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A truly global community As we go to press, the war in Ukraine rages on without an end in sight. Below we report on an assessment of its implication on human nutrition - from the President of the World Bank David Malpass, no less.

Modern communication has quickly identified the likely impact and consequences on those parts of the world that have no part in this conflict and yet may suffer the most; all due to one man’s belligerence. In the 21st Century we are truly a global community and there is no room for such primitive behaviour.

We are also pleased to learn that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is confident that 70 percent of his country’s cropping lands will be planted under a new campaign that he has initiated.

However, gathering in, storing and exporting these crops to countries most in need may prove difficult given the damage being done to port facilities in particular.

On a happier note, this issue will be going to attendees at four major shows this month - the IAOM in Richmond, USA, Ipack-IMA in Milan, Italy and to the co-located jointVIV Europe and Victam International shows.

May 2022 is definitely our Victam-VIV edition with its focus on the two awards for exhibiting companies - the GRAPAS Awards for any company (exhibitor or not) in the food milling sector and AFTaN, the Animal Feed Technology and Nutrition Awards, exclusive to exhibitors. This issue also contains the Victam ‘Showtime’ newsletter and an interview

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Besides all of this, there is so much more to read contained within.

Leading the way is a contribution from our correspondent James Cooper, who takes us on a journey of salvation, by first pointing out the hurdles we face from a personal, if not consumer, perspective of sustainability and the conflicts we face when deciding what’s best to do – especially when it comes to food choices.

What is startling to me is that the milling industry, and the feed sector in particular, is picking up the challenge of countering misinformation while at the same time leading the way in identifying sustainability matters as they relate to the use of feed raw materials, the sourcing of materials along with the processing and delivery to farmer stakeholders.

It’s as if the industry is taking a wider view than traditionally accepted of being responsible for one-step forward and once-step backward in terms of traceability. Mr Cooper’s observations, although from a personal point-ofview at the outset, is well worth the read.

Finally, I’d like to congratulate our advertisers for their commitment to our magazine - both to the print and the digital versions and in their multiple languages. They are showing this commitment in updating their advertisements and making them more informative, timely and attractive for our readers, who do appreciate the efforts that they are putting in.

After all, advertisements are just as informative and share equal space within the covers of our magazine and should and do encourage us to look for newer products and services and more efficient ways of going about our businesses of delivering milled products to those who need them, at the price and of the quality and quantity that they desire.

Enjoy this month’s edition!

The World Bank is warning of a human catastrophe caused by the war in Ukraine

World Bank President David Malpass warned, in a BBC interview and reported in the UK’s Independent newspaper that, “it’s a human catastrophe, meaning nutrition goes down.

But it also becomes a political challenge for government who can’t do anything about it, they didn’t cause it and they see the prices going up.”

Mr Malpass said that this would be an historic rise in food prices of 37 percent which could lead hundreds of millions of people across the world into poverty if the crisis keeps going.

“It’s affecting food of all different kinds:

oil, grains and then it gets into other crops, corn crops, because they go up when wheat goes up,” he said during IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington.

The spike in food prices, expected to be broad and deep, will be magnified for the poor who will eat less and have less money for anything else.

“It’s really an unfair kind of crisis.”

He added that while there was enough food in the world to feed everyone and even with global stockpiles large by historical standards, there will have to a sharing or a sales process to

make sure the food reaches where it is needed.

The focus, instead Mr Malpass said, needs to be on increasing supplies of fertilisers and food across the world, in addition to the targeted assistance for the very poorest people.

Warning of a knock on ‘crisis within a crisis’ springing from the inability of developing nations to service their large pandemic debts.

"This is a very real prospect. It’s happening for some countries; we don’t know how far it’ll go. As many as 60 percent of the poorest countries right now are either in debt distress or at high risk of being in debt distress.”

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MAGTv brings you a slightly different ‘interview’ this month with the above video.

Publisher Roger Gilbert has been asked to provide a Keynote presentation for a webinar on insect meals for the livestock, petfood and aqua industries.

Hosted by Bygora, this online seminar focused on: ‘Insects in Animal Nutrition – and the Importance of Alternative Proteins in Animal Feed.’ It was held on April 28, 2022.

Roger Gilbert had been asked to ‘set the scene’ in terms of protein demand by the feed industry globally and as a result he identified and proposed a ‘benchmark for compound feed production’ that each country should aim to achieve in order to ensure sufficient animal protein products are being produced to meet the food need of its population.

Rather than counting the number of eggs, meat and fish produced and consumed nationally, and then comparing that consumption with other countries, he suggests that food security can be directly related to the volume of compound feed produced per capita within a country.

“Scientifically formulated compound feeds have gone a long way to securing food sources for many countries. Focusing on the production of animal feeds would assist governments in addressing food shortages and to learn in detail where their protein supplies are really coming from that end up as foodstuffs for their populations.

“Protein is not only the building block for human nutrition, it is also the building block for our whole animal production systems, be that livestock or aquaculture.

“Knowing and developing our sources of protein for livestock is essential if we are to meet world food demand, and Bygora’s webinare which was held on April 28, 2022 – and which can be viewed on-demand now - will go a long way to ensuring we collectively turn our attention to new and valuable protein source such as insect meal and other ‘alternative’ protein sources,” he adds.

See the video at www.millingandgrain.com/videos

The month of May is always a bit of a puzzler, with our industry hard at work ensuring that all types of food keeps arriving on the table in our homes, factories and farms.

In May, the livestock is stopped from grazing the silage fields, and fertiliser is spread to allow six weeks of growth before silaging occurs. Fertiliser and muck spreading continues to happen throughout this month, and a number of crops, such as potatoes, cereals, sugar beet and peas, will be sprayed.

May also tends to be the time that livestock buildings are thoroughly cleaned, and repairs to walls and fences will also take place if necessary.

The name of this month is likely derived from the Roman goddess Maia, who oversaw the growth of plants. Alternatively, the name might have come from the Latin elders or ‘maiores’ who were traditionally celebrated around this time of year.

The list of famous birthdays in May includes American revolutionary leader Patrick Henry (1736-1799) was born in Studley, Virginia. He is best remembered for his speech in 1775 declaring: "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."

As the wider conflict in Ukraine appears to be shrinking to a more ferocious affair in the east of the country, this month this column takes a look at other brave efforts from history, where freedom has been ensured in the face of what looked like certain death.

Ukraine has already lost at least US$1.5billion in grain exports since the war began on February 24, 2022, although the huge loss of human life is obviously a much more pressing concern.

As civilians, we can only watch on from afar with admiration of the tenacity and bloody mindedness of the defending Ukrainians.

Very much like I’m sure we all have during the ongoing conflicts in Palestine, Somalia and Syria, to name just a few.

History does contain incidents such as this that have been resolved. In fact this month sees Cinco de Mayo celebrated in Mexico on May 5th. Cinco de Mayo is a national holiday in remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1862 which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza, outnumbered three to one, defeating the invading French forces of Napoleon III. A further option for Mr Zelensky et al is to retreat, seeking the sanctuary of safer Ukrainian territory. One example of this happening occurred on May 26, 1940 when the Dunkirk evacuation began in order to save the British Expeditionary Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of France.

Written into the history books as a ‘glorious retreat’, one thing is clear – it was certainly British hands that were operating the typewriter when that history book was written!

Whatever happens in the region, we hope that it is peaceful and that a consensus is reached between both sides. So somewhat optimistically, I look forward to focussing on this peace in the next edition of this column. gfmt.blogspot.com

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TUSAF elects new Chairman of the Board of Directors

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he Ordinary General Assembly of the Turkish Flour Industrialists' Federation (TUSAF) was held on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the Federation Center in Ankara. The 2019-2022 Term Chairman of the TUSAF Board of Directors, Dr Eren Günhan Ulusoy, made evaluations to the General Assembly participants on the activities of the period and sectoral expectations from the new board of directors.

Delegates from all associations, including eight Association Chairmen, attended the meeting. Haluk Tezcan, Chairman of the Aegean Flour Industrialists' Association (EUSD), was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the 2022-2025 Term of the Turkish Flour Industrialists' Federation.

Mehmet Mesut Çakmak, Bekir Tosun and Hüseyin Emre Tekbaş were elected as the Vice Presidents, Alp Eskiyapan was elected as the Accountant Member and Veysi Duyan was elected as the Secretary Member.

Bekir Bağış, Onur Denizli, Burhan İlhan, Murad Bertan, Mustafa Özmermer, Kamil Adem, Mustafa Hikmet Kazancı, Ahmet Ergin Okandeniz, Turhan Göksu and Osman Nuri Hekimoğlu, were the board members that were also in attendance.

TUSAF's last and new term Chairmen of the Board of Directors, Dr Eren Günhan Ulusoy and Mr Haluk Tezcan expressed their best wishes at the General Assembly meeting.

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Spanish silo specialists set out annual factory management plan

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ymaga announces that the company has obtained ISO 45001 recertification in Safety and Health at work. Since the implementation of a new management system in 2018, the company became a safer and healthier place to work.

ISO 45001 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organisations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing workrelated injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance.

The company is proud of being the first company certificated in 45001 in the Castilla La Mancha region of Spain, and since then have had zero work accidents since the beginning of 2022.

Safety and Occupational Risk Prevention measures are included in their new Factory Management Plan 2022, that oversees all actions in occupational risk, environment and quality.

ISO 14001, which sets out the criteria for an environmental management system, is set to be re-certificated by the end of the year, as in the months ahead the company work to execute strengthening actions such as the renewal of their forklift feet. This year, 25 percent of the forklift fleet is being renewed, with electric and pashing progressively replacing the internal combustion units.

In addition, waste management is one of the main points to be stressed, as the objective is to increase the number of recycling points and improve separation with more paper containers.

Advances are also being made in the sustainability of Symaga’s silo manufacturing process, whilst in 2022 the company also increased its green energy consumption. This move saw a new photovoltaic solar energy plant installed in 2020, and set to double in size, the company is on track to get more than 50 percent of their energy consumption from clean, self-generation, with the company moving towards an Industry 4.0 principle.

They begin the implementation of MES-SGA system linked to their ERP, with the goal being to improve factory control to get a more efficient management of raw material and finished product warehouse.

The company’s philosophy is one of continuous improvement. This ‘Factory Management plan 2022’ achieves a safer, less contaminated and more efficient workplace, and thus attaining an improvement in the company´s competitiveness.

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SugaRich seeks to expand its operations in Europe

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UK based company that recovers surplus materials from food manufacturers, food distributors and food retailers and turn them into nutritionally balanced, high performance animal feed ingredients, has announced its intention to expand into Europe.

SugaRich has agreed to acquire the former food processing business of Duynie France, located in Pannecé, which will operate under the SugaRich brand, with this transaction accelerates the company’s strategic ambitions to grow its international footprint and positions the group as one of the largest European businesses in the former foods sector.

This sector is developing at pace, with food manufacturers looking for closer, more intrinsic relationships to support them in reducing food waste, and where it cannot be eliminated in helping them to use it in an economically and sustainably beneficial way.

Developing its systems to align with these shifting market trends, the company has created technology which actively helps food manufacturers reduce waste and built collection systems to maximise the value and impact of the remaining product.

“It is clear that consolidation in the food and feed sector is accelerating and consistent with our growth strategy. We will look for opportunities to develop our business for the long term by growing our presence in new territories and delivering our innovative approach to surplus foodstuffs to an even wider customer base across Europe,” says Alex Keogh, Managing Director, SugaRich.

This is an exciting time and one that cements the ambition of the company in the co-products industry, SugaRich is delighted to have inherited a fantastic team in Pannecé, a strong supplier base and loyal customers.

It will endeavour to build on that platform by bringing to France, industry leading technology and processes to enable building a larger, stronger and more dynamic business.

“The SugaRich ethos is to provide a low environmental footprint animal feed, and this acquisition supports that value,” adds Andrew Newton, SugaRich CEO. “What we start with in France is an impressive business and one that will be central to our European growth, leading the way in alternative feeds.”

Following the exchange, SugaRich can confirm that Duynie SASU has decided to concentrate its business on the direct supply of moist and liquid coproduct feeds to French livestock farmers.

This brings Duynie SASU’s business model in line with its sister companies trading across Europe under the brand of Duynie Feed.

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Third World Flour Day receives overwhelming response

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he third World Flour Day was held on March 20, 2022. The entire flour industry celebrated the day with shared baking activities, because for millennia this staple food has contributed to health, wellbeing and prosperity around the world.

Under the motto ‘Flour and People’, this year the FlourWorld Museum, which initiated World Flour Day in 2020, collected stories about the meaning of flour for each individual, with the theme of this year’s World Flour Day receiving a warm global reception.

A wide range of personal stories came in from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Near East and many other regions. Innovation, tradition, connectedness, prosperity, strength, joy, life - those are just some of the answers that members of the worldwide gave to the question ‘what does flour mean for us?’

“We were overwhelmed by the participation in this year’s World Flour Day,” says Carsten Blum, the idea-giver and originator of the commemorative day.

“We received many moving and inspiring stories. People around the globe shared with us their personal links to flour. All these stories show the multifaceted and individual significance of flour for each person.”

On World Flour Day in 2022 the flour industry celebrated its variety and solidarity. In many mills and companies that use flour, employees came together to honour this staple food with joint baking activities.

For the March 20 the FlourWorld Museum created a dedicated flour sack with special artwork that represents the motto ‘Flour and People’. It shows three children baking together. “This special sack stands for flour and people, variety, internationality, family and the interconnectedness of all people through flour,” explains Mr Blum.

The sack has a place of honour in the FlourWorld Museum. This museum in Witten-burg near Hamburg, Germany holds the world’s largest collection of flour sacks, with over 3700 sacks from 140 countries. Under the motto Flour.

Power.Life the FlourWorld Museum tells of the traditions, history and myths of flour.

“A special highlight of this year’s World Flour Day was the large amount of flour donations we received from our customers for a charitable project in Uganda,” says Maximiliane Schneider, Sales Manager East Africa at Mühlenchemie. On her initiative the FlourWorld Museum and Mühlenchemie col-lected several hundred kilograms of flour for the ‘Girls’ Club’ charity project by the Butiru Friends Circle in Uganda.

The initiative started in 2021 and invites girls from Butiru and surrounding villages to a Girls’ Club three afternoons a week. The project has been so popular that Girls’ Clubs are now offered in other locations.

The goal of the initiative is financial independence, the strengthening of the community and the autonomy of women. The girls also learn to determine their profit and handle money.

The donations help the organisation to run baking and cooking courses so that the girls and women can set up their own small bakery stall.

“We’re very glad to be able to help in this way, because to us flour also means helping the community”, says Ms Schneider.

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Imas Machinery Industry Inc announces public offering

mas Makina, which exports grain milling and feed mill machinery, band saw products and steel structure systems, and also offers turnkey integrated factory solutions, is offered to the public.

The company is a subsidiary of İttifak Holding that has been operating in the machinery sector for 33 years that prides itself in being one of the leading companies in the sector.

The book-building dates for the public offering of İmaş Makina, whose application was approved by the Capital Markets Board, were determined as 20-21-22 April 2022, with these dates having already passed.

The application made for the public offering of the company shares of Imas Makina Sanayi AŞ, has been approved by the Capital Markets Board. The price of the public offering, which will be held through the ‘fixed price bookbuilding and best effort mediation method’, was determined as 15 TL (TL = Turkish Lira with 100 TL ~ US$6.82) for a share with a nominal value of 1 TL. The total size of the public offering In order to produce and establish turnkey facilities and machines used in the production of flour and semolina of grains such as wheat, corn, rye, oats and barley, Imas was established in 1989 within the body of İttifak Holding.

Today, it exports to more than 100 countries in five continents with its production and sales activities under the brands of Milleral in the grain milling industry, Viteral in the feed milling industry, Cuteral in the band and circular saw benches industry, and Steral in the steel construction industry, and ProSupport in spare parts and service.

In the public offering of İmaş Makina, shares with a nominal

value of 7million (m) TL to be issued by increasing the issued capital of the company from 30m TL to 37m TL, as well as shares with a nominal value of 7m TL owned by the current partner İttifak Holding.

After the sale of shares with a total nominal value of 14m TL through capital increase and joint sales of İmaş Makina, the company's free float rate will be 37.84 percent, while the total size of the public offering will be 210m TL. Increasing production capacity, competitiveness & market share "As Imas, we are a company that closely follows technology and makes significant investments and continuous R&D studies to keep its quality up-to-date at all times,” says Tayfun Bora Kumru, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Imas Makina, who mentions that Imas Makina's capital structure will be further strengthened and its production capacity will be increased with the proceeds of public offering.

“Today, we export to more than 100 countries in five continents with our production and sales activities with our brands Milleral in the grain milling industry, Viteral in the feed milling industry, Cuteral in the band and circular saw benches industry, Steral in the steel construction industry, and ProSupport in spare parts and service,” adds Mr Kumru.

“We will further strengthen our equity and financial structure with the income we will obtain from the public offering. We aim to increase our competitive power with capacity increase, advance raw material supply and technology renewals, to increase our share in both domestic and foreign markets and to better introduce ourselves in new markets,” he concludes.

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Robinson’s Remodel Swedish Rye and Wheat Mill

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by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

n the river Gota, about three miles inland from the Kattegat sea, stands Gothenburg, which next to Stockholm is the largest and most important town in Sweden.

Now the largest port in Scandinavia, a January 1950 article in “The Miller” mentioned that the freeport had a population of nearly 300,000 people who lived in the residential area on the south bank of the river and worked in the industrial section to the north.

Gothenburg has a special advantage for shipping in that the free central harbour is rarely obstructed by ice, a frequent setback in Northern countries. Until the Second World War, all buildings were of wooden construction, but as fires had become so common, they were gradually rebuilt in more durable materials, with the result that by 1950 “the town presents an extremely modern and attractive appearance”.

The more important industries then included ship building, foundries, refineries, breweries, and distilleries, as well as factories producing paper, margarine and wood pulp. Nowadays it is a centre for high technology with firms such as SKF, Ericsson and Volvo, but the ‘blue-collar’ industries are still important.

Flour mills featured prominently and one of the best known was

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the Aktie Bolaget Majornas Angbageri which was remodelled in 1949 by Thomas Robinson and Son of Rochdale UK. This is a combined wheat and rye mill with its own bakery attached; an ideal arrangement for economy in running costs involving the processing of grain into a variety of products ready for delivery direct to the customer. There was no necessity for packing of products as the whole flour output of this seven-anda-half sack per hour plant was delivered by conveyor direct to the bins in the bakery.

The cleaning capacity of the mill was 1500-2000 kilos per hour. As the cleaning system was a combined one for cleaning both wheat and rye, great care was taken in the size and types of machines for cleaning either each grain separately, or a mixture of both.

Every cleaning machine was thoroughly exhausted, and the exhaust air was driven suction filter dust collectors that discharged dust free air to the atmosphere.

The type DZm milling separator, provided a very efficient type for home grown Swedish wheat, the head and tail aspiration being exceptionally useful, and the bottom screen removed a large amount of sand and small seeds.

By means of careful planning

Prior to cylinder treatment the grain was passed through a ‘Boxmag’ Magnetic Separator, where any piece of metal fell into

pockets formed by the magnetic bars so as not to impede the grain flow. An emery scourer followed the cylinder treatment, this very efficient design of aspirating and deposit chamber was a notable feature of this machine.

The KBm type wheat brush provided efficient brushing and caused considerable interest. After final brushing the grain was weighed and sent to the grinding bin. In the case of rye milling, the grain first passed through smooth crushing rolls of 292mm (11 and a half inches) diameter. This was primarily to crush the rye which was then sifted to remove ‘blue flour’ - or flour contaminated by crease dirt. This crushing roll was bypassed when wheat was being milled.

The endosperm of rye is firmly attached to the outer bran, even more so than in the instance of wheat, consequently a sevenbreak system was adopted, the spiral, angle depth and number of flutes per inch of roll

surface were carefully worked out to ensure that they would grind wheat as efficiently as rye.

There were also several alternative runs in the flow to suit the changing grist. The rolls themselves were all of 11 and a half inches diameter, this size proved most suitable for a combined wheat and rye plant. The roller mills were Robinson’s well known ‘JEm’ type, 32 inches long.

All scalping and dressing was carried out by plansifters in accordance with usual Swedish tradition. For this purpose, the proved Robinson type ‘JSm’ sextuple plansifter with loose clothing frames and interchangeable boxes were installed to augment the dressing surface of the re-used ones existing in the mill. By means of careful planning, many of the existing worm conveyors were eliminated. The appearance of the floors and the power consumption was thereby improved.

The bakery was fully automatic and produced 30 different kinds of bread, cakes and biscuits. It had six travelling electric ovens and was one of the largest bakeries in Sweden.

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The Rex Wailes Collection

Windmills of Nantucket, USA

by Nathanael Hodge, Mills Archive trust

In 1929 Rex Wailes visited the island of Nantucket during his trip to the USA and Canada. This is his write-up of the history of windmills on the island: Although at present there is but one windmill on Nantucket, there have been a number of others, and records of some of these exist. During my brief visit to this most delightful spot, I was afforded every opportunity by the Nantucket Historical Association, and at the Public Library to study the history of the Nantucket windmills, and to examine the sole survivor.

In 1672 one Peter Folger was appointed by the town of Nantucket to run a watermill; for some unknown reason this was abandoned, and another worked by wind was erected in its place.

Mr Folger also ran this mill, his pay being two quarts for every bushel ground. There are also references to windmills built on the tops of houses, as can be found today in Majorca, but the five mills about which most is known are the four which stood in a line on the Popsquatchet Hills, and the Round Top Mill.

Of the four, the first was built in 1723 by Frederick Macy, who asserted that the design of it came to him in his dreams, it ran as late as 1820 and was then known as Barnabas Bunker’s Mill. After the Nantucket fire of 1836 the mill was purchased by the town to test the efficacy of gunpowder for demolishing buildings.

On December 7, 1837, the townsfolk all turned out and the school children were given a holiday to watch the experiment. A keg of gunpowder was placed in the mill and fired with a train and fuse. On the explosion the mill rose bodily from its foundations and fell in upon itself.

The next in order of building was the present mill built 1746 and this was followed in 1759 by the “Spider Mill”, so called from its eight jib sails. Next came the “Red Mill” so called from the colour it was painted; built in 1770 it worked until it was destroyed by lightening in 1867.

The last gristmill to be built stood apart from the rest; it was of the Rhode Island type, shingle covered, with a circular cap. Built in 1802 it ran until it was dismantled in 1873, and was known as the “Round Top Mill”.

The ‘Old Mill’, as the existing mill is called was built by Nathan Wilbur, a Nantucket sailor; it had a grinding capacity of 10 bushels per hour and was worked until 1892.

In 1897 it was bought at auction

by Miss Caroline French of Boston for $850 and presented by her to the Nantucket Historical Association, by whom it is now used as an overflow museum in the summer, an admission of 10c being charged.

The old mill is still working and a visitor attraction today.

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The implications for Egypt of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

by Dr Mahmoud Riyad, Secretary-General, Egyptian Milling Association Egypt is the world’s largest wheat importer; of the 20 million tonnes its burgeoning population is expected to consume this year (2021/22), about 13.2 million tonnes are imported, and approximately 80 percent of that was normally come from Russia and Ukraine.

Egyptians have historically called bread ‘eish’ or ‘life’ for one key reason: It is the cheapest and most filling food for people.

According to official figures, Egyptians consume nearly double the global average of 80kg of bread per person, at an estimated 180kg. Egypt’s local wheat production of nearly 9.0 million tonnes (MMT) is less than half of its local consumption, totaling 21.3MMT. With Egypt’s wheat harvest season starting in mid-April, the government should have enough wheat for the next eight months, during which time the Russia-Ukraine war may come to an end. The government has also said it is ready to provide wheat from other markets, considering that supplies from Ukraine have come to a halt and Russia’s share may decrease if the war goes on for a long time.

However, Egypt buys wheat attendees, and the next two wheat tenders during the week after the invasion fell flat, with the only wheat available being French and US wheat that was being sold at almost double what the Egyptian government had budgeted.

To date, there are worries that the bill for this year’s bread subsidy, already a whopping US$3.2 billion, might rise by over US$760 million. Recent wheat export deals from India have been signed and its price is more than US$100 cheaper than European offers executed by the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) in its latest tender.

GASC is already feeling the impact of the war, which has led to the recent cancellation of tenders due to a lack of offers, in particular from Ukraine and Russia. In conclusion, the Russia-Ukraine war poses a big challenge for Egypt.

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Prof Dr Katharina Scherf receives 2022 Harald Perten Prize

onceived with the intention of recognising and rewarding outstanding achievements in science, research, teaching or transmission of knowledge which serve the cereal sciences and technology, the Harald Perten Prize primarily recognises practical applications in the areas of starch, gluten and enzymes.

In full accordance with these demands this year's Harald Perten Prize is awarded to Katharina Scherf, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, and will be officially announced at the ICC2022 Conference in July 2022.

Prof Dr Katharina Scherf is heading the Department of Bioactive and Functional Food Chemistry, Institute of Applied Biosciences (KIT). Together with her team, she studies the complex interplay between structure, functionality and bioactivity of food biopolymers and uses these fundamental insights to improve food security, quality and safety.

Since 2012 her main interest has been laid on the functional properties of gluten and the

effect of enzymes on gluten and bread.

Additionally, her specific efforts have been focused on analytical, immunological, and biochemical aspects of celiac disease, nonceliac gluten sensitivity and wheat allergy.

Having studied food chemistry, Katharina Scherf obtained her PhD degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was a research group leader at the LeibnizInstitute for Food Systems Biology at the TUM. Her research was awarded with several prestigious scientific prizes, including the Research Award of the German Coeliac Society (2019 and 2014), the Young Scientist Research Award of the Cereals & Grains Association (2018) and the Gerhard-Billek-Prize of the German Chemical Society (2015).

Katharina Scherf is an exceptional scientist having brought her research to an impressive internationally esteemed level and, thus, is a worthy recipient of the Harald Perten Prize 2022.

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Product Spotlight - The Holmen NHP100 Portable Pellet Durability Tester

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he Holmen NHP100 is Tekpro Limited’s entry level pellet durability tester used for calculating the Pellet Durability Index, also known as the PDI, of feed pellets by simulating pellet transportation environment from mill to trough.

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The complete Holmen range of Pellet Testers represent the culmination of over 20 years involvement within the pellet manufacturing industry.

The range consists of four models including the ever popular Holmen NHP100, which is supplied complete with a 2.5mm diameter mesh hopper as standard, although other mesh sizes are also available to suit aqua, poultry and larger cattle feed types.

Versatile Pellet Test Machine The Holmen NHP100 portable pellet durability tester is a truly versatile entry level machine. Being portable it can be easily transported between different testing locations, requiring only to be placed on a flat stable surface to provide basic results for the operator.

It works by loading a pre-sieved sample of pellets into the test chamber which cascades them in an air stream causing the pellets to collide with each other and the perforated hard surfaces within the test chamber.

When testing is complete the pellets are removed for manual weighing.

The 'pellet durability index' (PDI) is the difference between pellet weight before and after the test recorded as a percentage. The tester provides the ability to manually calculate test results with limited repeatable accuracy. The operation is totally manual with a basic timer function only, unlike the manufacturers more advanced Holmen NHP200 where test length is adjusted according to pellet diameter.

Holmen Testers Increasing In Demand Globally The basic NHP100 is a popular machine for smaller companies, but quality focused feed mills typically now prefer the NHP200, this is due to its ease of use and the repeatable accuracy of the test process.

For larger companies who manufacture pellets in bulk, Tekpro can also provide the Holmen NHP300, together with inline samplers to test directly after the press, before too much product has been produced, this can significantly help reduce the need for rework, and optimise production efficiency.

The NHP100 has always been a very popular machine since it’s original launch, but as feed mills further strive for greater levels of automation and consistent repeatability of processes, both the Holmen NHP200 semi automatic and NHP300 inline pellet durability testers from Tekpro have significantly increased in demand from all around the globe.

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New phytogenic solution contributing to poultry fertility

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Moreover, the free radicals can interfere with the DNA transported by the sperm cells, reducing the viability and quality of embryos and the offspring. Biostrong Fertile is a unique and compelling contribution, helping to reduce oxidative stress in healthy breeding males, which can regulate testosterone production and semen quality parameters, thus indirectly contributing to the health of the reproductive performance level.

“Biostrong Fertile is a tailored solution, addressing a primary customer need to optimise breeding flocks' fertility,” says Roberto Montanhini Neto, Global Unit Lead Monogastrics at Delacon.

“Its technology is based exclusively on natural plantderived compounds that enhance males’ healthy fertility, which is the most efficient way to strengthen the production of day-old chicks.

“The Delacon team is convinced of the effectiveness of Biostrong Fertile to support producers in boosting the reproductive performance of their breeders' flocks.”

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s part of Delacon's phytogenic product line for poultry, Biostrong® Fertile represents proven natural fertility support for breeding flocks. The unique formulation was specially developed to enhance reproductive performance and control oxidative stress in breeding males.

Described by it manufacturer as being a comprehensive range of essential oils, flavonoids, and saponins, this range is obtained entirely from natural sources, whilst also supporting the oxidative resilience of semen and its components and contribute to optimised hormonal processes.

With Biostrong Fertile, Delacon offers a natural solution to support the reproduction of breeding males, which increases the percentage of fertilised eggs.

The formulation is based on extensive and deep knowledge in the universe of phytogenic active substances and their respective effects on the metabolism of farm animals.

Phytogenic compounds can mitigate adverse oxidative effects since those substances can raise the sperm count and functionality and have a positive impact on reproduction.

Improving males' fertility is the most efficient way to strengthen the production of day-old chicks. Sperm cells are sensitive to free radicals due to their significant content of lipids. This oxidative reaction may impact the morphology and functionality of the spermatozoa.

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TRAINING AFIA invites industry newcomers to its Feed Industry Institute The American Feed Industry Association has opened registration for its popular biennial Feed Industry Institute (FII), which will be offered in a self-paced, virtual learning environment over a span of a few weeks this summer.

The conference, which kicks off June 6 and culminates on August 1, 2022, brings together industry newcomers to learn the fundamentals of the animal food manufacturing process – from the types of ingredients used to the animals served to federal policies that shape the output of the industry.

“The Feed Industry Institute is a great educational forum to learn the basics on animal nutrition and the process for manufacturing feed/petfood and getting it to market,” says Paul Davis, PhD, AFIA's director of quality, animal food safety and education. “Those new to the livestock feed or pet food industries will find the deep-dive lectures valuable in creating their knowledge base.”

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– at their leisure – from highly acclaimed experts in the field.

Attendees must complete the lectures by August 1, when the AFIA will hold a live webinar with attendees to answer questions, recap the presentations and conduct a graduation ceremony.

There will be plenty of opportunities for attendees to engage with the material, such as through knowledge checks, and with each other. Upon registration, the AFIA will invite participants to join a private group on LinkedIn, where they can network, discuss the course content and get to know their industry colleagues.

Topics will include an overview of the US feed industry, animal physiology and nutrition basics, information on the types of ingredients used in animal food and why, the role of medications and other additives, and various processing techniques. It will also look at agriculture's role in building consumer trust, the role of international trade and provide an overview of state and federal regulations. The full agenda can be found on the event's website.

The AFIA encourages people to register between now and April 29, 2022 in order to receive the special one-time discounted rate of US$300 for AFIA members and US$650 for non-members.

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TRAINING Register now for AFIA’s upcoming PCQI course The American Feed Industry Association has opened registration for its annual Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) for Animal Food training. The course, which will be held July 19-21, 2022, at the Inn at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, is one way to meet the requirements for a preventive controls qualified individual (PCQI).

“Every facility that manufactures, processes, packs or holds animal food needs one or more designated PCQIs, and this course is one of the best ways to learn about compliance with the animal food regulations in the Food Safety Modernization Act,” says Gary Huddleston, AFIA’s director of feed manufacturing and regulatory affairs.

“Not only is this course taught from the practical perspective of a responsible manufacturer, it is also more conducive to learning as the instructors and participants can openly engage with one another and discuss practical applications of the regulations to their specific facilities.”

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requires one or more

EMC scholarship fund to support WVU students The American Feed Industry Association's (AFIA) Equipment Manufacturers Committee (EMC) is proud to partner with the Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) and West Virginia University (WVU) on a new scholarship.

The new program will support WVU students pursuing careers in the feed or grain sciences industries. Named in honour of Joel G Newman, previous AFIA president and CEO and 1971 graduate of the Davis College's program in animal and nutritional sciences, the EMC scholarship will provide US$3000 annually in financial assistance to students.

“When we look at the future of food and agriculture in the United States, we know the challenges that lie before us are many, but not beyond our reach,' says Mike Schuster, AFIA Board chair and IFEEDER chair elect.

Online Milling Schools return for new season April 2022 sees the long-awaited return of both the Online Aquafeed Production School and Livestock Feed Milling Management courses for their Spring 2022 Editions.

Upon their return, the new, improved and updated online broadcasts, presented in their now familiar format of two hours, will once again be packed with a wealth of industry specific material delivered by carefully selected industry experts.

The two hours of teaching is then followed by a dedicated question and answer session, allowing participants to interact live with the program facilitators.

Developed by Progressus Agrischools and presented in partnership with Perendale Publishers Limited, these courses are formulated specifically to help attendees to build an understanding of the design, development, and operation of an aquafeed and livestock feed production plant, covering the entire range of products used in this industry.

This goal is achieved through twelve two hour long weekly sessions featuring industry experts who share their extensive knowledge relating to feed ingredients, the equipment used, as well as providing a general nutritional review.

designated PCQIs in each facility to develop and oversee an animal food safety plan. Developed by the FSPCA, the 20-hour course provides the “standardised curriculum,” which is recognised by the Food and Drug Administration as adequate for PCQI training.

The training will cover topics including: - An overview of the FSMA requirements for animal food - Current Good Manufacturing Practices requirements - Animal food safety hazards - Overview of the food safety plan - Hazard analysis and preventive controls determination - Preventive controls management components - Process preventive controls - Sanitation preventive controls - Supply chain applied controls - Recall plans The course is limited to 60 registrants. To receive the early-bird rate of US$675 for AFIA members and US$995 for non-members, register by May 10.

“By reaching out a hand and supporting the next-generation workforce through the EMC scholarship program, we enable today's best and brightest to be tomorrow's changemakers.”

Administered by IFEEDER, the EMC scholarship fund has grown since its inception in 2009. It now provides annual scholarships to students at seven universities, including Auburn, California State Polytechnic, Iowa State, Kansas State, North Carolina State, North Dakota State and West Virginia.

“I am so pleased that that this scholarship will expand the development of next generation leaders for the food and agriculture industry,” says Mr Newman, who retired in 2019 following a 48-year career in the agriculture and food industries.

“Under Dr Joseph Moritz's leadership, Davis College graduates have found further education and employment opportunities throughout the industry and this investment in students will multiply this opportunity.”

These industry experts possess centuries of combined industry experience of includes Joe Kearns, whose experience in our industry includes decades in senior roles at Wenger manufacturing.

The Spring 2022 edition of Online Aquafeed Production School sees Mr Kearns take over the role of lead presenter, a role that he will no doubt deliver with the same level of professionalism that has seen him earn a solid reputation throughout his career for wisdom and reliability.

Online Aquafeed Production School will enable interested individuals to understand the possibilities and developments over time with regards to what can be produced, as well as examining how all aspects of the process interact in order to achieve and maintain a successful standard of aquafeed production.

Basically, there are four areas of importance for aquafeed production; ingredients, equipment used, how it is operated, and the desired final product specifications. All aspects interact as each affects the other as the nutritionist makes the formula, sales or the customers define the desired end product while the production needs to perform efficiently.

Communication between these areas and the interactions between them will vastly increase the chances of producing positive results, including excellent aquafeed produced with acceptable margins.

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PRODUCT FOCUS May 2022

IDMA and VICTAM EMEA Exhibition presents a place for companies developing technology, products and services for the grain and pulse industries.

Taking place March 10-12 this year, a team from Milling and Grain magazine were in attendance and in recognition of this, we’ve put together a showcase of products from companies who exhibited at the show.

If you would like your product or service to appear on this page in a future edition of Milling and Grain magazine, then please contact us at editorial@ perendale.co.uk The myMAG link will take you directly to the company's product information page

35150 Fluting and Grinding Machine from Yenar Yenar’s 35150 model is designed for corrugating shops with a separate grinding and fluting operation and provides users with the ability to re-flute their rolls using this machine.

In fluting operations, the most important thing regards the depth of the flute, which is automatically calculated by the machine according to. Your plant’s flowsheet can also be inputted into the machine’s system using the touch panel. This is to ensure no mistakes can be made while fluting the rolls. The machine has a number of grinding shapes including cylindrical, chamfer and camber shapes.

The model has a number of advantages including its 12 inch touch screen panel, user-friendly homemade software, a quick and easy replacement of the tools and grinding stone, and easy installation of the machine.

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Described by its manufacturer as being a valuable control tool, Agromatic thermometry affords its users safe prevention of many of the risks associated with silos that store cereals, grains, foodstuffs or other stored organic products that are capable of releasing flammable dust.

This level of safety is achieved by a silo thermometry system makes it possible to guarantee the quality of the products.

Accurate temperature monitoring also ensures that conditions remain stable, which is an effective means of detecting defects.

This new software update includes a wealth of new functions including group view, remote deactivation of alerting and controlling of filling level using the temperature difference measurement.

Further features include a graphic display of the measured temperature values (bar chart), allowing users to track the temperature over the last 30 days, as well as continuous recording of temperature measurements.

In order to prevent losses, it has now become critical to monitor and control the grain temperature in warehouses and silos. When the temperature reaches a certain value, it should be ventilated with fans or grain should be transferred. If the grain temperature in the silo is not controlled; issues such as mould, fungus, infestation, lice or germination can occur rapidly.

These formations cause deterioration of the grain in the entire silo and financial losses. Thanks to the SiloSense ‘Silo Temperature Monitoring and Control System’, you can prevent the deterioration of products and prevent your losses.

In order to monitor the grain temperature, digital sensors placed in the silo at regular intervals were used. These sensors are kept in a sheath with high mechanical strength in accordance with food regulations. It can be mounted on the roof or under the roof.

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Forberg Rotating Vacuum Coater

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Forberg’s Vacuum Coater has applications in multiple industries including aquafeed, animal feed and petfood and has been specially designed for coating of extruded aquafeed, feed pellets and petfood kibbles.

Anywhere where you have extruded pellets that need high penetration core coating, the RVC is used.

The unique feature of the Forberg RVC is the fully automated Cleaning in Place (CIP) system, very convenient for processes with zero-tolerance for cross contamination between different recipes such as medicated feed production. Push the button, and during a 30 minutes lunch break, the machine is clean and ready for a new recipe.

Other practical, operational benefits include removed discharge doors – no pellet breakage, closed system, powder addition and always perfectly mixed.

In aquafeed pellets, the coater can add up to 40 percent of additional oil or fat, whilst saving heat sensitive ingredients and adding them at a later stage in the process.

Meko’s Bagging Systems K4 and K6 are suitable for bagging powdery bulk materials such as flour and has optimised packaging processes within the flour industry.

The bagging systems are made from solid steel with lowmaintenance components. The carousel bagging systems are available in manual and semi-automatic versions.

K4 is a four spout carousel, whereas the K6 is has six spouts.

The bag is manually placed on a pneumatically actuated bag clamp which holds onto the bags tightly during the process. Outputs of up to 550 bags per hour are possible with the K4, whereas this is 900 bags per hour with the K6.

Advantages of the bagging systems include the ability to handle different types of bag, solid construction, interchangeable bag spouts, and a PLC control system with a user friendly operator interface.

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SPECIAL FOCUS In addition to its high capacity, low maintenance and reduced production cost, the FSBP700 Non-Stop Automatic Screen Change Hammermil by Famsun can process production orders of many specified recipes and feed ingredients from a wide range of resources without stopping the machine for frequent screen changeovers.

Screens fitted in the milling chamber allow appropriately sized materials to pass as the finished product. It is a relatively simple machine and requires a fairly low degree of skill in both operation and maintenance.

Having greater capacity per unit horsepower, capable of changing production from grinding one grain to another by changing screens, along with long service life, the hammermill looks like a perfect machine. However, it is far from perfect for Famsun.

Their target is for a flexible and efficient machine that widely adapts to the production of multiple recipes and the processing of diverse ingredients. That means a resilient hammermill of a higher capacity, better product uniformity, lower energy consumption, consistent production with less stoppage, less human intervention, less maintenance, and is safe for man and machine, producing minimum fines, dust, waste and noise.

Keeping these targets in mind, Famsun experts started to develop a new hammermill two years ago. After continuous optimisation and lots of trial and error, Famsun successfully rolled out the FSBP700 Non-Stop Automatic Screen Change Hammer Mill in 2021.

The extensively improved machine is distinguished by the nonstop automatic screen system and new improvements on many fronts. These upgrades ensure flexibility, reliability, efficiency, and sustainability for grinding production.

The non-stop automatic screen changing is the most profound feature of the new hammermill. The screen change system consists of two screen holders, two slides for the screen holders to slide in or out of the chamber, and two cylinder-drive levers to ensure the automatic sliding of screen holders. With the automatic changing system, it is possible to change screens within two minutes.

During the whole changeover course, the rotor keeps running and there is no starting and shut off time lost. In other words, it will save 30 minutes or more time than traditional manual screen changing. The non-stop automatic screen change system increases production efficiency and provides consistent quality and production with minimum time and energy loss. It is an ideal

The Non-stop Automatic Screen Change Hammermill by Famsun machine for aquafeed mills and petfood factories at where the recipes must be regularly changed.

The slide is designed with many troughs, from which the ground particles on it can be removed out completely and make the screen holder move smoothly during the screen change process.

With the non-stop design, the screen can now slide out of the machine sideways for exchanging and inspection easily, while the wear parts can be quickly reachable and easily changed from the large assess doors on its housing, this saves space and time for operations of inspection, cleaning, and maintenance compared to the traditional hammermills.

Progress in terms of efficiency & capacity

Besides having a well-balanced reversible running rotor for optimal use of hammers and screens and an optimised arrangement of the robust hammers as well as a widened grinding surface like the previous types, Famsun FSBP700 Non-Stop Automatic Screen Change Hammermill has made great progress on many fronts to improve its grinding efficiency and capacity.

The new machine introduces several tooth plates at the inlet of the grinding chamber to pre-grind the grains in advance. The diameter of grinding chamber is about 700mm, with a rotation speed of 3000 rpm, it can provide a maximum tip speed of 105m/s for efficient grinding.

In addition, a w-shape plate is installed at its bottom to destroy the material circulation layer in the chamber and provides second grinding efforts on the grains. There are also protection devices installed for cylinders, couplings, and access doors to protect the safety of operators and the hammermill. A specially designed tray is also available to install on the machine to speed up hammer replacement. Many improvements together make an essential contribution to further increasing the production efficiency and capacity of the hammermill.

Trail productions (with a fish feed recipe made of 40% soybean meal, 30% rice bran, 5% fish meal, and some locally sourced raw materials and alternatives) with a partnering feed mill in Bangladesh showed that Famsun FSBP700 Non-Stop Automatic Screen Change Hammermill (250kW) can boost production capacity to over 13t/h with screens of 1.0mm holes. When changing production with 0.8mm-hole screens, it also can achieve an output of over 11tonnes per hour.

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Sustainability goes mainstream James Cooper, Milling and Grain magazine regular correspondent, once again provides a insightful and hardhitting review of the state of our global food production chain, consumer motivation and climate change all rolled into a myriad of questions about food and sustainability and what this means to businesses producing food products for consumers. Hard questions lead to positive and progressive responses from feed milling industry leaders

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by James Cooper, a Milling and Grain correspondent

ou can tell a movement has entered the mainstream when it’s lampooned in comic strips. There’s a new character in Viz called ‘Foodie Bollox’ (can I say that here?) which I find hilarious and poignant in equal measure.

In the comic, a hipster crossexamines Mr Whippy’s ice cream van about the sustainable and ethical credentials of his fayre, then after much deliberation and questioning our protagonist leaves an impatient angry queue with two black eyes and a soft scoop in a 99-cone with a flake. Before the first bite, a seagull swoops in to steal the lot.

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consumer; food-fashionistas desperate to differentiate in a sea of cheap and mass-produced goods, with a performative need to feel superior about their consumption.

But maybe I’m just cynical and perhaps consumers really do think differently about their consumption habits today - after all, we’ll have to live with the consequences tomorrow.

And the body of evidence is growing.

Greenland’s icesheet has now passed the point of no return; visions of dying coral reefs, littered seas and emaciated polar bears are stark indicators that earth systems are struggling. Tired of government rhetoric about change, an entire generation has mobilised, galvanised even, not to only reduce our environmental impact, but to actually reverse climate change with all its devastating effects.

F Sustainability is no longer just what we watch on TV, it’s everything we do.

Living sustainably on the planet means more than just cutting down on fossil fuels and creating nofishing zones, it may also mean changing agricultural practices and dietary habits learned over decades.

Diets have a huge impact on climate change and providing a growing global population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems is an immediate challenge. But while food systems have the potential to nurture human health and restore our environment, right now they are threatening both.

Much of the world's population is inadequately nourished and many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries by food production.

Worse still, according to Stockholm University, although global food production of calories has kept pace with population growth, more than 820 million people have insufficient food and many more consume low-quality diets. These cause micronutrient deficiencies and contribute to a substantial rise in diet-related obesity and dietrelated, non-communicable diseases, including coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Transforming the food system

Campaigners say a global transformation of the food system is urgently needed.

For decades, modern agriculture has relied on a model of pure financial capitalism; a linear system of farming a handful of crops, resulting in soil depletion and release of carbon into the atmosphere. By any measure of sustainability, it’s not fit for purpose.

The statistics speak for themselves.

Half the world’s GDP is dependent on nature, yet nature cannot sustain us any longer. A football field per second is cut out of the rainforest to make way for poor quality farmland. There are an estimated 60 harvests left using existing methods if we continue depleting the soil the way we have: deep tilling lifeless earth in the hope of bringing something fertile to the surface, then sowing vast monocultures, before adding a cocktail of fertilizer straight from the factory.

There are green shoots of hope, however.

While the pandemic has demonstrated in an obvious way that our existence on the planet is fragile and that food systems are vulnerable, equally apparent has been our ability to adapt rapidly to changing circumstances.

The UK learned how to bake bread and grow vegetables. Quite apart from souring fuel costs, my local mixed-arable farmer also experienced a fourfold increase in the cost of bagged NPK fertiliser in the last six months, so he’s bought less, and his muck heap has become equivalently more valuable.

“We won’t deep plough now, just tickle the surface,” he explains. “We top-dress with muck and let the worms do the work, I’ve been out at night and there’s millions of them,” he exclaims with pride.

And in this tiny example, soil biodiversity is being restored, almost inadvertently.

Consumer choice - unreliable in reversing climate change

In the developed world, we have the luxury of incredible food choice. We are empowered: climate change we believe can, perhaps, be halted or even reversed by changing our behaviour, in the choices we make every day. As I wander the supermarket aisles in my small provincial town I’m struck by the utter abundance of choice.

Some products are clearly not good for me or the planet - the white chocolate egg my 10-year-old son is coveting, with its 30 seconds worth of plastic toy contents, an obvious offender – but other options are far from clear.

Some products flaunt their sustainable credentials with pride, but while there’s a feel-good aspect to our food purchases; organic, local, eco-packaging, etc, it’s also easy to feel overwhelmed by the plethora and seemingly endless supply of fine foods from across the world: Peas from Peru, cherries from Chile, prawns from Vietnam and sausage from Spain.

Each has a potential environmental legacy - cost or credit. But is this diverse Anthropocene diet part of the solution, or part of the problem? How regenerative were the agricultural practices; was wildlife displaced or threatened; are the workers nurtured or exploited? Picking fruit and vegetables is back breaking work and then there’s the shipping to consider, never mind the resulting ocean of plastic.

So would shunning the Anthropocene first world food system, with all its flaws, even begin to address the fundamental problems? How can I possibly know which food items perform best for society, or the environment and which has the lowest carbon footprint?

Do you really know what your pork sausages ate? Is the local option always better for me and the planet?

Locally grown tomatoes may feel like a good choice, for example, but that doesn’t necessarily make them sustainable.

Grown out of season, under lights in heated greenhouses, with chemical fertilizer straight from a factory, earns them few environmental credentials.

Better perhaps, to import a glut of produce from a country where it tastes and grows better, where heat and light is free, labour willing and able.

Even if consumers can be relied upon to make responsible choices, is it fair or reasonable to expect even the savviest consumer to take a moral inventory of every choice, let alone a time-starved single parent simply trying to feed and nourish their child on low wages.

When sustainability messages are emulsified with branding, marketing aims and profit margin - even when people try to make good choices and are well meaning - it doesn't necessarily translate into sustainable outcomes.

Supply chains can be long and convoluted, resources used in food production to hard to quantify. And with agriculture one of the single biggest emitters of CO2 and human exploitation, it’s a gauntlet which surely can't simply be left for the consumer to pick up in their daily choices. No, that responsibility must surely lie higher up the food chain.

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F Industry can do better

It’s generally accepted by anyone with an appetite for the truth that the meat industry is one of the worst climate offenders with the biggest potential for gains.

Food production contributes over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions (according to New Scientist around 37 percent of GHG) and within that figure animal-based foods produce roughly twice the emissions of plant-based ones.

Animals eat a lot of crops. The greater proportion of world grain production goes towards animal feed (45 percent). But it’s also true that the feed industry is inherently circular as it uses a large proportion of byproducts from primary industries - the FAO has reported that 86 percent of feed materials used in livestock production are non-human edible.

And while vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise, a recent UK YouGov poll suggests that meat still plays a huge role in British life. A good proportion of the public are embracing flexitarian diets in ever-increasing numbers but, we can also say with absolute certainty, worldwide aquaculture and meat production is only likely to rise.

Developing countries still have a voracious appetite for meat, especially chicken and pork where there’s still not enough to go around.

So whichever way you view it, animal feed is a crucial target for transformation.

Agriculture has a vast untapped potential to reduce its environmental impact, but where’s the incentive, when the market for most commodities is structured around competition on price?

According to the old capitalist model, the animal feed industry simply looks for a target nutritional profile and amino acids but, beyond due diligence in ensuring responsible sourcing, it hasn't really cared about fostering circular economies, enhancement of biodiversity, soil regeneration, or where in the world its constituent ingredients come from. If Brazilian rainforest soy is cheaper than Spanish waste-stream mealworms, then soy it is.

Historically, little account has been taken for a reliance on fossil-based fertilizer or controversial pesticides, or how successfully carbon is sequestered. But, certainly in Europe and the UK, that’s rapidly evolving into a fully accountable model.

Can agriculture really become truly regenerative, an insetter rather than just an offsetter?

Walking the talk

Can industry really ‘walk the talk’? Many believe it can.

Socially conscious consumers, misguided or otherwise, have already shown they’re inclined to vote with their wallets,

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encouraging businesses to reappraise their products and purpose, including their role as employers of diverse, engaged workforces – across all sectors companies with good sustainability credentials are also rapidly becoming a magnet for the best talent - and the global pandemic has also created significant additional momentum for grass roots change across industry.

So as global risks continue to build, business leaders are rallying behind bold and urgent transformation agendas and recommendations developed by organisations such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) where the complex sustainability issue is reduced into core challenges: the climate emergency, nature loss and mounting inequality.

The looming environmental catastrophe represents a huge opportunity to innovate, and leaders of industry are now thinking through radical transformation.

It may be that we are already starting to see evidence of real change. Anyone looking at the current sustainability space will notice that a lot of attention is focused on what has become known as ‘system transformation’.

This is rooted in the idea that the capitalist system we’ve been working with for decades is not just defunct, obsolete but worse - fatal. Financial metrics alone are clearly not going to get us to net-zero, but perhaps more than anything, leaders of industry are beginning to view climate as a significant financial risk, affecting shareholder confidence, market value and crucially, access to cash.

A new metrics of capitalism

Governments’ ambitious, top-down commitments to limit carbon emissions are increasingly backed by new regulations and new taxes. More—much more—can be expected, says PWC, one of the big four international accounting firms.

Societal pressure has eclipsed that from governments and the third sector.

According to a recent PWC press release, there’s a mixture of anxiety and enthusiasm in today’s boardrooms about environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The underlying forces at work are well known. Investors, lenders and rating agencies expect ‘greater visibility of an ever-broader range of nonfinancial metrics to better understand diverse social and environmental risks’.

Industry leaders have had to grasp the nettle and are now taking the lead.

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Those that fail to embrace these new metrics will find it increasingly hard to gain access to capital and shareholder confidence. Organisations should seriously be asking themselves - what ESG metrics have we established?

Stick and carrot

“Capitalism is not simply about financial capital anymore, that’s not a sustainable trajectory,” says Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the WBCSD and a globally renowned leader and influencer for sustainability.

“We need to rethink capitalism. To move beyond business-asusual into the accelerated transformations necessary, business leaders must adopt three mindset shifts: reinventing capitalism that rewards true value creation; focusing on building long-term resilience and taking a regenerative approach beyond doing no harm.”

WBSCD is a CEO-led organisation of over 200 leading companies pressing a slick agenda - brazenly entitled, ‘Vision 2050: Time to Transform’.

It maps how systems transform and lays out a new framework to guide business action in the decade ahead. At the heart of this framework are nine transformation pathways – actionable routes for companies to take – covering the key areas of business activity that are essential to society, including food.

Companies need to get on board fast or sink.

“The change in the way we talk and think about the capitalist system is happening faster than I imagined possible,” says Peter Bakker.

The automotive sector is a prime example: We all know that the internal combustion engines are obsolete - Audi has undertaken to be all-electric by 2026, Volvo by 2030. It’s a massive shift.

Encouragingly this isn’t a doom and gloom story, says Mr Bakker in a recent interview with Buhler’s CTO, Ian Roberts, but instead one of huge business opportunity.

Sustainability is no longer about philanthropy or tree-hugging, "although we’ll need that passion too," he maintains, but about how we incorporate it into our core economic thinking, he adds.

Motivating the feed industry

Senior leaders have a critical role to play in driving this new agenda for transformation. In the food and feed industry, for the moment, ESG is still very market driven.

However, the tide is turning. Just published (February 5, 2022) is the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on

Sustainable Corporate Governance - a legislative framework on environmental and human rights due diligence for companies bringing into sharp focus long-term sustainable value creation rather than short-term benefits.

“The traditional approach is that pressure comes from the downstream part of the value chain to take care of certain matters related to environmental and social sustainability, often triggered by public concerns.

“At EU level the change in mentality at policy maker level is clear however,” explains Asbjørn Børsting, President of The European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC).

Businesses in the sector need to consider their ESG’s.

“We can increasingly expect minimum performance levels related to environmental and social sustainability to be built into legislation, for example, and due diligence requirements included in laws related to ‘sustainable corporate governance,” he adds.

It will, he insists, undoubtedly foster a level playing field and the need for representative associations to provide the tools and guidelines for feed companies to satisfy the requirements.

The EU track on sustainable finance (EU Taxonomy) rolled out further this year will also lay down so-called ‘do no significant harm’ clauses for livestock production in order to be eligible for sustainable finance.

“A topic like deforestation-free soy sourcing has been part of the commercial domain all these years, but the legislators clearly want to set a legal bar that stops the possibility for ‘deforestationrelated soy’ to enter the market at all.”

FEFAC and its members initiated a constructive approach to the interpretation of ‘sustainable feed production’ with the publication of the FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter 2030, released in September 2020 - with an annual progress report. The Feed Sustainability Charter includes five ambitions where animal feed manufacturing can contribute to more sustainable livestock and aquaculture production.

All combined, these ambitions provide a platform for FEFAC member associations and individual feed companies to “set aspiration levels and proactively set the agenda on what matters in sustainable feed production,” he explains, “Although admittedly this is difficult to define, and trade-offs always exist,” he concedes.

Purpose above profit

For European feed producers it means looking at everything we do and asking the question: How can we do better?

“The feed industry’s been working proactively on many elements of the challenges and opportunities associated

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F with sustainability for a number of years”, says Nick Major, who leads on sustainability at ForFarmers, a Dutch PLC producing around 10 million tonnes of animal feed annually for markets in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland and the UK. Also a board member of FEFAC and AIC (Agricultural Industries Confederation), the UK’s agri-supply body, he's clear about the big sustainability challenges and initiatives in the sector: “The FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter contains quantifiable feed sector actions at EU and national level, featuring animal nutrition solutions that can help increase the sustainability of livestock farming operations.

“They are aimed to provide measurable answers to growing market expectations, as well as to increased societal demands at EU and global level.”

Annual Feed Sustainability Charter Progress Reports are also to be published to stakeholders, based on ‘robust sector sustainability indicators’, to measure how FEFAC members are implementing impactful, specific feed supply chain actions. But can companies really place purpose above profit?

“It can’t be either purpose or profit, they are both part of the value companies deliver to their stakeholders,” Major explains.

“A good example is the large number of initiatives to improve efficiency in manufacturing and logistics - these reduce emissions and costs - the same is true when we are advising customers how to improve their efficiency - this always strikes me as a win:win discussion. In some cases you can improve animal welfare, reduce emissions and increase profitability at the same time.”

This is implicit in ForFarmers own sustainability approach: ‘Going Circular’, which focusses on three themes – feed resources; feed production and feed solutions.

But the whole ESG topic is still very much in the competitive domain and in this new age enlightenment, sustainability is a risk if not acted upon - so what risks is the feed industry sitting on?

Carbon is the big one, says Major.

“It is important to note that when you calculate the carbon footprint of one tonne of compound feed delivered to a farm, a very high proportion - it can be over 90 percent - of the impact comes from the feed materials we source.” (Scope 3 emissions - the result of activities from assets not owned or controlled by the reporting organisation, but that which indirectly impacts in its value chain.)

“So, there is a real focus on the upstream supply chain.

“This also applies to issues such as deforestation, human rights and biodiversity. I’d anticipate increasing interest in the Social and Governance elements of ESG.”

Along the road

Certainly, the feed industry is already a long way down the

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road in establishing its own common standards. There are now harmonised methodologies, definitions and datasets so that both B2B and B2C customers and consumers have confidence in the information they are provided on ESG issues.

For example, the industry has established the Global Feed Institute (GLFI), an initiative started by the European, American and international Feed Federations, which Major chairs, whose mission it is to publish a reference database of emissions for the most commonly used feed materials.

The not-for-profit GFLI, set to become the global reference used by everyone in the feed and food supply chain as well as policymakers, is also freely available in various formats for anyone to download.

Feed production - inherently circular

The feed industry is also inherently circular - it uses a large proportion of by-products from primary industries, but innovation remains crucial to increasing circularity.

There are exciting carbon capture technologies that may produce feed materials as a by-product; natural nutrition supplements and compounds, such as tannins and seaweed may well provide the means to reduce methane produced by ruminants and there are pilot schemes running which remove ammonia from livestock buildings.

Single-cell proteins and insect meals have a real chance of replacing soy when they are available at scale, while plant breeding is making sub-tropical soy crops viable at higher latitudes, with potential to reduce shipping and deforestation and where there is also increased demand because soy crops require less fertilizer than maize.

The organic market, which has grown by 5.2 percent this year is further acknowledgement that regenerative soil practices are increasingly seen as essential, rather than just nice to have.

“Innovation has always paved the way in an industry charged with the responsibility to feed an increasing population.

“The feed industry has been proactive in contributing to solving the big challenges. All but the ideologically opposed would agree that the livestock industry is part of the solution to climate change.

“All the routes to net-zero that I’ve seen include the role of carbon sequestration and much of that involves land that is farmed, often permanent grassland,” says Major.

But vitally, the motivation seems to have finally arrived for clear-headed systemic change in the feed industry.

It certainly seems, at last, that societal need and business opportunity are coming together to transform the way companies craft their strategy, drive performance, to report ESG metrics to financial stakeholders, with a new agenda for the betterment of our fragile planet.

There’s a lot riding on the ability of the feed industry to respond to the challenges posed by global warming and a need to operate sustainably, with no room for complacency, but there are genuine reasons to be optimistic about milling in our post-pandemic world.

While consumers may not always be best informed to choose the most sustainable products, they certainly know when to push industry to change. The overhaul has begun and one our industry will benefit from in many ways.

What’s more, new sustainability metrics may just be the best thing that’s happened to our diets in a generation - just don’t expect food to get any cheaper.

F Milling and Grain magazine is once again holding the GRAPAS Innovation Awards at GRAPAS Europe and Victam Europe 2022 which takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands from May 31-June 2, 2022.

The Awards, which have been delayed due to the Covid-19 Pandemic to 2022, will be made for the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service in the milling of grains and cereals for food production at GRAPAS Europe 2022.

Open to exhibitors and non-exhibitors alike, GRAPAS has been a long-standing ‘grain-and-pasta processing competition’ to identify the most meaningful advances in flour and cereal processing as Victam expands into the food milling sector.

There are eight applications being considered this year that you will find listed below are the eight shortlisted nominations for this year’s GRAPAS Awards. You can find out more about each entry by following the MAGLink at the end of each listing.

INNOVATION AWARDS Arrius Integrated Grinding System by Bühler Group Arrius is the first fully integrated grinding system (IGS) for grinding wheat, durum, rye, barley, corn and spelt where it sets the benchmark in terms of grinding performance and energy efficiency.

The newly developed roller pack is pre-stressed and backlash-free which makes for a stable grinding process and optimised energy transfer into the product affording an unparalleled level of grinding stability.

Best-in-class usability is ensured through its new control system that is characterised by its adaptability and ease of use.

Benefits of this product: The integrated switch cabinet is wired and tested at Bühler assembly plant and delivered to operate, affording ‘Plug-and-play’ design.

This system also significantly reduces installation and commissioning time. Its integrated web server also allows monitoring and operating from different devices.

Operational safety is improved thanks to an electronically lockable cover and hand guard protection, Arrius sets a new benchmark in terms of operational safety.

Latest sensor technology including roller temperature measurement continuously monitor the machine status to safeguard high uptimes. www.buhlergroup.com https://mymag.info/e/1399

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NIR-Online X-Sential by Büchi Labortechnik AG With the launch of the NIR-Online X- SentialTM in 2021, Büchi Labortechnik AG introduced a new process sensor that takes advantage of more than 15 years of in-the-field experience with process NIR technology and applications.

By using diode array technology, the sensor spectrometer contains no moving parts, making it extremely fast and robust. The industry-proven design stands up to rough conditions like vibration, extreme temperatures, wind, dust, and humidity.

The new system is certified to IP69/X9K for ingress protection and delivers state-of-theart monitoring for basic parameters such as moisture, fat, and protein in manufacturing processes.

Advantage of this product: This product combines NIR and VIS - The X-Sential process analyser can be equipped with either NIR, NIR/VIS or VIS spectral channels.

With these detectors, product features like basic nutrition parameters and/or color can be determined in the production process in real-time.

The main quality-related parameters of food products and ingredients, like moisture, fat, protein, and others, show strong spectral features in the NIR spectral region. www.buchi.com https://mymag.info/e/1402

GranifrigorTM Control-Logic by FrigorTec GmbH Using the new controller for the Granifrigor grain cooling unit, it is easy to stabilise storage conditions for grain.

Grains/oilseeds must be stored at an aw value of 0.65 and a temperature below 15°C. If the portion of water is low (aw value), no moulds are formed. At low temperatures, no insects appear in the grain either.

With the new controller for the Granifrigor grain cooling unit, only three simple parameters need to be set: grain type, storage type, grain moisture. The controller then selects the correct setting values completely automatically.

Advantage of this product: For some time, large farming operations have demanded full automation of grain cooling unit controllers. This is because personnel have less agricultural know-how today. As well as that, farms are reducing staff levels to lower costs.

Added to these factors is the time needed to record data, take samples, and create documentation for quality assurance.

The ‘small’ farmer can of course also use this technology. The list of advantages includes operational reliability, securing of harvest quality through natural conservation, as well as time savings for personnel. https://www.frigortec.com/en/p/granifrigor https://mymag.info/e/1401

HSPU Purifier by Henry Simon The new HSPU Purifier presents the joint advantage of a new design and technology together. Being engineered and developed

by Henry Simon R&D team in collaboration with ItalDesign, the new exterior design of HSPU purifier was crowned by Good Design Awards in 2020.

The HSPU purifier has also been deemed worthy of an award by German Innovation Awards in 2021 with its innovative technological solutions.

Advantage of this product: It mostly distinguishes itself from others with its sensor technology, consisting of four special sensors: human detection, ambient, digital manometer and motor load, which are all designed to increase safety and reduce risk of damage.

As also being the first example, the purifier is equipped with a touchscreen control panel for monitoring all sensor related information, whilst a special maintenance software also enables monitoring the status of consumables (rubber springs, LED light, vibro motors, etc.) as a predictive solution. The software also allows visualisation of the maintenance history, error log information, etc. www.henrysimonmilling.com https://mymag.info/e/252

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The Petkus Airmax by Petkus GmbH The machine that Petkus describes as being ‘the centrepiece of all processing lines’ has been significantly upgraded, with it now meeting modern demands such as userfriendliness, safety aspects, increased flexibility and efficiency.

Raw material is fed into the cleaners through a motor driven cylindrical roller or a vibrating feeder that ensure precise adjustment and guarantee the optimal distribution and throughput of various crop types.

Designed with two to ten sieve levels in two counter oscillating compartments, cleaning capacity has been increased by 50 percent compared to the previous generation.

Benefits of this product: The previously mentioned significant upgrades include fundamental redesign of the sieve changing mechanism, whilst gas spring-assisted doors makes access to the sieves easy. The ALR system (Auto Lock Release System), the screen tensioning is released electrically at the push of a button.

The sieve segments are placed on rollers and can be removed one after the other with little effort. Automatic monitoring prevents operating errors and thus increases operational reliability, whilst the time required for screen changes has been reduced by 70 percent compared to the previous model. www.petkus.com https://mymag.info/e/1403

Temperature & Vibration Management (TVM) by Bühler Group Bühler’s temperature and vibration management (TVM) is a digital service powered by the company’s Bühler Insights platform which measures the temperature and vibrations inside your rollers, with continuous analysis by proprietary algorithms.

The temperature and vibration levels for each roller can be monitored on a live dashboard via the Bühler Insights platform. Thanks to this data provided

by TVM inefficiencies can be quickly identified.

Benefits of this product: Automated detection of temperature imbalances means that imbalances, which can have a big impact on granulation, roller wear, energy consumption and throughput are also not a problem. Bühler’s algorithms will support you during production and alert when such imbalances are detected.

Automated overtemperature detection ensures that temperature spikes on rollers can be recorded when the product is winding around the roller. Closely monitoring these critical operation points means being able to act to reduce their frequency.

With TVM, you can make sure that your product quality remains constant while minimising energy consumption – even remotely. By detecting critical operation conditions early, such as overtemperature or serious imbalances, you can ensure safe, reliable and predictable operation. www.buhlergroup.com https://mymag.info/e/1400

RollCare Profile Measurement Device by Yenar First released on the market in October 2019 at IAOM SEA Jakarta, Yenar’s rollCare Profile Measurement Device is a solution designed to optimise the effectiveness and lifetime of the rolls in your mill.

The rollCare Profile Measurement Device is the only device on the market that is specifically designed using laser technology with the ability to check roll profiles whilst fluting on site in the mill itself.

Benefits of this product: After measurement, this device allows users to compare stats by overlapping automatically the measured profile and the theoretical one and providing users with the deviations. Its userfriendly interface is high resolution to thanks to laser technology.

RollCare sticks on the roll with magnets and measures its sharp angle, dull angle, land, depth, bottom radius, pitch and grinding surface area. Users can easily determine the optimal time required to re-flute their rolls. There is no diameter limit for rolls, whilst it is able to verify all types of corrugation styles.

Data relating to the roll profile is then wirelessly transferred to the computer, whilst uniquely designed software allows you to measure all of the necessary parameters easily. www.yenar.com.tr https://mymag.info/e/1404

Termico Silo THT by Wingmen Group The Termico Silo THT is a completely new technology for heat treatment application for pest control in flour or grain silos. With the Termico Silo THT, traditional fumigation with poison can be 100 percent replaced with no chemicals used.

Heat treatment for pest control in food processing plants is a well-known and proven technology that has been used for years, especially in Europe, Japan and North America since methyl bromide was banned for fogging in food processing plants.

Insects in all stages of development die as a result of the increase in their body temperature.

Benefits of this product: When Compared to traditional silo fumigation, the Silo THT has a variety of advantages, including the fact that it is a solution with no risk of product contamination, no safety risk for employees and no permit of authorities needed.

No training is needed to use this product, it is also simple and hassle-free to use. In addition, the treatment time is much shorter when compared to fumigation and the treatment is sustainable and environmentally friendly. https://wingmengroup.com https://mymag.info/e/1405

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The animal feed and nutrition awards The short list of finalists for: The Animal Feed Technology & Nutrition (AFTaN) Awards To be presented at Victam 2022 Milling and Grain magazine is once again hosting the GRAPAS Awards and the Animal Feed Technology and Nutrition (AFTaN) Awards at Victam 2022, which takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands from May 31-June 2, 2022.

Both Awards have been delayed for almost two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now be belatedly announced on May 31, 2022 in Europe. Despite this delay, enthusiasm has not been dampened for these prestigious accolades, with eight and 12 companies respectively making it to the final shortlist for GRAPAS and AFTaN Awards.

GRAPAS has been a long-standing ‘grain-and-pasta processing competition’ to identify the most meaningful advances in flour and cereal processing as Victam expands into the food milling sector.

The GRAPAS Award is open to exhibitors and non-exhibitors alike.

The AFTaN Awards are made for the ‘Most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service in animal feed production and nutrition’ displayed by an exhibiting company.

Listed below are the thirteen shortlisted nominations for this year’s Animal Feed Technology & Nutrition (AFTaN) Awards. You can find out more about each entry by following the MAGLink at the end of each listing.

The Metris Vibe Condition Monitoring System by Andritz Andritz developed the Metris Vibe Condition Monitoring system to solve some of the unique challenges animal, aqua and petfood producers face.

Introduced in May 2022, the interactive, selfmonitoring system functions in combination with the unique vibration patterns of Andritz OEM technology, continuously measuring the vibration and temperature input of key equipment, analysing corresponding data points and comparing them to the extensive vibration data built into the diagnostic database.

Advantages of this product: Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the sturdy industrial design of the Vibe is built to endure the harsh environment of processing plants while protecting the system's wireless functionality, making equipment data accessible from the mobile app, anytime, anywhere.

When changes in vibration patterns are detected, the Metris wireless application acts as an early warning system, alerting users of the variation and the possibility of component failure. Advice is also provided to help on-site maintenance crews identify the root cause of the alert. www.andritz.com https://mymag.info/e/1406

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Extruder Microfeed System by Andritz Extruder Microfeed System prototypes have been successfully tested on two Andritz extruders at renowned microfeed producers.

The system is planned to be launched globally in May 2022 at Victam Europe 2022.

The Andritz Extruder Microfeed System helps fish and shrimp feed producers increase their output by 30-45 percent when producing small pellet sizes less than 2mm.

It is known in the industry that extruder volume dramatically drops when producing small sized pellets.

Advantages of this product: Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the Extruder Microfeed System by Andritz extends production time, as the number of holes in the die plate are increased and therefore it takes a longer time to develop blockages in the die. The Extruder Microfeed System can be retrofitted to existing Andritz extruders.

Further advantages include a 30-45 percent increased output for less than 2mm sinking aqua feed pellet size, better energy utilisation with the same installed power of the extruder and easy installation and upgrade. www.andritz.com/feed-and-biofuel-en https://aqfeed.info/e/958

Whey powder coating post pelleting by PLP Sytems PLP has developed a technology to add these heat sensitive powders directly on the finish pellets, this technology is called PSPATM ‘Post Stress Powder Application’ a trade name registered by PLP, a technology that it thinks will be the future for many applications.

Not all the content of the whey can be used on the PSPA for coating the pellets, as there is a physical limitation, this depends on the type of pellets and the fat content in the whey.

PLP recommend the use of part of the whey in the batch mixer and part of it on the pellets, this will may not solve completely the issues, but will drastically help to reduce the problems.

Benefits of this product: Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the benefits of the PSPATM of whey on pellets includes improved feed quality and less degradation of the nutritional values.

This process also offers improvements in palatability and taste, as well as an increase in feed intake and growth performance of the animal. www.plp-systems.com https://mymag.info/e/1417

Condor Platform by Promtek Introduced in 2021, the Condor Platform is a new enterprise platform for animal nutrition and food producers, which offers pre-built modules for MES and OEE as well as pre-built apps for process control configuration, user identification and secure data exchange protocols.

The MES (Manufacturing Execution System) module provides data to help optimise all aspects of production across different factory lines using historical batch records, livestock levels, orders, scheduling, cross-contamination checks, and information from other Condorconnected applications.

Advantages of this product: The main advantages are the significant reduction in the overhead cost of implementing and maintaining integrations between different systems (data sources) as well as reduced production costs in an animal feed plant from efficiency and energy savings.

Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, Condor can consolidate production data from multiple process control systems with zero cost integration with Promtek-branded control systems and products from Promtek solutions partners like PEMAC and a reasonable ongoing maintenance cost annually.

Plugins are also available to integrate other enterprise systems, for instance a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) or a process control system (PCS). www.promtek.com https://mymag.info/e/1407

F Wet extrusion waste recycling by Cristiano Torre Introduced in 2021, this machine is designed for the reintegration - during normal functioning - of wet waste produced at each start-up of the extruder.

In the aquafeed industry, the ‘wet extrusion waste’ is the solid or pasty material, which is produced when the extruder starts and stops, as well as the samples of kibble and flour taken from the system during production.

The disposal of this type of waste is normally entrusted to specialised companies in dedicated treatment centers. The wet extrusion waste recycling machine has been designed to perfectly recycle all this waste, thereby recovering costs in full.

Advantage of this product Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the benefits of using this product include that it enables all materials to be recycled. This is achieved through a volumetric screw pump with eccentric rotor and an electromagnetic flowmeter.

The pump is controlled by a frequency converter that adapts its rotation speed (capacity) to the flowmeter measurement until it perfectly reaches the flow rate required by the preconditioner. www.torre-eng.com https://mymag.info/e/1408

SJPS156 Twin-screw Extruder by Famsun SJPS156 twin-screw extruder has a hydraulic screw ‘Push Out System’ that is integrated with the connecting barrel to save space.

Introduced in 2020, its automated control is used to reduce the time spent in pushing the screws and shaft out of the extruder barrels, which can ensure replacement of a configuration within 30 minutes, and so improve efficiency and save labour.

Other features include: Advantages of this product: Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the SJPS156×2 twinscrew extruder has a wide processing range, which can cover different formulations of both floating and sinking fish feed.

The integral sleeve is made of wear-resistant materials imported from Germany, which has long service life and low failure rate, whilst it also offers high capacity with 15~20 percent lower energy consumption.

Optimises screw configuration, discharging device and density control system contribute to greatly improve the capacity. Producing the same quality of product, with the capacity of the SJPS156×2 exceeding that of competitors by 20 percent. http://m.famsun-cn.com https://mymag.info/e/1411

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Silica for animal feed by Evonik Operations & Brabender Farmed salmonids, for example Atlantic salmon and trout, require high fat content in their feed (depending on the growth status ≥ 30 percent).

However, fat negatively influences the extrusion process due to its lubricating effect.

Hence, it is common to have a coating-step after the extrusion process to increase the total pellet fat content. As a separate step is always resource-consuming, it was the main target of the project to save this time.

Introduced in October 2021, the aim of this project was to develop a product with comparable nutritional value and mechanical stability to commercially available pellet products.

Advantage of this product: With this novel procedure, high-energy fish feed with high fat content can be produced in a resource-saving process without negatively influencing the extrusion process and therefore the overall pellet quality.

The silica added is expected to absorb the fat and additionally to stabilise the starch structure during gelatinisation. By adding silica to the extrusion process, the pellet integrity could be increased while the friability could be reduced resulting in a higher pellet stability. www.silica-specialist.com/en/our-markets/feed https://mymag.info/e/1409

Growease Poultry by DSAND Animal Nutrition Introduced in April 2019 and based on enzymatically hydrolysed proteins and Omega 3 fatty acids, Growease Poultry is a feed additive in the poultry industry.

Principally, it acts as fast weight gain in broilers and improves performance of poor performing breeders and layers mainly affected by mixedviral infections.

Designed for poultry feed production it also accelerates body weight gain rate very fast in broiler and in breeders it acts as immunebooster with immunoglobulin precursors and hormones activators, hence it can be used in non-laying or poor-performing layer breeders which are mainly affected by mixed viral infection.

Advantages of this product: In Growease poultry the manufacturers have used hydrolysed protein, which is used only in specific diets of human beings, but it is a predigested protein that has been shown to give instant improvement in productivity of broiler, layer and breeders diet.

DSAND Animal Nutrition can improve meat and egg protein composition as all immunity components made up of these high-profile amino acids. this will help to protect birds from viral challenges and support antibiotic-free feed campaigns. http://dsandindia.com/ https://mymag.info/e/1412

Dryer Heat Recovery Device by Famsun By recovering the heat of hot and low moisture exhaust air, the Dryer Heat Recovery Device reduces energy consumption, and heat energy recovery is achieved in this way which finally reduces the energy consumption of the dryer.

The hot and low moisture exhaust air is discharged from the high temperature zone outlet instead of separately discharging from different zones. This design avoids the grease of the coating system being carried into the drying system, if we recycle the cooler exhaust hot air.

Equipped with VFD motor, the air system consists multiple regulating dampers to balance air pressure and volume at the vent of the device.

Advantages of this product: In addition to reducing steam consumption of your dryer by over 15 percent, the device also helps it to become much more energy efficient. That’s according to the production capacity of 7-8 tonnes/hour per hour, the steam consumption per tonne is converted to saving 23~26kg/tonne of feed.

Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the device decreases total exhaust air volume, thus reducing cost for exhaust air treatment unit for environmental protection, which makes it more economical. https://fb.watch/cwMDesNlkL/ https://mymag.info/e/1410

Hydro-View & Hydro-Hub by Hydronix The Hydro-View (Model HV05) and Hydro-Hub (Model HH01) are the latest in the range of operator interfaces for the Hydronix digital moisture sensors.

Introduced in October 2020, they can be used either as a self-contained solution or as part of a larger.

The Hydro-View (Model HV05) is a touch screen system whereas the Hydro-Hub (Model HH01) is designed to be mounted in a control cabinet.

They enable connection to the control system or the network via TCP/IP, existing RS485 networks or through fieldbus options (Hydronix offer PROFIBUS, PROFINET and Ethernet/IP).

Advantages of this product: These new interfaces enable customers to check remotely that the moisture sensors in their plants are working correctly.

The customer is also able to calibrate the sensors, resolve any diagnostic issues and gather data from their desk for further analysis such as comparison between sites.

As both the Hydro-View and Hydro-Hub are industry agnostic, the system could be relevant to all three feed sectors, although it is built with the feed industry in mind. https://info.hydronix.com https://mymag.info/e/1413

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F Lube for Life Rolls by CPM Europe As a further development of the patented oil lubrication system for heavy duty (wood) applications, CPM introduces Pellet Mill Rolls for the Feed industry which do not need grease lubrication.

A continues operating pellet mill uses three barrels of 200KG grease per year just to lubricate its rolls. All this grease ends up in the feed and is consumed by the animals. By eliminating this grease this invention clearly contributes to a more sustainable feed industry.

With the Lube for Life rolls in combination with the CPM grease-free energy efficient gear box driven pellet mill, savings are made in terms of both quantity and quality.

Advantages of this product: Designed specifically for the feed industry - Environment (and partly process), an additional benefit of this design is that the grease elimination provides the possibility to install temperature sensors to monitor bearing temperatures.

The elimination of the grease requirement for the Pellet Mill means that no grease is used, reducing the Carbon footprint and the feed is not contaminated with grease what is increasing the hygiene level. www.cpmeurope.nl https://mymag.info/e/1414

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The M007 Cooler by Agentis Innovations Nearly all coolers are controlled manually based upon a number of basic measurements such as level of pellets inside the cooler and the temperature differential between the pellets at discharge and ambient air.

Agentis Innovations have designed a complete automated control system for a cooler which discharges the feed based on a number of parameters including temperature and moisture. The M007 Cooler by Agentis Innovations is designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production Advantages of this product: Introduced in March 2019, the M007 Cooler system uses several different probes and sensors to monitor parameters both inside and outside the cooler and then apply an algorithm to determine the optimum settings.

Discharge is controlled based upon the target moisture level of the finished feed as measured in real time inside the cooler. The system can be retrofitted to almost any type of vertical cooler either as a stand-alone system or integrated to the existing SCADA, whilst it also reduces the inherent variation and losses associated with manual control.

Equally important, minimising shrinkage will also directly help the industry to becoming more sustainable. www.agentisinnovations.com https://mymag.info/e/1415

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With a design that is supported by more than 40 years of developing pellet mills, as well as affording producers an unparalleled level of capacity, CU1200 Titan also features mechanically operated roller adjustment and active slip detection when the machine is in full operation.

Designed for all species including animal, aqua and petfood production, the CU1200 Titan is the heart of the high-capacity conditioning and pelleting line and is called the Titan Line.

Advantage of this product/service: With even less downtime, with easy and simple maintenance, the production hours are much higher than currently known.

With currently the largest pelleting surface in the market, it is possible to achieve a production capacity of up to 70 tonnes per hour. By increasing your production capacity, this will in turn boost efficiency and lower your costs per tonne substantially. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=0RxZu0MkDXk https://mymag.info/e/1416

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African Swine Fever The silently spreading, devastating disease

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by Caitlin Gittins, Milling and Grain magazine

he World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reported that as of January 2022, two new countries have reported their first occurrence of African Swine Fever (or ASF for short): North Macedonia and Thailand.

With cases of ASF being reported in Asia in 2018 and a seeming ‘explosion’ of news on the spread that same year, the general consensus is that we have a long way to go, if we are to work towards eradicating this devastating disease from pig populations.

ASF was first identified in Africa, where white pigs were being imported to be raised, and fell ill from the disease. This is where it lends its name from, as we already have classical swine fever.

A total of 23 genotypes of the virus are known to circulate throughout Africa, but only two of these are present in Europe.

2007 marked a second spread of the disease, as it spread throughout eastern-Europe, affecting countries Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan as well as Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Since 2005, the disease has been reported in 32 African countries, and as of 2018, expanded into Asia. China reported the largest outbreak in August of 2018, and other countries followed suit, including Bulgaria reporting in the same month, and Belgium reporting in September. As of 2021, 16 countries in Asia have become ASF-infected areas, demonstrating that the spread of the disease is seemingly not slowing down.

It’s important to be aware

African Swine Fever isn’t a zoonotic disease – meaning humans don’t contract the disease and if you eat ASF-infected pork you’ll be okay. It does, however, affect pigs, both domestic and wild boar, and often has a high mortality rate. Signs that pigs have caught ASF are represented by a number of symptoms, including 60 | May 2022 - Milling and Grain

fever, loss of appetite, reddened or darker skin, vomiting, discharge from eyes and nose.

Crucially, there is no existing cure or way of vaccinating against African Swine Fever: if a pig catches it, there’s a high guarantee it won’t survive. Being that the disease is highly contagious, it’s important to be aware of both direct and indirect transmission as ASF spreads through pigs via direct contact between infected pigs and healthy, and indirect means through pigs feeding on infected meat, ticks acting as biological vectors and clothing, and vehicles and equipment carrying the virus.

Because African Swine Fever is not a concern for public health, its impact needs to take into account the impact on production and food security. Assessing its impact on production is complex, as pig markets differ by country. One such study investigated the impact of ASF in the European pig market over a 10-year period in 10 EU member states and analysed how ASF impacted on production, export, the national pig inventory and prices of pig meat over this period.

Results of the study were varied but concluded that on average, reporting of new ASF cases reduces exports of pig meat by 15 percent and production quantity by over 4 percent, but it’s important to note that pricing can decrease if exports from ASFaffected countries are reduced.

Examining the figures closely helps to emphasise the food security related risks posed by ASF, as pork makes a large contribution to meat consumption: the OIE records that 40 percent of meat consumed in the UK is pork, whilst pork accounts for 35 percent of the global meat intake.

In a UK government report dated December of last year, Mizoram, India, was said to have lost almost 30,000 pigs to ASF whilst in one pig farm alone on Hainan Island, 1063 pigs were culled after ASF was confirmed. These are only a couple of examples that demonstrate that ASF is continuing to spread.

F The largest recorded outbreak of ASF in 2018 raises several questions: What factors are contributing to its spread? And what can be done about it, from all levels of pig production?

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is a European organisation tasked with providing the European Union with scientific advice regarding food-related risks, which encapsulates issues such as animal health, emerging risks, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and so on.

Relevant to animal health, this includes African Swine Fever, and one EFSA has been providing advice on since 2007. Milling and Grain magazine spoke to one such expert from EFSA, Lina Mur, to gauge the risks posed by African Swine Fever from a more technical perspective.

A devastating disease

The first thing to note, Ms Mur tells us, is that African Swine Fever is a “devastating” disease. “It has a very high level of mortality,” she explains, “But it is not a zoonotic disease – it does not affect humans. Everything that we can say … it needs to focus on what it impacts: the production, the money invested on controlling the disease, preventing the disease and so on.”

In this comment Ms Mur balances well an acknowledgement that although African Swine Fever poses no threat to people, what it does impact – the production in particular – still comes as a considerable risk, and one we have seen is supported by the figures.

EFSA has been involved with providing crucial advice on African Swine Fever since its entry into Europe and following it closely ever since. The news we are given from Ms Mur doesn’t necessarily provide us with a positive outlook: African Swine Fever is continuing to spread globally.

“Unfortunately, ASF is in full expansion. In 2018 it got into Asia, China, 2019, Oceania and last year in the Americas, in the Dominican Republic.” This provides a better picture of the seriousness of the situation: “It’s normal that your producers are afraid because it’s an evolving situation.”

Interestingly, Ms Mur refutes the notion that African Swine Fever experienced a kind of unpredictable explosion as cases were first reported in Asia. It has actually been on EFSA’s radar for quite some time. “I can say from my personal experience … that it has been silently spreading. Gradually, but silently. It wasn’t until it reached Asia that it was on the news.”

Acknowledging that EFSA have been following ASF since 2007 – which has come with an increase in funding Ms Mur tells us – raises an interesting question. When does a disease become of interest?

“There’s several factors,” Ms Mur explains when asked this.

“One is the big jumps – when you see a big jump of the disease.

And then the speed of the virus infection.” Surveillance on the part of organisations such as EFSA proves incredibly important, in providing a better overview of the nature of the disease and how quickly it spreads.

“Those sort of permanent surveillance activities are essential, to raise awareness on the producers: any little increase you have of mortality can be ASF.” This awareness needs to follow the correct procedure, of which Ms Mur stresses in a memorable note: “Call the vet.”

educational materials related to recognising signs of ASF, measures to take, and how this differs between farmers, hunters and veterinarians.

The campaign provided educational materials related to recognising signs of ASF, measures to take, and how this differs between farmers, hunters and veterinarians. “We really believe they [farmers] have an essential role because they are the ones who are in contact with the animals,” Ms Mur says.

When asked what the main causes behind the spread of ASF are, Ms Mur is very clear in her answer: “Biosecurity failures.”

Biosecurity refers to measures being employed to limit the spread of harmful organisms, like ASF, such as restricting pig movement and slaughtering infected animals.

“This is especially the source of the animals,” Ms Mur stresses as an example. “Where are you bringing them from?” Other measures for producers to consider include disinfecting any equipment and materials that come into contact with farmed pigs.

EFSA’s involvement in raising awareness of diseases such as ASF – they are also currently involved with avian influenza, lumpy skin disease and vector-borne diseases – doesn’t stop there. In 2020 they published their report on the presence of ASF in the European Union, which demonstrated that the disease continues to spread.

EFSA’s next epidemiological report will be coming out in the second half of April, Ms Mur tells us, which will reflect the disease evolved in Europe in the last year. This was done by using the information provided by the affected countries on the number of cases and how these cases were detected.

Additionally, they are in the process of working on the SIGMA project, which strives to create better data harmonisation between those involved in the reporting of ASF cases. “In our case we are asking for the laboratory results they get from the wild boar and pigs, and the data on pig farming,” Ms Mur explains.

EFSA’s work as an organisation to raise awareness of ASF and promote good farming practices faces its own obstacles. One thing Ms Mur points out to me is the diverse nature of Europe, and what this means for a European organisation working within the scope of surveying and monitoring animal diseases.

“Each national system has their system in their own language.

We need to speak the same language to be able to analyse the data and assess the risk.” Stressing the importance of this, Ms Mur concludes: “Imagine the mess for us as researchers!”

Looking to the future

It’s important to remember that it’s not all bleak. Two countries have managed to successfully eradicate ASF: the Czech Republic, in 2018, and Belgium, in 2020.

Although this is a comparatively low number to the number of ASF-infected countries, the work of EFSA and other organisations reflect a sustained focus on educating, raising awareness and learning more about such a devastating disease, whilst reminding us that staying aware and reporting continues to be important.

Raising awareness

This message of raising awareness is reflected in EFSA’s African Swine Fever campaign ‘Stop ASF’ which took place in the two previous years and will continue this year. Last year, the campaign was targeted at farmers in particular for their key role in production, but this year it will be extended to also looks at hunters and veterinarians, as all groups come into contact with infected pigs in different ways. The campaign provides

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A study of the effects of sandblasting on the surface morphology of grinding rollers

by Wu Wenbin, Liu Peikang, Henan university of technology, China

owadays, the roller mill has become the most important piece of milling equipment in the flour mill, with the grinding roller being the main working component, which directly affects the milling effect.

According to different surface treatment technology, the grinding roller is divided into two varieties, the ‘tooth roller’ and the ‘sandblasting roller’. The sandblasting roller shape is either a drum shape or a conical, rough surface, with its rough surface created through a high-pressure air jet on the surface of the smooth roller made from brown abrasive corundum.

According to the different processes, the sandblasting of rollers is used in the core grinding system. In the core grinding system, sandblasting plays a grinding role on the material, and its surface topography will affect the grinding effect.

In the actual production process, the engineer indirectly judges the wear situation by touching the surface of the sandblasting roller or by grinding mechanical power consumption and powder rate, without specific description indicators.

Therefore, the analysis of the surface topography of the sandblasting roller and scientific description of its surface wear is a very concerned problem in the industry.

There have been many studies of the sandblasted roller, with many of the associated scholars mainly examining the material, processing methods, as well as simple surface detection methods, amongst other aspects. The evaluation of its surface topography

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has not formulated relevant standards, so there is no accurate description of the surface wear of sandblasting roller index.

The surface morphology wear of the sandblasted roller will directly influence the effectiveness of the pulverising process.

Combined with the current description index of the surface of the sandblasting roller, it can be concluded that it is reasonable to analyse the surface morphology of the sandblasting roller by using the fractal theory.

Finally, the surface morphology of the two sandblasting samples with the same wear condition is acquired by image collection, and the surface morphology of the sandblasting roller in the same state has fractal self-similar characteristics.

Recognition of surface morphology of sandblasting roller

In order to ensure that the test block is consistent with the surface morphology of the real sandblasting roller, the test block is provided by Jinxing Roll Factory, and the size of the test block is 50 x 60 x 30 millimetres (Figure 1).

The surface of the test block was cleaned, and the surface morphology of the sandblasting test block was measured by the super depth-of-field 3D microscopy system (Figure 2). The super depth-of-field image (Figure 3) was obtained, which was converted into 3D three-dimensional morphology (Figure 4).

It can be observed that the surface of sandblasting roller is uneven, with obvious peaks and valleys. Using the measurement function to measure the linear contour of 3D three-dimensional morphology, it can be concluded that the peak-valley contour is uniform in the linear direction, and the valley depth is basically the same.

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According to the different measurement methods and practical applications, the surface morphology description methods are also different. The surface morphology is complicated, and it is difficult to characterise various characteristics with limited parameters.

With the in-depth study of the surface morphology, various parameters have been proposed and added to the original standard, the number of parameters is increasing, forming the situation of parameter explosion. The traditional characteristic parameters are mainly divided into height difference parameters and texture parameters.

Height difference parameters mainly describe the change characteristics and distribution rules of surface morphology in the height direction, and texture parameters describe the position relationship between points of surface morphology.

Surface roughness parameters

Roughness parameters are also commonly used to describe rough surface morphology. Six parameters are specified in the national standard, namely contour arithmetic mean deviation Ra, micro-unflatness ten-point height Rz, maximum contour height Ry, contour single peak mean interval S, micro-unflatness mean interval Sm and contour support length ratio Pt. Calculation of each evaluation parameter is based on the contour least squares center line, as shown in Figure 2. The centre line of least square contour is the reference line for evaluating surface roughness parameters. Its correct determination plays a decisive role in the calculation of various parameters.

The above commonly used description parameters for rough

Figure 2: Ultra-depth-of-field 3D microscopic system

surfaces have the advantages of convenience in calculation and measurement. However, it is not enough to describe the whole three-dimensional topography because the two-dimensional evaluation is local dependent and cannot reflect the microscopic characteristics of the surface as a whole.

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Figure 3: Ultra depth of field image of sandblasted surface

Figure 4: 3D morphology of sandblasted surface

Sandblasted roller surface description

A rollCare measuring instrument developed by Bühler is used to measure the surface of the sandblasting roller by touching the surface of the sandblasting roller. Its working principle is similar to that of the contact roughness measuring instrument.

Which measures the linear profile of the surface of the sandblasting roller. The description index is two-dimensional roughness, and the measurement result is roughness value Ra. After investigation roller manufacturers found with sandblasting machine to roughen the sand roller surface, rely mainly on sandblasting machine specific program guarantee sandblasting sand roller surface morphology, in sandblasting machine working pressure, sand blasting distance, corundum type, such as feed rate condition certain cases.

By controlling the times guarantee sandblasting sand blasting effect. After that, the contact roughness measuring instrument was used to measure the sandblasting surface, and the average Ra value of three points was measured to check the qualification of the sandblasting roller. It can be seen that the roller manufacturers also take two-dimensional roughness as the description index of the surface morphology of sandblasting roller.

At present, two-dimensional roughness parameters are used to describe the surface of sandblasting roller. Although the measurement is simple and easy to calculate. This parameter has directivity and can only describe the contour of a straight line on the surface of sandblasting roller.

It has local dependence and cannot reflect the microscopic characteristics of the surface as a whole, which is not enough to describe the whole three-dimensional topography.

Figure 5: Histogram of gray distribution of surface morphology of sandblasting roller under the same wear conditions

Fractal behaviour of sand blast roller surface

Although sand roller surface is irregular, but within a certain range sandblasting surface and has a certain self-similarity, can try to use a single fractal dimension parameters to reflect the morphology of sandblasting.

The scholars to explore the quantitative law of friction and wear in the process of fractal geometry method as a kind of nonlinear science theory is applied in tribology research of the problem.

By studying the fractal behaviour of its surface, the surface morphology description index of sandblast roller can be determined, and the method for further determining the wear state of sandblast roller can be provided.

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morphology images of the two sandblasting rollers is significantly similar.

This indicates that the surface morphology and wear of the sandblasting rollers are similar under the same wear state. In fact, this reflects the fractal characteristics of the sandblasting morphology, which contains abundant fractal self-similar feature information.

The surface morphology of sandblasting roller directly affects the grinding effect of flour. The accurate description of the surface of sandblasting roller and the formulation of the corresponding parameter standard are always concerned by the flour industry.

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Transforming wheat into flour

The numerous and varied tools for preparing laboratory samples

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by Olivier Le Brun, Product & Application Specialist, Chopin, France

he transformation of wheat into flour is a key step in many laboratory analyses (Alveograph, Mixolab, Farinograph, for example) and in many unique manufacturing processes of different baked goods (breads, cookies, crackers).

The tools used to transform wheat into flour are numerous and varied, and it is not always easy to find one's way.

Based on the type of flours produced, it is nevertheless possible to classify these tools in three main categories, which are grinders, laboratory mills and pilot mills.

Grinders are simple tools that are designed to perform only one operation: the fractionation of the grain into finer particles. Thus, after a test on a Grinder, only one product is recovered: the grist.

The yield of the operation is therefore very close to 100 percent.

The grist is mainly characterised by its granulometry (lower than a predefined limit) and gathers all the different tissues of the wheat grain (envelopes, endosperm and germ). The composition of this grist is almost identical to that of the wheat grain from which it comes from, even if a reduction in water content is often observed due to the mechanical heating generated by the size reduction operation itself.

Hammer grinders (such as the Grinder-Chopin) are the most commonly used in the grain industry. Their operating principle is relatively basic: the wheat grains are projected at high speed against a wall on which they are crushed by splitting.

The finest parts are then evacuated through a grid with a defined opening diameter (usually 0.8mm), while the largest particles are recovered and fractionated again by projection, until they reach the desired size.

Hammer grinders are mainly used for quantitative analyses, such as the determination of Hagberg Falling Number on wheat.

In the case of the Grinder-Chopin, most samples are ready in about one minute.

Laboratory mills are more complete tools that are especially useful for producing purified flour (sometimes also called white

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flour) by combining 2 types of operations: a size reduction and a separation by sifting.

The objective of this milling is to separate the wheat's floury kernel (or endosperm) from the envelopes, in order to produce a flour as representative as possible of the one produced by an industrial mill.

A laboratory mill simulates the operation of an industrial mill on a reduced scale and consists of a succession of grain size reductions by passing between cylinders and sieving to sort the particles, and eventually send them to other cylinder machines. At the end of a milling process on a laboratory mill, several products are obtained: flour, bran and shorts.

Supporting commercial transactions

The primary objective of a laboratory mill is to produce flours intended to undergo laboratory analyses such as Alveograph, Mixolab, Farinograph, or Extensograph tests, which will often be the support for commercial transactions based on international standards.

The primary qualities of a laboratory mill must therefore be repeatability and reproducibility. In order to achieve this, the milling diagram must be fixed, and correspond to a good compromise: it must be long enough to produce a sufficient quantity of flour that is sufficiently representative of an industrial milling process; it must be short enough to limit the factors of variation from one test to the next and from one machine to the next.

Thus, in the field, most laboratory mills are composed of twoto-four passages of cylinders and provide flour yields around 55 to 65 percent. Note that the representativeness of a laboratory mill also depends on the type of cylinders used: the instruments combining grooved and smooth cylinders are undoubtedly those that are closest to an industrial mill.

For example, the Chopin Technologies CD1 Mill is composed of a breaking part (2 superimposed passages between 3 grooved cylinders), and a reduction part (1 passage between 2 smooth cylinders), each associated with a centrifugal sieve.

F It allows to obtain 2 distinct flours (1 break flour and 1 reduction flour) which will be generally joined and homogenized before being tested on Alveograph, Farinograph, etc.

The CD1 is the reference mill which strictly meets the NF EN ISO 27971 standard concerning the realisation of Alveograph on wheat. It also provides a reliable and indisputable tool for commercial wheat transactions to assess the intrinsic quality of wheat (results will be the same as wheat milled by the seller or buyer).

Pilot mills are the most advanced small-scale milling tools. Like laboratory mills, they allow the production of purified flours and combine size reduction by passage between rolls and separation by sieving.

However, they are equipped with a longer milling diagram (more cylinders, more sieves), which allows them to have higher extraction rates (typically between 65 and 75%) and a flour that is even more representative of industrial mills (by recovering proteins and enzymes from the most peripheral layers of the grain, such as the aleurone layer).

The pilot mill is the ideal tool to produce flours intended for long tests (bread-making test for example or the evaluation of the addition of exogenous enzymes, for example) for which the enzymatic component plays a major role.

In addition to a long diagram, pilot mills generally offer additional possibilities of adjustment which allows them to adjust to more specific needs.

The Chopin Technologies LabMill, a pilot mill, has a patented six-stage milling diagram: - Two breaking steps, between grooved cylinders, to obtain flour, fine middlings, coarse middlings and coarse bran.

- One sizing step, between smooth cylinders, to reduce the coarse middlings into flour, fine middlings and fine bran.

- Three reduction steps, between smooth cylinders, to reduce fine middlings to flour.

The LabMill also has the advantage of being a pilot mill with manual recovery, which allows an excellent vision of the milling behavior of wheat (quantitative and qualitative distribution of the different flours), also called milling value.

Sample analysis made simply

Precise and reproducible grinding and milling are necessary for producing flours representative of industrial milling or simulating full industrial milling on a sample or pilot scale. No matter the type of flour you are aiming to produce, or the size of your mill, there are options available to save you time and take the guesswork out of the process.

The Chopin brand of products – offered by KPM Analytics – has a long legacy of providing robust, turnkey, and easy-to-use instruments to simplify milling and flour sample preparation.

As for any industrial mill, the quantity and the quality of the flours produced by a Laboratory Mill or a Pilot Mill, will also strongly depend on the way the wheat is prepared. This preparation of wheat includes cleaning (elimination of all elements likely to damage the mill or to alter the quality of the flours produced) and conditioning (targeted level of hydration and resting time).

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Ensuring safety, quality and consistency in the food industry

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by Nick Ikeda, Head of Digital Technology Research Office, Satake, Japan

n the food industry, combinations of different machines and technologies can be used to prevent contamination by foreign materials.

In order to sort out undesirable material, some machines use high pressure air jets while others use screens and vibrations.

Each technique has different capabilities for sorting differences in material size, weight, and specific gravity.

More advanced techniques can sort differences by optical characteristics using cameras. These different techniques may be used at different steps of the processing chain in order to prevent contamination in the final product.

Food manufacturers in Japan have had a particularly strong responsibility to produce high quality products after the Product Liability Law was enacted in 1995. As a result, there has been heavy investment in machinery which prevent food contamination and the variety of such machines available on the market has proliferated.

Optical sorters have evolved significantly

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F identify foreign material which has a similar color to the product.

Near-infrared light emitted by a material is well-known to provide a signature of the material’s components.

Spectroscopy is the technique used for optically analyzing such light to determine these components. Generally, nearinfrared light between 900-1700 nm is used for analysis.

In an optical sorter utilising near-infrared light, digital cameras and image processing techniques are used to filter for the wavelength bands which are characteristic of different material components.

The strength of absorption at these wavelength bands, expressed as brightness and darkness, is thereby used to separate foreign materials from desired product.

This identification method can sometimes be adversely affected by the color characteristics of the material. If the desired product has strong absorption in wavelength bands in the near-infrared, the method is most effective when the color of the foreign material is light colored, like white or beige.

When the foreign material is darker in color, like black or brown, the difference between the foreign material and the desired product can be difficult to identify.

High-quality sorts of varied materials

Foreign objects to be removed include stones, glass, plastic resign, wood, small animal bones, insects, and others.

Because of the many different types of objects needing to be removed, it is often necessary to use multiple wavelength bands rather than just one.

The downside of using many wavelengths is complexity.

Sensitivity adjustments become more difficult and the

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operator must be more skilled to make effective use of the system. This situation has led to the need for personnel skilled with adjustment to perform proper quality control measures after the machine is installed. Unfortunately, it is difficult to train and secure these individuals.

The latest model in Satake’s NIRAMI series addresses these concerns by making it easier to do high-quality sorts of varied materials. High-end models include a dual-IR system which uses two different IR wavelength bands to handle a larger variety of foreign materials.

NIRAMI is also equipped with Satake Smart Sensitivity and includes a newly added MIX mode capable of automatically creating sensitivity settings from five wavelength bands using its

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on-board AI technology.

Maximising yield & preventing contamination

Satake Smart Sensitivity is a system which maps optical signals to a 3D space. This space represents 16.78 million combinations of the principal colors red, green, and blue. The space is then algorithmically rotated in order to find the best discriminatory angle for identifying foreign material from good products.

The system greatly simplifies the creation of sensitivity in a 3D space, a very difficult task for an operator. With the newly added MIX mode, it is now possible to select the most effective settings using red, green, blue, as well as the two new IR signals.

This space is 66,000 times larger than visible color alone,

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representing over a trillion color combinations. This allows for a much higher discrimination accuracy than that achievable by using visible or infrared wavelength bands alone.

The sensitivity created by the MIX mode can also be adjusted with one parameter to change the strength of the sorting degree.

This allows for both a high degree of discrimination and a high operator usability.

Up to six sensitivities can be registered at once and used simultaneously. By freely registering combinations of wavelength bands matching characteristics of different foreign materials, it is possible to create an optimal sensitivity for a given sorting task, maximising yield and preventing contamination.

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Consumers demand higher safety & quality

Technological advances have made it possible to combine color and component information to perform advanced sorting with high accuracy. Optical sorters can now remove a large variety of foreign materials as well as identify undesired product characteristics like damaged parts and mold.

At the same time, advanced techniques and AI technology have made it possible to easily maintain and manage this high sorting accuracy. These factors are expected to become increasingly important as consumers demand higher safety and quality.

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Hydrolysed yeast The use of hydrolysed yeast in feed A new reliable source of highly digestible and functional nutrients

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by Lallemand Animal Nutrition, France

oday, some key market drivers are putting pressure on the supply of feed materials. These include the global increase in animal production, competition between food and feed in terms of edible protein, supply chain challenges, price volatility, the context of reducing medication practices, as well as increasing demands for more

sustainable feed.

In this context, the development of new functional feed ingredients is a growing trend that can help address some of these concerns. As such, yeast-based ingredients are seen as promising solutions.

Their functional and nutritional profile will however depend on the mastering and control of their production process.

Understanding yeast products

Yeasts have been part of the human diet since at least ancient Egypt when they were already used to leaven bread and ferment wine. Their exceptional fermentative and nutritional properties also make yeasts valuable nutrients for animals. Not all yeasts are equal.

There are about 60 genera and about 1500 species of yeasts.

Only a few are used commercially. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the main yeast used in food, beverage and baking as well as in animal nutrition.

Yeast in animal feed is either used live (probiotics) or

Figure 1: Schematic representation of different pure yeast ingredients production processes.

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F inactivated. There are four types of inactivated yeasts that can be used in feed: whole-cell inactivated yeasts, autolysed yeasts, hydrolysed yeasts and yeast extracts, each with its own production process and nutritional properties (Figure 1).

Whole-cell inactivated yeast: In the case of whole-cell inactivated yeasts, there is no lysing step. The final product will have a low nutrients digestibility and functionality.

Autolysed yeast: For autolysed yeast, the yeast cells are partially lysed by endogenous enzymes, which enhances the digestibility compared to a basic inactivated dried yeast. However, this autolysis process is less controlled than a hydrolysis.

Hydrolysed yeast: The production of hydrolysed yeast involves the addition of specifically selected enzymes.

These are chosen to orient and control the lysis, ensuring a specific level of functional

Hydrolyzed yeast cells (scanning electron microscopy)

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Figure 2: Protein digestibility kinetic of different feed raw materials in vitro (Lallemand Animal Nutrition internal results).

ingredients and a consistent batch to batch product composition.

This is why yeast company Lallemand has focused on the screening of different feed-grade yeast biomasses and on the optimisation of their production processes in order to introduce to the market a specifically designed functional hydrolysed yeast for animal feed.

A controlled hydrolysis process is applied with the addition of specifically selected exogenous enzymes to the selected biomass, ensuring high nutrient digestibility and functionality while providing reliability in terms of quality and availability of appropriate volumes.

Yeast extracts: Finally, the last category is yeast extracts, where the soluble constituents of the yeast are concentrated by centrifugation, hence reaching a higher protein content but a narrower functionality scope.

This extra processing step is associated with higher costs, and limited availability due to competition with uses in other industries (food/flavouring and fermentation notably).

Highly digestible & functional nutrients

Yela Prosecure is a feed material (Regulation (EU) No 68/2013) that can be used in all animal species. It offers highly digestible and functional nutrients supporting animal performance, digestive care and feed palatability while contributing to the feed protein balance.

Using this innovative ingredient in feed formulations allows nutritionists to diversify the protein sources in the diet while bringing new functional properties.

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Mode of action

The product provides functional nutrients with dual action: in the upper gut and in the hindgut. In the upper gut, the hydrolysed yeast provides highly digestible proteins which offer a high level of free digestible amino acids with an early and fast absorption kinetic.

This was demonstrated through in vitro kinetic studies comparing the digestibility of Yela Prosecure to different feed protein raw materials (such as soybean meal, fishmeal, potato protein) as well as other types of yeast-based products (inactive dry yeast and autolyzed yeast) (Figure 2).

This advantage is to to the specificity of the production process, showing the importance of a controlled hydrolysis which makes proteins more accessible, having been lysed into free functional amino acids and small peptides that are readily and directly absorbed.

Once it reaches the hindgut, the remaining part of the hydrolysed yeast consists mostly of fermentable insoluble carbohydrates inducing a late energy release supporting fibrolytic microbial populations leading to an improvement of microbial diversity and activity, with a release of valuable short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as butyrate, and a decrease in proteolytic microbial compounds production, like ammonia.

When it comes to practical benefits at farm level, these have been demonstrated in research and commercial farms studies confirming that it is a valuable solution to improve animal performance and feed palatability while contributing to the feed protein balance.

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Figure 4: Evaluation of fishmeal proteins replacement in piglet diet. Control diet (brown bar) contains fishmeal, YELA PROSECURE diet (green bar) contains 2% YELA PROSECURE + soy protein concentrate.

Primary results in piglets

Yela Prosecure can be used in all animal species, especially during early stages of development when digestive maturity has not yet been achieved and when it is most important to provide high quality and highly absorbable nutrients to promote animal growth and health maintenance.

First trials with the new yeast ingredient have been conducted in piglet where producers are actively seeking to reduce the use of antimicrobials and the pharmacological use of Zinc Oxyde (ZnO).

Trials have shown that the product compares favourably to fishmeal by stimulating post-weaning feed intake, growth performance and economical production efficiency.

Piglets fed Yela Prosecure showed significant improvement in body weight (an increase of 17% at 18 days post-weaning), significant improvement in average daily feed intake, average daily gain and feed conversion ratio (a decrease of 15%) when Yela Prosecure partially replaced soybean meal (Figure 3).

When the product was used to replace fishmeal, piglets also showed a significant improvement in body weight (an increase of 7% at 21 days post-weaning), significant improvement in average daily feed intake, average daily gain and feed conversion ratio (a 4% decrease). These positive effects were even more important for the smallest piglets, an important parameter to take into account for the homogeneity of the group (Figure 4).

Ultimately, Yela Prosecure offered a positive economic strategy to improve piglet performance while contributing to

Figure 3: Evaluation of partial replacement of soybean meal in post-weaning piglet diets on animal performance. Control diet (brown bar), YELA PROSECURE diet (green bar) contains 2.5% YELA PROSECURE inclusion rate for a similar crude protein and amino-acid balance in partial replacement of soybean meal

the feed protein balance in the context of partial replacement of conventional protein sources.

Palatability trials in dogs have shown the potential of the product to enhance petfood palatability, likely related to the high natural content in glutamic acid (Figure 5).

High quality & highly absorbable nutrients

Figure 5: Consumption trial with 40 adult medium size dogs, 4 days. Diet A: control – 1% conventional palatant in coating. Diet B: same diet with 1% YELA PROSECURE in coating (P = 0.054).

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Yeast is a formidable bioengineering factory and a source of valuable nutrients and functional molecules. Hydrolysed yeasts are produced thanks to an optimal lysis process that enables to take the maximum advantage of yeast nutritional and functional properties.

They can help improve animal performance and feed palatability while contributing to the feed protein balance in the context of partial substitution of conventional protein sources.

This is of particular interest during early stages of development, such as weaning piglets, when digestive maturity has not yet been achieved and when it is most important to provide high quality and highly absorbable nutrients to promote animal growth and health maintenance.

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Author - Dr Sergio Antolini, President of Ocrim and Paglierani, Italy

Your majesty the wheat

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he early 1800s Charles Darwin states that plants are, for mankind, the most ancient food medium and that meat was never the main food.

Wheat has always been the fundamental element of nourishment for man, both for his physical sustenance and for the soul.

I Weaves the spikes of the spool ear dear mother, for her wheels of the large counter and its sheets.

Pumpkin flowers, peas burned, in the vegetable garden. The cherries were gone: for San Giovanni they had the giannelli.

There were already the apples of the summer, there were the plums of San Pietro.

The days become longer and longer, the sun, tired, came back.

II And blond in the wind the wheat murmured.

The slender swords were blooming between the yellow stems; and they knew nothing but in vain.

There was a whisper as of words.

And he meant the praise that in time he had the young offspring there.

Late he had made his nest, there on one side.

Oh! she loved the sun more than the nest!

Who knows? he wanted to do up there, with singing!

Now he could already hear the screech on the little ones

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of the sickle; and admonished them to stay squat down without giving a cry.

It said: Chiotte, against the ground, oh dear! that not a speck, a stem moves!

I made you earth-coloured: it seems nothing else, so, what earth, or born for heaven!

III And the wheat in the wind roared; and he said father to son: “We will reap.

You see: green is, yes, but I would not like to suffer.

Because the grain says: - I stand upright, and you sit down.

Here I fear the water, and the wind gives me trouble.

On the other hand, either sooner or later, or lying down or standing, if the stem is dry it will dry out the ear .”

(Giovanni Pascoli, Among the ears) This is how the poet from Romagna, my fellow countryman, recounts "the murmur," a murmur like words: it is the wheat that sends a mysterious message to the wind.

The wheat, the fields bathed by the summer sun that illuminates them with golden reflections and the harvest, as the final partnership between human beings and nature.

The wheat in its ancient blondness, wavy and dry, it asks for harvest, for on top of his frail stature hands each child a swollen ear.

The peasant mother yearns for it standing in the short shadow of a haystack:

F how much to suffer before the miller bring it back to him in soft flour!

The Christian raises her eyes to the fierce sun, then she looks at the dripping children, the husband hunchbacked in the furrow and with his black finger he makes a great sign of the cross over the field.

(Giovanni Papini) Pascoli, like Papini, like Van Gogh: ripe wheat, the result of a long work that lasted months, the expression of triumph, vitality and the coincidence of the elements of nature.

Wheat fields, a landscape of the beautiful country, a cultural heritage, sometimes (too often) neglected, forgotten, despite being the expression of the traditions to be protected, for their historical value and economic potential, founding local development.

I Lilliputian, as in Jonathan Swift's novel, climb and discover the structure of his majesty: root of the collated type, the culm, empty in the soft wheat and full in the hard one, the leaves and finally the ear, made of flowers, kernels and spikelet.

It is a herbaceous plant, belonging to the Triticum genre, wheat or durum grain, microthermal in agronomy, literally defined cereal.

A safe contains, inside the fruit, which a pod protects: indehiscent is the adjective that identifies this property.

As in the alchemical process, where the well-known hermetic paradox shows “that only whom has become a 'hermaphrodite' can grasp the philosopher's stone,” so the kernel of wheat reaches fertilization by indehiscence, then maturing into gold.

The processes that govern alchemical work refer by analogy to those that govern the work of the farmer in the fields: the key to entering a specific alchemical operation must be started in a particular period of the year, according to precise lunations, by choosing the use of a determined seed, in a land prepared with ritualistic specifications.

“The peasants entrust the grain to the fat land after having leafed through it with their rakes. Philosophers have taught us to scatter gold in snowy fields that have light sheets. To do this, look closely and in a mirror, you will see the way in which gold germinates.”

(Michael Maier) The fruits, arranged in neat rows, give shape to the golden ear.

The brilliant golden colour when ripe inevitably recalls Spica, a star of the first magnitude, belonging to the constellation of Virgo, seen by the Ancients near the ear that the figure seems to carry, the brightest of the constellation (magnitude +1.04) and the fifteenth for brilliance in the night sky.

Dispenser of beauty, luck and honours, she pours out blessings in harmony with copious harvests.

The same zodiac sign of Virgo, placed in the heart of summer and of the harvest, is often depicted, in fact, with a bundle of ears in her lap. After all, among the most remembered Virgins in history, the Vestals, sacred figures to the goddess Vesta, for centuries used cereals during ritual sacrifices.

The womb of the Mother goddess, primordial female archetype, divinity closely linked to the work of the earth and the cyclical nature of time, like the womb of Mary in early Christianity, are the cradle to a Sacred Seed, destined to die, fertilizing with the dead Body, All Earth, bringing physical and spiritual nourishment.

“The earth that alone gives birth to all beings, nourishes them and then receives the fruitful germ again.” (Aeschylus, Coefore, 127)

“Che ne sai tu di un campo di grano ... (What do you know about a wheat field )" sacred place of profane loves, music in the background of the beginning of a journey to discover the places of Italy, from the Alps to the islands, in a fantastic itinerary that the ship Argo, always protected by the goddess Hera / Juno, is about to embark in the research of the most precious gold trophy: Your Majesty the Wheat.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Lombardia and Piemonte cultivate just over 200,000 hectares of wheat, mainly soft, concentrated along the river Po. The most cultivated soft wheat varieties are Aubusson, Bologna, Blasco and Mieti, while among those of durum wheat Orobel, Neodur and Normanno. EmiliaRomagna, the granary of Italy, is one of the most important Italian regions for the production of wheat.

The area cultivated with wheat is about 200,000 hectares.

Cultivation is intensive, with particular attention to the fertilization and defense technique.

The most cultivated varieties are Bologna, Mieti and Serio among the soft wheats and Orobel, Neodur and San Carlo among the durum wheats.

In Lazio, Tuscany and Sardinia the territory dedicated to wheat is about 320,000 hectares. The most cultivated varieties are Colosseo, Duilio, Iride, Orobel for durum wheat, Bologna and Mieti for soft wheat.

Generally, wheat in this area, is cultivated in rotation with other crops.

In Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria, wheat is grown on approximately 300,000 hectares. Durum wheat prevails in the first two regions, while soft wheat is mainly grown in Umbria.

The most common varieties in Abruzzo are Duilio, Meridiano, Ofanto and Simeto while in the Marche and Umbria Duilio, Svevo, Orobel, Iride, San Carlo, Rusticano and Claudio.

Puglia, Basilicata, Campania and Molise areas are around 700,000 hectares of durum wheat and about 14,000 hectares of soft wheat in Campania alone.

The most cultivated variety is Simeto then comes Ciccio, Duilio, Iride and Gargano. Calabria durum wheat of the Simeto variety also prevails, with a production that covers a total area of about 20,000 hectares.

In Sicily durum wheat prevails over soft wheat. The cultivated area extends over about 320,000 hectares.

The most common variety is Simeto followed by Arcangelo, Ciccio, Duilio and Mongibello. Wheat is mainly used to extract wheat flour or semolina (soft wheat for the first and durum wheat for the second).

Pasta is born from (durum) wheat, the best pasta in the world, the most loved, the Italian one, the only one that by law must contain only durum wheat and of quality ... and if Italian, gains even more value.

Durum wheat in name and in fact: its grains have a vitreous structure and from their grinding is obtained semolina, coarser and more angular than flour and with a characteristic amber yellow colour.

Today one out of four spaghetti in the world, three out of four in Europe, is produced in an Italian pasta factory.

Already 20 years ago the New York Times explained to the Americans that the real Italian spaghetti are those cooked “al dente.”

But where does the wheat for Italian pasta come from? Since we produce a lot of pasta, much is the wheat that we need to cover the average requirement. Most of it is a national product.

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In some areas of the South, harvest yields may be high, but the wheat produced is low in protein: wheat is a plant that needs little water, but drought and irregular rains reduce its uptake from the soil of nitrogen and other nutrients, adversely affecting the nutritional value of the seed. Due to the tradition of burning fields to prepare for sowing by interrupting the nitrogen cycle, soils are structurally poor in organic matter.

Wheat, in addition to being used to produce flour (soft wheat) or semolina (durum wheat), can also be used in the form of wheat flakes, obtained by laminating and steaming the wheat grain (soft), present in soup preparations or for breakfast, and also as a wheat germ, active in whole grain products.

It is extracted by separating it from the flour with a sieve after

grinding the grain; it comes in the form of small whitish flakes and is consumed, along with other foods such as yogurt or other breakfast cereals.

With the pressing process, an oil rich in vitamin E and essential fatty acids is also obtained.

In some areas, bulgur, durum wheat, sprouted and steamed, dried then ground and reduced in small pieces is another variant of use, as well as couscous, which consists of grains of steamed semolina.

The fregula, on the other hand, is a typical Sardinian product that is presented as rolled balls of semolina and roasted in the oven.

By extracting gluten from wheat flour, a further product is obtained, seitan, which is high in protein and is often used as a replacement for meat.

Landscape Davide Frisoni

Nature as an end or nature as a means.

Treat nature well according to ethics or according to commandment?

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With this large work the artist has returned after years to devote himself once again to the landscape theme.

Made in a single work seat, the painting shows from a slightly raised point of view a glimpse of the Romagna countryside and is based on an intense use of light and shadows, able to make the atmosphere suspended, dense, but at the same light, which is created immediately after a storm.

Among the clouds that still skim the sky and cast shadows on the olive trees, a ray of sun emerges, a source of light that punctuates the leaves of the trees with brilliant lighting effects created by small strokes of a spatula.

But in that opening of the clouds, in that glow of light, the mystery of nature is revealed and offers, to those who know how to observe and listen, the amazement and the sense of divine that is present in that moment.

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ACT III Romagna:

(...) everything is expressed and is expressed in a concrete way, with corpulent images, with the coats of arms, the names of the lords, the rivers that bathe this land, the events of which it was the theatre..

Beniamino Croce

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years, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance: the Middle Ages, dark centuries.

Little happens in agriculture from the seeds point of view, while the mill, from a simple machine to transform wheat, becomes a symbol of power.

The milling activity, subject to continuous taxes, takes place under the strict control of the state authority and the Church, far from being run by free initiative. But something is changing.

The journey of the Argonaut moves from the fields to inside the walls of the fortresses and palaces, fully entering the Renaissance.

Rimini, Urbino and their hinterland are the scene of wars, dramatic events, betrayals, great art.

These are the territories of the noble families Montefeltro and Malatesta.

An eagle, an imperial sign that from ancient Rome has crossed the ages, distinguishes the Montefeltro; an elephant, symbol of wisdom and command, the Malatesta.

“Allo Aliphante el cor l'Aquila morse” writes Giovanni Santi about the battle of Cesano, referring to the symbols of their respective families.

The one is called the "Count" and the other "Lord,” respectively Federico da Montefeltro, Count of Urbino and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, both paintings by the great Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca.

Both are represented in profile: Sigismondo on a black background, thin lips, contemptuous look; the most colorful Count of Urbino, with a red cap and dress to stand out on a bright landscape, portrayed in his left profile, to hide the right, Defaced by a spear during a duel.

In common with the two nobles, in addition to the artist of their portraits, Piero della Francesca, being both natural children, but legitimized only at a later stage, and being bound by intricate kinship and mutual hatred.

In 1422, the year of Federico's birth, Urbino is still a county (it will later become a duchy), commanded by Guido Antonio da Montefeltro, his father, who will recognize it only later, with the favorable opinion of the Pope.

The family, linked to the Church, partly controls Umbria, Marche and Romagna.

Also, the lordship of Malatesta is linked to the Church with ties of vassalage and controls Cesena, with Domenico Novello, brother of Sigismondo, Rimini, some castles in the territories of Montefeltro and Fano, in the Marches, under the aegis of Sigismondo himself.

And it is precisely in Rimini that Sigismondo has his residence,

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a fortress more than a palace, characterized by the drawbridge, the double-walled walls, by a dark and threatening air, which gives the name of Castello Sismondo, abbreviation of Sigismondo.

Sigismondo, descends from Giangiotto Malatesta, guilty of the murder of his brother Paolo and his wife Francesca, discovered in the betrayal from which one of the greatest tributes of literature of all time to love is born.

One of the greatest frescoes in verse that art has ever dedicated to feeling, recounted by Dante in his Divine Comedy, in Canto V: "Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona" (verse 103).

A Love that, even if recognized as wrong because adulterous, will survive for eternity.

On the contrary, Federico’s residence in Urbino boasts elegance and beauty. In addition to intrigues and challenges in battle, the prestige of Renaissance princes is also measured by the splendor of the arts in their courts.

To Federico da Montefeltro, a cultured and refined man, the most ambitious project of the urban planning of Urbino, in order to make it the city of the prince, and the contemporary construction of the Ducal Palace. “(...) the most beautiful you can find in all Italy; and with every fortune he provided it so well that it did not seem a palace, but a city in the form of a palace (...).”

(Baldassarre Castiglione) Thanks to this magnificence that recalls the symbolic work of the Italian Renaissance, the ideal city, the creation of an unknown artist, Federico's fame spread throughout Europe.

With Federico, an enormous impulse is given to art that will bring talents such as Bramante and Raphael to the fore in the duchy .

In challenge, the architectural work of his rival, Sigismondo lord of Rimini is not a palace, but a church that he prefers to call "Temple.”

Bishop Francesco Lambiasi defines him in modern times: “(...) the face of God who does not present himself as a jealous rival and envious antagonist of Man, but as his powerful and merciful ally. He is a God who made us to fly high, towards him, with the two wings of reason and faith, as - in the same spacious hall of the cathedral - they propose the emblems of Greek wisdom through the mythological figures of sibyls, heroes, cherubs and muses, on the one hand, and, on the other, the images of the most genuine Christian vision: theological and cardinal virtues, saints, angels and stars.”

Designed by Leon Battista Alberti, however, it remained unfinished.

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The rush of water, the force that turns into a dance of the wheels, of the millstones that drag the grain to itself, in a metamorphosis of substantial state.

Man may suspect that daily eroticism hides repetition, monotony.

The woman knows that it can be an experience that each time is renewed, changeable and exciting.

Two viewpoints, two mental and physical starting points, two Universes.

Diversity follows and follows in a sensual dance.

With the body attached to the body of the partner, the woman embraced remains to enjoy the contact of his skin, of the breath of his breath.

Turning the love dance into a carnal and soul fusion, continuous vibration from which desire and its amazing fulfillment are reborn.

In The Flower Field Filippo Manfroni

The dimension of the dream is investigated in this work by Filippo Manfroni where, as usual, he brings to the fore his research on man and his relationships. Immersed in a surreal landscape on which stands a gloomy sky, almost overwhelming, a man holds a woman who surrenders completely to his grip. At their feet an expanse of colored flowers traced with quick brushstrokes that concur to increase the unreal atmosphere of the scene.

While a precise painting, almost meticulous, although free, defines the bodies of the two figures emphasizing their physicality and presence, as well as the play of light on their bodies increases the realism of the two figures. And precisely the body, in its power and in its physicality, becomes a vehicle through which feelings become evident and a means through which man can return to "touch" the other physically and spiritually, breaking the boundaries of his own loneliness.

Precisely the Rocca di San Leo, which Dante Alighieri should have collected the tombs of Sigismund and his wife Isotta. mentions in his work (life imprisonment at the end of the 18th The recovery of classical forms is common in Renaissance century, for the adventurer and esotericist Count of Cagliostro), works, but what is surprising here is the absolute lack of is the subject of one of the most fascinating chronicles of the religious elements." Sigismondo built in Rimini a noble temple Renaissance. in honour of Saint Francis, but he filled it so full of images It is located between Romagna and Marche, along the border and symbols of the gentiles that it seemed a temple not of that separates the territories, and is the starting place of a duel that Christians, but of infidel worshippers of demons, And in it he lasted 22 years between the two families, without stopping, with set up a sepulchre for his concubine, most elegantly adorned some sporadic respite, often not respected. Even today, history with artistic sculptures, and added an inscription to it in Mò is strongly present in the castles, in the dei Pagani, which sounded like this: I fortresses and in one of the characteristics dedicated to the diva Isotta."

The abandoned mills of the Val Marecchia area: the mills.

So the Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio And one day I have to go The same places became the soul places Piccolomini, writes in his Commentaries. at the bottom of the mountain crevice of the poet and screenwriter Tonino A temple with strange and ambiguous to look at myself in the ditch that brings water to Guerra. signs, zodiac signs, cupids, almost a the Marecchia; The ancient structures used the power of challenge to Christianity and the Pope, a you have to put your nose water, of which the valley is rich, to move challenge that will mark its destiny. inside the abandoned mills the heavy wheels to move the millstones.

The clashes between the two families where the charcoal burners with black hands These mills, which have now become are continuous and are weighed down broke the hot loaves museums (such as the Widespread by the fact that their possessions are the to eat with cheese.

Museum of Poggio Torriana), are of scene of the wars between Rome, Milan The wheels are standing there extreme historical importance, the result and Venice for the supremacy in the the walls with floured nails of the cultural and museum meeting territories: the two houses the arduous but the air moved by butterflies of the territories, very well preserved decision to choose one side instead of will smell like bread specimens of an art, the milling one with another, to secure the future of each and of the life that never dies. water blades, in danger of extinction. other’s dynasties.

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Ukraine at war

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An assessment of the country’s current grain storage and transportation situation

by Andrew Wilkinson, Milling and Grain magazine

ver since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the wider world has not only looked on in horror at the attack, but it has also been bracing itself for the arrival of the inevitable ripples of negativity emanating from the area to arrive and engulf their own food prices. this is largely because grain exports are a cornerstone of Ukraine’s economy - totalling about US$12.2 billion in 2021 and accounting for nearly a fifth of all the country’s exports.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the price of vegetable oils increased by 23% in March, wheat prices by 20% and maize 19.1%, with both Ukraine and Russia being big exporters of these commodities.

That said, prices had been rising before the war because the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and bad weather affected harvests: this is now another strain for families.

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Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, with all of these countries already experiencing price hikes.

As one of the world’s biggest grain exporters, Ukraine had exported 98% of its cereals via the Black Sea prior to the war.

Typically, only a fraction of the country’s exports went by rail, where transport costs are higher than shipping.

Switching to cargo trains is one strategy but is one that is also facing logistical hurdles, whilst trucking is rendered futile by the fact that most truck drivers are men aged 18 to 60. This is because this particular demographic group is not allowed to leave the country, thus rendering them unable to drive agricultural exports across the border.

In a somewhat unsurprising move given the circumstances, the Ukrainian government has also banned some grain exports in order to ensure that it has enough food to feed its people, with this situation exacerbated by the destruction of six large granaries by Russian shelling.

In March 2022, Ukraine suspended exports of rye, oats, millet, buckwheat, salt, sugar, meat and livestock since the invasion, and introduced export licences for wheat. That said, its government have been quoted as saying that it would now allow free exports of corn and sunflower oil.

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At time of writing, Ukraine has already lost at least US$1.5 billion in grain exports since the war began on February 24, 2022, with the economic fallout from the war also disrupting supplies from Russia, the world’s leading grain exporter.

Solving the problem by rail is also made less likely by an estimated 1100 train wagons carrying grain being stuck near the main rail border crossing with Poland in western Ukraine, unable to transport their cargo abroad.

According to an article published by international news agency Reuters, these carriages are just some of the 24,190 wagons carrying various goods for export, including vegetable oil, iron ore, metals, chemicals and coal, that were waiting to cross Ukraine’s Western border.

Valerii Tkachov, deputy director of the commercial department at the state-run railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, says that around half of these wagons are waiting at a junction near the village of Izov, which is the main rail border crossing into Poland, with the junction serving as a gateway for reaching the Polish seaport of Gdansk.

One key issue is the sheer volume of goods that needs to find an alternate route, which is causing shortages of everything from rail cars to staff, according to industry insiders and the government.

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Those difficulties are being compounded by logistical issues, such as differences in rail-track gauges used in Ukraine and neighbours such as Poland - a legacy from when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

Whilst the west of the country has been spared by the worst fighting, there have been missile strikes near Lviv, including on oil facilities, and security around the border is very tight.

The disruptions to Ukraine’s exports mean that countries that rely on imports of Ukrainian grain - including China, Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia - will need to find alternative supplies or face food shortages, aid agencies have warned.

Clearing the backlog

Because the Ukrainian railway network uses a Russian gauge measuring roughly 1.5 metres, or some 10 centimetres more than the tracks used in most of Europe, railway staff have to physically lift wagons with a jack and then manually change the chassis to

fit the Polish tracks.

Alternatively, they can unload the grains from the Ukrainian wagons and pour them into the Polish ones – with this process taking up to half-an-hour per wagon.

A representative from the Ukrainian state railway says that there are currently up to 500 wagons crossing the border near Izov per day - effectively a three week backlog, with another dozen crossing points, many of which aren’t backed up.

The state railway is working to increase capacity to 1100 wagons of grains a day crossing into Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia within three months - which would represent a nearly a tenfold increase from its March level.

The organisation is also hiring more people and buying and upgrading its equipment to help switch the rail chassis, diverting staff from passenger trains to cargo transport, and also working to ease other hurdles, such as customs procedures.

Logistical difficulties

Due to these logistical difficulties, analysts have said Ukraine, which had exported 43 million tonnes of grain from the start of the season in July up to the invasion in late February, could export only around one million tonnes in the next three months.

Before the war, the government forecast grain exports could reach 65 million tonnes this season.

Ukraine’s government has expressed hope that it might be able to export 1.5 million tonnes a month by rail, adding that would be only a third of volumes typically handled by the ports but would still generate some much-needed income for the country’s agricultural sector.

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Over-wrought wheat market calming down?

by John Buckley

The war has brought Ukraine’s mainly ocean shipped grain exports to a standstill. But just how much grain has been lost to current season’s exports?

Early estimates suggested 30m tonnes, including 10m tonnes of wheat. Some later views put the figures at 14m tonnes of corn and 6m wheat.

The last time wheat prices got near recent highs, (Chicago futures trading US$13/bushel or US$478/tonne in February 2008), it didn’t last long. By the end of that year, the bellwether contract was trading under US$5/bu (US$184/t) after larger sowings, yield recovery in countries that suffered weather issues the previous year and, not least, a marked slowdown in the rapid consumption growth of prior decades. No mean factor either, the speculators who had helped drive prices up had seen the writing on the wall and pulled their money out.

WhilST the stage was already set for this year’s potentially firmer prices before Russia invaded Ukraine – a drought-decimated Canadian crop, a lower harvest in Russia itself, unusually low production and stocks in one-time top supplier, the USA, drought in the major importing region of North Africa/the Middle East, there were also mitigating factors.

These included a massive Australian crop, a record Argentine one, a steep recovery in EU production from a 2020 low, a record Indian crop (and surplus stocks) and, not least, record output from the previously rising export star, Ukraine.

That Chicago wheat has now beaten the 2008 record price (over US$14/bu - US$514/t in March) is mainly down to the so far still ‘unknown’ (unquantifiable) impact of the Russian/ Ukrainian conflict.

As most readers will now be well aware, the war has brought Ukraine’s mainly ocean shipped grain exports to a standstill. But just how much grain has been lost to current season’s exports?

Early estimates suggested 30m tonnes, including 10m tonnes of wheat. Some later views put the figures at 14m tonnes of corn and 6m wheat. Russia, meanwhile, was believed to have about 7-7.5m tonnes of wheat and 1.0/1.2m corn left to ship.

Prior to the conflict Ukraine was expected to ship a record 33.5m tonnes of maize and 24m tonnes of wheat (versus the previous season’s 23.9m and 16.9m tonnes respectively). Clearly some of the prevented exports should be added to 2022/23 potential in the new season that starts in July.

But how long will it take for Ukraine to get back to anything like normal supply, given the damage to its port infrastructure (the bulk on the Azov Sea, apparently in Russia’s control) and its remaining key Black Sea export hub Odessa, recently the focus of Russia’s second assault?

Ukraine has started shipping some grain out by train to EU customers, mainly maize so far, and has been talking to Rumania about using its port of Constanza to resume some ocean freight. But at this stage, the amounts look modest compared with Ukraine’s normal flow.

Some observers have suggested Ukraine will be lucky to export more than another one million tonnes of wheat before the season ends although, the market must also take account of the fact its shipments prior to the invasion were running well ahead of last year’s.

Perhaps the biggest problem identified by most analysts is what happens to Ukraine’s 2022 crops. It’s clear that sowings will drop in conflict zones and areas taken by Russia. Shortages of fuel and fertiliser, other inputs, manpower, general infrastructural issues do not invite any optimism yet about the outcome elsewhere in terms of 2022 production.

The local analyst APK Inform suggests Ukrainian grain production in total could drop 55 percent to around 39m tonnes, exports to 30m, including 10m tonnes of wheat. At this stage, however, that’s clearly all guesswork.

For the record, Russian/Ukrainian total wheat exports peaked just over 59m tonnes in 2017/18 and averaged 54.5m over the subsequent three seasons. USDA forecast the current 2021/22 season total at 52m, which will have to be revised down considerably. It may also be relevant to note that prior to the middle of the past decade, the two countries’ 15-year contribution ranged from under 10m to around 30m tonnes a year.

The growth in the former Soviets’ trade also spanned a period of extreme weakness in wheat prices as other exporters struggled to cope with the growing competition. The charts below show how this trade evolved and its contribution to exports.

A sign that the market might have over-reacted to the conflict was the rapid retreat in the CBOT price in late March/early April, the front futures month breaking US$10/bu for the first time in a month (US$9.72 at one stage).

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After a period in which some of the big importers finally had to give in and pay some exorbitant prices (sometimes US$100/ tonne more than in February) market talk tended to refocus on the positives in the supply side, i.e. those exporters like Australia, the EU, India and the US, who could help fill some of the gap.

As a reminder, Australia’s crop jumped over the past two seasons from a low of 14.5m to 33.3m then 38.3m tonnes. It should export at least 6m or 7m tonnes more this season thatn last. The EU’s 2021 crop meanwhile soared from 127m to 139m tonnes, promising perhaps 8m tonnes more exports.

India’s wheat crop hit a new record 109.6m tonnes. With already burdensome stocks of 27.8m, it’s well placed to meet and already cashing in on - importers demands for an alternative to Black Sea supplies, probably supplying at least 7m tonnes.

Another point to bear in mind, both the EU and the US are, despite the expected diversion of demand from Ukraine, so far failing to meet their export forecasts – though the EU will probably catch up as recent sales work through to shipments.

Whilst these are all reasons to calm down a previously panicky wheat market, the supply situation retains potential to spring less welcome surprises in the months ahead. The lion’s share by far of world wheat production is autumn sown and already in the ground.

The EU has sown a bit more than last season and has so far had favourable weather. Crops in some member states, notably top exporter France, are in better shape than last year. Russia currently expects a moderate crop increase and has also had beneficial weather so far. US farmers have sown more winter wheat but plan to sow less spring wheat, according to USDA’s March planting survey. Three quarters of the US is still in some form of drought or unusually dry conditions and the first condition ratings for the crop are unusually poor – not promising for yields, though there’s still time to improve.

Canada plans to increase area for its mainly spring planted crop and expects a big yield rebound if it avoids drought this year (though recent reports suggest some dry trouble areas remain).

And can Australia, which had an extreme drought problem two years back, escape that fate in 2022?

So, what do the forward futures markets say about wheat costs down the road? Chicago has prices staying in the mid-US$9.00’s/ bu all the way through the next Jul/Jun season, only dropping a bit below US$9 after the (hopefully successful) 2023 harvest. Paris milling wheat futures meanwhile have September 2023 dropping back to EUR€275/tonne from the current spot price around EUR€365 (and as high as EUR€450 at one point recently).

In the meantime, this suggests more expensive loaves, other wheat-based foods and feeds are here to stay although it would not be surprising to see the markets shake out a bit more cost from fading speculative support. So much depends on how the Ukrainian situation evolves.

- Russian wheat exports have continued to flow and its respected analyst Sovecon recently raised its seasonal forecast to 33.9m tonnes versus the USDA’s 32m estimate. Russia 2022 crop outlook appears to be improving. Among local analysts, IKAR suggests output may reach 82.5m tonnes while Sovecon is as high as 84.8m – an 11% gain on the year, maybe even challenging the 2020 record 85.34m. Russian export prices have stayed competitive on a weakening rouble, helping it continue undercutting EU and US offers in some recent big import tenders.

- French analyst Strategie Grains put an 11m tonne number on absent Black Sea exports. German supplies were reported being rapidly drawn into gaps left by that retreat.

- The USDA’s recent Wheat Outlook showed US exports heading for a six-year low, their second worst performance in five decades, the quality hard red spring class promising its worst in over 30 years.

- The EU’s exports are not yet over the total for last year at this point, despite its 12m tonne 2021 crop recovery. However, that could change as recent sales work through to shipments.

- USDA raised its Indian export forecast by 3m to 10m tonnes versus last year’s 3.6m and its usual annual average of just 500,000 tonnes. Given that India could still end the season with stocks of 25.4m, exports could feasibly go a lot higher than this.

- Last year, the biggest wheat crop loss was Canada’s collapse from 2020’s record 35.2m to a multi-year low of just 21.65m tonnes. Its current season exports have been forecast to slide from almost 28m in 2020/21 to 15.5m tonnes in 2021/22.

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USDA throws ‘curve ball’ to maize market It’s been a period of mixed input on the supply side of the maize market. Argentine, Ukrainian and South African crop forecasts have all been declining while USDA’s keenly awaited US planting intentions report came up with a smaller than expected acreage number. At 89.5m acres this was four percent smaller than last year, but some analysts said trend-line yields could still produce a decent harvest around the 376m tonne level.

Over the previous three years, the crop ranged from 346m to 364m tonnes.

Latin American crops continue to suffer from earlier drought and heatwaves. A local analyst cut its forecast for Argentina to 49m tonnes versus the USDA’s estimate of 53m, strengthening ideas the government there will maintain a seasonal export cap of 41.6 million (still five million better off than the previous season).

Brazil still seems headed for a major crop rebound, local analyst Datagro raising its forecast to 118m tonnes – four million more than the last USDA forecast. Consultant Safras e Mercado saw export potential of 34.5m tonnes versus the USDA’s forecast 32.5m and last year’s drought-reduced 27.5m.

The main hole in corn supply at the moment is, Ukraine. The USDA had recently cut its estimate for for country’s 2021/22 exports from 33.5m to 27.5m tonnes (still over last year’s 23.9m) but likely to drop further after the hostilities there cut off its mainly ocean-freighted trade (at least exports prior to the conflict were running well ahead of last year’s).

Ukraine is particularly important for the EU, having so far this season accounted for over half the bloc’s 11m tonne imports (of an expected seasonal total of 15m). China is another important customer. An even bigger worry is what happens to the next Ukrainian crop amid the disruption to sowing and lack of inputs.

Local analyst APK Inform forecast a possible 55 percent drop in the country’s 2022 harvest, reducing its 2022/23 export potential to just 19m from this season’s 27.5m (already reduced from 33.5m and likely to drop further in the weeks ahead).

South Africa also reduced its approaching harvest estimate to 14.68m tonnes, down 10 percent on the year.

On the demand side, the US has recently won more export business from the Ukrainian supply shortfall with China re-emerging as a leading customer. Along with the smaller than expected US planting figure this has pushed up CBOT futures close to US$8/bu (US$315/tonne) – a multi-year high compared with under US$5 (US$197) when the season began last September. European corn prices have had to follow suit, the Paris futures market recently trading into the EUR€370’s/tonne compared with the EUR€230’s at the start of the season.

As usual, corn prices are also drawing support from firm energy markets encouraging use in the ethanol sector although worries about global growth and transport fuel use may be curbing this trend. There were also concerns that China might be affected by lockdowns in the wake of its recent fresh Covid outbreaks, with >40% of US maize consumption going to the ethanol sector.

Forward US futures markets suggest corn will drop by 6-7% by harvest 2023 and almost 14% by the end of that year. The EU market predicts a bigger 23% price decline for 2023 crop onward.

- Ukraine had earlier been expected to ship 33.5 million tonnes (v last season’s 24 million) and Russia about 4.5 million (4 million) out of world total trade of 195 million tonnes. Analysts recently estimated Ukraine had about 14m tonnes of corn left to sell before the conflict with Russia.

- USDA forecasts 2021/22 season’s farmgate value of corn averaging 25% more than last year but the gain is heavily offset by soaring fertiliser costs for this input-hungry crop.

- The EU raised its 2021 crop estimate by five percent to 72.5m tonnes versus the USDA estimate just under 70m.

US aims to offset Lat-Am soya shortfall Soya meal costs have stayed very firm in the past month or two as Latin American crop estimates continued to slide after a damaging La Nina-linked drought. Brazilian analysts recently dropped their forecasts as low as 125m tonnes versus initial hopes of as much as 144m.

Brazil is expected to favour local crush to boost product exports, meaning fewer raw bean shipments. Recent Argentine crop estimates have meanwhile ranged around 42m tonnes compared with the early outlook for 51.5m tonnes. Last season Brazil produced 138m and Argentina 46.2m tonnes.

Another regional supplier, Paraguay has also suffered from lack of rain and may produce as little as 4m tonnes compared with early hopes for twice that amount and last year’s 9.9m tonnes.

The Lat-Am shortfalls have been pushing more buyers, including top importer China, towards US supplies, now more

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competitive than usual at a time when the South American harvests tend to give it second billing.

Amidst the general strength in agricultural commodities, the bullish supply news helped push the bellweather CBOT soybean futures market to a peak of US$17.65/bu in March (about US$648.50/tonne), their highest point since 2012, when they briefly approached US$18. Whilst prices have receded to the lower US$16’s in recent weeks, they remain very attractive for US farmers, especially given soya’s relatively lower growing cost compared with its main rival for farmland – ‘input-hungry’ maize.

The USDA expects this situation to result in a much larger sown area this year, at 91m acres, up four percent against last year and rather more than trade polls had expected (closer to 89m acres).

Trendline yields suggest the crop could reach 125m tonnes versus last year’s 121m and the approximate 97/115m tonne range of the previous two years – so plenty of US beans if the weather co-operates.

The forward futures markets see this as a more bearish scenario for prices, which could drop to the low US$14’s per bushel in the coming season that starts September 2022.

USDA is currently expecting slightly lower global consumption of soya meal for the current 2021/22 season in reaction to these much higher prices to date. The EU is using less while top user China may also import fewer beans from the West as Covid curbs its economic activity and high soya costs encourage it to use some

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of its large stock reserves.

Rapeseed & sunflower supplies running low As well as the LatAm soya crop problems, oilmeal/protein costs have been driven up by tightening supplies of the two next largest components, rapeseed and sunflower seed. Rapeseed/ canola’s problems started with Canada’s drought-hit 2021 crop and tightening stock situations there and in Europe. Latterly, the Ukrainian crisis has enveloped both of these alternative oilseed sources, blocking exports of both oilseeds to their biggest customers in the EU. Recent estimates by Canadian officials have continued to trim the country’s unusually tight ending stocks forecast, making it vital 2022 output recovers from last year’s drought-depleted level.

The crop is mainly spring-sown and at this stage is seen on a moderately larger area but will need more moisture in the weeks ahead to avoid below par yields. As in the cereal markets, the main worry is how Ukraine will manage to sow crops in the weeks ahead. Hopefully, Australia, which has emerged as a larger than expected rapeseed exporter in the past year or two, will be able to offer some supply relief – although there will be plenty of other customers around the globe looking to this origin.

Europe also expects a bigger rapeseed crop in 2022, French analyst Strategie Grains estimating a potential 7.4 percent jump to around 18.2m tonnes. However, the new season will start with global stocks at a multi-year low of less than four million tonnes – almost half the level of two years previously with Canada’s just 500,000 versus 3.44m in 2019/20.

For sunflowers, hopes of supply relief down the road must rest largely on Europe itself. Last year it raised output to 10.3m tonnes from 8.85m in 2020. While both rapeseed and sunflowers are grown primarily for their high oil content, they do provide an important share of meal supply – normally almost 18 percent of the world total.

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ounded in 1954, Alapala is the oldest and most well-known company of Alapala Group, proudly taking its place amongst the top two companies of the world in its industry, forging forward with its vision to be a leader.

The company manufactures high quality, high performance machinery which are manufactured in a state of the art production facility with the most advanced Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machinery. In 2021, Alapala successfully delivered 24 turnkey projects in 16 countries, as well as numerous machinery exports to different parts of the world.

According to the company’s CEO Görkem Alapala, there are more than 40 turnkey projects in their existing project portfolio of 2022, in 27 countries with a total value of US$120 million.

He also states that with the completion of these projects, the company aims to reach over 900 projects as the total number of the group’s references across the globe. Some of the highlights of the company’s turnkey projects from last year include locations in Angola, Bangladesh, UAE, Ecuador, and India. In 2022, the company is currently undertaking projects in Brazil, Panama, Belgium, Kosovo, Qatar, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Last year, Alapala acquired 70 percent of the shares of Italian Axor Srl which operates in pasta technologies industry and builds turnkey pasta plants worldwide. With this strategic investment, the group both achieved an important growth, and took a significant step towards the goal of building integrated plants in the food industry.

Alapala to build a new mill in Sweden

This ambition is reflected in the company’s recent agreement to build a new mill for Abdon Invest AB in Vasteras, Sweden. This project is of great significance for Alapala as it will be its very first reference project in the region.

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Driven by the passion for food and a great curiosity when it comes to developing new products, Abdon Food is one of the leading cereal companies in the Nordic region. Wishing to strengthen the offer of locally produced products and improving its environmental impact through reduced transportation, the company decided to invest in a new mill to be established in Vasteras.

Looking for an equally able and passionate provider that would understand their needs and expectations and meet them with proven expertise, the company decided to work with Alapala, an organisation known for its unique level global experience and knowhow, yielded over its six decades of history.

With both companies committed to the cause of contributing to a sustainable future through a combination of experience and innovation, the two companies have agreed to work together to build a greenfield mill with a wheat flour capacity of 275 T/24h and a rye flour capacity of 25T/24h. Using locally supplied raw materials, this new mill will produce wheat and rye flour for domestic consumption.

The mill’s steel construction, as well as special internal square bins will be provided by Alapala Construction, an Alapala Group company which specialises in the design, supply, and construction of industrial buildings worldwide. All equipment will be provided in compliance with European norms and the ATEX directive for explosion protection.

With a reputation for its highly robust automation systems that enable the entire process to be centrally monitored, Alapala will be using Scada software and remote connection. These systems offer integrated process control and traceability advantages, along with advanced report generation for data such as production, yield, efficiency, etc.

With the remote connection feature, the mill can be accessed 24/7 by Alapala after-sales team for technical assistance including inspection, error diagnosis, calibration, and troubleshooting.

The company will add a new one to the long list of its global

Industry Profile achievements upon the successful completion of this significant project, providing further evidence to support its claim for turnkey project expertise.

Over 700 turnkey projects

As one of the two largest companies of the world in the milling technology sector, Alapala Machine builds turnkey plants of any desired capacity and is one of the top 1000 exporters in Turkey, exporting 95 percent of its production. It has a considerable number of turnkey references in over 120 countries in all the four continents.

The company provides consistent pre-sales and after-sales services with its team of highly specialised staff in the industry with strong overseas representation, which includes strong service networks and spare-part stocks.

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Alapala is an expert company in building flour, feed, semolina mills, grain storage systems and industrial steel buildings. This is thanks to its research and development, it adopts all the innovation to its products.

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wiss technology group Bühler and Ardent Mills, a leading flour milling and ingredient company headquartered in Denver, United States, celebrated the opening of Ardent Mills' new Port Redwing Mill in Gibsonton, Florida, USA. The mill, powered by the most advanced milling technologies from Bühler, is already in operation and contributes to both companies' commitments to innovation and sustainable development within the food ecosystem.

The opening ceremony took place recently at the Ardent Mills Port Redwing facility in Gibsonton, Florida. From Ardent Mills, Dan Dye, CEO, Heather Dumas, Chief People Officer, John Barton, Chief Financial Officer, Angie Miller, Vice President of Sales, Troy Anderson, Vice President of Operations, and others were on site to celebrate how Ardent Mills and Bühler are transforming how the world is nourished.

In attendance from Bühler were Stefan Scheiber, Bühler Group CEO, Johannes Wick, CEO of Grains & Food at Bühler, and Andy Sharpe, President & CEO of Bühler North America.

“The Port Redwing Mill is another highlight in Bühler's great relationship with Ardent Mills. It is encouraging to work together with an inspiring customer, driving innovation through collaboration and implementing the most modern and efficient solutions in wheat processing in the US,” says Stefan Scheiber, Bühler Group CEO. “This is an important milestone for Bühler, and another great example of innovations for a better world,” he adds.

“Port Redwing is a testament to Ardent Mills' commitment to transform how the world is nourished and drive innovation – and we couldn't have done that without Bühler,” says Dan

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Dye, CEO of Ardent Mills. “Bühler were exceptional partners at every step of the process, and their partnership allowed us to integrate in the insights and technologies we needed to build this new state-of-the-art facility. With the Port Redwing Mill, we are entering a new era in the milling industry.”

Ardent Mills is one of Bühler's long-standing customers in North America and the partnership dates back several decades.

With roots dating back to 1867 and a steam-powered mill in the prairie town of Grand Island, Nebraska, Ardent Mills, the joint venture between Cargill and Horizon Milling, is one of the largest flour suppliers in North America.

It operates in more than 40 locations and specialises in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic and gluten-free products that drive emerging nutrition and innovation across plant-based ingredients.

Innovation to address customer needs

The construction on the Port Redwing facility began in 2019 and was completed in March 2022. The milling project comprises of two milling units (with the ability to produce 750 tons per day and 300 tons per day respectively), and Ardent

Mills has kept the growth of the market in mind, adding space for a third mill in the future.

The Port Redwing mill produces all-purpose, wholewheat, high-gluten, cake, and bread flour. Bühler supplied the cleaning section, the flour mill, the finished product storage, the batch mixing system, engineering, installation, supervision, and plant commissioning.

Bühler's Arrius system is a key component of Port Redwing Mill and enables an integrated and self-adjusting grinding system that is a radical step change in how millers are able to control the quality and consistency of their product.

In addition to optimum grinding performance, Arrius' benefits include cutting energy costs, increasing staff safety, speedy installation, remote digital control, improved food safety, and reducing the initial outlay needed for plant investment.

“The ability to deliver safe, consistent products to our customers – day in and day out – serves as our greatest competitive advantage," says Steve Neely, Port Redwing Plant Manager.

"We're grateful for Bühler's partnership – together, we've built a state-of-the-art facility that realises our vision to be the trusted partner and meet our customers' evolving needs.”

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The facility sits on 10 acres and is strategically located for rail, ocean, and truck access. It encompasses a mill, grain storage elevator and cleaning house in addition to an office, and multiple packaging, warehouse, and storage locations.

The mill will also execute a five-year, paperless, zero-waste and energy efficient production plan.

"This mill was built and commissioned in the past two years, in the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is testament to the partnership between Ardent Mills and Bühler, which has strengthened over the life of this project,” says Andy Sharpe, President & CEO of Bühler North America.

“I am incredibly proud of the work done by our North American team and our Global Supply Chain team. They came through despite the challenges presented in this time." This is the very embodiment of Bühler's values and culture,” he adds.

“With the opening of the Tampa state of the art mill, a personal dream has become a reality. Having been involved from day one, we tried to develop an industry-changing concept with the lowest possible energy consumption while achieving highest yields so that this is a world leading mill also in terms of its CO2e (CO2 equivalent) footprint,” says Johannes Wick, CEO of Grains & Food at Bühler.

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The layout of the mill was designed for optimal performance with easy equipment accessibility for maintenance. Real-time data analysis and automation includes industry-first near-infrared grain analysis and automatic, high-speed packaging lines. The rapid line intervention and issue management allows the production line to be stopped, assessed and, if needed, corrected with minimal downtime.

The mill also increased on-site storage capacity of up to 4.1 million bushels, critical in managing sudden supply chain shifts or in case of a natural disaster.

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INDUSTRY EVENTS IAOM’s 126th Annual Conference to take place in May Following two years of the Global Covid-19 pandemic shutting down much of the world, the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) is going to be holding its 126th A nnual Conference May 2-6, 2022 at the Richmond Marriot Hotel and Greater Richmond Convention Centre in Richmond, Virginia, USA. The Milling and Grain team will be in attendance to keep you informed on the pivotal event.

Richmond is amongst America’s oldest major cities. With over 400 years of history, the city was home to Patrick Henry, a US founding father, who famously declared “Give me liberty or give me death,” at the St John's Church in 1775, leading to the Revolutionary War. You can wander the cobblestone streets and set your sights on the multitude of monuments, boutique stores, restaurants and beautiful parks.

The first two days will focus on association business, including meetings of the board on Monday, and standing committees on Tuesday. This year, a meet-up for the Women in Milling group will be held on Tuesday afternoon.

The official conference events will start with the opening reception on Tuesday afternoon at 5.30 pm.

Following the board’s discussions at a meeting in November, the program committee has added another track to the educational programming on Wednesday. The new Product Quality sessions will include presentations on topics specific to the work done by the labs and quality personnel in a mill.

There will also be three panel discussions – the first day will have one on OSHA; day two will look at employee retention and hiring, and packaging.

Rasma Zvaners, policy director at American Baker’s Association, will deliver the keynote address entitled, ‘Challenges and Opportunities – Looking Forward as the Baking Sector’.

Her address will assess challenges the baking sector has had over the past two years related to Covid-19 and look at what lies ahead and where there are opportunities. Incidentally, it was Ms Zvaners who was pencilled in to deliver the address at the IAOM conference in Portland in 2020 before it was cancelled.

Along with the comprehensive education programs, milling professionals from around the world will have the opportunity to connect with industry peers at several networking events and see the latest products and services from a wide range of suppliers in the expo hall.

Women in Milling Meet-up

Emily Bowers from BEMA (Baker Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds) will use the Insights Discovery method to help bring new levels of awareness to leadership style. After over a year of interacting virtually with each other during the pandemic, the Women in Milling group will look forward to its first chance to convene in person.

Attendees who registered for the Women in Milling event took an online assessment in advance of the meeting so the program could be tailored for the professionals in attendance.

The in-person meet-up will also include some important opportunities for networking – at a luncheon with the group that starts at 12 noon, as well as during breaks and activities during the Insights Delivery workshop.

Educational and technical programs presented at the conference assist millers in improving yields, productivity, customer satisfaction and safety. The programs are presented by seasoned professionals in the field who have experienced the issues affecting millers first-hand.

Also scheduled is a spouse/guest program on May 4-5, an Allied Trades Event on May 4, the annual banquet and awards ceremony on May 5, and the annual golf tournament on May 6.

FEFAC-Nevedi to hold joint event in June 2022 FEFAC and Nevedi, representing the European and Dutch feed industries respectively, will co-host the 66th FEFAC Public Annual meeting on June 2, 2022 in Utrecht, during the VICTAM/VIV Europe Expo.

The main theme of the Public Annual meeting will focus on the ‘EU food & feed autonomy in times of geopolitical crisis/ EU Resilience plan and the Green Deal’.

EU & Dutch feed industry and farmer leaders will exchange views with EU and national policy-makers on how the feed industry can mitigate impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which closed off essential feed grain supplies from the

Black Sea in both the short and long term.

The first panel will analyse how EU food and feed autonomy and the resilience of the agri-food chain can be strengthened while staying on the pathway for more sustainable food production systems.

The second expert panel will discuss the European Commission proposal on deforestation-free supply chains as well as bring practically feasible soy value chain solutions to the table to achieve the Green Deal objectives on Biodiversity.

“I look forward to a solution-oriented exchange on the future shape of the EU Contingency plan seeking to ensure EU food and feed security in response to the

Ukraine crisis, which will have lasting effects,” says FEFAC President Asbjørn Børsting.

“FEFAC members are fully playing their part to safeguard essential feed and food supplies in the EU and abroad while investing in the development of a more sustainable and competitive food production system.”

Nevedi President Ad Loos says, “The Dutch feed industry is strongly engaged in Ukraine and other European countries to maintain vital feed supply chains, while providing animal nutrition solutions which make a real difference for the livestock sector, enhancing its environmental performance and responsible sourcing, notably for conversion-free soy and palm products.”

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INDUSTRY EVENTS IDMA & VICTAM EMEA 2022 Grain and feed milling sector meeting generates US$150 million of export in just three days The flour, feed, grain and pulses processing technologies industry, which has reached a volume of approximately US$5 billion dollars in the world, came together at IDMA AND VICTAM EMEA held at the Istanbul Expo Center.

Despite the intense weather conditions in Istanbul, production equipment and the latest technologies were exhibited, with 500 company brands from 82 countries meeting with thousands of visitors and reached a business volume of US$150 million.

The list of especially noteworthy attendees includes Fatih Metin, Turkish Forestry Deputy Minister from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ahmet Güldal, General Manager, Turkish Grain Board (TMO) and President İsmail Gülle from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM). The event ranked second behind China with an export figure of approximately US$1 billion in the global market, domestic producers were impressed.

IDMA AND VICTAM EMEA, which was held for the ninth time with the participation of Fatih Metin, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Manager of Turkish Grain Board (TMO), Ahmet Güldal, President of the

Turkish Exporters Assembly, İsmail Gülle; brought together the most important representatives of the industry in the world under the motto of ‘International exhibition for grain and feed milling industry’.

IDMA AND VICTAM EMEA, hosted approximately 500 brands from various countries, mainly Turkey, Germany, China, United States, England and Italy, despite the bad weather conditions in Istanbul, the event still hosted more than 5000 visitors, which approximately 2000 were foreigners and ensured the establishment of new cooperations worth US$150 million during the event.

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It is expected that the demand for feed, grain, pulses, flour and bakery products will increase in the coming period, especially in regions where the population growth rate is high. At this point, the most important regions are Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa along with Southeast Asia.

The fact that Turkey is one of the main centres of the grain processing technologies industry and is close to the Middle East and African countries, where the demand for agricultural products is expected to increase, reinforces Turkey's place among the most important actors in the global market.

Bringing thousands of industry professionals together

“IDMA is a fair that has become a brand abroad in the flour, feed and grain processing machinery sector. Throughout the years it has been organised, it has been promoting the sector worldwide with the bridges it has built between the producer and the investor, increasing competition and bringing quality to the sector,” says the organiser of IDMA, Mr Ali Kalkan, Chairman of Parantez International Fair, remarking on the success of the event.

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Reaching an export figure of approximately US$1 billion with its logistics advantages, the sector is among the most important export items of Turkey. Its domestic producers, who set the trends in the world especially in milling technologies, provide a wide range of services from the production of milling machines to the establishment of flour, grain, legumes and feed factories.

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International Feed Technology Congress 2022 Second edition to take place during VICTAM International 2022 The 2nd International Feed Technology Congress (IFTC) will take place on May 31 - June 1, 2022, during VICTAM International 2022 at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands. This conference is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the VICTAM Foundation and its first edition was held in Cologne in 2019.

During the 2nd edition, leading industry experts will discuss topics like the grinding and pelleting process, ingredients fractionation, pre-mixture technologies, additives, bio-active substances, and much more! The conference has three main themes with keynote speaker for each theme.

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1. New technologies for future solutions: to bridge the food-feed axis The formation and stabilisation of specific Structure and Functionality characteristics is essential in food and feed processing Keynote speaker Volker Heinz, PhD, CEO German Institute of Food Technology (DIL), Germany Often chemical, physical or biological interventions are needed to convert raw materials into value added products for the purpose to improve nutritional aspects, safety or storage stability. This presentation will review a number of hovel technologies that emerged in the last years in the food processing sector but still are uncommon in feed production.

The focus will be on physical treatments like high pressure, pulsed electric fields, shock waves, extrusion and ohmic heating, whilst sustainability aspects will also be addressed.

2. Keynotes on valorisation of raw materials by technology Redefining the grinding and pelleting process for an optimised micro- and macrostructure of broiler diets Keynote speaker Birger Svihus, PhD, Professor Nutrition & Feed technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Since it affects both technical and nutritional properties, the structure of poultry diets remains a major concern. In pelleted diets, the macrostructure can be defined as the diameter and length of the pellets, plus the amount of and particle distribution of the fraction of pellets that disintegrate between production and feeding. These properties will mainly have an effect on feed intake.

The microstructure on the other hand, defines the particle distribution of the particles thar the pellets consist of, and is determined by dissolving the pellet in water followed by wet sieving.

A sufficiently coarse microstructure is important for gizzard function and thus digestive tract functionality, particularly when diets with a low level of coarse fibre is fed. A delicate interaction exists between macro- and microstructure, complicating optimalisation.

However, a coarser grinding, changes to processing conditions and a larger pellet diameter and length may offer opportunities.

Ingredient fractionation: the worth of sum of parts versus the whole for animal nutrition Keynote speaker Ruurd Zijlstra, PhD, Professor Swine & Carbohydrate Nutrition at the University of Alberta, Canada Plant seeds including cereal grains, pulse grains and oilseeds can be simply ground and included as ingredients in animal feeds. In contrast, these ingredients can be fractionated into unique fractions that are targeted to specific markets segments within or outside the feed industry.

High-value, nutrient-dense fractions enriched, for example, in starch, protein or fat can be targeted to animals with high nutritional demands. Furthermore, high value fractions might be targeted to human food or biofuel production; consequently, fractions enriched in fibre might be targeted toward the feed industry.

Advisory Committee: - Prof Dr WH Hendriks (Wageningen University) - Prof LA den Hartog (Victam Foundation) Scientific Committee: - Dr M Abdollahi (Palmerston North, New Zealand) - Dr H Cheng (Beijing, China) - Prof dr R Zijlstra (Edmonton, Canada) - Prof dr M Eeckhout (Genth, Belgium) - Dr D Miladinovic (Ås, Norway) - Dr AFB van der Poel (Wageningen, the Netherlands)

Therefore, ingredient fractionation can generate added value to locally-produced crops and thereby create opportunities for the production of unique fractions for feed application.

3. Feed additives and premixes Technology with respect to pre-mixtures/additives/bio-active substances Keynote speaker Mia Eeckhout, PhD, Professor Feed technology at Ghent University, Belgium With the prospect of increasing global consumption of animal products, there is also an increased demand for animal feed. Today's feed must meet several conditions, including providing the necessary nutrients, ensuring good feed efficiency with maximum output while limiting input and not at least, minimising the global footprint and pursuing the sustainability goals.

Decades of research in animal nutrition proved the need for feed additives and premixes to supplement important nutrients or play a role in optimizing the bioavailability and digestibility of feed materials and thus to be of indispensable value to the livestock sector.

Feed additives and premixes are more than ever important and challenged by the growing animal based food consumption.

Carefully selected topics & speakers The 2nd edition of the IFTC conference will be held during VICTAM International 2022, with the IFTC conference will take place May 31 and in the morning of June 1.

Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to presentations of some of the top speakers within the industry, with the topics and speakers have been carefully selected by the advisory and scientific committees.

For more information or if you have any questions, please e-mail info@iftc.online.

Please note that the registration is part of VICTAM International 2022 and you that will be re-directed to its registration system. Entrance to the exhibition is free of charge. A fee will be charged for the conference.

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TSC Silos +31 543 473979 www.tsc-silos.com Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Elevator buckets

Cereal and pulse conditioning

4B Braime +44 113 246 1800 www.go4b.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Tapco Inc +1 314 739 9191 www.tapcoinc.com

Vibrafloor +33 3 85 44 06 78 www.vibrafloor.com vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Colour sorters

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Elevator & conveyor components 4B Braime +44 113 246 1800 www.go4b.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Cimbria Srl +39 0542 361423 www.cimbria.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Maxtex Trading Group Co. Ltd. +66 29488281 www.maxtex.net

Henry Simon +44 0161 804 2800 www.henrysimonmilling.com

Satake +81 82 420 8560 www.satake-group.com

Tapco Inc +1 314 739 9191 www.tapcoinc.com

Computer software

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Coolers & driers

Enzymes

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

ERKAYA +90 312 395 2986 www.erkayagida.com.tr

Consergra s.l +34 938 772207 www.consergra.com

Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co KG +49 4102 202 001 www.muehlenchemie.com

FrigorTec GmbH +49 7520 91482-0 www.frigortec.com FAMSUN +86 85828888 www.famsungroup.com

PLP +39 05 23 89 16 29 www.plp-systems.com

Extruders

Sukup +1 641 892 4222 www.sukup.com

Almex +31 575 572666 www.almex.nl

ThermoNox GmbH +49 8442 8823 www.thermonox.de

Andritz +45 72 160300 www.andritz.com

Wenger Manufacturing +1 785-284-2133 www.wenger.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Wenger Manufacturing +1 785-284-2133 www.wenger.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Feed nutrition

Zheng Chang +86 2164184200 www.zhengchang.com

Adisseo + 33 1 46 74 70 00 www.adisseo.com

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Anpario +44 1909 537 380 www.anpario.com Biomin +43 2782 8030 www.biomin.net

Feed Mill Automation Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH +49 618 1596785 www.evonik.com/animal-nutrition R-Biopharm Rhône Ltd +44 141 945 2924 www.r-biopharm.com Romer Labs Division Holding GmbH +43 2782 803 0 www.romerlabs.com The Anderson Inc +1 419-897-6758 www.andersonsgrain.com

Feed milling Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com milltech +90 332 5021300 www.milltech.com.tr Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl FAMSUN +86 85828888 www.famsungroup.com Friedrich electronic +49 6406 1509 www.friedrich-electronic.de Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com PLP +39 05 23 89 16 29 www.plp-systems.com Sangati Berga +55 11 2663 9990 www.sangatiberga.com.br Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com VAV Conveyor Components & Solutions +31 7140 23701 www.vav-nl.com vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com Viteral +90 332 2390 141 www.viteral.com.tr Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Flour Improvers Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co KG +49 4102 202 001 www.muehlenchemie.com

Flour milling milltech +90 332 5021300 www.milltech.com.tr

Grain handling systems Behlen +1 402 564 3111 www.behlengrainsystems.com Brock +1 866 658 4191 www.brockgrain.com Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Cimbria A/S +45 96 17 90 00 www.cimbria.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr Viteral +90 332 2390 141 www.viteral.com.tr Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com Zheng Chang +86 2164184200 www.zhengchang.com/eng

Laboratory equipment Bastak +90 312 395 67 87 www.bastak.com.tr Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Ozpolat Makina Gida +90 342 337 1217 www.ozpolatmakina.com.tr

ERKAYA +90 312 395 2986 www.erkayagida.com.tr

Sangati Berga +55 11 2663 9990 www.sangatiberga.com.br

Tekpro +44 1692 403403 www.tekpro.com

Sukup Europe +45 75685311 www.sukup-eu.com

Zaccaria +55 19 3404 5700 www.zaccaria.com.br

Symaga +34 91 726 43 04 www.symaga.com Tapco Inc +1 314 739 9191 www.tapcoinc.com The Essmueller +1 800 325 7175 www.essmueller.com Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com Zaccaria +55 19 3404 5700 www.zaccaria.com.br Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Hammermills Alapala +90 212 465 60 40 www.alapala.com

Loading/un-loading equipment Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl MSC +44 1473 277 777 msc.com/sugar Neuero Industrietechnik +49 5422 95030 www.neuero.de Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com Vigan Engineering +32 67 89 50 41 www.vigan.com

Mill design & installation Alapala +90 212 465 60 40 www.alapala.com

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ASG Group (Degirmen Makine) +90 342 357 01 50 www.degirmen.com

Packaging Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Genç Degirmen +90 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr Henry Simon +44 0161 804 2800 www.henrysimonmilling.com IMAS - Milleral +90 332 2390141 www.milleral.com Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com

Satake +81 82 420 8560 www.satake-group.com

FAWEMA +49 22 63 716 0 www.fawema.com

Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Maxtex Trading Group Co. Ltd. +66 29488281 www.maxtex.net

Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com

Statec Binder +43 3112 38 5800 www.statec-binder.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

TMI +34 973 25 70 98 www.tmipal.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Pulverisers IDAH +866 39 902701 www.idah.com

Rolls

Paddle mixer

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

IDAH +866 39 902701 www.idah.com

Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A. +34 965564075 www.balaguer-rolls.com

Palletisers

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com Hydronix +44 1483 468900 www.hydronix.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr Silo Construction & Engineering +32 51723128 www.sce.be

Process control

Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Sangati Berga +55 11 2663 9990 www.sangatiberga.com.br

Zheng Chang +86 2164184200 www.zhengchang.com/eng

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Statec Binder +43 3112 38 5800 www.statec-binder.com

Statec Binder +43 3112 38 5800 www.statec-binder.com

Yenar Dˆk¸m A.S. +90 332 2391073 www.yenar.com.tr

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Pellet press

Roller mills Alapala +90 212 465 60 40 www.alapala.com

Zaccaria +55 19 3404 5700 www.zaccaria.com.br

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

ASG Group (Degirmen Makine) +90 342 357 01 50 www.degirmen.com

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

IDAH +866 39 902701 www.idah.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Pelleting Technology Netherlands (PTN) +3 73 54 984 72 www.ptn.nl

milltech +90 332 5021300 www.milltech.com.tr

Moisture measurement Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Hydronix +44 1483 468900 www.hydronix.com

Viteral +90 332 239 01 41 http://viteral.com.tr

Vibrafloor +33 3 85 44 06 78 www.vibrafloor.com vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Mycotoxin management Adisseo + 33 1 46 74 70 00 www.adisseo.com Biomin +43 2782 8030 www.biomin.net

IMAS - Milleral +90 332 2390141 www.milleral.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Henry Simon +44 0161 804 2800 www.henrysimonmilling.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com

Plant Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Sangati Berga +55 11 2663 9990 www.sangatiberga.com.br Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

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Genç Degirmen +90 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr

Pelleting Technology Netherlands (PTN) +3 73 54 984 72 www.ptn.nl Pingle +86 311 88268111 www.plflourmill.com Sangati Berga +55 11 2663 9990 www.sangatiberga.com.br

Vibrators

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

Altinbiliek +90 222 236 13 99 www.abms.com.tr

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Behlen +1 402 564 3111 www.behlengrainsystems.com

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

A/S Cimbria +45 9617 9000 www.cimbria.com

PLP +39 05 23 89 16 29 www.plp-systems.com

CSI +90 322 428 3350 www.cukurovasilo.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

The Essmueller +1 800 325 7175 www.essmueller.com

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

Obial +90 382 2662120 www.obial.com.tr

vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Roll fluting Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A. +34 965564075 www.balaguer-rolls.com Yenar Dˆk¸m A.S. +90 332 2391073 www.yenar.com.tr

Reclaim system

Ozpolat Makina Gida +90 342 337 1217 www.ozpolatmakina.com.tr

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

Silo Construction & Engineering +32 51723128 www.sce.be

Scalling Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Top Silo Constructions (TSC) +31 543 473 979 www.tsc-silos.com

Brock +1 866 658 4191 www.brockgrain.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Temperature monitoring Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Filip GmbH +49 5241 29330 www.filip-gmbh.com

Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Gazel +90 364 2549630 www.gazelmakina.com

vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Training

Sefar AG +41 898 57 00 www.sefar.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

IAOM +1 913 338 3377 www.iaom.info

Zaccaria +1 5519 34045715 www.zaccaria.com.br

IFF +495307 92220 www.iff-braunschweig.de

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Kansas State University +1 785 532 6161 www.grains.k-state.edu

AGI www.aggrowth.com

Leiber GmbH +49 5461 93030 www.leibergmbh.de

Symaga +34 91 726 43 04 www.symaga.com

ASG Group (Degirmen Makine) +90 342 357 01 50 www.degirmen.com

Silos

Yeast products

Sukup +1 641 892 4222 www.sukup.com

Sifters

Koyuncu Sanayi +91 224 723 92 92 www.koyuncufirca.com

Weighing equipment

Silos Cordoba +34 957 325 165 www.siloscordoba.com

NorthWind +1 785 284 0080 www.northwindts.com

Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl

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

OMS +441242 267700 www.onlinemillingschool.com Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com UK Flour Millers +44 2074 932521 www.ukflourmillers.org

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the interview

Sebas van den Ende, General Manager of Victam Corporation in Utrecht, The Netherlands

After graduating from the University of Groningen, The Netherland, in 1996 Mr van den Ende became a freehand market researcher for Dutch companies in Brazil. He moved to become the Export Manager for Schutte Bagclosures BV for both Latin America and Eastern Europe. In 2000, he joined the Rai Group BV, an international events organisation group in Amsterdam and spent the next five years as its Product Manager before founding an international consultancy company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

As Real Alliance Services E Support LTDA he successfully launched and developed eight trade shows and conferences which achieved a combined yearly turnover of R$30 million.

He worked for BMComm of San Paulo; an event organiser and publisher before establishing a national youth football competition called Ligas E Tabelas for children between six and 16 years.

Mr van den Ende returned to Europe in 2018 to take up his present position as the General Manager of Victam Corporation in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

You joined Victam International as its General Manager in 2018. What made you chose the feed sector and Victam Corporation in particular as a career choice?

I started my career in the packaging industry but in 2000, I switched to the event industry. After working at Amsterdam RAI we moved to Brazil where I launched our own events company. Brazil was a fast-growing market in those years and quite quickly we had a portfolio with eight events.

These events were not in the agricultural sector but for infrastructure, urban development, sport infrastructure, private labels and more. In 2013, the company was sold to an Italian media company and the product portfolio was combined with the publishing part of that company. In 2017, we decided to step out of the company and move back to The Netherlands, especially to give our kids the possibility to benefit from the Dutch education system.

The question arose of what to do next. Retire, start a new company or start working somewhere? That was when the position at Victam came up. The animal feed industry was new for me, but on the other hand I had a lot of experience with organizing, launching and expanding events. With the expertise within the team and the board, I got the time and opportunity to learn about the industry.

Over recent years the industry has had to cope with: swine fever, a global pandemic; a conflict in Europe and now the potential of increasing food costs. What role do you think exhibitions play in assisting industry through these turbulent times?

When I started in the events we had the challenge of how to deal with the Internet. What role does an event have now you can find everything on the internet and communicate so easily via email or Skype? The result. This was the moment that the number and size of events grew significantly.

Every time there is an economic crisis or a natural disaster, events are fragile, true. But every time events survived. After a crisis, events were still important in the marketing mix for companies. Of course, the playing field changes from timeto-time, but good events with strong positions in the market have always survived.

These past two years we had the Covid crisis and some other challenges, as you mentioned, but I am confident, that also this time the event industry survives, and with the industry Victam as well. Perhaps this year, companies and people

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are a little hesitant to come to the event or to do the same investments as previous years. However, I am confident that companies will realise that events are still important for them and that in the years to come more companies will make the same investments once again as in they have done in the past.

Following the postponements to your events in Asia, Middle East and Europe and the restrictions on travel, do you think visitors now have the confidence to attend international events?

Compared to the pre-registrations in 2019, we are ahead with the numbers for 2022 so that is a positive signal, on the other hand the situation in the world could make people decide not to come. Our event in Turkey, last March, was still a bit too early I think. The timing of this event was also unlucky because of the crisis in the Ukraine and the weather conditions in Istanbul.”

Have exhibitors responded positively to this year’s Victam in The Netherlands? How have they coped with the delays and postponements?

There were a lot of postponements of events and a lot of changes in the events calendar, but not for Victam International. This event is still on the agenda as originally planned. As it is a tri-annual event, we had our last event just before Covid and this one just ‘after’.

Of course, the pandemic influenced the decision of companies to participate and in general the decisions where taken later than usual. It influenced companies to decrease investments a bit, so in general we see some smaller stands, and maybe some smaller machines at the stands. But if we look at exhibitor numbers, we actually have more companies than last edition. In case the companies are completely free from hesitation in three years time and go back to their old stand sizes, the event would be bigger than ever before.

The decision to cooperate with VIV Europe and return to Utrecht, is very well received. Companies see the synergy of having the two shows together, and for companies who participated at the two events, they get two for the price of one. Let’s see what the results of this event are, but to keep our event in co-location with VIV would be a logical choice in the future.

What the areas of the show that visitors will find most interesting?

This is a question which is best to ask after the event, but the main reasons for visitors to come to our event are in the first place to see developments within the market, to socialize with their colleagues within their industry, to see innovations, and to see and ‘feel’ the machines. Through the cooperation with VIV, we trust that we will attract a new group of visitors to our event, for example, the large farms who are interested in feed processing technology.

Finally, how do you see the future for exhibitions and the Victam event in particular?

I am positive about the future. I would be very surprised if the last two years would not have an impact on our event in May. But I am sure, participants will be very happy to see each other again in person and start doing business as normal. The ‘normal’ will be a bit different of course, but in my opinion this will be in a good way.

I envision Victam organizing events in the most important regions of the world. If our exhibitors are interested in a region, we will explore ways to see how we can enter that market. for example, in partnership with an existing local event. So maybe there will be more events in the Victam portfolio, but not necessarily more events for the industry.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES AB Agri accelerates growth plans in South East Asia with senior appointment

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B Agri announces the recruitment of business development specialist Graham Wong to head up its operations in South East Asia as part of plans to significantly increase its market share in the region.

His new role new role as Head of South East Asia includes recruitment, technical development and innovation, joins the business having spent more than a decade in the animal nutrition sector, most recently as Managing Director, South East Asia in Nuscience of the Royal Agrifirm Group.

“With a rapidly increasing population and higher levels of disposable income, the scope for growth in Asia is considerable,” explains José Nobre, AB Agri’s Chief Executive Officer.

“Strengthening our presence in the region with key appointments such as Graham and Visiel, as well as growing the team more widely will give us the strong foundation we need to achieve our ambitious commercial targets.”

CyberAg appoints of former USDA Acting CIO to its advisory board

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yberAg announces the appointment of former USDA Acting CIO Joyce Hunter as Chair of its new advisory board. Ms Hunter will be leading strategy development for CyberAg’s advisory services for the USDA, Farm Credit System and industry partners.

Ms Hunter was previously appointed by President Barack Obama as the Deputy CIO, then Acting CIO of the USDA and has been named by Security Magazine as one of the most influential people in security in 2020.

She brings three decades of experience to the role and also serves as executive director for the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a nonprofit cybersecurity thinktank.

“Agricultural cybersecurity is a rising concern as farmers adopt IoT technologies more rapidly,” remarks Ms Hunter. “We must consider the speed of execution of these initiatives, and CyberAg is positioned to provide the resources necessary to aid American farmers immediately.”

Brock Grain Systems reveals new Product Manager of Structures

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ason Hoffman has been promoted to Product Manager of Structures for Brock Grain Systems.

Mr Hoffman’s new responsibilities include playing a pivotal role driving continuous profitable growth of the grain structures product line. This side of the role will involve conducting market research in order to gain a deep understanding of customer needs.

His new role will also require Mr Hoffman to work closely with the sales team in order to develop strategic roadmaps that position Brock and its subsidiary, LeMar Industries, as market leaders.

A 15-year veteran of Chore-Time Brock (CTB), Hoffman previously has held the positions of detailer, detailing manager and sales/customer service manager. He has additional experience in construction and design.

Hoffman received a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, US. He is originally from Carroll, Iowa, and resides in Ankeny, Iowa.

US Grains Council promotes new Vice President

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ary Sifferath has been promoted from senior director of global programs to vice president at the US Grains Council.

As vice president, Mr Sifferath will supervise all overseas offices and operations regarding the promotion of US corn, sorghum, barley, co-products and ethanol for the Council. Throughout his long tenure, Mr Sifferath has developed a vision for the Council’s work, and he looks forward to implementing that in his new role.

“Cary’s 28 years of experience at the Council will serve as a steady pillar for the entire organisation as we move forward in ever dynamic markets and geopolitical situations affecting trade of the products we market globally,” says Ryan LeGrand, President and CEO, USGC. “The depth of knowledge on international markets and trade that Cary brings to the executive department will serve us all well.”

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