaning system (special systems for Mycotoxin reduction and top quality flour production, machine and flow sheet technology, system design and various tempering philosophies, practical in the Hal Ross mill); milling system (description and function of milling machines, basic flow sheet technology, basics in starch damage, practical in Hal Ross mill; break release, adjustment of purifiers and roll stands, sample analysis); finished product handling and storage (batch mixing versus continuous mixing systems, basics in flow quality, product safety and quality control); performance evaluation in a flour mill, factors that influence an investment decision and basics in aspiration.

State. There will be plenty of hands-on and applied lab sessions in which different products will be developed and evaluated both instrumentally and by using a consumer panel.

The hands-on session on the science and practice of sensory evaluation and consumer acceptance studies for new products is a significant feature of the extrusion course. One day of the course will be reserved for a visit to Sabetha, Kansas, which is home to major manufacturers of extruders and ancillary equipment.

The course is recommended for technical and managerial personnel in the food, pet food and feed industry, and ingredient companies desiring training in fundamentals and operations; entrepreneurs who desire to set up a new extrusion-based food processing business; and researchers interested in updating themselves with the latest practices and trends in extrusion procession. This course will take place August 11–14, 2020.

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4B Braime Components has introduced the Industrial Ethernet Node (IE-NODE) remote monitoring interface designed to provide sensor data to PLC’s or other automation and control systems.

The IE-NODE is available in two versions, both with a total of 10 sensor inputs.

Version 1 has eight contact or NTC temperature inputs, and two pulse or 4-20 mA (current loop) inputs. Version 2 has 10 inputs for 4-20 mA (current loop) sensors.

Both units can be expanded to 16 sensor inputs with the installation of optional expansion boards.

The IE-NODE operates by reading its sensor inputs and sending processed data when requested by another system (e.g.

PLC). The units are equipped with an RJ45 Ethernet socket and supports PROFINET, EtherNet/IP and Modbus TCP/IP protocols for easy integration with Siemens, AllenBradley Rockwell and other automation devices.

Cimbria develops and manufactures an entire range of optical sorters using the ultimate technologies for cleaning seeds, grains, food commodities and industrial products. A global pioneer in sensor-based sorting, thanks to its passion for continuous research and development, Cimbria offers highly advanced technological solutions that meet the essential requirements of the users.

Cimbria SEA’s commitment is to offer ever-better electronic sorting solutions by means of userfriendly machines. The Cimbria SEA product range also includes an optical sorter with multiple wavelengths in the infrared field, designed for the most complex colour sorting applications.

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QuikTest At-Line Analyser Process Sensors Corporation , a KPM Analytics company, recently announced the release of the QuikTest analyser for rapid at-line analysis of moisture and oil content of ingredients, in-process samples, and final products for quality control.

Designed for use on the production floor, the QuikTest measures moisture and/or oil from solid, powdered or paste samples to ensure the utmost efficiency in their manufacturing.

The analyser’s simple interface and intuitive operation make it easy for plant operators to make reliable measurements. Simply place the sample in the sample cup, place the cup on the instrument and press start. In 10 seconds, accurate operatorindependent results are presented on the large 5.7-inch touchscreen display. No sample preparation or harsh chemicals are required, and calibrations can be made from as few as five samples in minutes, providing accurate results from any proprietary or custom product. www.processsensors.com ®

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BinMaster 80 GHz NonContact Radar for Solids The BinMaster NCR-80 is a non-contact radar level sensor designed for superior performance in extremely dusty powders and bulk solids. Its powerful 80 GHz frequency focused in a narrow 4° beam angle with a measuring range up to 393 feet and accuracy within 0.2 inches means it excels in tall and narrow vessels.

The NCR-80 is offered with a 10°swivelling, stainless steel flange for precise targeting; a lightweight plastic antenna with an 8° swivelling flange or a mounting strap for adjustable targeting; or a 1-1/2” NPT mounting option for use in an existing process connection. The NCR-80 is resistant to interference, while its advanced filters ensure rapid signal processing and an update rate of less than one second.

BinMaster offers diverse mounting options, including a custom carbon steel ball-and -socket mount for aiming flexibility. If you have an angled roof, you don’t need to make your own flange.

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Modular cleaning system Vitaris

With Vitaris, BĂźhler presents an integrated and modular system for grain cleaning. The coordinated modules guarantee the highest efficiency and hygiene for every process step throughout the cleaning process. The new Vitaris cleaning system can be precisely coordinated with an existing or a newly designed plant layout.

The modules are selected to suit the intended products and processes and adapted to the available space and production quantities. This modular design allows future adjustments or enhancements to be made at any time.

Every individual module in the Vitaris cleaning system increases the efficiency of the entire system—in terms of energy consumption and space required as well as operating and maintenance costs. At the same time, the excellent selectivity in all process steps increases the product quality. All steps in the entire system are connected seamlessly. With the compact Air-recycling aspirator MVST, dust and light particles from the grain are removed even before the actual cleaning. The Vitaris separator MTRD effectively separates the grain from coarse and fine products thanks to new features such as the two sand screen layers.

The Vitaris combistoner MTCH separates efficiently parts with a higher specific weight, such as stone and glass from the grain. In addition, it classifies the grain into mixed and high-density products. With air recirculation, the destoner needs just a small amount of fresh air, thus saving energy. The Air-recycling aspiration channel MVSS reliably removes light particles and dust with the aid of an adjustable air flow. The combicleaner MTKC combines destoner and separator to form a compact cleaning system with all the advantages Vitaris provides.

The new Vitaris cleaning system from BĂźhler meets the highest requirements of food safety for grain products. The sieves are made of stainless steel, and synthetic materials that are food-grade (FDA approved). No more nails, felt, or plush are used. The Vitaris cleaning system can optionally be operated with fresh air or recirculated air. When operated with recirculated air, 90 percent of the air used is fed back into the ventilating fan. Energy consumption is reduced by up to 15 percent compared with conventional solutions. www.buhlergroup.com

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The Bühler Virtual World

During the Virtual World Tour, Bühler hosted a variety of presentations informing their customers of the innovative solutions they can offer all stages of the food and feed production chains.

Each presentation was polished, informative and concise, providing an intriguing window into the innovation at the heart of Bühler.

Extrusion Application Centre Uzwil and Food Application Centre Minneapolis

by Alexandra Londoño, Head of Business Segment Pulses and Christoph Vogel, Head of Market Segment Proteins and Ingredients, Bühler High moisture extrusion can produce plant-based meats through the use of pulses, something that Bühler have been hard at work developing in recent years. The demand for sustainable food is evergrowing and plant proteins can accommodate this demand as they are both environmentally friendly and healthy.

Christopher and Alexandra take attendees through a tour of the Bühler Application Centre in Uzwil, paying particular attention to the Polycool 500 cooling die. Through the use of the Polycool 500, operators can produce a variety of meats that resemble, chicken, beef, pork and seafood, which are prepared the same as normal meat. These products can help people gradually wean off of eating meat to a more sustainable solution that would greatly benefit the enviornment.

“Our current food supply chain has some drawbacks” says Christopher. “The animal protein conversion rate is not that good. With this extrusion system here we can use plant proteins, put them into the extruder at 50 percent plant proteins, 50 percent water and what we get out is 100 percent meat-like tasty products… We can do almost anything with extrusion technology.” Christoph showed attendees examples of cereals, reconstituted rice and feed, all produced via extrusion technology.

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Ian Roberts, CTO Bühler, at the Bühler Virtual World

Johannes Wick, CEO Grains and Food, Bühler in the virtual studio of Bühler Virtual World

Germar Wacker, CEO Consumer Foods, Bühler, presenting at Bühler Virtual World

ChocoX is Bühler’s new state of the art moulding solution.

ChocoX can be installed on a site within a week

How hygienic and connected machines save your brand and money

by Edyta Margas, Global Head of Food Safety, Bühler

In this presentation, Bühler’s Global Head of Food Safety explored the risks of improper food safety and how companies can utilise Bühler solutions to ensure optimal hygiene measures during all stages of production. One in 10 people become sick from foodborne illnesses every year. Edyta noted that there were 2,250 food recalls in 2019, which costed the USA alone $10m. One-third of all food produced is wasted and 30 percent of total production time is spent on cleaning.

How do we improve these statistics? Bühler state that hygienic equipment is vital.

“This is a key to safeguard food safety. One the one hand we need to have a machine that is hygienically designed, and, on the other hand, we need to have a machine that is performing effectively and hygienically. To have both of these, we can be sure we contribute towards safe food”, says Edyta.

Ms Margas refers to Bühler’s new Wafer Cream Spreading Machine that was produced with hygienic principles in mind. The solution boasts many benefits to the production line; less cleaning resources are needed, leading to reduced downtime and lower contamination risks. The solution has a fast release belt to ensure fast and easy cleaning, enabling easy access to the belt to easily remove contaminants that may be present in the solution.

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Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler

Collaborating for the future of food and feed packaging

by Johannes Wick, CEO Grains and Food, Bühler and André Noreau, CEO Premier TechSystems and Automation

myBühler Customer PortalWelcome to your digital customer experience

by Mathias Bösch, Head of Digital Business, Bühler

During Bühler Virtual World the Bühler team also promoted the many complimentary services they offer clients, which all form part of myBühler. The myBühler Customer Portal is available in more than 120 countries and serves over 6000 customers in eight languages.

There are the four categories which form part of the myBühler offerings: • Customer care: Supporting day to day operations (repairs, spare and wear parts, remote support) • Maintenance: Retrofits, revisions, maintenance • Expert services: Training, application centres • Digital solutions: Automation and digital services

In August 2019, Bühler announced their collaboration with Premier Tech with the goal of revolutionising the food packing industry. Both companies are family businesses that are also leaders in their respective markets. Thanks to their likeminded goals and values, Johannes notes that the collaboration was an ideal step forward.

The joint venture has now established Bühler Premier Tech (Wuxi) Packaging Machinery Co Ltd in China. Market access remains through Bühler whilst products are cobranded under the name Premier Tech – Bühler. The joint venture product portfolio includes all of Bühler’s pre-existing manual-semiautomatic products as well as fully automatic solutions.

Bühler will focus on turnkey plants projects while the Premier Tech division will focus on working with clients who purchase with standalone units. André Noreau notes that this collaboration means customers can feel secure knowing they are receiving the “best quality and most cost-effective solutions in the world of packaging.”

When asked about the future for Premier Tech – Bühler, Johannes notes that the next step forward is to ramp up the joint venture in China, initiate all products transfers and promote their partnership and new product portfolio.

“The potential is huge and think we have the exact right vehicle to achieve that kind of potential” concludes André.

Coffee technology

by Daniel Egy, Head of Business Unit Chocolate and Coffee and Tanja Berti, Process Technology Engineer Coffee, Bühler Thanks to Bühler’s innovative new technologies, users can use different roasting profiles to create coffee that is more unique than ever before. The Coffee Roaster Infinity Roast 1000 is new in that it can do more than conventional roasting.

The solution is perfect for operators interested in producing more custom products with unique tastes.

In the Coffee Application Centre in Uzwil, customers and clients can optimise their roasting profile and settings through exploring different settings on the various machines at their disposal. As we are taken on a tour of the facility, we are informed how certain parameters affect taste, production time etc. and this centre provides members of the industry with an opportunity to discover the infinite possibilities they have available.

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F Q&A at Buhler’s ‘Creating Food Sensations’ press conference

A virtual press conference preceded Bühler’s opening of its online ‘Creating Food Sensations’ event. The event, which fills the void for the company due to the delayed Dusseldorf Interpack Processing and Packaging Exhibition moving from May 7-13th, 2020 to February 25-March 2nd, 2021, drew together over 40 journalists from around the world.

Milling and Grain reported the press conference through its news blogs online, however, following the presentations journalists were invited to ask questions.

Here we report in brief - and abridged – on questions and answers put to the Bühler team which comprised: Stefan Scheiber, CEO Bühler Group Ian Roberts, CTO Bühler Group and Germar Wacker, CEO Consumer Foods.

Q: What does ‘resilience’ mean and what can Buhler to contribute to greater ‘resilience?’

A: Stefan Scheiber, CEO Bühler Group (SS): It is important that we remain supportive of our customers, through our 90 service stations. We work with our local people who are allowed to connect to our customers. That means we could support them with parts, consulting and even installation of complete plants using VR technology and in some cases with our staff carrying out work they were not necessarily expert in doing but able to with the supply of appropriate tools.

Q: What is the cost to your business position, positive or negative, of the COVID-19 pandemic?

A: SS: Overall on growth we are affected. Our orders are down by 25 percent. This does impact our business in some areas more than others. Die casting, for example, has been severely affected. As you all know some big OEM have shut their production, but we have other areas in our business that have been working.

Germar Wacker, CEO Consumer Foods (GW): If you look at our range of customers it strongly depends on which

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region they are in, the food channels they use, how high their capacity is to meet consumer demand.

They might have to face setbacks in face of their business processes. It is our job to support our customers wherever they are and those who are in that range to be close to them, support them in business resilience and help them reach maximum capacities and to look forward to new potentials.

A lot of businesses are trying to keep liquidity protected but from the enquiries we are receiving it gives me a good feeling for a bounce back once we are out of this current situation.

A: Ian Roberts, CTO Bühler Group (IR): We see the demand for plant-based meat growing globally, it’s an extraordinary transition in terms of human demand. In 30 years in this industry I haven’t seen such a mass pull towards a totally new category. So, we are serving many of the companies bringing out these innovations - plant-based chicken replacements, plant-based burgers and plant-based sausages and we see these popping up all over the world.

Q: Should the food industry play a greater role with governments to ensure food is supplied to all parts of the world, particularly to production plant facilities. What role does the industry have to play?

A: SS: I think governments, industry and academia together with scientific research must communicate to pull people together to exchange learnings. Only through this collaboration will we be able to come up with solutions to feed and nourish 10 billion people over the years to come.

The impact on the climate that we can measure already shows limitations on how grains are grown and where they can be grown. At the same time the population keeps on growing. I think what we have now seen in the coronavirus is that wise governments linked up with research and scientific support shows this collaboration to have been very successful, very trustful in mastering the crisis. They have been very successful. In their absence it has been less successful.

Statistics that shock!

Some of the main themes outlined in Bühler’s Press Conference on May 11th, 2020 discuss the need - especially in the trying times we face with COVID-19 - to remain resilient.

It’s more important than ever to continue to innovate, we were told. Some examples of helpful solutions to aid in this were provided, such as Bühler’s Customer Portal, which provides support for customers through 90 service depots and 29 application centres located around the world. Bühler even provides remote guidance through either smart glasses or smart phones.

CEO, Stefan Scheiber, provided some shocking statistics about the demands that food production places on the planet: Food production accounts for 70 percent of water use, generates 25 percent of our greenhouse emissions, consumes one-third of the total energy generated and accounts for one-third of all waste.

Complicating this is the fact that the global impact of climate change is already being felt and affecting our ability to produce food. For these and other reasons, Bühler has set itself the ambitious goal of achieving a 50 percent reduction in energy use, waste generation and water consumption.

A working example of Bühler’s commitment to sustainability is

the company’s sustainable cocoa centre in Ivory Coast. Here, Mr Scheiber told us, every part of the process is optimised to consume the minimum of resources while eliminating waste wherever possible.

Meanwhile, Ian Roberts, the company’s CTO says that food losses and waste is a significant squandering of resources, it also means that those losses add eight percent to greenhouse emissions worldwide, a direct contribution to waste and loss in the food value chain – yet at the same time over 800 million people are starving.

He told us we are already beginning to see the impact of climate change on food production with the higher incidence of fungal poisoning on crops, cocoa crops having to go to higher ground to deliver the yields needed to satisfy consumer demand. To counter these trends you have to look towards greater application of CO2 generating fertilisers or to improved genetics in agriculture, he asserts.

CEO Stefan Scheiber stressed that a key feature of Bühler’s resilience has been achieved by working with its partners and suppliers, Bühler has been able to keep its supply chain up and running throughout the COVID-19 crisis thanks to this collaborative effort.

Resilience, ‘bounce’ and sustainability: Overcoming the impact of COVID-19

“The next 24 months across the world will be very tough,” says Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler Group during a virtual press conference when he spoke to some 40-plus media representatives about industry resilience from Uzwil in Switzerland.

“We see many industries having issues and problems because obviously consumers and industrial players have big uncertainties to face. We would like to be a partner with them and for them, for the short term, over the next two years and most probably longer - this is what I estimate we will see as an impact on business globally,” he adds.

He is focusing his company’s efforts into three directions to address the pandemic, but also issues of environment, climate change and feeding 10 billion people by 2050. Those three goals start with Resilience, Bounce Back and Sustainability.

“We need to come up with completely new approaches and we want to contribute to this new requirement. Some people talk about a new normality going forward and Bühler will not wait- Bühler will share and proactively come up with new solutions as fast as they can be effectively produced.

“And then we have heard voices that suggest sustainability, perhaps, might not be on the forefront anymore because we have pressing and immediate challenges which have nothing to do with sustainability. I feel it is exactly the opposite. We now have seen we can make an impact; we cannot wait for old situations to come back.”

Taking greater responsibility for the continuation of food production globally It is our responsibility to ensure the continuity of food supply chains, says the Bühler Group from its head office in Uzwil, Switzerland.

Speaking during the company’s first virtual press conference, Mr Garmer Wacker, CEO of Bühler Consumer Foods, provided a range of ideas on how companies can stay resilient and successful, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding COVID-19.

He touched upon business values that can help ensure a company’s success both in the short- and the long-terms.

“In today’s world, we not only see it as our responsibility to ensure the continuity of food supply chains, but also to keep business afloat by enabling close collaboration among industry partners and with our customers,” he says.

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by Laudelino Almeida Ramos Neto, Marketing, Satake America Latina LTDA

he technological solutions provided by FMSR series of optical sorters have brought excellent performance, with an attractive cost/benefit ratio, to many areas of Brazil and throughout Latin America.

Satake, with its headquarters in Hiroshima, Japan, initiated its activities in Latin America, establishing its subsidiary in Brazil, Satake America Latina in 1999. Over the last 20 years, this operation has brought many innovative solutions to this expanding agribusiness market-developing and manufacturing various types of processing equipment, bringing high quality processing performance to business owners and their teams, mainly in the rice milling sector. These benefits have spread rapidly among other sectors such as beans, cashew nuts, coffee, corn, seeds and other grains. As a result, the region looks for Satake for insight into current and future challenges, to provide optimal solutions for local conditions.

The increasing demand was not just for mechanical equipment, there was also a strong drive for optical sorters that could meet ever-more stringent requirements, as well as provide innovation

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over the older existing optical sorting technologies available. Satake America Latina started importing the popular model FMS2000 from Japan, and successfully sold many units. These sorters have not only improved the final product quality, but also increased their customers’ sales numbers by attaining higher production capacity. As the demand for a higher capacity option accelerated, Satake rushed to bring the solution to its customers and released a new model, the FMSR series, offering up to three times the production capacity of the FMS2000. Manufacturing this machine in Brazil naturally brought down the cost, as well as avoiding import duties, thereby allowing much higher access for customers locally to this sophisticated technology.

In 2018, Satake America Latina released in Brazil the first FMSR with a three chutes model and a two chutes model and later adding a one chute model. Recently a model with up to six chutes was introduced in order to offer customers the opportunity to have a machine with higher production capacity.

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machine structure and wiring assembly is completed in Brazil, resulting in a powerful combination of the advantages of both Japanese and Brazilian Satake facilities. This high performance, user-friendly optical sorter is priced very attractively, and the local manufacture allows Satake to offer financing options for the small and medium sized enterprises and rural producers in Brazil.

Since its launch, FMSR quickly gained a high reputation in many different product sectors such as beans, nuts, oats, and rice.

Here follow examples of challenges that the FMSR solved on three specific products.

Being one of the largest global bean producers and consumers, estimated at 2.8 million tonnes in 2020, beans are a large part of the Brazilian industry. Producers need to offer consumers products with a good balance of quality and value. One example of the problems solved by FMSR was the sorting of “carioca beans” from soybeans. Due to the use of the same planting area in different seasons, it results in the cross contamination of both beans, which have very similar coloration. This caused serious issues for many processing companies. With high-resolution full colour cameras and sorting algorithms, FMSR efficiently separates these two beans, resulting in business gains and

excellent cost benefit to the processors.

Cashew nuts are a product of high benefit and value. Brazil exports them to many countries worldwide and it is essential to maintain their premium quality. However, with a continuous increase in labour cost, many processors started to suffer. Satake introduced FMSR to the market, providing precise sorting capability with slightest colour difference defects such as light “film”, and size separation of larger and higher value cashews with the size separating function that has provided realistic solutions to the processors. Offering its users speedy, quality, and versatile solutions, FMSR has successfully gained an excellent reputation in the Brazilian cashew nuts industry and in other cashew nut industries around the world.

Brazil has long been the world’s largest producer of coffee beans. The large volume of coffee produced in the country requires a mechanised harvest in most areas and, often, immature grains are mixed in, resulting in a lower coffee quality. A higher presence of immature beans greatly alters the flavour of the final product, especially after the roasting process. With increasing demands in premium coffee such as specialty coffee, processing companies are investing in machines and solutions to eliminate this defect. Committed on providing solutions to the customers, Satake America Latina, with collaboration from a Brazilian company in Minas Gerais State, has developed and released FMSR specifically designed for the coffee industry allowing the detection and separation of immature grains simultaneously with other defects in coffee.

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The thirty-nine wheat varieties being grown in demonstration plots at Cereals 2018 (Duxford, Cambridgeshire). Note the decreased height from the early varieties (closest to camera) to the modern varieties

Modern wheats are high in dietary fibre, but there is still room for improvement!

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by Peter R Shewry and Alison Lovegrove, Rothamsted Research, UK he yields of wheat in the UK and across much of the world have increased massively over the past century, from a few tonnes per hectare at the start of the twentieth century to current UK average yields of between eight and nine tonnes per hectare. Many factors have contributed to these increases, with genetic improvement by plant breeding being particularly important in the second half of the 20th century.

For example, Ian Mackay and colleagues at NIAB estimated that almost 90 percent of the yield increases in the UK over the period 1981-2007, from about six-to-eight tonnes per hectare, were due to varietal improvement. However, it has been suggested that the emphasis of modern breeding on increasing yield and processing quality has resulted in detrimental effects on the contents of other grain components, including those that are important for human health. This is important because wheat is the staple food in many countries and an important source of a number of essential and beneficial components, including protein, dietary fibre, minerals and vitamins.

Cereals, and wheat in particular, are important sources of dietary fibre. For example, in the UK about 40 percent of the fibre in the diet comes from cereals, about 20 percent from all breads and about 10 percent from white bread. Dietary fibre is essential for human health, having a range of established benefits including reducing the rate of glucose release during the digestion of starchy foods (and hence reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes), lowering blood pressure and the level of cholesterol in the serum, and reducing the risk of certain types of cancer (notably colorectal cancer). Fibre is also deficient in almost all diets: the average UK adult consumes about 18g per day, compared with the recommendation of 30g.

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In order to determine whether modern wheat breeding has resulted in decreases in the content of dietary fibre we have compared the composition of a collection of wheat varieties which have been grown and consumed in the UK over the past 250 years. Thirty-nine varieties (See image 1) were selected to include the most successful varieties grown in the UK over this period and also represented different stages of wheat breeding.

Nine of the varieties were released between 1790 and 1916, when varietal improvement was carried out by selecting the best lines from populations and from crosses. However, this was not underpinned by genetic understanding and we therefore refer to this stage as “Empirical Selection”. The second group of thirteen varieties were released between 1935 and 1972 and represented “Early Scientific Breeding”. Finally, seventeen varieties released between 1980 and 2012 represent “Modern Breeding”, including the introduction of short types in the 1970s and the increasing application of modern breeding technologies. In order to minimise the confounding effects of environment, the varieties were grown for three years with three replicate plots per year. The years and replicates were then analysed separately, allowing the use of statistics to identify significant differences (see Figure 1).

Because white bread continues to be the dominant wheat-based food in the UK and many other countries, we compared white flour prepared using a Chopin CD1 laboratory mill. Dietary fibre is a mixture of several components, but the major one of these (accounting for half or more of the total) is pentosan (arabinoxylan). Statistically significant differences in the contents of pentosans were observed between the varieties within each group, with further significant effects of environment.

Nevertheless, the pentosan content was higher in the modern varieties than in the two earlier groups: this difference was statistically significant and observed over all three years (See Figure 1). Analysis of the same samples showed that the increase

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Figure 1: Box and whisker plots of the contents of pentosans, total soluble sugars, asparagine and betaine in white flour of the 39 cultivars measured in three years and averaged over three replicates. Cultivars are grouped to represent stages in wheat breeding: red, empirical selection (190–1916); green, early breeding (1935–1972), blue, modern breeding (1980–2012)

in pentosans was associated with significantly increased contents of soluble carbohydrates, a fraction comprising monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, galactose and arabinose), disaccharides (sucrose, maltose) and the trisaccharide raffinose (called “soluble sugars” in Figure 1).

The increased yields of modern wheats result from higher rates of synthesis and accumulation of starch, which accounts for about 80 percent of the dry weight of white flour. The increased starch accumulation results in dilution of the second most abundant flour component, protein, which decreased from about 15 percent in the early varieties to about 12 percent in the modern group.

Proteins are polymers of about 20 amino acids and the total amounts of these, and the amounts of most individual amino acids, were generally lower in the modern wheats. This is of interest because the amino acids which decreased included asparagine (See Figure 1), which is a precursor of acrylamide formed during processing with asparagine concentration being the limiting factor for acrylamide formation in cereal-based foods. Hence, we would anticipate that products made from the modern wheats would have lower contents of acrylamide than products made from older types of wheat.

Finally, the flours from modern wheats also contained significantly higher contents of betaine, a modified amino acid which is beneficial for cardio-vascular health by acting as a “methyl donor” in the homocysteine cycle.

The modern wheat varieties included in this study included some of the most successful breadmaking wheats grown in the UK, such as the nabim Groups 1 varieties Hereward, Xi19, Solstice, Gallant and Crusoe. This shows that it is possible to combine higher levels of fibre (pentosan) with high yield and good breadmaking quality. However, it is necessary to increase the amounts further to

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Wider comparisons of wheats grown globally have shown that some varieties have higher contents of pentosan in white flour than those grown in the UK. We are, therefore, studying two of these, the Chinese variety Yumai 34 and the French variety Valoris, in order to identify the genes controlling the content of pentosan and to develop markers to enable breeders to screen for high pentosan content. Yumai 34 has good breadmaking quality and we have made crosses with UK varieties to develop pre-breeding lines which are being used in collaboration with partners in UK-based breeding companies to develop elite high fibre cultivars for growth in the UK. Preliminary analyses of lines from these studies confirm that high pentosan content can be combined with good breadmaking quality (see image 2).

The significance of changes in grain composition for human health may be difficult to estimate as wheat is usually consumed as part of a varied diet and is therefore a relatively minor dietary source of many components. However, because bread is a major source of fibre it is possible to make more precise calculations. White bread currently accounts for about 10 percent of the total intake of fibre in the UK and a two-fold increase in fibre content should therefore result in an increase of 1.8g in the average daily intake. This accounts for about 15 percent of the current shortfall in the daily intake of fibre in the UK.

Acknowledgements

Rothamsted Research receives grant-aided support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) of the UK and the work forms part of the Designing Future Wheat strategic programme (BB/P016855/1). We are grateful to colleagues at Rothamsted, particularly Dr Kirsty Hassall for statistical analyses and preparing Figure 1 and Dr Jane Ward for the analyses of sugars, asparagine and betaine, and to Prof Simon Griffiths and Dr Luzie Wingen at the John Innes Centre.

The loaf in Figure 3 was provided by Mark Waples at Marks and Spencer plc (London UK) as part of Innovate UK project L005654/1 which was led by Dr Jacob Lage (KWS Seeds). www.rothamsted.ac.uk

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By-products: Bran and husks: For maximum product utilisation and costefficient increase of the nutritive value in animal feed

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uring the processing of cereals such as wheat, spelt and oats, different product components are produced in the respective production steps.

In the grain husking and meal screening process, the main product to be processed is separated from its husk - also called bran. This by-product can be ideally used for further processing into animal feed.

Bran is the husk of the grain which may have a higher or lower starch content. This grain component is used, especially in the compound feed industry, for the production of animal feed. In order to compact the voluminous by-product, pelleting with Kahl flat die pelleting presses is the best option.

Pelleting of bran, and also husks, offers great advantages, especially with regard to storage and transport. While bran and husk can be stored relatively easily in large volumes, pelleting these products results in a higher bulk density, which reduces storage and transport costs and, thus, significantly increases economic efficiency.

The advantages of compaction with the Kahl flat die pelleting presses can also be found in the Kahl technology known worldwide. The press configuration holds a specific advantage for all products with a high fibre content, including bran and husk. Thanks to the Kahl flat die pelleting press, no pre-grinding is required. Such a by-product can therefore be pelleted easily and without great effort. A simple integration in the existing or new mill makes it possible to pellet the product and sell it as a valuable feed component, thereby increasing the nutritional value.

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Amino acid balancing rather than crude protein is the cutting edge in dairy nutrition

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by Robert Hamilton, Technical Sales Manager, Kemin Animal Nutrition and Health EMENA, UK

ince the 1980s we have been using crude protein (CP) as a key element in ration formulation. As with other industries, when advances are made, they are incorporated into systems and practises. This is also the case for ration formulation. With the mounting pressure to reduce soya usage as world demand increases, combined with the environmental impact of excess nitrogen protein excretion, it has never been a better time to explore the use of rumen protected amino acids (RP-AA). They not only help in addressing these key issues but also provide a range of benefits, such as increased production, improved milk quality, improved fertility and better general health of the animal. In mid-range CP diets, it is impossible to meet the Methionine (Met) and Lysine (Lys) requirements of the animal, therefore we cannot

achieve maximum potential and optimum returns.

Amino acids have been used successfully for many years in the monogastric sector and it makes perfect sense that, with improving rumen protection technology (encapsulation and HMBi), along with higher bioavailability, they are also utilised more extensively in the ruminant sector. To maximise bioavailability the product must escape the rumen relatively intact (encapsulated products) and into the absorption sites (abomasum, small intestine) to achieve the highest possible transfer value. Dependant on the encapsulation technology and product core (particle size & functional specific gravity) the true bioavailability can be very different from product to product.

Methionine benefits are commonly known within the dairy industry but, when used in concert with Lysine, it provides additional benefits beyond individual component feeding. It is important that, when using these two RP-AA, they are fed at

Figure 1: Percentage of milk fat yield (MF) and milk protein yield (MP) increase with different levels of additional metabolisable Lysine (MP Lys) added to control diets (balanced exclusively for Methionine (Ref 18-00054, Ref. 17-00015, Ref. 17-00018, Ref. 17-00019, Ref. 18-00005, Ref. 17-00015, Ref. 18-00027).

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Several formulating software packages already have an AA balancing element to the program, which enables the ruminant nutritionist to take full advantage. The amount of each AA product required is based on the metabolisable Met & Lys generated from the raw materials being used in each individual diet. A herd feeding a large percentage of grass for instance, may require little to no lysine addition, whereby a maize/whole crop fed herd will be the opposite.

However, this will largely depend on the stage of lactation, milk yield, CP level and nutritional model.

Due to the high concentration and high bioavailability, when AA balancing is correctly formulated, it allows for the reduction of CP (1516% typical diet). Beyond rumen functionality an RP product can provide the required essential limiting AA. Alongside standard milk components, casein is also increased with AA balancing so, for producers on a milk constituent contract supplying cheese processors, this could prove beneficial, as 1L of milk with a high casein level produces more cheese than 1L of milk with a low casein level. Although presently not compensated for casein, it could prove to be a cash point in the future.

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The company recently developed a farm-type feed facility with a capacity of two-to-three tonnes per hour under its Viteral brand. The solution, with a modular design, promises short installation time, low investment cost, low energy consumption, and short amortisation period.

Imas, one of the leading milling technology suppliers, has developed a new solution with a modular design for the feed industry. Viteral, Imas’s brand that is developing solutions for the feed milling industry, started to offer its farm-type feed facility with a capacity of to-to-three tonnes per hour to its customers only recently. The plant, which can be installed on an area of 8x8x7 metres is considered as an ideal investment for farms and new members of the industry thanks to its low energy

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Imas Machinery, a subsidiary of İttifak Holding, of which shares are being traded at Borsa Istanbul (BIST), establishes turnkey flour, semolina, and corn flour factories, flour and feed milling factories. It also produces band and circular saw benches and serves in the steel construction industry. Active in almost 100 countries across many regions of the world such as Central Asia, America, and Africa, Imas Machinery aims to strengthen trade with the African continent, Far East Asian countries and the Turkish Republic. http://www.imasnorthamerica.com/Viteral/en/product/vffmfarm-type-feed-plant/1151 http://www.imasnorthamerica.com

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GRINDING CHALLENGING RECIPES FOR PREMIUM PET FOOD? Pre-crushing protects your process and saves energy!

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by Volkan Aktan, Project Engineer Dry Grinding, Thomas Runde, Managing Director and Karsten Frese, Senior Project Engineer Dry Grinding, Tietjen Verfahrenstechnik, Germany

s a specialist in grinding technology, Tietjen Verfahrenstechnik always keeps an eye on the size reduction of mixed raw materials, especially in challenging applications such as pet food and aqua feed. Together with our worldwide customers and partners, we continue to optimise and search for the economically best solutions for targeted crushing according to customer requirements. Since 1959, Tietjen has been building hammer mills and individual grinding solutions in Hemdingen near Hamburg.

To ensure that our customers achieve even better grinding results, we have recently also been looking more closely at optimising the pre-grinding process. Good grinding depends on the one hand on the technical design of the hammer mill itself (sieve surface, impact surface, motorisation, speed and sieve perforation) and on the other hand on the aspiration of the mill (air volume flow, air speed, filter type, filter surface).

The grinding plant itself can only be optimally operated with appropriate, load-dependent controlled dosing of the input material. However, other components of a good overall system such as the pre-crushing system discussed here - also contribute to improved results

Why pre-crushing?

If raw material components are simply too hard for the fine grinding stage, then the grinding stage should be protected. Pregrinding is then strongly recommended. This is especially true for recipes with legumes such as peas and beans and with sugar beet pellets.

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For mixtures with a very wide grain spectrum, such as recipes for flours with legumes, pellets, cereals or rice, a pre-grinding for homogenisation for the further grinding process can be advantageous. A homogeneous structure can be ground more efficiently. This prevents screen damage and increases the availability of the hammer mill - from a technical and economic point of view!

Pre-grinding guarantees the pre-crushing of hard ingredients with simultaneous homogenisation of the recipe, thereby optimally preparing the raw material for the actual fine grinding process.

How does it work?

The pre-grinding is dependent on the hammer mill that follows in the process. Depending on the maximum size of the components of the existing raw material, the first step can be a primary crusher or again a hammer mill.

After a successful pre-grinding, a hammer mill can produce the final product in the second step. In the third and last step, a classifier mill can be integrated, if this should be necessary for the end product.

The Tietjen Impact Classifier Mill (TICM), for example, can be used as a classifier mill. The impact classifier mill is designed for fine grinding in the production of fish and shrimp feed. The TICM can be used to grind various types of grain, peas, fish or poultry meal. It combines efficient grinding with precise classification in a single machine. The decisive advantage is the narrow particle size range with precise separation from 100Âľm to 400Âľm.

In the medium size 1300 the TICM has a mill motor with 160kW and a classifier motor with 15kW. This classifier mill thus achieves a throughput capacity of 5t/h with a fineness requirement of 98% < 200 Âľm. If the final product is to be

F < 400Âľm, the classifier mill has a throughput capacity of approximately 9t/h. This is based upon typical fish feed recipes/ premixes with maximum eight percent fat inclusion. These data values are approximate values which may vary depending on the recipe as well as the origin and quality of the raw material. This example shows very clearly that the grinding capacity decreases further and further depending on the fineness of grinding.

Therefore, pre-grinding is usually an efficient and economically sensible solution.

Design a system with pre-crushing

Ideally, the individual grinding components are placed one above the other so that gravity can be used for product transport.

Each grinding step must have its own aspiration.

Especially in the production of pet food and in aqua feed, components are often used in the recipe which have a very large variation in particle size, which means that different grinding energies must be applied. Our preceding compact primary crusher guarantees, on the one hand, that the hard components are reliably crushed and the fine screens in the following hammer mill are thus protected. On the other hand, a homogeneous product is produced, which enables more efficient grinding - and all this without the additional energy input of double grinding with two hammer mills; one placed on the top of the other.

Pre-grinding is recommended, for example, in the production of fish meal or meat-and-bone meal. The various components (whole fish, waste from slaughterhouses, bones and smaller components) are first dried and then ground. As the different components have different grain sizes, they also require different grinding energies. The very hard and large components are

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F crushed by the primary crusher and can then be fed into the hammer mill. With the help of the pre-grinding, a higher throughput rate can be achieved in the actual grinding process.

What is the Tietjen approach (and machine) for pre-crushing?

Tietjen has developed a new type of crusher for pregrinding so that grinding can be made more efficient.

For this reason, the crusher has a compact design and is pressure shock resistant. In addition, the screens and beaters can be changed quickly and without much effort. Another advantage is the low aspiration required for pre-grinding. The Tietjen Crusher can crush 3050m³ per hour with a screen perforation of 8 - 12mm.

When the pre-grinding or crushing is completed, a suitable hammer mill must be found afterwards.

Depending on the final product to be produced, we offer different grinding solutions. For the second grinding stage, for example hammer mill FD, hammer mill GD or hammer mill VDK can be used.

The hammer mill FD is suitable for fine grinding, especially for pet food and fish feed. The FD mill can be used to grind fish and poultry meal as well as peas, corn and other cereals.

The FD mill is also tighter compared to the GD mill, meaning it has fewer gaps for spray grain. The screen basket guides have become more robust and effective. This means that, especially screens with small perforations, can be guided and supported more optimally. As a result, it can grind the product even finer, giving the ground products a premium quality. Other special features include a tighter tolerance, split baffle plates and new

screen holders. The baffle plates and sieves can be changed optionally. This means that the grinding fineness can be adjusted as required.

Conclusion

Depending on the product or product requirements, pre-grinding is not always necessary. In order to achieve optimum and efficient grinding, the overall concept must be coordinated. This means that the grinding system must be adapted to the grinding process and the raw material mixtures used. Tietjen offers a wide range of grinding solutions so that you can find the right grinding system for your company. www.tietjen-original.com

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FEED TECH Famsunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chief Technology Officer discusses Future Feed Tech Mr Jack Chen, Famsun, China

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illing and Grain magazine paid a regular visit to China 2019 year end, and we had the opportunity to sit down with Mr Jack Chen, the Chief Technology Officer of Famsun Group - a China-based, global integrated solution provider who has a strong market position in China and the global feed manufacturing industry - to talk about something new from Famsun R&D and his perspectives on the future of feed technology.

How your team work out new solutions or make improvements for the feed manufacturing industry?

In Famsun, almost one-third of our employees work for R&D. They are the best talents from different professional fields with great knowledge, experience and wisdom, and innovative skills and motivation for success. With a stand of R&D Institutes in Asia, Europe and America, our R&D team works around the clock in the development of existing products and solutions plus exploiting new terrain and unlock new business fields on the basis of markets analysis, customer needs evaluation and feasibility assessment.

No individual or business can develop on its own. Famsun develops products and solutions through collaboration. Most of our solutions are developed by collaborating with feed producers and applied in their operations. We develop new processing technologies and innovations to help our customers overcome obstacles in their productions, create new solutions to support their new business strategies, and help them bring their innovative products onto the market.

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Famsun also have formed dozens of partnerships with industrial partners, universities, research institutes and academics in the past decades. It has included China National R&D Centre for Feed Equipment and Technology, International Technology Committee (TC) of Feed Machinery and the ISO/TC293 Secretariat (Feed machinery) in its Sci-Tech Park since the modern manufacturing and innovation facility was opened in 2013. We will continue to bring all stakeholders in global farm-to-food supply chain together to promote collaborative innovations and create a winwin future for the agri-food industry.

What technology do you think will change the future of feed industry?

As always, Famsun is continuously taking our technical advantages to make improvements in our solutions in order to help feed producers address future challenges and develop sustainably. We have noticed that, the feed sector of today is less efficient and remains less digitised compared to other industries.

We have invested a lots to incorporate the latest modern techniques such as automation, sensing and digital tech of big data, blockchain, IoT, AI, etc, into our machines and processing solutions recent years, with the aim of boosting feed mill operational efficiency by increasing capacity, reducing energy consumption and waste, and improving safety in production as well.

From animal nutrition and health to feed ingredient origination, feed formulating, and from feed production, feed testing and traceability to logistics, feed industry has a wide supply chain span. Any technical improvement or innovation at these links is possible to change the feed future. We find some emerging techniques on the chain and start to invest in some of them, for example: insect meal, algae and other alternative ingredients.

Insect tech can produce feed-use insect meal and insect oil from

F food waste in a much quicker compositing process with less land and water. Same as insect farming, commercial algae production can provide sustainable feedstock of proteins and oils for feed manufacturing while absorb million tons of carbon dioxide and treating wastewater as well.

New and innovative technologies that changing the way we produce meat have also come out of the horizon and will bring disruptions to the feed industry. Plant-based meat that making meat entirely out of plant ingredients without farming animals can shorten the production chain from plant to meat. Elsewhere, by growing meat from cells in labs instead of from a whole animal, cell-based meat tech becomes possible to create high-quality cuts of meat using fewer resources and with less environmental impact.

As an agri-tech company, Famsun is excited about new technologies and is starting to involve in some of these research fields. Our R&D efforts in these new fields will provide more options to complement the existing agri-food production system and help players in this chain grow business in a more sustainable way.

Is there any Future Feed Tech we can get from Famsun now?

Famsun has invested a lot in the research and development of intelligent and digital solutions in recent years. We hope to help feed mills upgrade their automation into a higher level, from the automatic control of machines and production processes to the intelligent operation and management of the whole feed mill, and help them overcome obstacles, improve operational efficiency and reduce labor and waste. That’s what we are striving to do now, and we do have make some progress.

Our intelligent drying system, for instance, can optimise the processing parameters itself to achieve best drying efficiency in terms of drying quality, moisture uniformity and energy consumption. The strong formula adaptability weights a lot in aquafeed production. When production changed, the system, backed by a proven intelligent algorithm, will optimise the processing parameter automatically without human intervention.

Aside from the reduced number of operators, the intelligent solution also ensures consistent quality and output, and can make feed milling more secure for producers and end users. So, in a sense, it is more than a skillful operator. Data from our customers who had already installed such an intelligent drying system in their plants told us that it can save more than one million RMB in costs per year.

Besides the drying system, intelligent and digital solutions are also built in other Famsun core machines such as pellet mills, extruders, etc. In fact, Famsun has delivered several intelligent feed mills to the Chinese feed industry since 2017. In other words, we can provide a really smart feed mill today.

As we all known, developed countries are more likely to adopt a new technology or an innovation when it first becomes available due to the high use-cost at its market entrance. So, are there any latest solutions from Famsun that feed producers in developing countries can afford now?

In fact, there is no obvious difference on the acceptance of Famsun’s new solutions between developed and developing countries. Market feedback shows that they are as welcomed as our other well-known solutions, especially in developing countries. This is attributed to our R&D commitment of “Creating cost-effective technical solutions to help our customers remain competitive, both currently and in the future.”

We know how to help customers invest less to get more. Most of the time, developing small add-ons for machines or making upgrades to the old production systems are more important than creating disruptive inventions.

Our intelligent and digital solutions, for example, are all web-based, so they can be upgraded continuously and never goes out of date. For our next step, we will make futuristic development to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into our intelligent systems. Through machine learning, the production systems in our customers’ plants will be able to identify the best production parameters quickly and automatically to adapt to the changing requirements on formulations and ingredients in the future. www.famsungroup.com

Flip to the back of this issue to discover more about Famsun. Our interview with Mr Jack Chen continues on page 112

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A new NIR service for the analysis of 49 fatty acids Evonik launches AMINONIR® FA

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by Evonik Industries, Germany

vonik has developed AMINONIR® FA – the first of its kind NIR service for the complete set of fatty acids contained in feed ingredients and fish feeds. Besides fish feed for various species, the Evonik calibration portfolio serves more than 20 raw materials covering up to 49 individual fatty acids from C6 to C24.

Calibrations are based on

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representative samples from all-important countries of origin worldwide and are continuously updated and extended. The major advantage of advanced AMINONIR® FA is that fatty acid profiles become available in a matter of minutes without involving tedious wet chemical analyses or third-party labs.

Director Service Development, Dr Markus Wiltafsky-Martin, says a user of AMINONIR® FA can analyse thousands of samples per year which offers totally new possibilities to benefit from the analytical results.

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“The past 60 years in animal nutrition, we have always strived to be more precise and create diets that fit better to the real requirements of the animals,” he says. “Fatty acids are essential for animals to prevent major health and performance problems.”

Besides being an energy source, fatty acids have other vital functions in insulation, the protection of inner organs, and as a building block of membranes. They are also needed for the synthesis of hormones (eicosanoids) and as carriers of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Dr Wiltafsky-Martin points out that it’s important not to focus only on the total fat levels in animal diets.

“Instead of looking at total fat levels, we advise to focus on the fatty acid composition. There can be a lot of variation in the fatty acid pattern even within the same type of feed ingredient. It is important to consider these variations in the feed formulation to

really meet the needs of the animals.”

He says essential fatty acids for poultry and pigs include linoleic acid and linolenic acid, while marine fish require docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and arachidonic acid.

“Some fatty acids are essential and need to be supplied via feed.

In laying hens, the supply of essential fatty acids has an impact on egg size, while in sows the supply of essential fatty acids ensures reproductive performance and piglet development,” says Dr Wiltafsky-Martin. “In reproductive animals it’s very important to have the right levels of those fatty acids which are precursors of hormones. They can support uterine health post-partum, follicleoocyte development, the luteal phase and embryo development.”

Meeting an animal’s requirement of essential fatty acids is one important goal that can be secured with AMINONIR® FA.

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Another important aspect of fatty acids in animal nutrition is the supply of essential fatty acids for human nutrition.

“The fatty acid pattern of the feed has an impact on the fatty acid composition of the animal and its products (carry-over effect). This needs to be considered in animal nutrition. For example, in finishing pigs, dietary levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids need to be restricted to keep bacon quality high whereas in salmons and enriched eggs high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids are wanted to meet the consumer demands,” he says.

Dr Wiltafsky-Martin points out that in the past it has not been possible to obtain a precise breakdown of the fatty acid composition in feed stuffs as a routine during quality control of feed ingredients simply because the necessary wet-chemistry methods are expensive and time consuming. AMINONIR® FA closes this gap.

With regard to quality control of feed ingredients, Dr Wiltafsky-Martin highlights the special situation for rapeseed and mustard products.

“Erucic acid in rapeseed and mustard products needs to be controlled due to its potentially toxic effects and impact on heart functionality,” he says.

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Erucic acid in rapeseed and mustard products needs to be controlled due to its potentially toxic effects. The heart is the principal target organ for toxic effects following short-term or long-term exposure of animals to diets with oils containing erucic acid.

The most common and sensitive effect observed in all species is myocardial lipidosis (fatty heart), i.e. an accumulation of triacylglycerols in myocardium that appear as neutral lipid droplets.

Studies showed the feeding poultry with diets containing erucic acid resulted in growth retardation and cardiac lipidosis. High doses of erucic acid also increased the incidence and severity of cardiac lesions.

In traditional rapeseeds, erucic acid represents about 50 percent of the fatty acids.

Modern rapeseed varieties are genetically free of erucic acid, meaning the content of erucic acid is less than two percent of the total fatty acids. However, for industry purposes specific rapeseed varieties with high levels of erucic acid are produced and it needs to be avoided that the resulting rapeseed meals from these varieties enter the feed industry. This task can be solved with AMINONIR® FA. Milling and Grain - June 2020 | 71

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How to eliminate anti-nutritional factors in piglet feed

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by Zheng Chang, China lmost all feed materials contain anti-nutritional factors, especially plant-based materials. Feed with high levels of anti-nutritional factors may have adverse effects on the production performance and health of livestock and poultry. Although soybean-based products are the most abundant source of protein within feed at present, they contain a variety of anti-nutritional factors, which leads to allergic diarrhea and even, in rare cases, mortalities.

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Zheng Chang Piglet Feed Expander

Anti-nutritional factors in soybean meal

Anti-nutritional factors are substances that have adverse effects on the digestion, absorption and utilisation of nutrients in feed. At present, the common anti-nutritional factors in actual production include protease inhibitors, phytic acid, tannic acid, mycotoxins, etc. They destroy or hinder the digestion and utilisation of nutrients and affect the growth of piglets.

Soybean meal is mainly used as a protein source to provide nourishment for pigs. Although it is nutritious, it contains many anti-nutritional factors, such as non-protein anti-nutritional factors (such as phytic acid, oligosaccharide) and protein antinutritional factors (such as trypsin inhibitors, soybean antigen

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proteins, urease). Different factors have different anti-nutritional effects.

Possible solution: Optimise your formula to ensure the amount of soybean meal for piglet feed does not exceed 15 percent.

The effects of high levels of antinutritional factors

Feed with bad palatability may decrease the appetite of piglets. Feed intake will decrease, growth will stagnate, and cases of diarrhea will worsen. Improving the palatability of feed is the most direct and effective way to improve the feed intake, but there are many factors that Zheng Chang’s expanded piglet feed affect palatability: feed flavor, antitechnology helped prevent bottlenecks in nutritional factors, feed deterioration, production at Zhenghong Group feed ingredients, unreasonable feed processing, etc.

Chia Tai Conti have experienced great Tannic acid, protease inhibitors success through using Zheng Chang’s technology with their biscuit feed and plant agglutinin are typical antinutritional substances. These can affect the taste of feed and decrease the appetite of suckling pigs. Also, they may combine with digestive enzymes and nutrients in the body of suckling pigs, secrete irritant substances, and affect the digestion of protein.

Possible solution: Realising the balance between creep feed and high-grade piglet feed through formula optimisation and reasonable processing. Eliminating excessive anti-nutritional factors according to the local conditions and the situation.

How to eliminate anti-nutritional factors

The main methods of eliminating anti-nutritional factors and reducing urease in soybean meal include physical method, chemical method and biological method. At present, Zheng Chang piglet feed expanding technology has become a leading solution in the industry.

How does expanding technology eliminate the anti-nutritional factors?

Expanding technology allows materials to be fully conditioned, under high temperatures and humidity, through the special spiral strong extrusion and shearing action, to form short-term and medium-temperature (90-130℃) conditions, to fully expand the materials, kill harmful microorganisms and destroy or passivate the antinutritional factors in raw materials, and bind the materials into slices or lumps.

One solution that is effective against anti-nutritional factor is the Zheng Chang Piglet Feed Expander: - Used for producing 7-21 days of high-grade piglet feed - Eliminates anti-nutrition factors in raw materials, reduces the activity of urease enzymes in soybean meal. Result: No diarrhea, higher survival rate - Maintains the activity of the functional substances in raw materials, realises the value of the nutritional formula, makes piglet feed taste like rice paste. No excessive internal heat, higher growth rate - Total feed intake is increased to 525-700g in creep feed stage. The absorption ability of piglet’s digestive tract can be improved. Weaned piglets in creep feed stage can increase their weight with 1kg and pigs can increase 10kg.

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At present, Zheng Chang has patented expanded piglet feed technology, which has been applied to many large enterprises such as Chia Tai Conti, Wens, CP, New Hope, Milling and Grain - June 2020 | 73

F Zheng Hong, Haid, Ao Nong, Continental Grain, Kingsino, COFCO. Kingsino: For this companyx, Zheng Chang constructed six high-quality piglet feed production lines in total. Kingsino has attained listing requirements within three years after the completion of feed lines.

Zhenghong Group: Zheng Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique expanded piglet feed technology helped break through the production bottleneck at Zhenghong Group and create a bountiful harvest production line. Differentiated technology and equipment have contributed to their further sales growth.

Chia Tai Conti: This companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biscuit feed produced by expanding technology has become more popular with many farmers. Good palatability, high feed intake, ease of digestibility and quick weight gain are some of the many advantages of this feed. This biscuit feed has created differentiated competitive advantages and higher profit margins for Chia Tai Conti.

Anti-nutritional factors have great effect on immune stress and nutrition metabolism. If we know the content of anti-nutritional factors in feed materials, we can reduce and avoid the negative effects caused by anti-nutritional factors by formula technology, expanding technology, processing or enzyme preparation. www.zhengchang.com

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by Vaughn Entwistle, Managing Editor, Milling and Grain

recently interviewed millers and bakers at a wide variety of locations across the UK to find out how they were coping with keeping their vital businesses running during a pandemic. The two milling companies Carr’s mills, Fife, Scotland and Wessex mill, Wantage, Oxfordshire, are widely separated by geography, and by size and capacity.

In fact, Carr’s mills operates three mills: the Hutchison mill in Kirkaldy, Scotland, The Silloth mill in Cumbria, and the Malden mill in Essex, England. The Hutchison mill is the largest and most technically advanced mill in the UK. By contrast, the Wessex mill in Wantage, Oxfordshire represents the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of size, but it shares many of the same issues when dealing with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carr’s in the driver’s seat

Rosie Parker is the Brand and Marketing Manager at Carr’s Flour Mills. I asked her if Carr’s was struggling to meet increased demand for flour as many other mills around the UK were reporting.

“In terms of keeping up with consumer demand for bags of flour in retail,” Parker answered, “our mills have been running at maximum capacity, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, since the crisis began. We produce retail bags at our mill in Silloth, Cumbria and they are currently producing over 300,000 bags of flour for retail every week. This equates to more than double our production before the crisis began.

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Rosie Parker, Brand and Marketing Manager, Carrs Mills

Tim Hall, Operations Director, Carrs Mills

“In order to produce as many bags of flour as possible, we have also reduced our range to help save time on production changeovers. We have literally tried everything to maximise output. It is certainly a challenging time and there is such an immense consumer demand currently for flour. It seems flour is the new gold!”

So Carr’s, like so many other mills, is running hard just to keep up, but next I asked if the supply chain was also able to keep up.

“We do source locally produced wheat for our self-raising and plain flours,” Ms Parker explained. “At the moment the supply chain has been robust, and we haven’t experienced any supply issues as the result of the current crisis. A lot of our flour for the Silloth and Kirkcaldy mills is delivered by boat, because there are ports adjacent to the mill.

“The shippers and stevedores on these boats have been fantastic in keeping up with the increased demand. Luckily boat

F crews ‘naturally self-isolate’ by spending most of the time at sea, but they have risen to the challenge and have been able to turn on extra capacity at short notice. Probably the hardest issue has been managing flour supply to the retail customers, due to the massive increased consumer demand. Ironically, it is packaging stock and production capacity that are the current challenges to the market rather than wheat supply.”

Biosecurity is a huge consideration for all mill owners. Now that concern is being added to by the need to observe strict social distancing procedures for staff.

“As you can imagine it is quite a challenging time for millers trying to run flour mills in these very difficult circumstances,” Parker agreed. “At the mill we only have two people on shift, so achieving social distancing isn’t a problem.

“We have also worked closely with our customers to ensure social distancing for our drivers is observed when they arrive on site. It is probably the engineering department that is experiencing the most challenges, as the nature of the job means that engineers mainly work in pairs. The welfare and morale of our employees is particularly important to us, especially with the uncertainty in the country the crisis has created. We have regular briefings and weekly newsletters, but I know, that Tim Hall, the Operations Director for the Carr’s mill in Kirkcaldy, recognises a concern for the mental well-being of employees. The mills are integral to the local community and many employees live and work close to the mills. In order to help the community during this time of crisis we have set up a Carr’s Crisis Fund”

The Carr’s Crisis Fund

Dr Angus Turnbull, an Intensive Care Trainee at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy initially contacted Carr’s Flour, asking if they could help. This provided the impetus to set up a centrally managed Carr’s Crisis Fund to help provide local support for each of the three mills.

“With the help of Dr Angus Turnbull, Carr’s purchased camp beds for the medical and nursing staff to use during busy night shifts,” Parker said. “They have been shared with three hospitals, across the NHS Lothian Trust—distributed between St John’s Hospital, The Western General and The Royal Infirmary. We have also donated an industrial microwave to the temporary Wellbeing Hub for nursing and medical staff to use, at the Victoria Hospital which is local to the Kirkcaldy mill.”

At the Maldon mill in Essex, Carr’s and the Maldon management team have made a donation to a local charity

associated with Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals which are running a COVID-19 Staff Well Being Appeal to support local NHS staff. A further donation was also made to the Maldon District COVID-19 Community Response Fund.

Parker added, “The team at Silloth chose to donate to a number of local care homes in the area, to help bring a bit of muchneeded cheer to the staff and residents. A donation was also given to the ICU Staff Fund at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.”

Wessex Mill

Tucked away in the small Oxfordshire town of Wantage sits Wessex Mill, run by father and daughter team, Paul and Emily Munsey. Although small in comparison to many of the UK’s bigger flour mills, the award-winning establishment boasts a strong milling history, with Emily joining in 2017 to continue a

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The Wessex mill’s story began in 1895 when Emily’s great great-grandfather, William Henry, was forced to relocate from Cambridge to Oxford following a devastating outbreak of foot and mouth at his farm. As a consequence, William transitioned from farming into flour milling. Originally starting as a partnership with Archer Cowley, the mill situated in Osney in Oxford became WH Munsey Ltd, with William Henry taking complete ownership of the business in 1911. The family venture continued as sons Ellis and Keith joined the workforce but with the outbreak of World War I and milling not being essential work, Henry’s sons both left Oxford to fight in The Great War. Surviving the war, the brothers returned and settled back into milling, but in 1927 with the country in post-war depression, land owners Christ Church issued an ultimatum meaning the Munseys must purchase the land or vacate the mill. They managed to borrow the money and shortly after buying the mill, William Henry died.

Ellis and Keith continued to run the mill through the 1930s and, now being too old, avoided having to fight in World War II. The war ended and the business continued, but in 1946 disaster struck with a fire that burned the Osney mill to the ground. With the country short of building supplies after the war, permission to rebuild the mill in Oxford was denied, so the brothers purchased Mr Clark’s biscuit flour mill in Wantage to continue milling.

The mill carried on into its third generation with cousins Dick and Bill (sons of Ellis and Keith, respectively), and with a more stable global economic and political landscape for the remainder of the 20th century. Bill’s son Paul joined the business in 1982.

Today Tony, Bill’s younger son runs the old mill site in Osney which in 2010 was converted into housing and includes a marina and hydroelectric screw.

With Emily and Paul at the helm, Wessex Mill has continued to succeed and grow as the quality producer of artisan flour it is today, shipping throughout the UK, and beyond.

And then came the coronavirus

Recently, a photo appeared in the Telegraph newspaper of a crouching miller using a hand scoop to fill a 1.5kg bag of flour from a 60kg bag. Of course, all of us in the industry instantly guessed that the photo was carefully staged, but still it told the story of what the flour industry is currently dealing with.

The miller in the photo was, in fact, Emily Munsey. When interviewed by Milling and Grain, Emily told me that her mill has been receiving a lot of attention lately, because of COVID-19.

“In addition to the Telegraph, they’ve also fielded phone interviews from the BBC and even a television film crew from Austria!” Munsey added that Wessex mill has seen a five-fold increase in demand for our flour, principally in our smaller 1.5g bags purchased at supermarkets for home bakers.”

In response to the increased demand, Wessex mill has added a Saturday shift and a night shift dedicated to packaging 1.5kg bags.”

I’ve been constantly impressed with the milling industry’s huge outpouring of heart and generosity as COVID-19 has unfolded.

Not only have they risen the challenge of producing more in a time of crisis, they are reaching out to their own communities to help others. What a wonderful example to set. www.carrsflour.co.uk www.wessexmill.co.uk

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Flour mills and bakeries joining in the war against COVID-19

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by Vaughn Entwistle, Managing Editor, Milling and Grain

n the UK, the battle against COVID-19 has been joined at every level of society. The nation is inspired by the heroic efforts of our treasured NHS staff and many private citizens wish to do their part to help.

In the flour industry, many of the nation’s mills that have never worked overtime switching to double shifts and even recruiting recently retired workers to help meet with surging demand. These efforts are likewise mirrored by the nation’s bakers, with many examples of sacrifice and extraordinary generosity from bakeries across the UK. One shining example is Bread-Source of Norwich, England.

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Bread-Source is a team of award-winning artisan bakers with shops in Norwich and Aylsham, two cities in South-east Britain.

All their bread is made traditionally with high quality flour, water, natural yeast and salt with no artificial additives.

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The National Loaf

In 1942, during WWII, the Federation of Bakers developed a wholemeal loaf as part of the Homefront effort to keep the country fed during rationing. The National Loaf, as it was named, was intended to be more nutritious than a standard white loaf.

Like other forms of brown bread it had more bran which, in addition to other nutrients, meant that levels of thiamine (Vitamin B1) were higher than that typically found a loaf of white bread.

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Winter, the owner of Bread-Source, decided to reintroduce the National Loaf. Company marketing representative, Rosie Annabelle Mills-Smith, explains why; “These loaves will be available to those who have recently lost their jobs and who are in need—no questions asked. It means that we will provide free loaves to those who need it most.”

But what does it taste like?

The original National Loaf produced during WWII was the product of a time where strict rationing was observed, which

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meant that many modern ingredients were not available, affecting the taste and texture of the loaves. However, the modern iteration of the National Loaf benefits from modern baking techniques and ingredients, as Mills-Smith elaborates; “The Bread-Source National Loaf is a great tasting, slow-rising, highly nutritious loaf made using only 100 percent stoneground wholemeal flour, sea salt, water and yeast. This loaf doesn’t just taste great, it will also sustain you throughout the day.”

Good nutrition for a good cause

Bread-Source’s National Loaf is not only good for the body, is also provides nourishment for the soul. Thanks to the generosity of Steven Winter and his team of bakers who volunteer their time to create these loaves and, going forward, are looking to work with other bakeries and suppliers to roll this scheme out across East Anglia and the UK.

Recognising the unique situation we find ourselves in, Winter has made provision to ensure the ease of pick up for NHS workers, and social care staff who are offered a 24 hour ‘contactless’ pick up point at the Bakery Unit (Tuesday-Friday), where other staple foods including milk, eggs and butter will be available with a continuous 20 percent discount.

As Winter explains, “We are committed to our social responsibility as bakers to ensure nutritious (and delicious) food is available to all members of the community we operate within. We are also providing a delivery service within Norwich and Aylsham for those in isolation, the elderly, and other at-risk groups.”

With public spiritedness such as that displayed by Steven Winter and his Norfolk bakeries, it seems likely that we will the achieve victory in the war against COVID-19. www.bread-source.co.uk.

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A discussion with GODAN

What steps can the government take to mitigate the effects of COVID-19?

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lobal Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is a rapidly growing network of over 1000 global innovators and change makers across national governments, non-governmental organisations, and international and private sector organisations. A facilitator for pioneering ideas and cross-continental growth, GODAN aims to impact the lives of at least 12 million smallholders internationally by implementing innovations that help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 - ending global hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and sustainable agriculture by 2030.

Milling and Grain were given the opportunity to speak with GODAN Executive Director, Mr Andre Laperriere, and discuss with him his thoughts concerning agriculture and the COVID-19 crisis.

Could you please tell us more about GODAN and your role in the agriculture industry?

when it is already under the spotlight.

“The threat of a labour shortage and the subsequent decline in the food supply are of utmost concern and both are of equal importance to mitigate in order to keep the industry going efficiently. The UK’s agricultural industry is in a better place than others, due to its advanced mechanisation. However, its reliance on the food supply chain means it is at risk of suffering from any knock-on effects that the outbreak will have or already has had on it, such as price increases. This could potentially make it difficult for people to purchase the right foods for a period of time.

“The longer the pandemic persists, the greater the risk of global food supply disruptions as countries may be tempted to introduce protectionism measures of prohibiting food imports and exports.

The fluidity of the global food industry needs to be maintained to avert any shortage.”

What measures would you recommend that governments put into place to help protect members of the agriculture industry during this difficult time?

“Established in 2013, the GODAN initiative was developed with the aim of building high-level support among governments, policymakers, international organisations and business. Through the channels of cooperation between stakeholders in the agricultural sphere, GODAN promotes collaboration to harness the growing volume of data generated by new technologies to solve longstanding problems and to benefit farmers and the health of consumers.

“As Executive Director, it is my role to help tackle the challenges we currently face regarding open data. This includes developing and harnessing partnerships with key governments, organisations and policymakers from across the globe. We actively identifying opportunities to enhance the role of open data and pave the way for greater innovation in a market which has untapped potential. So far, GODAN has more than 1,000 partners across all continents and these have been crucial in helping elevate the lives and livelihood of farmers, increase agricultural yield and promote food security.”

“As touched upon, as cases grow and we see more tightening measures, there are several things governments need to do to help protect the industry and its workers. It is vital that adequate measures are in place to ensure continuity in the industry, by ensuring supply chain remain robust, the labour force can safely go to work, the necessary economic initiatives are extended, particularly to small and mid-sized farmers and businesses, and the international trade channels are kept open. The UK not only imports a lot of its food, it also depends on other countries for the likes of seeds, fertilisers and packaging material.

“The farming sector has been largely left behind the data revolution and it has clearly left us vulnerable in preparing and mitigating the COVID-19 crisis. Governments needs to urgently prioritise open data policies to help map the national farming and food systems, as data can help us visualise the flow of the system and provide us with a better understanding to take control. Unless we create a smarter system in the sector, we would be unable to recover from another pandemic.”

What does the threat of COVID-19 mean for the agriculture industry?

How can farmers, suppliers and food/feed production staff protect themselves during these times of uncertainty?

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“Businesses need to ensure that safety remains the priority during the pandemic. This includes adapting working practices so that social distancing is maintained, and business owners must remain

in constant contact with staff to ensure that the government guidelines are being enforced. Maintaining good hygiene is of vital importance in the industry, as the lives of the employees and the consumers depend on this.

“From an economic perspective, farmers should also check on their insurance policies to see what covers them. For example, NFU Mutual has said that dairy farmers will be covered if they already have uncollected milk insurance. Staying protected will be necessary should anything else happen and checking up on what their policy provider will do for them may ease some worries.”

How do we avoid the situation escalating and prevent a food crisis from potentially occurring?

“It must be stressed that there is plenty of food to feed everyone, and any supermarket shortages are a warehousing problem, not a supply problem. Panic buying will only deplete shelves and artificially increase inflation.

“The important next steps are for global governments to work together in maintaining the trade routes. Protectionism and hoarding food supplies will escalate the food crisis and will escalate the current problems. An equitable distribution of food can be ensured if countries urgently support their agricultural industries and ensure they remain robust during this pandemic.

Learning from previous examples of outbreaks such as SARS and MERS will be key as countries such as Singapore and Canada remained resilient due to the large quantities of food they had in reserve providing them with the ability to avoid a crisis. The Ebola outbreak in Africa saw 40 percent of agricultural land not being cultivated because of restrictions in place, which seriously armed the supply chain and left many people without adequate access to

The GODAN initiative was established in 2013 following 2012 G8 discussions, where the attending leaders committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a shared commitment to achieving global food security.

GODAN aims to obtain commitment and action from nations and relevant stakeholders to promote policies and invest in projects that open access to publicly funded global agriculturally-relevant data streams, making such data readily accessible worldwide, and supporting a sustainable increase in food security in developed and developing countries.’

food. Using these case studies as a framework, governments will able to protect their citizens and prevent another disaster.

“Strengthening market regulation by ensuring the distribution of food will also help keep prices down and prevent people from panic buying or being unable to purchase food. China set a good example of this with the opening of a “green channel” to allow fresh agricultural products to be distributed without authorised blocks.”

How would you recommend that we ensure all the food and feed we continue to produce throughout the world remains of a high standard, as well as being both safe and properly sanitised?

“Providing key data and sharing that information is one of the most under used and under-developed methods taken. Sharing key knowledge with one another can enhance businesses and create greater innovation.

Agriculture needs to use such data in order to maintain food production of the highest standard. Information regarding weather conditions, soil fertility and previous case studies will help keep farmers in the know and help maintain good practices and learn from previous incidents.

“This can only be made possible if governments and organisations cohesively operate together to allow for a digitally connected industry. Open Data is the key to solving the problem.” www.godan.info

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Adapting to the challenges of COVID-19

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uring this difficult time, we want to assure you that Superior Grain Equipment is taking the necessary precautions and safety measures while ensuring that our sales, production and delivery services continue to operate without interruption. Superior has always been positioned well with production schedules to meet a late season demand for grain storage, conditioning and handling equipment, and we will continue that trend this year despite the various global challenges. Ag producers play a key role in providing commodities for world consumption and we will continue to be here to support their operations, as we have been for decades.

This year, farmers around the world are facing new obstacles created from this global COVID-19 pandemic. Coupled with challenging weather and other uncontrollable factors, it’s hard to predict what’s to come in the next few months. That is why it’s more important now than ever before for ag producers to properly prepare for potential difficulties to come.

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Insect infestation Prevention is better than treatment

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by Tyrone Moy, Tekpro, UK f you are responsible for the running and maintenance of a bulk grain store, you probably dread the thought of having a pest infestation and take a great deal of care to avoid it. Time and money are spent making sure a store is clean before the grain is delivered, and controls and measures are taken to create an environment that makes it hard for insects and pests to successfully thrive and wreak havoc. It’s normally worth the extra expense, because it costs less than cleaning a large amount of infested grain, but in reality, is that really sufficient?

Experience suggests a grain store will test for insects when a bulk delivery arrives, by sieving a relatively small sample of between 500g to 1kg and assessing the screenings by eye. But realistically, how reliable is this method? It greatly depends on the size of the sample, and the size of the potential incoming infestation...

A sample case of infestation

Let’s just consider a truck that arrives at your grain store with 20,000kg of grain, in which there are insects at a ratio of 1 insect to every 10kg. If you extract a 10kg bulk sample from the load, and screen only a 1kg sub sample for the presence of insects, you would only have a one-in-ten chance of that sample containing an insect, because you are testing such a small representation of the entire load!

However, if that 1kg sub sample is the one with an insect, you then have to rely on the operators spotting it (providing they have sieved sufficiently to shake the insects from the grain). If they don’t notice it, or have tested a sample without an insect, they would in effect have just accepted a delivery of 2000 insects!

Suppose that load is then added to a storage unit that already contains 80,000kg of previously clean grain. Unfortunately, by not screening effectively at the point of entry to the grain store, you would now have 100,000kg of infested grain. This could potentially be even more if you still add additional product to the silo afterwards... This is a scenario based on a real-world situation, but is sadly all too familiar, and can easily occur if an appropriately sized truly representative sample of the 20,000kg 88 | June 2020 - Milling and Grain

load is not tested at the point of intake.

Avoiding the need to fumigate

Not only would it to be incredibly time-consuming and expensive to clean the infested grain and fumigate the storage area, but it would mean you also wasted the money spent taking precautions to avoid it in the first place, and may be unable to achieve the best price for the grain in a timely manner.

No one wants to hand sieve 10kg of grain; it would take too long and would be tiring for the operator, and of course “time is money!” But put simply the more you test, the better representation you have of the entire load and consequently, the risk of infestation is reduced.

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For smaller grain stores where laboratory space is at a premium, Tekpro also makes a model which will screen 5kg of grain in the same amount of time. Now, think about the number of deliveries you accept and the consequences of having a grain store out of action. It only takes one mistake to cause a huge, expensive and time-consuming problem. How much is it worth to prevent that problem occurring in the first place? www.tekpro.com

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“Traceability of food and feed ingredients from ‘farm to fork’ has become an increasingly vital issue for agri-food firms and policymakers, particularly where food safety is already a major concern” notes Sales and Marketing Executive Tyrone Moy. “By liaising closely with the industry’s regulatory bodies, we have helped many within the industry meet these growing challenges, providing the means of taking a truly representative sample, and giving real value to their lab analysis.”

With their headquarters in the heart of Norfolk, UK, and founded over 30 years ago, Tekpro are a small, family run team of electro-mechanical engineers, with all products exclusively made in Britain, using the highest quality materials and equipment, they take the time and care to craft each piece of equipment to the same exacting standards.

Their Samplex range of bulk samplers are specifically designed to ensure quality testing of products, based on truly representative core sampling, they are capable of meeting the standards as set out in ISO24333. They are accurate, adaptable for site-specific requirements, and eliminate the traditional health and safety risks associated with manual sampling processes. They allow multiple, frequent, consistent

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The Insectomat range of insect detection machines are designed to quickly and thoroughly screen 5kg or 10kg of wheat, oats or barley for the presence of insects. Using this equipment, a load can be safely checked before unloading, preventing contamination of other stored materials and reducing the risk of infestation, it was developed in close cooperation with the Home Grown Cereals Authority in the UK. By having their own in-house sales and marketing department and having distributor representation in over 80 countries around the globe, means Tekpro can better serve key global food markets, but service doesn’t stop at the point of purchase either. By maintaining contact, all their customers receive the performance they demand, enabling equipment to run at optimum performance. Spare parts are readily available, as well as servicing and advice from their experienced long-serving engineers.

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GRAINS MARK TIME AHEAD OF NEXT HARVEST

Spring is often a time when grain markets pause ahead of the world’s main Northern Hemisphere harvest period. Crops are expected to be record large this year, but some weather issues suggest that can’t yet be taken for granted. This mostly concerns abnormal dry conditions in the US, Europe, Russia and Ukraine, some relieved by recent rains but with more moisture needed to assure yields, especially in Russia, France, Rumania and parts of the US. Among the key export players, Russian crop estimates fall in a fairly wide range of 75m to 80m-plus tonnes versus last year’s 73.6m, 2018’s 71.7m and the peak 85.2m of 2017. Although a very mild winter was initially expected to deliver a yield bonus, a dry spring has given recent official forecasts a downward bias. That helps keep the market guessing about Russia’s 2020/21 export availability, especially after an unexpectedly early close to its 2019/20 sales campaign, which helped firm the world wheat market last month. Russian crop issues have been a key factor

by John Buckley in several bull runs for wheat over the last decade or so, the peaks usually coinciding with crop problems in other supplying countries too. In 2013 severe harvest shortfalls helped push CBOT wheat futures over US $9 and in 2008 as much as $13 per bushel compared with (more typical) mid-$5’s this month. Owing much to speculative backing, these past spikes were usually shortlived but still lasted long enough to dramatically raise costs of those consumers who were carrying Among the key export light stocks, so were forced to buy at the peaks. players, Russian crop Ukraine, which has also begun to curb late season export trade, is expected to produce 24.5m estimates fall in a fairly tonnes this year versus 2019’s 29.2m after delays and downsizing of wheat area. It is already wide range of 75m to thinking of capping new crop foreign sales at some 12/15m versus this season’s estimated record 80m-plus tonnes versus 20.5m which will reduce the intensity of next season’s wheat export competition. last year’s 73.6m, 2018’s 71.7m and the peak 85.2m Rain-disrupted planting could cut this year’s EU wheat harvest by as much as 10 or 11m tonnes. of 2017. Although a very The European Commission recent forecast a decline of about 4% in this year’s EU soft wheat crop mild winter was initially while French analyst Strategie Grains estimated a near 8% fall. expected to deliver a Overall though, with global stocks still running at or near record levels wheat supply shouldn’t be yield bonus, a dry spring a bullish issue for the current year – normal spring and summer weather permitting. has given recent official The giant 2019 EU harvest of 154m tonnes, with help from a weak euro, has been piling onto forecasts a downward export markets, giving the bloc its best season in years. At 33m tonnes, the USDA’s forecast for bias. total 2019/20 EU exports are almost 50% up on the year. Soft wheat alone is currently running 61% higher but the lead might be expected to shrink somewhat as demand edges back in the final quarter of the season. Top EU supplier France’s shipments have maintained a stellar pace, reaching a 10-year high last month to countries outside the bloc, helped by a weaker euro. Germany and the Baltic States have also expanded sales to countries including China, Iran and some African nations.

In Asia, largest wheat producer of all, China, has so far reported no serious weather problems. However, even while carrying half the world’s ‘surplus’ stock in its strategic reserves, China has still emerged as a supportive factor for wheat prices in recent weeks, taking more US and European grain than for years to improve the quality of its domestic flour grist (much of the huge China stock is thought to be of dubious food use).

India is meanwhile on course for a bumper, probably record crop that could allow significant exports to the world market – presenting another potentially bearish factor on the horizon.

Things also look quite promising at this early stage for the two big southern hemisphere wheat exporters – Argentina and Australia where pre-sowing rains have broken droughts – in Australia’s case, one of the most severe dry stretches on record. If weather stays favourable, recent US attaché reports suggest, its production could surge back (later this year and early next) to as much as 23m tonnes from the low average 16m tonnes of the past two seasons – most of that increase likely going to export Argentina’s crop outlook meanwhile seems to be going from strength to strength amid talk of record 21m tonne harvest (last year 19.5m). This should cement its return as a key wheat exporter.

The demand side of the wheat market has been interesting recently with US, Europe and other regions experiencing huge growth in buying of flour and pasta from COVID-wary consumer stockpilers. However, in recent weeks the emphasis seems to have shifted less bullishly. The miller demand in Europe at least seems to have slowed, possibly because consumers are sated for now and calming down amid much talk that an easing of coronavirus lockdowns could be underway around the developed world.

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will curb demand for commodities including wheat, especially among the big importing nations of the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) whose spending power is being squeezed by the collapse of their revenue from tumbling oil prices. No-one is quite sure how that will pan out longer term, not least because it all depends on whether the COVID-19 menace is truly being put back in its box or will re-emerge later in second or further waves.

The International Grains Council recently cut is global wheat consumption estimate by 5m to 755m but this is still plus 7m onyear. On a related note, wheat prices may also be held in check by the need to respect weakness in prices of maize as a competitor in some industrial outlets.

Recent wheat news It has been a volatile month. Bellwether CBOT nearby wheat futures at one stage fell to four-month lows under $5 per bushel before bouncing back almost 18% last month. EU wheat hit sixmonth lows but also rallied back On paper there is no shortage of wheat this season, but hoarding can give that appearance from time to time. A reminder of ample global stocks, in April the USDA hoisted its US estimate by 5.5m to a new record 293m tonnes although half of these are effectively ‘off market’ in China. The US itself is expected to end this crop year with about 26.6m tonnes of stocks – about half of them hard red winter bread wheat – not far off what it normally

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exports in a full year World wheat trade is seen rising by 4.6% or over 8m tonnes in 2019/20, led by Europe (+10.2m) and Ukraine (+4.5m). Import gains are led by Turkey (+4m) with its smaller 2019 crop and a growing migrant population to feed. China is importing more wheat, partly due to its ‘phase one’ trade deal with President Trump. Morocco has a weather-reduced crop while Mexico, Algeria, Nigeria and several smaller importers may be building a bit more stock after the corona virus questioned the adequacy of their food staple cover. Recent big purchases by countries including Saudi Arabia and Algeria suggest stocking up is still active but top importer Egypt has been a slower buyer, possible restrained by its financial problems.

Energy slump slashes maize price US maize prices fell to their lowest level in four years in April as traders pondered open-ended cuts to usage in the US corn ethanol sector – normally home for over 40% of the domestic crop. The collapse in global energy markets, led by crude oil, has followed the slump in fuel demand as corona virus lockdowns shut down international and domestic travel outside of (and often including) the commercial sphere. Traders have also been concerned that a global economic recession could significantly cut consumer spending power, always closely linked to meat and feed usage. In the US itself, some of the major meat supplying countries have already closed or reduced throughput at plants.

At this stage, no-one yet knows how deep the reduction in total demand for corn will turn out – i.e. how the COVID-19 factor will evolve.

On the CBOT futures market, the maize price collapsed close to $3/bushel. To find appreciably lower prices we have to go all the way back to September 2006 when the market was coming out of a near 10-year stretch nearer $2 than $3. It’s interesting to note, those lows were followed within less than three years by highs in excess of $8 after some crop failures.

It’s small comfort for producers that prices would have been even lower (and might be yet) were it not for the fact that global corn production has been running behind consumption for the past three seasons, reducing the world’s estimated carryover stock of the grain from about 352m tonnes in 2016/17 to a forecast 303m for 2019/20.

On the supportive side for prices, China does seem to be importing more while Brazil has recently had some dry weather problems that could trim quite a bit off this year’s final crop number. It would still be another large one, but Brazil’s own demand has been rising, so exports might not be quite as brisk in coming months as expected earlier. Largest maize supplier, the USA, has meanwhile started to see a bit more trade in recent weeks, boosted partly by the China business.

Cheap soya to continue?

A big US crop this autumn, on top of hefty South American South American production for the past two years, suggest the soya market will remain well supplied in the season ahead. The USDA expects the US am extra 7.4m planted acres and a return to trend yields (from last year’s lower ones) to deliver a 112m tonne crop (97m). Some analysts are even higher, expecting a bigger farm shift out of maize and into soya – currently being sown at a fast pace under good weather conditions. The USDA 96 | June 2020 - Milling and Grain

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also makes an early stab at the 2020/21 Latin American crops – suggesting a potential 10m tonne increase there too – although this is really too far away to be reliable and will depend on weather and prices when sown in Setember/October.

USDA 26.7m tonne increase for the global 2020/21 crop meets its expected 11m tonne rise in world crush. Including direct food use, it would leave the world stock slightly lower at the end of next season and about 16m tonnes under the 2018/19 record but it would still be ample, even in the US, where it is forecast to drop from last season’s 24.7m to 11m.

That move would also depend heavily on China help the US export 10m tonnes more beans next season. While Chinese sources say they will honour pledges under a ‘phase one’ trade deal with the US and have been actively buying this month, traders are worried that President Trump’s mounting criticism of the PRC over COVID-19 might jeopardise that – which could lead to lower US and world soya prices. (USDA forecasts China will increase purchases from all sources by 4m to 96m tonnes).

Our guess is that, barring a total falling out between the two, China will continue buying what are historically cheap beans from the US. But even in this expected season of shrinking stocks USDA does not expect this to stop US seasonal average soya prices dropping further - from an average $8.50 per bushel ($312/ tonne) to $8.20. The futures markets show a similar outlook - no real increase in prices far into 2021.

Rapeseed meal outlook still finely balanced Top rapeseed supplier Canada’s government this month estimated its mainly spring planted crop would cover a slightly smaller area than last year’s at 8.34m ha, a seven year low but with some modest yield improvement, the tonnage would work out similar, around 19m. The USDA has slightly more bearish numbers - area of 8.7m ha and a crop of 19.9m tonnes.

The USDA also offered its first forecasts for world rapeseed production in 2020/21 of 70.8m tonnes, up from last year’s 68.2m but below 2018’s 72.4m tonnes. It saw a marginal 1% gain for Europe (17m tonnes) but a 15.4% rise for key EU supplier Ukraine at 4m tonnes. It also match other recent estimates that Australia – another important exporter – could see two years of drought-depleted output followed by a 33% (770,000 tonne) rise to 3.1m tonnes in 2020/21.

The early supply forecasts come amid some weather issues in Europe, the former USSR and Canada as well as some downward revisions to stock estimates for the latter (smallest March stocks for three years) although Canada is unlikely to run short before the season closes with some 2.5m tonnes.

The global market for rapeseed remains fairly finely balanced but prices are held back by two factors – a flat to lower trend in the much bigger soya meal market and the loss of much biodiesel demand for the primary crush product, rapeseed oil.

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June

2020

9-11 ☑ Ildex Vietnam 2020 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam https://www.ildex-vietnam.com Postponed from 18-20 March to 22-24 July

10 IGC Grains Conference 2020 Conference will be online www.igc.int 10-11 Cereals 2020 Event now online www.cerealsevent.co.uk 2020

ILDEX Vietnam is organised by VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific Co, Ltd a joint venture between Jaarbeurs from the Netherlands and TCC Exhibition and Convention Centre from Thailand. ILDEX Vietnam, the international livestock, dairy, meat processing and aquaculture exposition, has become the leading trade exhibition in the Asia region with strong attendance and plentiful business opportunities. Livestock experts and leading exhibitors have stated that it is the best marketplace and international business platform for the Vietnamese market.

July 2-3 Women in Agriculture Europe 2020 Paris, France www.womeninageurope.com

2020

August

2020

31-2 ☑ VIV MEA 2020 Abu Dhabi, UAE www.viv.net Postponed from 9-11 March to 31 August 2020

December

October

2021

6-8 16th ICC Cereal and Bread Congress Christchurch, New Zealand www.icbc2020.icc.or.at

1-2 3rd Agrifood International Congress Port Tarragona, Spain www.agrifoodporttarragona.com Postponed from 7-8 May to 1-2 October 2020

September

1-3 NAMA Annual Meeting 2020 White Sulphur Springs, USA www.namamillers.org

2-3 Black Sea Grain 2020 Kyiv, Ukraine www.ukragroconsult.com Postponed from 22-23 April to 2-3 September

January

26-28 IPPE Atlanta, Georgia USA www.ippexpo.org 2021

14-16 Vietstock 2020 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam www.vietstock.org

February 25-3 Interpack 2020 Düsseldorf, Germany www.interpack.com

14-16 Agritechnica Asia 2020 Bangkok, Thailand www.agritechnica-asia.com 21-23 FIGAP 2020 Guadakajara, Mexico www.figap.com 8-10 Livestock Malaysia 2020 Malacca, Malaysia www.livestockmalaysia.com Postponed from 7-9 April 2020 to 8-10 September 15-18 SPACE 2020 Event now online http://uk.space.fr

FIGAP 2020, now in its ninth edition, is renewed and once again puts itself at the forefront as the most important forum of the livestock sector in Mexico and Latin America with international recognition.

FIGAP 2020 will have the largest areas of specialisation in the livestock sector, where attendees can see the latest trends and technological innovations, with new approaches in research and development 2020

November TBA TUSAF 2020 Antalya, Turkey http://tusaf2020.org

15-17 AFIA Liquid Feed Symposium 2020 Chicago, Illinois, USA www.afia.org

4-5 JTIC 2020 France www.jtic.eu Industries des Céréales (JTIC) is intended for professionals in the grain industry. Organised by AEMIC, this event is a unique opportunity to present your expertise to a specialised audience in search of concrete solutions for all your milling needs. Several conferences and seminars will again take place at the venue, as well as many opportunities for business networking

17-19 VIV Qingdao 2020 Qingdao, China www.viv.net

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5-7 Livestock Taiwan 2020 Taiwan www.livestocktaiwan.com

2021

March 17-18 Solids Dortmund 2020 Dortmund, Germany www.easyfairs.com Postponed from 24-25 June to 17-18 March

2021

April 11-13 PIX AMC Gold Coast, Australia www.pixamc.com.au

2021

June 8-10 Indo Livestock 2020 Jakarta, Indonesia www.indolivestock.com

THE BUSINESS NETWORK LINKING PROFESSIONALS FROM FEED TO FOOD VIV WORLDWIDE FULL EVENTS CALENDAR 2020-2022 VIV MEA 2020 VIV QINGDAO 2020

Abu Dhabi, August 31-September 2 Qingdao China, September 17-19

POULTRY AFRICA 2020

Nairobi, October 14-15

VIV ASIA 2021

Bangkok, March 10-12

VICTAM AND ANIMAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION ASIA 2022

BY VICTAM & VIV

VIV EUROPE 2022

Bangkok, January 18-20 Utrecht, Amsterdam

30 min, May 31- June 2

PARTNER EVENTS SUPPORTED BY VIV WORLDWIDE Moscow, October

MEAT & POULTRY INDUSTRY RUSSIA 2020 ILDEX VIETNAM 2020

Ho Chi Minh, December 9-11 Istanbul, June 10-12

VIV TURKEY 2021 ILDEX INDONESIA 2021

Jakarta, September 15-17

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EVENT ROUND UP Hamlet hosts seminars on leadership and nutrition Hamlet Protein, global producer of specialty ingredients for young animal nutrition, hosted a series of on-line events to engage with customers and business partners on topics ranging from animal nutrition and health to change management. The sessions saw record attendance and were much appreciated in times where travel restrictions have brought physical meetings to a standstill.

In China, Hamlet Protein hosted an on-line event for the Chinese feed industry. Dr Eugene Li, Technical Director APAC for Hamlet Protein, presented on a range of topics related to piglet feed formulation. Following an on-line poll in preparation of the event, a number of topics was selected for discussion. There was a clear interest in learning about novel ways to address the upcoming ban of AGPs in China. The experience of Hamlet Protein in Europe in general and Denmark in particular, proved to be very valuable for the participants. With more than 20,000 attendees, Hamlet Protein’s seminar received a record crowd.

Following the huge success, Hamlet Protein will present a series of on-line seminars and meetings in China in the coming weeks, with topics ranging from feed management of Danish breeds, sow milk replacer formulation to the impact of anti-nutritional factors in soy products.

A completely different focus was on display when bestselling author and behavioural scientists Dr Ben Tiggelaar presented a lecture titled “From good ideas to real results.” Tiggelaar highlighted that changing behaviour of people is key to successfully changing an organisation. The variety in questions and observations during the sessions clearly reflected the different cultural backgrounds of the participants. The drive to successfully implement changes was the common denominator.

In the US, Hamlet Protein organised a webinar addressing the current market situation and outlook. In a discussion facilitated by Joseph Kerns a variety of topics were addressed. Guest speaker Dr Tim Fakler provided insights on feed ingredient availability in the market, where Hamlet Protein presented an update on its supply chain and manufacturing outlook.

Hamlet Protein CEO Erik Visser commented, “We want to keep close to our customers, also during these unprecedented times.

On-line events, whether for group sessions or smaller meetings, have proven very effective in continuing our technical support to customers around the world. At the same time, we want to be more than a partner on nutrition and health alone and provide some new insights to our business partners, when most of them are working from home. Seminars on leadership and change management have been very much appreciated as an interesting diversion in this challenging period.”

VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia postponed Due to the worldwide COVID-19 crisis, the management teams from the VICTAM Corporation and VIV worldwide had decided earlier to postpone VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia in Bangkok to the second quarter of 2020.

As the worldwide situation is still very critical and a long way from being solved, VICTAM and VIV noted that they cannot take the risk of organising an event as early as July.

VICTAM and VIV have evaluated an alternative date in the second half of this year, but as both health and financial situations in the world by then are very unclear, they believe postponing the event to the beginning of 2022 is in the interest of the market and the participants. This way there is more time to let the situation and business get back to normal. Another reason to choose January 2022, instead of the second half of this year, is the full event calendar, which could create a conflict of dates for visitors and exhibitors.

Postponing the event to January 2022 will give all stakeholders room to breathe and pay attention to other vital issues. The mission of VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia is to present a strong, value-adding event to the industry with high benefits for all parties. Due to the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are unable to succeed in this mission and therefore believe it is the right decision for the market and we will come back stronger together in 2022.

VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia is re-scheduled to January 18 – 20th, 2022 at BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand. The objective remains the same: to realise the total animal feed and health event organised by VICTAM and VIV. The Victam Corporation and VIV worldwide will also continue their partnership in Europe in 2022 by organising VICTAM International and VIV Europe together at the Jaarbeurs exhibition grounds in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from May 31 – June 2nd, 2022.

The set-up of this exhibition is different from the Asia event, as VIV Europe and VICTAM International will be co-located but with each exhibition in their own halls.

World Mill Tech DESMÜD is a non-governmental organisation established by manufacturers in Turkey, who aims to improve market opportunities and cooperation opportunities, to follow new emerging technologies and to support scientific and sectoral research in order to carry Turkish manufacturers and stakeholders who are already in a leading position around the world to a higher stage.

As the milling export sector in Turkey continues to rapidly expand, DESMÜD tries to develop the infrastructure and policies required by their machinery manufacturing industry, to increase their competitiveness and to ensure its continuity. For this purpose, DESMÜD invite distinguished milling machinery manufacturers and suppliers, public institutions representatives and stakeholders operating in the sector to the “World Milling Technology Conference & Exhibition”.

More than 500 national and international participants, consisting of mill machinery manufacturers, industry suppliers, flour industry members, academicians, representatives of public and institutions will meet under the same roof. In this important meeting, valuable sessions will be held to find solutions to current problems and to consolidate and improve the communication and cooperation between stakeholders, to introduce new and current technologies, to follow developments in national and international markets and to take advice from academicians and institutions.

The event will take place in November 2020 (final date to be confirmed).

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Indo Livestock 2020 Expo & Forum in Jakarta; New Dates Due to Covid-19

Dear Exhibitors, Visitors, Partners, and Journalists of Indo Livestock, Indo Feed, Indo Dairy, Indo Agritech, Indo Vet, and Indo Fisheries 2020 Expo & Forum The health and safety of every member of our community and team is of the utmost importance to us. After closely monitoring the risk and impact of COVID-19 on a daily basis and further consideration with key community members and partners, PT Napindo Media Ashatama as the organiser has taken difficult decision to postpone Indo Livestock 2020 Expo & Forum to 23 - 25 June 2021 at Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Jakarta - Indonesia.

It is a very difficult decision made by the organiser, but we believe it is the right decision to protect the health of the industry and indeed the wider population in these unprecedented circumstances.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

It is our great honor to have you as our potential exhibitors and partners and we would like to thank you for giving us a wonderful opportunity to keep you satisfied with our services and to make your participation a huge success by providing the best quality with more exhibitors and qualified trade buyers.

We hope that you and your relatives are in a good health and we spare a special thought for anyone affected.

Thank you for your kind understanding and we look forward to seeing you again in 23 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 25 June 2021 at Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Jakarta â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Indonesia.

Best Regards, PT Napindo Media Ashatama

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Yeast products

Vibrators Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Leiber GmbH +49 5461 93030 www.leibergmbh.de

Vibrafloor +33 3 85 44 06 78 www.vibrafloor.com

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Weighing equipment Imeco +39 0372 496826 www.imeco.org PLP +39 05 23 89 16 29 www.plp-systems.com

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Temperature monitoring Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Training BĂźhler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com IAOM +1 913 338 3377 www.iaom.info IFF +495307 92220 www.iff-braunschweig.de

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the interview

Jack Chen, Chief Technology Officer, Famsun

Milling and Grain magazine paid a regular visit to China 2019 year end, and we had the opportunity to sit down with Mr Jack Chen, the Chief Technology Officer of Famsun Group - a China-based, global integrated solution provider who has a strong market position in China and the global feed manufacturing industry - to talk about something new from Famsun R&D and his perspectives on the future of feed technology.

First of all, can you tell us more about your career at Famsun R&D?

I joined the company in 1992 as an Automation Engineer after graduating in Industrial Electrics and Automation. In 1998, I became the Deputy General Manager of Automation Business. At that time, we started taking the leadership in machine and plant automation in the Chinese feed industry.

From 2003 to 2007, I held various management positions across the corporation from procurement to sales. In 2008, I became the Vice President of the Group, and since 2012 as the Chief Technology Officer to lead Famsun R&D globally.

How important is R&D in developing leading-edge equipment that meets the needs of the feed milling industry globally?

Global food production systems would not be able to feed a growing world’s population without the modern feed industry.

Processing machines convert ingredients into long-lasting, high-quality, nutritious and more digestible feed for livestock, and allow commercial animal farming businesses to be scaled worldwide. Innovations create values and accelerate changes.

Leading-edge processing equipment and technologies can help feed producers to transfer their innovations into marketable products and enable them to address the development challenges they have to face in a changing market environment.

In other words, the feed machinery industry is an indispensable link in the farm-to-table supply chain. Its effects on the research and development of new processing machines and technologies support feed manufacturing progress towards a more modern and sustainable industry.

I’m very glad that Famsun is always playing this role and advancing sustainability across the whole value chain.

As the Chief Technology Officer, what’s your expectation on Famsun’s R&D?

Again, I’d like to emphasise that innovations create value and accelerate changes. In this sense, R&D in a company should contribute to the long-term competitiveness and profitability of its organisation and all stakeholders in its value chain as well.

In Famsun, I hope our R&D experts can create new and improved products, technologies and solutions that could be converted into profitable, growing business for the company while keeping it in a technical leading position in the industry.

As an important technical supplier in the global feed-to-food supply chain, we hope our customers can benefit from our integrated, advanced solutions from production to operation and management in feed milling, animal farming and food production. And as a technical partner, we hope to collaborate more closely with industrial partners to develop necessary solutions and scale them timely to lead the industry toward a promising future.

For end consumers, we hope our R&D efforts can help them enjoy more safe, healthy, nutritional and affordable food that

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produced in efficient and sustainable manner. In Famsun, almost one-third of our employees work for R&D. They are the best talents from different professional fields with great knowledge, experience and wisdom, and innovative skills and motivation for success.

How much (percentage-wise of turnover) is Famsun Group investing each year in R&D? And is this enough?

About five percent. Actually, an investment of five percent (of turnover) is indeed a lot for mechanical and plant engineering companies. The positive business development and strong global market position Famsun achieves today proves that our Board of Directors and Senior Executive Board have make correct decisions on Famsun R&D all these years. The increasing budget as a good result of the growing business performance for sure will accelerate our Research, Development and Innovation plans in the coming years.

What areas of milling are most of the Famsun R&D fund spent on, in recent years?

Famsun always eyes on providing advanced solutions that are necessary to help our customers overcome current obstacles and address future threats. For this reason, we have invested a lot of our R&D budget recent years in the research aspects of large-scale industrial production; intelligence, digital, new alternative protein and future food.

We hope the breakthroughs we have make and yet to create in these fields can help our customers run their production facilities more efficiently and develop their businesses more sustainably with lower energy rates, lower emissions, less waste, less water, but higher productivity and profitability.

What are the key issues Famsun R&D is dealing with most successfully? For the domestic markets, and for the international market?

There are numerous examples that have come to both China and international markets. The most notable is Famsun Future-Fit Aquafeed Extrusion solutions. The low-starch formula extrusion technology can help aquafeed producers adapt to the changing market demand. While with a quick-start conditioner, our extruder can save hundreds of kilos of raw material wastes at each startup of production.

Among others, the Famsun SME online controller provides great flexibility to extrusion production, along with improved production capacity, desired bulk density, high starch gelatinisation levels, satisfying water stability as well as better appearance and lower energy consumption.

Another example is Famsun’s Digital & Intelligence solutions.

Famsun’s Animal Farming IOT and Traceability Platform is another one of them. The platform connects data from feed mill to livestock farms and provides the data transparency necessary for industry integrators to optimise their operations.

Our experts are trying to extend our digital solutions to bring interconnection and efficiency across the complete value chain from farm to consumer.

How do we ensure to feed a population of 9.8 billion people in 2050? Is this an achievable goal?

It is very clear that the growing population is not the only challenge we have to face in the future. Climate change, failing of soil, freshwater shortage... our agri-food industry is facing moonshot-sized challenges to enable the food production system to meet the growing food demand while in balance with nature. We must improve productivity to produce more healthy food, while protecting our living environment by slowing the rate of growth in demand of water, energy and other resources, and reducing GHG emissions.

We also must enable agri-food industry to prosper and to lift more people who depend on it for livelihood out of poverty. Therefore, we must change the way we produce and consume in food production.

Like Famsun, most Agri-Food Tech companies are stepping up to the most promising solutions that are currently available or show promise in the near term. From alternatives such as insect-, algae- and methanebased feed ingredients that help to relief the pressure on terrestrial and marine production system to plant-based meat and cell-based meat that use less land and water while reducing environmental footprint by shortening plant-to-meat conversion chain, and from gene-editing, drones and indoor farming to satellite imaging, precision farming and intelligent industry 4.0, the most advanced technologies are driving radical transformation in our food and agriculture system.

As these future technologies are getting more popular, and with a more and more connective, collaborated and inclusive supply chain, we believe the agri-food industry will and must be able to tackle future challenges and create a sustainable food future on our planet.

To find out more about Famsunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest innovations for the feed industry, read their article on page 66.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES AIC appoints Catherine Barrett as new Head of Arable Marketing and Seed

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he Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) – the leading UK trade association representing agricultural supply chain sectors including arable marketing, crop protection, agronomy, feed, fertiliser and seed – has announced the promotion of Catherine Barrett as its new Head of Arable Marketing and Seed.

In her new role, Catherine will lead her sectors in representing members’ interests with Defra and other government and non-government bodies and organisations.

“I’m delighted to assume this new position for AIC, an organisation that always strives to represent and promote member interests. AIC truly is the voice of the UK agri-supply chain,” says Catherine Barrett.

Luke Bugeja appointed Interflour Group chairman

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new chairman has been appointed to the Interflour Group board, following the retirement of long-serving member Imre Mencshelyi late last year. Luke Bugeja, who is based in Singapore and holds an MBA from Deakin University in Melbourne, was announced as the new chairman by CBH.

Interflour is a joint venture between CBH and Origold, with both parties each holding a 50 percent interest in the group.

“I look forward to working with the Interflour Group Board and management as we continue implementing our strategy to generate greater value for our shareholders,” Mr Bugeja said.

New Starter at Carr’s Flour – Miguel Da Riberia

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arr’s Flour are proud to announce that Miguel Da Riberia is joining the company as Sales Manager. Miguel joins the Carr’s team from The Bread Factory and has been working in the baking industry for the past eight years, where his work has encompassed both the artisan and semi-automated bakery markets.

Growing up as part of his family’s retail business, which included a from-scratch bakery, Miguel is extremely passionate about flour and its ability to bring all kinds of people together around the table. Beginning his own journey into food as a chef, this experience gave Miguel a brilliant foundation for understanding and respecting the foodservice industry and the importance of the supply chain.

Miguel says, “I’m delighted to be working with such a well-respected brand like Carr’s Flour and thrilled to be part of the wider family. Carr’s Flour have an exceptional reputation within the industry – they’re millers that bakers know they can trust. I plan to be the conduit between customers and millers and help enhance these relationships even further”

Perstorp Animal Nutrition appoints Vilson Simon as Vice President for the Americas

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eading global feed additive and specialty chemicals company Perstorp with its headquarters in Sweden, has appointed Vilson Antonio Simon as Vice President in charge of the Animal Nutrition Business Area in the Americas. Simon joined Perstorp on April 6th and reports directly to Perstorp Animal Nutrition Executive Vice President Roger Mann.

Vilson Simon will be responsible for achieving Perstorp’s ambitious strategic goals for the Animal Nutrition Business Area in the Americas.

“With No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) as the new norm, Perstorp is in a very good position to play a significant role in this continent. Perstorp aims to help facilitate the reduction of antibiotics without compromising on performance and supporting a healthy gut and building a foundation for a healthy microbiome. I look forward to being a part of further building these solutions and launching future innovations” states Vilson.

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