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How could a company exceed its own high threshold of achievement so easily, yet it did and convincingly so. What I am talking about is the outcome of the Bühler Networking Days held in the last week of June.

The three days I spent with colleagues at the company’s head office in Uzwil, Switzerland lifted the lid fully on what our industry – food and feed milling in addition to others – is facing in the immediate future in terms of climate change and the work we will have to do to play a leading role in tackling the problem.

climatic change and sustainability, to the need to cut waste and reduce water and energy usage in addition to topics on leadership, plant-based protein foodstuffs, laboratory grown meats (that do not involve harm to the animal involved), new protein sources (including one from a carbon capture process) and the maintenance of bio-diversity.

We talked about human health, obesity, equality and poverty and the role our industries must play in all these areas. We heard from individual millers what they were doing to meet these challenges. The list goes on.

In all there were over 50 partnerships and start-ups announced and/or discussed in addition to lectures and presentations on topics from leadership, management, training, education and learning, from a range of industry CEOs or noted specialists in their fields.

This was a most stimulating event, an immersion in not only the technology that is milling today, and the advances being made in all areas of grain handling and processing – and should not to overlook the mobility sector of Bühler which is involved in vehicle component manufacture and battery processing technology – but covering all things interconnected with the jobs we hold in the production of our foodstuffs.

The 1000-plus invited customers plus Bühler staff from around the world (and invited participants who presented from the podium), faced the reality that our industry must step up and take responsibility for the reduction in its carbon footprint, with the goal of achieving net-zero by 2050. And that action has to start now at every mill.

However, this is the challenge we as an industry face – how to provide the food for 9.5 billion soles on the planet and yet eliminate the production of climate damaging gases at the same time? Yes, that is what we have to do if we are to avoid the disaster that has been forewarned by our scientific community.

Has the message reached the production plant operators of the world?

Whilst we have been encouraged in the past to ‘follow the money’ we must now divert our attention and resources and ‘follow the science!’

As invited press we were overwhelmed with the detailed program set up for us: the number and value of the presentations; the numerous press conferences that focused on almost every aspect of these challenges; the interviews with both company leaders and key presenters and the discussions with new partners and successful start-ups related to and supported by the company.

This conference dealt with the whole host of topics from

Stefan Scheiber, CEO, Bühler: The planet is not ours, we have only borrowed it from our children

Maybe not yet, but the impact of the Bühler Networking Days 2022 will be felt for many months, and it will bring about a greater understanding and recognition of the issue confronting us and provide the incentive to take action.

As I have said in the past and it was repeated in the conference hall – once you understand a situation you have an obligation to take action. You may choose to take no action, but you will be held accountable for your decision at some time in the future.

As Bühler’s CEO Stefan Scheiber says: The planet is not ours, we have only borrowed it from our children. Now is the time to take action and make an impact!

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It was a pleasure to have Dr Mahmoud Riad, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Milling Association - which represents both flour millers and feed millers within the country - join the Rongorongo Live Video Studio this month.

We connected via Zoom and it gave Milling and Grain the opportunity to ask him about the immediate future for the industry given the expected shortages and difficulties facing the wheat market internationally over the coming months and possibly years.

Dr Riad stated out by saying Egyptians love bread and mentioned the impressive per capita consumption and the number of bakeries providing bread; fascinating insight into a country where nominal GDP per capita estimated for 2022 is US$4176. It recorded GDP growth in 2021 of 3.3 percent.

He went on to outlined his government’s commitment to the people of Egypt in terms of maintaining its subsidies on bread supplied to over 80 million people within its population of 105 milling.

In March the Prime Minister, Moustafa Madbouly, set the price of commercially sold bread at 11.50 Egyptian pounds ($0.66) per kg, reported Reuters at the time. Reuters also stated the new fixed prices for flat, round ‘balady bread’ were set at 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00 Egyptian pounds for loaves weighing 45, 65 and 90 grams respectively.

(US$1:EGP£18.86).

Dr Riad is confident the country can weather the disruption in wheat supplies over the coming months and seasons. He is now a regular contributor to Milling and Grain.

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Welcome to this, the July 2022 edition of your Global Miller column. I hope that we find you happy, healthy and humble and that you are weathering the financial crisis with love, tolerance and optimism.

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, arable farmers find themselves in the middle of one of their many busy periods of the year, with haymaking and silage collection taking place this month. The countryside is currently bustling with convoys of large high-sided vehicles, stacked to the brim with the green clippings associated with these activities.

Another popular activity at the moment is baling, also forms much of the work being undertaken in July, with square bales usually used to feed horses and round bales are typically for cattle. As I saw for myself at the recent Cereals event, potatoes are still being maintained thanks to the irrigation process, and will be sprayed with pesticides to prevent the crop being damaged or eaten.

July tends to be the start of the combine season for cereal crops like barley and maize, so combine harvesters will be a common sight in the fields and on countryside roads - making double sure that you are late for work or for that appointment if, like me, you have the pleasure of living rurally.

As a rather busy spell of industry events comes to something of a close, there is a lot of comfort to be taken from the apparent recovery of that aspect of how we do business. As I have said countless times, virtual events are great but they really aren’t as good as meeting in person.

Not even the best computer engineers could ever replicate the sensation of a warm handshake or eye contact. Now they will try and certain scientists will claim that they have done so successfully, but as the past few years have shown, they will never nail it 100 percent.

As promoted by our friends at Ocrim, this month sees the launch of the Peanut and Popcorn Festival, with the event taking place from June 23-29, 2022 in Mezzogoro, Italy. “It might seem like a festival like many others, an opportunity to party but there’s much more behind the first edition of the Peanut and Popcorn Festival,” reads the article.

Described as an event that is ‘not to be missed’ for those who appreciate the taste of ‘100 percent made in Italy’ peanuts, this occasion follows a resumption of the cultivation of this fruit, thanks to the recovery of the native seeds of SIS - Società Italiana Sementi and Noberasco following an absence of more than 50 years.

So, there we have it, the event world is officially going nuts and I can think of no better team than our good friends from Cremona to truly make it happen.

Until next time, arrivederci!

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Philippine Government seeks to use free trade as deflationary tool he Philippines recently announced a decision to lower restrictive corn import tariffs on nonASEAN corn from 35 to five percent.

Executive Order 171 cited the economics of the current world situation driven by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and corn’s pivotal role in more than 50 percent of the total production cost of large-scale broiler and swine rations for the decision to lower import tariffs on corn.

The Council believes this is a responsible step by the Philippine government as it encounters domestic inflationary pressures.

“The US and Philippines agricultural industries have enjoyed a strong relationship for a very long time,” says USGC President and CEO Ryan LeGrand. “The Council is standing by, ready to help the Philippine government and industry fill in any raw material supply shortage the country is facing. US farmers have an abundant,

sustainable corn crop ready to deploy when needed.”

The Philippines feed industry relies heavily on feed wheat imports due to its history of high import tariffs on corn outside ASEAN. The recent global wheat supply chain disruptions have had a disproportionally negative impact on Philippine input prices.

“If these tariff reductions stick long term, the Philippine livestock industry will have a chance to become competitive again with their ASEAN neighbours. When a steady supply of corn is available, the overall demand for corn grows, given corn is still the energy source of choice by many nutritionists,” says Caleb Wurth, USGC regional director for Southeast Asia and Oceania.

“This higher demand for corn will also help local corn producers join the global corn market, increasing efficiency and profitability. The Council will be right there with our partners to ensure all parties in the agricultural supply chain equitably participate in this historic move.”

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DSM acquires Brazil’s leading animal nutrition technology company

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recision farming is growing rapidly, driven by the increasing demand for sustainability, efficiency, traceability, and animal welfare in food systems under pressure to provide the world's rising population with animal protein.

Royal DSM, a global purpose-led science-based company, announces it has reached an agreement to acquire Prodap, a Brazilian animal nutrition and technology company that combines technology offerings, consulting services, and customised nutritional solutions to drive efficiency and sustainability in animal farming.

The company's precision nutrition solutions for animal nutrition and health include Verax™, a unique and innovative integrated animal management system that leverages data to provide a deeper understanding of the health, productivity, and welfare of animals, and Sustell™, an intelligent sustainability service designed to enhance the environmental sustainability of animal protein production.

Based in Belo-Horizonte, Prodap is at the forefront of the market for digital solutions, which is growing particularly quickly in Brazil. Prodap combines nutrition, consultancy, and technology services to optimise ruminant farming operations.

Through its portfolio of digital solutions, it collects data and develops insights in real time, which are then translated into tailored nutritional solutions for customers, with remote or in-person support provided by its experienced consultants.

Prodap has operations in the states of Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais and employs 330 employees, serving more than 5000 farms across Brazil with impressive customer loyalty rates.

Precision & Personalisation By harnessing the power of Prodap's

digital solutions, DSM will take another step forward in its Precision & Personalisation journey. DSM will strengthen and further develop its digital solutions to reach more markets globally and species, enabling smarter nutritional decision-making thanks to artificial intelligence and other tools.

Prodap will complement DSM's deep animal nutrition knowledge and advisory capabilities with its extensive consultancy experience, facilitating an even higher level of customer experience.

Additionally, by supporting more efficient farming, the acquisition contributes to DSM's commitment to enabling a double-digit reduction in on-farm livestock emissions by 2030 as part of its 2021 food system commitments.

'The need for sustainable animal farming has never been greater or more urgent. Precision nutrition is a key pathway to improving the efficiency and sustainability of animal farming, creating value for a range of stakeholders, including farmers and society at large,” comments Ivo Lansbergen, EVP DSM Animal Nutrition & Health.

“As such, I'm delighted that we're joining forces with Prodap to deliver precision farming solutions to our customers, which will contribute to more sustainable animal farming for all. Together, we make it possible!'

Leonardo Sá, CEO Prodap, says 'We are delighted to have found a company like DSM that sincerely shares our purpose on transforming the livestock worldwide and vision of adopting the new technologies essential to achieving sustainable and efficient farming. We look forward to accelerating the expansion of these new technologies in the industry, together with DSM.' The transaction, which remains subject to customary conditions, is expected to close later this year.

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Oklahoma State University is developing higher quality wheat

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heat harvest is underway in Oklahoma, and as an appropriate prelude, members of the OSU Wheat Improvement Team are working on stronger, higher quality wheat varieties.

Oklahoma State University wheat genetics chair Brett Carver shared with wheat producers at the recent Lahoma Field Day that his team of OSU wheat researchers have been breeding wheat varieties with exceptionally high gluten quality, excellent yield and reliable disease resistance.

“With wheat, we can look at a lot of different quality factors, but the one that probably stands out the most is the gluten quality,” Mr Carver says.

“The better the gluten quality, the better we can make a loaf of bread.

That's not to discount yield. We're always going to be thinking about yield, but let's bring quality into the conversation.”

Higher gluten quality could mean more profitability for producers by increasing a wheat crop's value, and when that trait is combined with high disease-resistance, producers could also see an increase in yields.

“These new lines were bred for the purpose of maximising the strength of the gluten. To do this, we had to use genetics we had never used before with the hard red winter wheat class,” Mr Carver says of OSU's new line of wheat varieties with a Gallagher lineage.

A variety currently called 'OK15MASBx7 ARS 8-29' was Mr Carver's primary focus for the day's presentation. It was created by cross breeding Gallagher and a Colorado State University variety called Snowmass.

OSU agronomists have created this

new calibre of Gallagher to use a specific naturally occurring gluten protein that does not exist in other OSU wheat varieties.

The 8-29 variety would serve as an ingredient in bread rather than as a stand-alone crop because its gluten is incredibly strong.

It also has a strength equivalent to or better than hard red spring varieties from the northern US and Canada, and it averages two bushels more per acre than Gallagher.

“Adoption of the 8-29 variety would change what goes on the ingredient label for bread,” Mr Carver says. “Vital wheat gluten is being added to bread to bolster the strength to allow for the modernday, high-speed processing that occurs. We think we can do that naturally in our wheat varieties themselves.”

Maintaining the high quality

Mr Carver says OSU researchers have started experimenting with four other derivatives of 8-29 that also have a Gallagher background, with the hope of creating an even better yield while maintaining the high quality.

“This is kind of a monumental moment for us. I had no idea in 2012 when we started this cross-breeding program that this is where we'd end up – in a uniquely functional class of wheat,” Mr Carver says.

“I want to make sure that producers have something they can grow and capture value from, not only just in the baking industry but at the producer level as well. We're trying to figure it out as quickly as we can.”

He expects OSU will release the new Gallagher wheat varieties over the next two years.

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Key poultry players join forces to evaluate insects as a viable protein source

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consortium of Dutch poultry chain players is joining forces in a public-private partnership regarding insects as a source of protein in poultry diets. Protix, ForFarmers, PHW Group’s Dutch entity Esbro, Venik and Wageningen Livestock Research will be working closely together during the next two years.

Their joint effort is to investigate how insect ingredients from the black soldier fly in poultry feed, affect sustainability, health & welfare parameters of slow-growing broiler chickens.

In their natural environment, insects are a favourable source of food for poultry. Feeding insects to poultry now is an interesting opportunity to transform low-value organic by-products into high-quality feed ingredients, since the European Commission approved the use of insect meal in poultry and pig feed in September 2021.

This opportunity could expand the range of feed raw materials for chicken producers, but further information is still needed for the entire poultry chain. The consortium is going to move diligently forward on a sciencebased approach to evaluate potentially value-adding elements of chicken diets containing insect ingredients from the black soldier fly (BSF).

The research project will be conducted in three phases, starting May 31, 2022, with a pilot to study effects of different inclusion levels of BSF larvae-derived ingredients in poultry feed.

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diets in combination with other alternative regionally grown protein sources will be tested to study these effects.

“Continuous identification and science-based evaluation of innovative alternatives to conventional poultry feed ingredients are important elements of our sustainability strategy,” says Marcus Keitzer, Board member of PHW Group and responsible for Alternative proteins.

“Therefore, we aim to investigate the specific impact of the inclusion of insect-derived feed components in poultry diets in slow growing broiler chicken from various angles. This PPP enables us to do this jointly with some of the most renowned institutions in the insect and agricultural sector in Europe.”

Ambition & responsibility According to Kees Aarts, founder and CEO of Protix, “today’s unprecedented times painfully reveal the urgency to restore the balance with nature.

Sustainable ingredients play an important role in this. At Protix we were born from sustainability, and we are proud to join forces with these pioneers and work together in an integrated value chain approach.

“The growing global demand for animal protein calls for innovative and sustainable feed and farm solutions.

Insect protein could have an important role as an alternative and sustainable protein source in animal feed.

“This partnership is a great example of the ambition and responsibility of ForFarmers to develop our knowledge and innovate For the Future of Farming”, states Joost Sparla, Marketing Director Poultry at ForFarmers.

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UK Government seeks to balance food-security & environmental sustainability

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riticism of the UK government’s recently released Food Strategy for England policy has been unfair and the government has correctly prioritised domestic food production.

That’s the view of Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, a partner at chartered accountants MacIntyre Hudson (MHA), who says, “The government’s food strategy and response to the Dimbleby Report encountered a lot of criticism but the sector needs to take a more measured view,” Most criticism focused on the watering down, or rejection, of proposals from the Dimbleby Report that aimed to promote healthier eating and environmental work in rural England.

“Although this is to be regretted critics miss that the government had to take account of recent events. The strategy the government did produce sensibly prioritises domestic food production.

“As Russia strangles the world’s grain supply from the Ukraine this was undoubtedly the correct approach. As the strategy states: ‘successful domestic production is what

gives us national resilience in an uncertain world’.

While this meant environmental priorities may have taken more of a back seat than expected, Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine and blockade of the Black Sea have forced the government’s hand.

“However, the strategy still sets out a vision to maintain the current level of domestic food production while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the environmental impacts of the food system, in line with net zero commitments and biodiversity targets.

This ambition shows the government is still trying to bring together the twin goals of food-security and environmental sustainability. It has become a more difficult balance to achieve recently but not an impossible one.

“Another hugely positive aim of the strategy is to place sustainable food production at the heart of education and learning. This has been far too long in coming. We pay less for our food than previous generations, but we appreciate it less: this needs to change,” he adds.

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Messrs J Davidson and Sons’ New Phoenix Flour Mills, Newcastle-on-Tyne Part 2: The Phoenix expands and is transformed

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ast month I summarised the history of the Davidson milling family up until 1860, when John Davidson passed over to his son ownership of the mill that he had recently rebuilt from the ashes of a horrendous explosion in a neighbouring building.

Some years later Messrs. Davidson and Sons’, the new name of the firm, adopted the Harrison Carter system in order to have a greater capacity. A new four storey building was erected besides the old mill which was then utilised for the cleaning of grain.

The new mill, as shown on the illustration, was faced by a spacious jetty, the entire length of which was served by two powerful steam cranes. At night the jetty could be illuminated by a lantern enclosing six electric lamps of 50 candlepower each.

An eight-foot covered cart way, passed through the mill, connecting the jetty with the street beyond. The new mill was fitted out to put our 35 sacks of flour per hour, and was built by Mr Walter Scott, from designs by Mr Richard Cail.

Built of red brick with stone dressings

The new roller mill was built of red brick with stone dressings,

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Cross section of the new mill

the interior being lined with white glazed bricks, resting on a keep foundation of concrete and inverted arches. The five floors were carried on rolled iron girders, supported on cast iron columns. A lift and stone staircase gave access to all the floors.

On entering the mill at ground level, there were five lines of shafting which drove the roller mills on the floor above, the shafts being put in motion by ropes, direct from the engine. A row of elevator bottoms was placed longitudinally in the centre of this floor, and eight elevator bottoms of a much larger size were placed in a line against the wall.

The patent flour and first break flour were ‘sacked’ on this floor.

A stone staircase led to the first floor where there were five rows of double roller mills with automatic feeds, the mills being driven from the five lines of shafting on the floor below.

There were 50 roller mills on this floor, all double machines of which 19 were Carter’s grooved chilled iron roller mills for the reduction of the wheat, effected on the seven break system.

The first and second breaks were produced on two double machines respectively, and three double machines were used for each of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh breaks.

There was also one grooved double chilled iron roller mill for fine offals and 30 smooth chilled iron roller mills, 20 Carter’s and 10 Grays’s double mills for middlings reduction. Before being reduced the wheat was graded into four sizes.

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The second floor contained the first part of the dressing machinery and 10 scalpers operating on the products from the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth breaks. Here also was a line of Carter’s sieve purifiers, consisting of 10 double machines, two purifiers allotted to each machine.

Leading from this floor to the old mill was a gangway, the sides and roof covered in corrugated sheet iron. The gangway also had three conveyors, one for bringing the cleaned grain from the wheat cleaning department to the mill where it was elevated by means of an upright worm to the graders: the second conveyed the offals to the old mill where it was separated into bran, pollards and sharps, and finally the third conveyed the ‘straight run’ flour by means of a 12 inch band to the old mill where it was weighted and sacked.

The next floor was furnished with two Davidson’s wheat graders, dividing the wheat into four different sizes before going to the first break roll. In addition, there were 26 centrifugal machines manufactured by the mill’s own millwrights, one first break flour dressing reel, which separated the middlings, from the crease flour and 22 Carter’s gravity semolina purifiers. A beautiful effect was achieved by the machines and their several spouts being in a straight line.

A site to behold

These machines stood on a conveyor having three separate parallel ‘worms’ 38ft in length. On this floor was also the main shaft for putting the various dressing machines into motion.

A grooved, 8ft diameter wheel for receiving six ropes, made of cotton 2 inches diameter. was fixed to this shaft, the wheel being connected directly with the grooved wheel of the engine. From this shaft the machines on the second and top floor were put in

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motion. The belting for these shafts was supplied by Messrs.

Angus & Co, of Newcastle.

The fourth floor had the remainder of the flour dressing machinery, consisting of 9 centrifugals, two of which were used for patent flour, 2 seventh break scalpers, 2 first break scalpers, 4 chop reels, 2 vertical Davidson’s bran dusters, 3 double grading reels for the gravity purifiers, 2 double middlings grading reels, 6 re dressing reels, and 1 germ reel.

The wheat cleaning department was in the old mill and the different kinds of wheat were cleaned by means of 3 Davidson’s seed separators, 2 Victoria scourers, 3 Young’s wheat separators, 4 smutters and 3 sets of Van Gelder’s cylinders, 2 Simplex machines, 2 scourers, 2 Throop brush machines and a dryer and washer used for foreign wheats.

The new mill was driven by a pair of horizontal compound surface condensing engines capable of 80 lbs per square inch boiler pressure of developing 600hp. The engine house itself was 50ft long by 26ft wide and 30ft high open timbered, curved ribbed roof surmounted by a lantern light 30ft long. The walls were finished in Keene’s cement, with framed pitch pine dado.

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New candidate shortage sees French cereal industry take charge

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he traditional providers of candidates in France, such as Ensmic or Aemic, are no longer sufficient in the face of the sector's lack of attractiveness, with the whole sector on the alert to remedy this.

The figures speak for themselves: while nearly 80 students graduated from Ensmic (École Nationale Supérieure de Meunerie et des Industries Céréalières) with a BTS in Cereal Industries at the end of the 1990s, there are now only a dozen students enrolled in the first year.

The year 2021 was almost synonymous with the closure of the only BTS class in the cereal industry. This observation speaks volumes about the disaffection that the milling profession is experiencing and partly explains why the French milling sector is struggling to recruit.

This situation is shared by the animal nutrition sector, and in fact affects all grain processors. Faced with this worrying situation, the sector - which has been rather passive until now - has decided to react, and in a new way, collectively.

This double observation, which is self-perpetuating, with, on the one hand, a profound lack of knowledge of the grain processing professions and, on the other, their very limited attractiveness, is not new, but the year 2021 seems to be the year of collective awareness of the urgency to act.

According to the ANMF, nearly 500 positions are in short supply in the milling sector, with a preponderance of positions for cylinder drivers and milling supervisors, for technicians and delivery drivers.

After an initial announcement by the ANMF, which made this its battle horse for the coming years at its national convention in September in Bordeaux, the Aemic (Association of Former Students of the Mill and Cereal Industries) organised a round table during the JTIC (Technical Days of the Cereal Industries) last November entitled "Employment, training, career and attractiveness of the cereal industry". The beginning of a new era for the sector?

Communicate to get out of the shadows If the general public has always identified the baker, for reasons of proximity, or the farmer who produces wheat upstream in the chain, knowledge of the miller, the essential link between these professionals, is less obvious.

"For years, we've managed to get by. It's also our fault," admits Lionel Deloingce, president of the Paul Dupuis mill in Seine-Maritime and former president of the ANMF. "It is high time that this profession, which creates value, knowledge and expertise, was able to gain recognition," he says. For a long time, the ANMF has focused its communication on the finished product,

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the baguette, leaving aside the flour and the milling profession itself.

"We have been changing our way of communicating for some time now by insisting on flour, as a noble and essential product, and on the trade to bring it out of the shadows, by being more and more present on social networks in particular," explains Flavie Souply, technical and sustainability director at the ANMF. Short films have been broadcast on social networks, marking this shift towards the general public. And to optimise these projects, the organisation recruited a communications manager at the beginning of the year.

"Jean-Fraçons Loiseau, president of the ANMF, has chosen to use a communications expert who will also work on behalf of the Syndicat des industriels de la nutrition animale, in line with the bridges that exist between this sector and the milling industry," explains Lionel Deloingce.

A communication campaign for the general public is currently being developed for the milling industry.

"If we want an effective communication campaign in addition to the government's role, it must be carried out in the territories and by companies. This campaign must be ambitious", adds Lionel Deloingce.

"Baguette bags, posters, videos, the media are numerous.

It will depend on the budget allocated. But we will need all the players in the sector to be effective, because the budget is not bottomless."

Companies, keys to territorial communication "If every miller could go to the neighbouring high schools to talk about the trade, with a presentation or a guide for that purpose, it would be a good start," proposed Karine Forest, director of Minoterie Forest, at the JTIC in November.

“Four months later, communication kits have been made available to many companies by the ANMF, among others, for this purpose. "The millers will be able to meet with high school students in particular, starting this summer," reports the miller, interviewed on 26 March at the Salon de l'Agriculture.

Yann Foricher, manager of the COurneau mill, who attended the JTIC round table, agrees, pointing out the increased visibility of mills during the Covid-19 period. "We have seen a surprisingly large number of people coming to our mills, and we can see that the image of the miller is a good support," he says, insisting on the "heritage" dimension of the miller beyond the "transformer". "We could bring a territorial dimension to this type of event. There is a European mills day, we could take advantage of it", the miller proposed.

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by Nathanael Hodge, Mills Archive trust Taken from an article written by Rex Wailes, February 1935

Long Island stretches out into the Atlantic for 120 miles east of New York City, and the mills I shall describe are all situated east of the portage at Canoe Place and the Shinnecock Hills. Only very few of the old mills remain, and these are the Beebe Mill at Bridgehampton, three mills at East Hampton, one at Gardiner’s Island, Hay Ground, Montauk Point, Shelter Island, two at Southampton, and the Mill Hill Mill at Shinnecock Hills.

None of these mills now fulfil their original purpose, that at Hay Ground is used as a tearoom, and at Montauk Point the old mill serves as part of a house, and that at Mill Hill is used as part of a summerhouse.

Most of the mills date well back into the eighteenth century, but some are of later date. The Beebe mill was built on a hill at Sag Harbour in 1820 and was moved to Bridgehampton in 1837. It was sold and again moved in 1882, when steam power was added and was working until March, 1911, when it lost a sail. This was the last of it as an operating mill, and eventually it was bought by John E Berwind and moved to its present site.

East Hampton, which contains three windmills, is the home of the Dominys, a noted family of windmill builders, whose name continually crops up in the records of these old mills. The present head of the family, Mr Felix Dominy, is well acquainted with the running and repair of windmills.

The first reference to a windmill at East Hampton concerns a ‘spider mill’ ie, a jib sailed mill, which in 1737 was conveyed to his great-great-great-grandfather, and which stood on a plot of land near the road to Three Mile Harbor; this was replaced in 1806 by the Mulford Mill.

In addition to these mills there is mention of Merry Mill, Sandy Hook Mill, Hedges Mill (a grist mill), Chelfield Mill, Derby Mill and Dominy Mill. Evidently the township was an important milling centre at that time. It is recorded that a mill in Hash Amonock was sold in 1788 for £21!

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The Gardiner Mill, one of the three remaining, stands on the site on the east side of Main Street Burying Ground, where it was built in 1771. It is in the grounds of the original mill house, now enlarged and owned by Mr Lion Gardiner, a descendant of the Mr Lyon Gardiner who had it built, and the mill is maintained in working order.

Notes made by John Lyon Gardiner for whom Gardiner’s Island Mill was built have survived in MSS, and from them we learn that the mill was erected on Monday, May 23rd, 1795 by Nathaniel Dominy Junr and others and cost $773 or £309.7.0. It still stands in working order on its original site by the shore.

The Hook Mill was built in 1796 by Nathaniel Dominy, the timber for it being got on Gardiner’s Island. It was last run in 1907, and in 1920 was purchased by the village as part of a War memorial and repaired. It gets its name from the low tract of land at the east end of the Main Street on which it stands. It is in excellent condition.

The Pantigo Mill was built, or more probably rebuilt, in 1771 on an artificial mound on the village green. In 1850 it was purchased by Mr Felix Dominy’s father, who moved it on to his land on the Panitigo – Amagamsett road. In 1915 it was bought by Mr George N Buck who had it removed to the garden of the cottage made famous

by John Howard Payne as ‘Home Sweet Home.’ He had it repaired and used as a museum and on his death left house, mill and grounds to the village of East Hampton.

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The Vegetable oil crisis in Egypt

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US$470.50 from the prewar price ith the outbreak of the of US$1,480 per MT on February Russia-Ukraine war on 23, 2022. That price was for those February 24, 2022, Egypt's who were actually able to acquire a food security crisis now poses threat to its consignment for physical delivery. The economy. Cairo relies on large volumes commodities price reporting firm Platts of heavily subsidised imports to ensure has paused the Black Sea sunflower oil sufficient as well as affordable supplies assessments since February 23 of this of bread and vegetable oil for its 105 year. million citizens. Securing those supplies With Ukraine and Russia being the has led Egypt to become the world's dominant exporters, Egypt cannot largest importer of wheat and among the easily find replacement suppliers. It world's top 10 importers of sunflower oil.

by Dr Mahmoud Riyad, cannot easily increase the volume The Russia-Ukraine war catapulted Secretary-General, Egyptian of soybean oil either, as producers prices to unsustainable levels for Egypt, Milling Association, Egypt Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay increasing the price of wheat by an will experience a 9.5 million tonnes additional 44% and that of sunflower oil soybean production shortfall due to by 32% virtually overnight. Even more insufficient rainfall in South America's growing regions. troublesome, the war also threatens Egypt's physical supply The global market for vegetable oils had already witnessed a itself since 85% of its wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine, as perfect storm of rising oil prices in 2021. As of June 1, 2021, does 73% of its sunflower oil.

Egypt raised the price of subsidised unblended vegetable oils With activity at Ukraine's ports at a complete standstill, by 23.5% while the standard-issue one-litre bottle of blended Egypt already needs to find alternative suppliers. A further soybean and sunflower oil was replaced by an 800-ml bottle at escalation that stops all Black Sea exports could also take the same price, equivalent to a 20% reduction.

Russian supplies off the market with catastrophic effect.

While the subsidy reduction was helpful in combatting the In addition to bread, the Russia-Ukraine war has begun to 2021 wave of global food oil inflation, the early 2022 Russiadisrupt Egypt's supply of sunflower seed oil, the country's Ukraine war has turned that wave into a price spike tsunami as main vegetable oil along with soybean oil. The government countries scramble to find alternatives to sunflower oil. imports 95% of its vegetable oil and offers Egyptian In January 2022, Indonesia, which produces 58% of the consumers a highly subsidized blend of sunflower oil and global palm oil supply, placed strong limits on exports to bring soybean oil. down its own surging domestic cooking oil prices due to the The USDA forecasts Egypt’s MY 2021/22 sunflower oil consumption to reach 355,000 metric tons (MT), with 350,000 increases in 2021.

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Spring 2022 saw the long-awaited return of the Online Aquafeed Production School course for its Spring 2022 edition, with a new, improved and updated series of online broadcasts.

Developed and presented in partnership by Progressus Agrischools and Perendale Publishers Limited, the ever reliable series is tailored to help attendees to build an understanding of the design, development, and operation of a feed production plant.

This goal is achieved to an admirable standard 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.

This is then followed by a dedicated question and answer session, allowing participants to interact live with the program facilitators.

These carefully selected experienced industry operators, who possess centuries of combined front-line service between them, includes Joe Kearns, who alone has spent decades in senior roles at Wenger Manufacturing.

A unique blend of wisdom & reliability

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.

Recap of sessions 3 & 4

The third session of this new series titled ‘Ingredient Bins, Batching and Mixing’ is split onto four sections; Detailed Review of Ingredient Handling – Part 2, In Plant Ingredient Storage Considerations, TroubleShooting: Extrusion Barrel and Extrusion Dies – Dies and Situation which relate to the die and knife.

The first section in this episode sees Giuseppe R Bigliani, the International Account Executive of AG Growth International - AGI, a global leader in the planning, engineering, and manufacturing of integral solutions, present the second instalment of the detailed review of ingredient handling.

Covering an array of relevant topics including dosing, batching and mixing, Mr Bigliani states that even the most efficient mixer cannot produce a homogenous mixture if the components vary too much in granulation and specific weight.

Next up, Joe Kearns discusses ‘In Plant Ingredient Storage Considerations’ before presenting his latest extrusion troubleshooting instalment, which in this session looks at extrusion barrels.

The fourth and final section of this session, before it concludes with the question and answer session sees Mr Kearns present a section titled ‘Extrusion Dies – Dies and Situation which relate to the die and knife’ - a presentation that covers what can block a die, density changes as die changes and why adequate knife face to die clearance is so critical.

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This presentation concludes with Mr Runde stating that reactive maintenance is not an option. Mix from preventive, condition-based and predictive maintenance is key, whilst individual maintenance schedule should consider all concepts, based on data and cost/time.

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Although this season has already started, all sessions are available on demand for two weeks following the final broadcast – with this option included for all attendees at no extra cost.

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In this edition of Milling and Grain magazine, we have devoted our Product Focus section to displaying a whole range of products viewed at VIV Europe and Victam International, which were co-located this year in The Netherlands.

Whilst in attendance, we recognised that in order to meet new challenges, the innovation within the food sector continues to grow and evolve.

With this in mind, we feel that in order to reflect this properly in our magazine, we would include a double page spread dedicated to each show. On this note, we encourage you to read and hope you enjoy our show report on page X, where you can find more information about the two exhibitions.

Should you have a new product or service that you would like to feature on this page in a future edition of our magazine, be sure to contact us at editorial@perendale.co.uk.

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The RV series can be adapted to include hoppers up to seven litres in size, for applications in potatoes and large fruits. The capacities range between 0.05 and seven litres, with up to 400 weighments per minute.

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The Jumbo CC-S is an ‘ultra-heavy duty’ version of the CC-S heavy duty elevator bucket and part of the High Efficiency bucket range.

Made from virgin HDPE, the bucket offers heavy duty strength and durability.

It is designed for severe applications including port terminals, ethanol plants and abrasive materials. It has a thick front lip, corners and walls available, and are designed so they can be mounted onto nominal projection less than one inch in order to increase capacity.

The Iceberg Edge front face allows for impact resistance and long life, sharing the design features of the CC-S while including the benefit of stackability, saving on freight costs and storage space.

Its main advantages are being tough and flexible, offering a stackable design for efficient shipping and storage, and a tapered bottom for closer vertical spacing.

Suitable for applications in livestock, agriculture and industry, the new line of Feedhoppers with a fibreglass loading bin and top lid has been designed to ensure utmost integrity and correct feed storage.

Designed for use with grains, pellets, and other materials, thanks to its self-supporting structure of two fibreglass half shells, the Feedhopper protects the insulation of the contents and has a total capacity of 7m3.

Its features include a rounded white fibreglass top lid for preservation of feed, lateral opening winch for loading operations and four supporting legs with tie rods, whilst it also has a lower part which is compatible with all Eurosilos Sirp’s bottom unloading products.

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Magi-con dosing system from Dinnissen In recognition of the challenges animal feed manufacturers face, the Magi-con dosing system from Dinnissen allows for flexible production of a wide range of feed in small and large quantities in the factory.

Feed is taken into a vacuum environment and sprayed with precision dosage, followed by micro-ingredients being sucked deep into the grain through the vacuum. This is to protect them from crumbling at the same time. After which a thin layer of fat is applied, to make the material more elastic and ensure it breaks or crumbs less quickly.

In doing this, the system allows for high energy values in the feed and prevention of contamination. Microingredients can be dosed in powder or liquid form with maximum precision, to save costs.

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SPECIAL FOCUS Swiss milling tech outfit The Bühler Group has launched its latest optical sorter for wheat, rye, oats, grains, coffee and pulses: the Sortex H SpectraVision. Powered by brand new MerlinAi sorting algorithms, the solution pushes optical sorting to the next level of usability, performance, and product traceability.

Using the best of British and Swiss engineering know-how, the Sortex H SpectraVision is the result of Bühler’s 75 years of experience in optical sorting. It offers three key benefits for customers: unmatched ease of use, high performance, and enhanced connectivity, contributing to increased sustainability.

Processors today must tackle an ever-increasing number of defects as a result of climate change and pesticide reduction.

With its individual defect removal control, this machine enables processors to maintain sort quality with ease. The Sortex H also delivers up to 50 percent higher reject concentrations.

Supplying maximum yields is in line with Bühler’s goal to reduce energy, waste, and water by as much as 50 percent in its customers’ value chains by 2025 and to develop sustainable solutions to feed the world population of 10 billion by 2050.

Additionally, enhanced connectivity increases value for processors. Over 500 data points can be downloaded every second and sent to Bühler Insights to optimise and track performance.

Processors can monitor and control their machine performance from anywhere in the world, in line with Industry 4.0 standards.

Real-time tracking of sorting performance and emergency warnings are also possible thanks to the Sortex Monitoring System.

MerlinAi: innovation, not magic

The Sortex H SpectraVision, which is capable of handling a range of applications including: wheat, rye, oats, grains, coffee and pulses, is powered by brand new MerlinAi sorting algorithms.

“MerlinAi is the new brain of Bühler’s Sortex optical sorting machines,” says Melvyn Penna, Product Manager at Bühler.

“Its advanced multi-layer sorting algorithms ensure a consistently higher yield for processors, as less good product is lost in the reject stream.”

Sortex H SpectraVision Superior defect reduction means accept quality can be met even with input material of a lower quality. “These all-new calibration and product tracking algorithms ensure that machine performance remains steady and high, giving processors greater flexibility,” adds Mr Penna.

A customer seal of approval

One customer that has been enjoying the benefits of the Sortex H SpectraVision is Harivenasa. As Spain’s first oat mill, the company specializes in producing and supplying high-quality oats and other cereal-based products, maintaining an ethos that good health can be achieved by enjoying life and food.

Harivenasa had a seven-module Sortex H SpectraVision machine installed last year in its brand-new oat mill. “We’re extremely happy with the Sortex H because it’s very efficient, boosts our productivity, and we get much better quality now than we previously did in terms of unhusked grains, defects, black spots and so on,” says Alberto Loizate, Managing Director, Harivenasa - Alea.

Since installing the machine, Harivenasa has seen improved quality in its oats and is now looking to enter new markets in new countries.

Ease of use is also a major benefit. “Our staff say that it’s much easier to navigate around the software and to maintain the machine. They also tell us that it’s easier to change parameters. In short, the Sortex H makes their lives a lot easier,” says Loizate.

“The return on investment will also be very short. We’ve already seen great quality with very low reject of product. The sorter has a lot of brand-new features, and it works with the latest remote connections and Bühler insights. With Bühler Insights, the machine is ready for the future,” he adds.

The Sortex H SpectraVision, which is built and validated at Bühler’s London facility, has been installed at numerous customer sites around the world and is available for purchase globally. It is available with up to seven chutes. It was introduced to processors during a number of application- and region-specific webinars over the last couple of months.

It was also showcased at this year’s ISF World Seed Congress in Barcelona as well as the IAOM in North America and IPACK-IMA in Milan, where it received a great response.

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by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain with support from Bühler’s Communications Team In a demonstration of the commitment of businesses to be at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis to protect and restore nature and biodiversity, and close the gap in wealth distribution, 1000 representatives of the world’s leading companies from 95 countries gathered in Uzwil at the Bühler Group’s global headquarters this week to discuss the urgent need for business to come together to accelerate the transition towards sustainability. Representing companies that between them feed four billion of the world’s population, and who move two billion, delegates attending the Bühler Networking Days 2022 event on June 27-28, heard from leading academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators about how businesses can best meet today’s global challenges.

How can we enable 10 billion people (by 2050) to live a good life within the boundaries of our planet?

That’s the question Bühler’s 2022 Networking Days in Uzwil, Switzerland (held in late June) posed to over 1000 invited decision makers representing the food, feed and mobility sectors under the theme: ‘Accelerate impact together.’

This unique event was first created by Bühler in 2016 and is held every three years presenting keynotes, panels and technology demonstrations with a focus on leadership, technology, education, inspiration and action across international industry boundaries.

It highlights examples of companies that provide tangible impact on mitigating climate change, eradicating poverty, creating employment, protecting and restoring nature and improving food security.

“Global industry has excellent examples of companies that are highly responsible, applying innovative technologies at the heart of their transformation, and through this, becoming economically healthier and addressing sustainability at the same time,” says Bühler CEO Stefan Scheiber.

“In fact, despite all the challenges we are facing – from climate change to food and energy insecurity to supply chain issues and social disruptions through to wars – I am convinced we can turn things around.

“Innovative technologies offer many business opportunities when they also address sustainability issues. We must not shy away from seizing these opportunities.”

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Highlighted were solutions from global companies, extraordinary entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia and NGOs – all illustrating that solutions to global challenges can be found and delivered at scale.

The Networking Days create an exceptional platform for sharing, learning, networking, collaboration, partnering and most importantly creating positive impact.

Using proven technologies

Tangible examples of companies that balance nature, humanity and economy in their decisions are shared at the Networking Days.

Among those attending included: A coffee company from Norway, which reduces CO2e emissions by 85 percent in its new facility; an entrepreneur in Angola, who has built a gigantic industrial food complex as a huge first step towards providing selfsufficient food security across his country; a battery manufacturer in the UK who is building Europe’s first Gigaplant with new mixing processes, reducing waste in the production process by 80 percent and a miller in India who is making tortillas in a plant that reduces water consumption by 84 percent and eliminates wastewater.

Many other companies attending are already transforming their food system with sustainably delivered plant-based proteins.

Recognising that no single entity – a country, a company or an individual – has the resources, know-how or reach to tackle the global challenges we face, Bühler has established its Networking Days to bring together and nurture its growing global ecosystem of partners.

“We need massive collaboration among industry, start-ups, academia, educators, politics, NGOs and the public to manage and limit the effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and eliminate poverty,” says Bühler CTO Ian Roberts.

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Rising to meet global challenges together

Despite businesses recently facing a myriad of obstacles, the examples of vaccine research, advances in digitalization and the development of communication at scale during the lockdown all demonstrated the capacity of business to rise to global challenges when required.

“We have experienced the power of science and innovation with industries collaborating at a new scale,” says Bühler Group’s CEO, Stefan Scheiber.

“In our industries – in animal nutrition, food and mobility – the innovation rate has never been as high as it is today, which creates impact because we need new technologies and widespread collaboration to tackle new challenges, and at the same time secure the future of our businesses in a responsible way. We need technologies, we need collaboration and responsible leadership to shape the future.”

more impact by having a clearly articulated social purpose.

“The first way in which purpose can accelerate impact is by providing direction,” explained Professor Gulati.

“Purpose creates a compass and an oriented framework around where you are going in turbulent times when you have lots of things going on around you.”

He added that focusing on social purpose also motivates and inspires employees while a clearly expressed business motivation often provides useful clarity and orientation for business partners. Gulati cites Bühler in his book on deep purpose as an example of a company that has successfully adopted this approach.

Once a social purpose is decided upon, it must be properly explained to all stakeholders both internally as well as externally, so that it becomes part of the corporate DNA and can be expressed in all of a company’s actions.

Impact through purpose

Leadership’s role

Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Professor of Business Administration, and author of “Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies”, warned company leaders not to get wrapped up in complex metrics around Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) when companies achieve far

Burkhard Böndel, Head of Corporate Communications at Bühler explains the future of sustainable milling - where all aspects are located on one site from flour, pasta, rice, feed, aqua and other milling processes take place alongside a canal which supplies raw materials in volume to attending journalists

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“We live in a complex uncertain world, there will always be ambiguity in our work, true leaders always bring clarity and make a call even during uncertain times,” said Mr Nadella.

Keynote speaker Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, the German multinational software corporation with over 400,000 customers globally, spoke in the same session of the need for leaders to thoroughly understand their industry and business, especially when it comes to complexity within supply chains.

“We are all on social media sharing data all the time and yet when it comes to businesses, how much do we understand our supply chains?

I am convinced this is where we must come together to share data and trace material flows,” he explained.

“End-to-end traceability means you can think about how to measure demand in real time and adjust your inventory right down to the raw material.” Only when supply chains are fully understood is it possible to improve standards on issues like human rights and properly addressing Scope 3 emissions, he adds.

Accelerating impact with innovation

In a historic moment, Stephanie Michelsen, Co-Founder and CoCEO of Jellatech, a cutting-edge technology company producing animal-free collagen and gelatin in the laboratory, presented to the Networking Days event the first sample of sustainably grown animalfree collagen to ever be seen outside a laboratory.

As key ingredients for the pharmaceutical, bio-medical and the food industry, the market is worth US$8.4 billion annually and is currently solely reliant on animal by-products.

To rapturous applause Ms Michelsen told delegates that cellular agriculture has the potential to eliminate all the environmental damage caused by rearing livestock.

“Collagen and gelatin are just the starting point for us, there are so many other exciting proteins from animals and nature that we can now grow in a lab,” she told delegates. Jellatech is currently fundraising to move the technology from laboratory to a pilot and beyond.

Dr Christoph Gebald, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Climeworks, described how his company is removing CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it in the ground to help reverse climate change.

Launched 13 years ago, Climeworks now operates the world’s largest plant capturing CO2 from the atmosphere built in Iceland.

“This technology is here to stay and in 30 years from now this industry will be very big, it will be removing CO2 on a gigaton level from the atmosphere, and it will operate synergistically with other climate change technologies like solar and wind,” he explained.

Leading by example

In a move to help achieve its own climate change targets to have solutions ready to multiply that reduce energy, waste, and water by 50 percent in the value chains of its customers by 2025, Bühler announced that it had assessed the impact of its different processing solutions, on waste, energy, and water consumption, land use and CO2e footprint, along with assessments of how the technological advances impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the benefits for circular economy. “By evaluating the impact of our solutions, we can then start tracking their overall accumulative impact,” said Ian Roberts, Bühler CTO. An important contribution is optimization of the industry’s installed asset base and Bühler is learning to monitor the reduction in CO2e footprint resulting from services at its customers’ sites. So far, 30,000 tons of accumulative CO2e reduction have been calculated across only 11 of the Bühler services in customer processes. “We are going to expand that calculation across the whole service portfolio to better understand

the impact we can bring together on that CO2e footprint and then verify the calculation as we build better data sets,” said Roberts.

Bühler is also using new technological solutions to track avoided CO2e emissions. Roberts told delegates that Bühler is now able to provide a service by working with customers to quantify their CO2e footprint. “We can do product assessments and look at where the processing hot spots are and build action plans to drop your CO2e footprint and we can have it externally certified,” he explained. Holger Feldhege, Bühler’s COO, addressed the audience and explained Bühler’s global internal CO2-reduction targets, and how the defined actions will be implemented in Bühler’s operations through a global program which will be implemented starting now until 2030.

We need to talk about inequality

The President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Peter Bakker, described the three biggest challenges of our time as the climate emergency, loss of nature and mounting inequality.

“I think most of you will by now have got the memo on climate change,” he told delegates.

“I would argue that you are not yet comfortable with your role when it comes to inequality. When we are all back in this room [in three years] inequality will be as urgent as climate change is today. Society is no longer going to put up with big differences in wealth with deep structural difference in access to opportunities.”

He warned the time had come for business to start talking about inequality, system transformation, the need to innovate, behaviour change and financial flows.

Driving meaningful change

When it comes to improving diversity among new entrepreneurs, Izzy Obeng, CEO of Foundervine, a start-up accelerator dedicated to removing the social and economic barriers faced by today’s entrepreneurs, presented the Networking Days audience with some stark statistics.

She told the conference that only one cent in every Euro of venture capital funding went to all female teams in 2020, with 15 cents in the Euro going to mixed gender founding teams.

In comparison 84 cents in the Euro goes to all male founding teams.

Only 38 black entrepreneurs managed to raise venture capital funding between 2009 and 2019, representing only half a percent of the total capital allocated over the 10 years.

Ms Obeng told delegates that no black led venture funds in Europe have ever raised significant institutional funding to invest in founders.

Foundervine has to date helped over 5000 leaders in the UK gain the skills to grow businesses and raise investment.

Obeng told delegates that everyone needed to be involved in conversations around diversity and not just diversity and inclusion teams, adding that businesses also needed to invest more in their local communities.

“As leaders we have a real opportunity to set the standards that give a voice to those that have traditionally not had one. Strengthen communities that have been historically marginalized and see where your companies and you as an individual can provide opportunities for financial inclusion and wealth building opportunities.”

Final words

Wrapping up the conference Stefan Scheiber said, “These two days have proven how massive the potential is to drive meaningful change in so many important areas.

“I’m so encouraged by the countless interactions and the common desire to accelerate our impact, across industries and on a global scale. Together, we can and we will, create a better, more sustainable and fairer world for future generations.”

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Impact in the Dome

Bühler's Networking Days 2022 - – where the ‘Virtual World’ crosses over with the ‘Real World’ in the ‘Dome’

It all comes down to the equipment we use

by Roger Gilbert, Darren Parris and Andrew Wilkinson, Milling and Grain An important aspect for visitors attending the Bühler Networking Days are the large galleries called ‘Applications Centers,’ which is home to most of the company’s latest innovations and on display with their development team to answer questions.

Milling and Grain visited the ‘Grain Handling and Processing Application Center’ and talked to development staff about the various innovations that are focused not only on reducing the use of water, energy and waste by the company’s target of 50 percent by 2030, but about sustainability and their impact on making the necessary significant reductions of Stage 1 and Stage 2 CO2 emissions - which the company is determined to achieve by 2030 as a first step in reaching net-zero carbon emissions for its customers by 2050.

The equipment that caught the eye of our team from the dozen or more processes for both food and feed sectors include the following:

The new SORTEX H SpectraVision with MerlinAi

Optical sorting is essential in any processing operation as it can differentiate between individual grains, final food products and even inconsistencies in other mass products such as plastics, helping to meet food safety requirements and achieve a purer product quality.

Advanced camera technology (including a major reduction in image noise), lighting and machine learning all enhance the accurate removal of product defects and foreign materials by colour, shape and texture. The company also has an extensive product range based on budget, capacity and the product quality 50 | July 2022 - Milling and Grain

you need to achieve.

The list of related applications includes grains such as wheat and rice, cocoa, chickpeas, nuts and seeds, coffee, petfood and candies and more.

The proper sorting of grain is not just vital in the grain processing industry but also critical when processing coffee beans to ensure the removal of all traces of discoloured coffee beans and foreign material. Removing all shell material from deshelled nuts is also critical.

This advanced technology allows you to efficiently and effectively remove a range of defects including discoloured beans, immature and insect damaged as well as various foreign materials such as glass, stones, plastic and foreign materials of the same colour, like sticks.

Bühler had on display its latest SORTEX H SpectraVision machine which, when compared to the SORTEX A ColorVision machine is not only more accurate in a single pass but lifts yield from 99.60% to 99.92% on a range of grain samples including challenging contaminations like unhulled oats, weed seeds, broken maize, rye and barley. It’s primary reject improved from 4.5% to 2.21% leading to 50% less waste. This machine is so advanced it won the award for best new technology displayed at the Networking Days 2022 as voted for by attendees.

The Arrius®

The Arrius MRRA is the first fully-integrated grinding system unveiled in 2020. Its many applications include the grinding

F of wheat, durum, rye, barley, corn and spelt where it sets the benchmark in terms of grinding performance and energy efficiency. Its highlight features include: Its ease of use; plug-andplay design; food safety; operational safety and customisation.

At the heart of the Arrius is the newly-developed roller pack.

Pre-stressed and backlash-free, which makes for a stable grinding process and optimises the energy transfer into the product.

Together with the optimised feed module it assures stable and consistent grinding performance.

An integrated web server allows monitoring and operation of the grinding system from different devices, including smartphones, tablets and personal computers.

The integrated switch cabinet means that the Arrius is wired and tested at the Bühler assembly plant and delivered ready to operate, with this ‘plug-and-play’ system significantly reducing installation and commissioning time.

All surfaces touching the product are made out of stainless steel or other food-grade materials. It is the first grinding system that allows cleaning under the machine. The emptying function ensures a residue-free discharge of the feed module.

Operational safety includes electronically lockable cover and hand guard protection. The latest sensor technology including roller temperature measurement which continuously monitors the machine’s status to safeguard high uptimes and operating efficiency.

The Arrius integrated grinding system comes in a four-roller and in an eight-roller version. Rollers are available in the lengths 1000mm, 1250mm and 1500mm. Customers can also add various options including motor-driven grinding gap adjuster, roller and bearing temperature monitoring, and grinding force measurement.

Darren Parris, touring the 'virtual world' in person

It is little wonder that this is the machine that won the Victam/ Milling and Grain GRAPAS Award 2022 for innovation in Utrecht at the end of May 2022.

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Estimates suggest that as much as 30 percent of the world’s food is lost or wasted between field and fork. Bühler’s grain handling and storage solutions at the very start of the milling process are designed to minimise early losses by specifically tailoring solutions to meet the circumstances customers encounter.

In the Grain Application Center the company displayed its fully-enclosed bulk grain handling system that eliminates all dust emissions and removes the potential for product contamination in ports and ship unloading facilities.

It has also focused on reducing the energy required to move large volumes of grain by committing to mechanical lifting solutions and replacing all hydraulic motors with variablespeed motors. Once again, the focus in this area is on sustainability and reduction in energy use.

Alexander Schwemberger greets attendees interested in the MerlinAi-powered Sortex H SpectraVision. The team developing the machine won best-in show award (below centre)

Grain handling goes energy efficient with new motors and improved dust control

Heidi Kotilainen discusses the advantages of salmonella control using an the new Laatu process

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Manfred Dess product manager for Grain Quality and Supply takes visitors through energy savings in grain cleaning

Removing off-flavours using the MMS and Bühler Filtex for clean-label solutions

Melvyn Penna, Product Manager Optical Sorting explains new developments to the SORTEX H SpectraVision

Packaging

Premier Tech’s BFL-2120 (previously PTF2120) was on display in the Applications Center.

As we know Premier Tech is partnering with Bühler to provide sophisticated packaging units that guarantee extraordinary precise and highly efficient industrial bagging of powders, while securing top level sanitation and food safety.

It is suitable for a vast variety of powders, such as soft wheat flour, wheat bran, all specialty grain flours and animal premixes.

Premier Tech is a leader in packaging and allows Bühler to offer a full production line. Not only does the Premier Tech offer a wide range of bagging machines, but it can also provide fully integrated packaging lines including weighing systems, palletisers and pallet wrappers.

In addition, Bühler can also benefit from the most comprehensive solution portfolio for any granular or powdery commodity and product by making the difference with it's new generation of batch scales, loss-in-weight scales and flow balancers.

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Visiting journalists take advantage of a quiet time 'In the Dome' before the 1000-strong group of visitors arrive

The Pulsroll

The Pulsroll huller DRHG, designed to effectively remove the seed coats of a wide range of pulses, is a high throughput solution, offering improved yields, a uniform finish and optimum quality.

To increase yields, the grinding gap can be adjusted along with the grit of the emery stones, sieves and machine inclination. This helps to keep a consistent level of milling, improve quality and reduce the amount of brokens.

The emery stones come in four sections so that each section can be replaced individually. The optional interchangeable sieve system offers further hulling quality. The sieves can be adjusted to ensure a uniform milling surface.

The grinding gap, emery stone grits, sieves and machine inclination can be individually adjusted. This makes it possible to hull many different types and shapes of pulses.

The Pulsroll has a sturdy design with wear parts that are designed to protect the machine from abrasive products. The emery stones also offer high resistance and handle up to 10,000 tonnes of product in their lifetime. This machine is also able to hull up to four tonnes of pulses per hour, whilst it can come equipped with various motor sizes ranging between 11kW and 22kW.

Laatu

A further processing solution that was on display at Bühler’s Networking Days 2022 was its innovative, on-site microbial reduction solution for the spice industry, called the Laatu®.

This is an industrial, non-thermal solution that provides product quality with a validated five-log reduction of salmonella. It offers minimised processing costs and a reduced environmental footprint through chemical-free and water-free technology, whilst also achieving low energy consumption with minimal or no product waste.

Its built-in continuous monitoring and recording system also ensures that the equipment operates within critical limits, with batch quality reports also ensuring complete traceability of every batch.

The company has installed one unit in the USA for the spice industry.

There are several other items that should be included, and which we will re-visit in subsequent editions of Milling and Grain.

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The future of milling in Uzwil Grain Innovation Centre to open in 2024 A new multi-million Swiss Franc Grain Innovation Centre (GIC) is being developed at Bühler’s Uzwil site in Switzerland.

The GIC will replace the old technology centre, which was built in the 1950s and no longer fulfils the requirements of a state-of-the art innovation hub.

At the new GIC, Bühler and its customers and partners will develop, test and scale sustainable and efficient solutions for grain and feed processing to improve food and feed solutions.

The focus will be on yield, quality, energy efficiency and the flexibility of the plants together with nutritious and great tasting recipes based on a broad variety of grains and pulses.

Embedded in Bühler’s Application & Training Centre ecosystem at Uzwil, which includes bakery, pasta, proteins and chocolate, the GIC will enable the development of innovative solutions from raw materials to finished products. The GIC is scheduled to start operations by the end of 2024.

Humans have been processing grain for around 10,000 years and yet milling has never been more innovative than it is today.

Environmental regulations, food safety, customer needs, raw material sourcing – these ever-increasing demands require new processes and plant technology.

Seventy years ago, Bühler built its first application centre for milling at its site in Uzwil. However, it is now getting on in years and can no longer meet future demands.

When today's application centre was built in 1951, the raw materials were still delivered in 100-kilogram sacks. Transport and distribution relied on a great deal of human muscle power alongside the most advanced technology of the time. This is no longer realistic today, when the raw materials are delivered in one-ton bags or in bulk in tank trucks. The building and its infrastructure are reaching their limits.

The contents of the bags delivered are also very different from those of 1951. Today, more and more diverse raw materials are being processed, from the newly discovered old grain types to legumes and recycled plastic granulate PET. "Everything that can be ground, screened and sorted is in the right place here," says Rudolf Hofer, Head of Grain Innovation Centre.

On the other hand, there is a constant stream of end-product innovation with start-ups, for example, developing products with a local connection to meet current customer tastes.

All of this, in turn, places ever higher demands relating to sustainability, energy efficiency, food safety and traceability.

The circular economy is also becoming increasingly important, requiring new solutions and applications for by- and waste products such as hulls, husks, or bran.

The building, which is a place with a great tradition of innovation, will be partly demolished and rebuilt, and partly renovated.

“Most of the machines developed in the milling sector over the past 70 years have been at least partially tested here in the application centre,” says Stefan Birrer, Head of Business Area Milling Solutions.

“Among them are absolute success stories such as the Airtronic roller mill (MDDK), the first friction-locked roller package that made it possible to greatly reduce the number of roller mills in a mill, or the first double roller mill (MDDL) that had a decisive influence on mill design in terms of diagram layout and space requirements.”

Today, the Application and Training Centre no longer meets the requirements for a future-oriented and safe environment for Bühler’s customers or for the company’s own trials and developments.

For this reason, the decision was taken to build a completely new infrastructure on the site of the present Application and Training Centre, which will give an enormous boost to research and development in the field of milling.

Here, work will also be done on how to merge the machines and process steps with the digital revolution.

“All new developments will come from the new Grain Innovation Centre. Bühler will continue to keep this important part of its research in Uzwil,” says Peter Striegl, Head of Innovation Milling Solutions.

In order to take advantage of synergies, the training centre will be integrated into the existing ecosystem with all existing Application & Training centres, the CUBIC, the new Bühler Energy Centre, and the Protein Application Center announced at the Networking Days.

The Milling Academy will also develop a new curriculum, explore innovative and new ways of learning, and work much more closely with the African Milling School and all other academies at Bühler.

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Other stories from Networking days Combining forces to meet the growing demand for alternative proteins During its Networking Days, Bühler announced a new strategic partnership with German engineering company endeco to drive forward pulse processing, meet growing demand for alternative sources of protein and develop pulse processing solutions with a significantly lower CO2 footprint. endeco, specialised in the design and construction of starch and protein plants, and processing technologies market leader Bühler have agreed to build a new Protein Application Centre at Bühler’s headquarters in Uzwil, Switzerland, to offer customers end-to-end solutions, from bean to burger, including all wet and dry processing.

Plant protein processing is a key technology in meeting the growing global population’s needs.

Proteins play a vital role in healthy human nutrition. A significant part of the current protein supply relies on the conversion of plant to animal proteins. Given that it takes on average four kilograms of plant-based proteins to produce one kilogram of animal-based protein, and that around two-thirds of agricultural land is already used for livestock, a shift to more plant-based alternatives contributes to meeting the growth in protein demand sustainably.

“Together we can cover the whole value chain,” says Johannes Wick, CEO Business Grains & Food at Bühler. “endeco provides the final missing piece for Bühler between the mill and pulse processing. We are already the market leader in dry processing technology. With this strategic partnership, we add expertise in wet processing technology and will be able to offer full end-to-end solutions from bean to burger.”

The new Protein Application Centre in Uzwil will enable the build-up of know-how and drive the further development of processes for the production of meat substitute products.

Pulses are promising ingredients that provide a good source of protein. They can be used to create tasty breads, pastas, beverages and meat substitutes. With growing consumer demand for gluten-free and vegan food, demand for pulse flour is predicted to grow by 10 percent by 2025 compared to 2017.

Rice – a key food staple In one of the event’s expert talks, Sujit Pande, Bühler Global Marketing and Product Manager for Rice Solutions, described the complexities associated with processing rice given the thousands of different varieties and weather conditions under which rice is grown.

“It is estimated that rice feeds around half of the global population and

A circular economy solution for the Swiss plant-based meat market CN & Partners AG of Switzerland has announced its joint venture with Bühler to create Circular Food Solutions Switzerland AG - a new company to produce a Swiss meat alternative based on upcycled locallyproduced spent grain.

This protein- and fiber-rich product has low environmental impact.

“For decades, spent malted barley was used as feed for animals. Now we are reusing it to create healthy and tasty meat alternatives,” says Johannes Wick, CEO of Bühler’s Grains & Food business.

“Meanwhile, Swiss entrepreneur Christoph Nyfeler, owner of CN & Partners AG, says, “We are dedicated to living sustainably and are proving it through our actions.”

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Developing novel solutions is important to transform industry, however, the potential optimisation of existing industry assets, across the world, is the biggest short-term lever for reducing CO2e footprint.

Bühler showcased services, technologies and solutions that can optimise existing assets, provide a pathway to CO2e reduction in new plants and support the development of new, more sustainable diets and mobility solutions.

“Our biggest impact comes from supporting our customers in reducing their energy consumption, waste generation and water usage and at the same time ensure productivity and yield. We have clear targets on these topics.

“By expanding our collaborative ecosystem, we can accelerate meaningful and lasting impact in the food, feed and mobility industries,” says Stefan Scheiber.

yet when compared to other energy sources such as wheat, maize barley and sorghum, rice forms roughly a quarter of the energy source of the world,” explained Pande.

The discrepancy between energy source and population dependency is due to rice being a key subsistence crop and so solely used as a food source. Rice is also linked to food security and so has a direct impact on the political security of a country and tends to be eaten in regions of high population density.

Upcycling (transforming by-products and waste materials into new materials or products of greater value) is the holy grail of the circular economy. In the beer brewing process, the starch of the barley malt is used to produce beer. The leftover is known as spent grain.

Traditionally, this is used as feed for animals. But much of the nutritious part of the grain is in this spent grain.

Mr Nyfeler entered the joint venture with Bühler AG to establish Circular Food Solutions Switzerland AG, based in Lenzburg, Switzerland. The partnership combines Bühler’s processing expertise and intellectual property with CN & Partners’ skills, experience, and network in order to bring a new solution to the plant-based meat market.

“We are working closely with Bühler on detailed engineering at the chosen location.

If we can secure an efficient supply chain, we expect the operation to start by summer 2023,” says Mr Nyfeler.

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The original idea for using brewers’ spent grains in this way came out of an innovation competition at Bühler. The team behind it saw the opportunity to create a new product out of this valuable side stream and have driven its development through a start-up, Circular Food Solutions AG (CFS Global), that has since been spun off from Bühler.

Bühler intends to make this capability available in different countries.

“We would like to find entrepreneurs in other parts of the world who, like CN & Partners, can provide the local production and retail contacts and experience, and would like to partner with us in a similar way,” says Mr Wick.

“We are looking to join forces to drive a truly sustainable circular economy in meat alternatives.”

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Partnership and initiatives announced The Networking Days event also provided an opportunity for Bühler to announce a number of joint ventures and partnerships involving industry synergies and technological advances aimed at mitigating climate change.

Bühler announced the following partnerships: A partnership with endeco enabling complete solutions from crops to plant-based meat and dairy analogues and the building of a protein application lab in Uzwil integrating processes from raw material to finished product A joint venture with Zeta, an engineering company serving the pharmaceutical industry, to produce a one-stop-shop to scale up bioprocessing from laboratory to industrial production. A partnership with Vyncke, facilitating the production of clean energy from biomass and recovered fuel. Bühler announced new application labs to support the latest technologies in milling.

A new joint venture with Christopher Nyfeler supporting the circular economy

The time for action

The time for action and making a significant impact with regard to waste, water and energy reductions within the milling sector contributes to the is now with the goal of achieving net-zero emission of CO2e by 2030.

That’s the clear message attendees heard from several presenters during Bühler’s 2022 Networking Days.

The company aims to have solutions ready to help its customers achieve the 50 percent targets in the areas of waste, water and energy by 2025 and thus help reduce their CO2 footprint. It announced that it had assessed the impact of its different processing solutions and how its technological advances impact the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and benefit the circular economy.

“By evaluating the impact of our solutions, we can then start tracking their overall accumulative impact and support our customers on their netzero journeys,” said Ian Roberts, Bühler’s Chief Technical Officer.

An important contribution is the optimisation of the industry’s installed asset base and his company is learning how to monitor the reduction in CO2e footprint resulting from its services at customers’ sites.

So far, 30,000 tonnes of accumulative CO2e reduction have been calculated across only 11 of its services used in customer processes.

“With these 11 servcies we learn how to estimate and verify impact, we are going to expand that calculation across the whole service portfolio to better understand the impact we can bring together on that CO2e footprint and then verify the calculation as we build better data sets,” he adds.

Bühler is also using new technological solutions to track avoided CO2e emissions.

Roberts told delegates that Bühler is now able to provide a service to quantify customer CO2e footprint.

“We can do product assessments and look at where the processing hot spots are and build action plans to drop CO2e footprint and have it externally certified,” he explains.

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• A partnership with IMDHER specializing in building turnkey plants for animal feed, aqua and pet food plants in Mexico • A partnership with Flottweg specializing in separation technology • A partnership with MMS providing membrane solutions across the food and bio pharma industries • Bühler has partnered with the car manufacturer Volvo to make sure it has the latest technology in its new plant based in Sweden • Bühler has partnered with Britishvolt in using continuous production technology in the fourth biggest battery plant in the UK • Bühler has also worked with partners Migros and Givaudan to create The Cultured Hub, to accelerate the future of cultured food processes • Bühler also announced the setting up of the National Board for Switzerland for “One Young World Switzerland” to enable all Swiss companies to access “One Young World” and identify the most impactful Swiss young leaders of tomorrow • Bühler announced that it has offset the carbon footprint of the 2022 Networking Days event with two of its partners, Climeworks and Restor.

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The quality, efficiency & competitiveness of Chinese agriculture is set to improve significantly

by Professor Wu Wenbin, Henan university of technology, China

he 2022 China Agricultural Outlook Conference was recently held in Beijing. Ma Youxiang, vice minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, pointed out at the meeting that China's grain output has exceeded 1.3 trillion catties for seven consecutive years and its grain inventory remains abundant.

According to the Report on China's Agricultural Outlook (2022-2031) released at the conference, the effective supply of grain and other important agricultural products will be guaranteed, the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of China's agriculture will be significantly improved, basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute grain security will be fully ensured, and the self-sufficiency rate of grain will be raised to about 88 percent in the next decade.

A promising time ahead

Tang Ke, director of the Market and information Technology Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, pointed out at the release of the report that after analysis, on the supply and demand situation, in the next decade, benefit from agricultural policies will continue.

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to be upgraded and facilities will be strengthened.

About 1.2 billion mu of high-standard cropland will be built, and 280 million mu of existing high-standard cropland will be upgraded. The yield per unit area of corn and soybean increased by 18.3% and 34.1% respectively.

The agricultural production structure and regional distribution were significantly improved, the supply capacity of high-quality green agricultural products was significantly increased, and the output of high-quality japonica rice and special-purpose wheat with strong and weak gluten increased steadily.

According to the report, China's grain output will continue to increase gradually in the next decade. At the same time, food consumption pattern and consumption structure will continue to change.

Consumption of grain decreased, and consumption of meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables increased. In addition, with the support of the soybean oil production capacity improvement project and other policies support, by 2031, the sown area of soybeans will reach 20 million mu, and domestic soybeans can maintain basic self-sufficiency in edible soybeans.

Rice

In the next 10 years, the overall production of rice will maintain a stable situation, the sown area will decrease slightly, and the

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yield per unit area will gradually increase, and the yield of rice will be more than 210 million tons. With the continuous upgrading of food consumption, rice consumption has shown a steady and slightly downward trend, and the overall consumption will remain at about 210 million tons.

Ration consumption continued to decline, but accounted for more than 69% of rice consumption, feeding consumption will first decrease and then increase with the development of animal husbandry and feed cost price changes. The relationship between rice supply and demand is generally relaxed, and rice import is mainly to meet the demand of variety adjustment.

Wheat

In the next 10 years, the regional layout and quality structure of wheat production will continue to be optimized, the yield per unit area will continue to improve, and the yield will increase steadily.

With the gradual increase of corn yield, the ratio of wheat to corn prices will remain in a reasonable range, and the consumption of wheat feed will fall to the perennial level.

However, there is still a large space for the growth of industrial consumption, and the overall consumption of wheat will decrease

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In the next 10 years, the sown area of corn will decrease first and then increase; with the continuous optimisation of maize planting mode, the promotion and application of breeding technology and field management technology, the yield per unit area has been steadily improved, with an estimated annual growth rate of 1.7%.

Yield growth is mainly due to the contribution of yield per unit area, which is expected to reach 323.93 million tonnes in 2031, with an average annual growth rate of 2.0%. As corn feed consumption continued to grow but the growth rate slowed down and industrial consumer demand remained strong, corn consumption maintained rigid growth.

The relationship between corn supply and demand will gradually change from tight to basically balanced pattern, and the import volume will stabilise after decreasing, and it is estimated that the import volume will decrease to 7.57 million tons in 2031.

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Intelligent mills Helping existing flour mills to utilise & benefit from emerging innovations

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by Sid Jain, Henry Simon Milling, Australia

raditionally, flour mills were smaller in size and had a large number of millers and workers, making it easy to make adjustments and ensure the mill was running at optimum efficiency. Most mills are now operating at higher throughputs with fewer millers on site, resulting in a complicated system that must be adjusted to achieve optimal performance with only limited numbers of hands-on-deck.

Although every milling company strives for the highest extraction rate in their production, maintaining the mills in a balanced and efficient state for an extended period of time is tough to achieve. It is inevitable for us to step into this new era of milling with thousands of sensors and artificial intelligence.

Even with these advancements, nothing can replace the necessity for an experienced miller who knows his mill, its flow, and the machinery like the back of his hand.

New mills with enhanced technology that allows for immense transparency are continuously emerging, but how can older mills utilise and benefit from these new innovations?

What technologies can be applied in these factories to help millers get high extraction rates while minimising downtime?

An important part of a miller's job

One of the challenges faced by most mill operators and plant engineers occurs while conducting a mill survey, especially when the factory is of higher throughput. Such personnel can only make logical decisions and adjustments on the run if they have immense experience or are relying on accurate information made available in real time.

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content, ash curve, light index etc. for several flour streams.

Mill survey is an important part of a miller's job, and due to the complexity of the milling system, it demands an immense amount of labour to do correct sampling and detailed and reliable analysis of each sample. If any quality concerns are detected, changes must be made, then further sampling and testing is required to

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Additionally, it is a common experience that mill operators make changes in the plant for only one grist but do not undo the changes made. From that point on, a mill imbalance will occur gradually and unbeknownst to the operators until it causes a huge problem that cannot be traced without performing another complete mill survey or mill assessment at least to ensure all passages are working efficiently.

This results in higher operation costs. Thus, mill operators will be interested to know what can be added to the existing milling process to ensure optimum and balanced milling performance.

What is intelligent milling?

Once a miller sets up a mill to the desired performance, an intelligence system must be integrated to ensure that the mill continues to run at the same efficiency as originally set.

This is especially important in flour mills with limited staff (remote areas) where constant performance checks are not feasible. Intelligent milling is basically the utilisation of data generated from monitoring systems and sensors to ensure: 1. Quality, capacity, and efficiency of a flour mill is maintained in daily operations.

2. Any changes made to the system can be reviewed quickly.

3. Mill operators can foresee maintenance requirements.

4. Mill operators can foresee product degradation.

5. Millers are making decisions with quantifiable inputs.

the stock is weighed at the intake, cleaning, and tempering stages.

However, after 1st BK the weighing process takes place when flour is extracted in various flour streams.

Henry Simon’s HSIFM in-line flow meter allows for real time capacity analysis of any milling passage. Simplicity is at the centre of HSIFM's design, it was made with low power and air requirement and can be mounted along mill spouts within minutes and without requiring special installation work or disruptions.

The HSIFM's operation can be described in four simple steps.

First, the bottom valve remains open, allowing product to flow in the spout. At a set interval, the bottom gate closes, and product fills the chamber for three seconds. The weight is then measured, and the product is discharged.

This operation is repeated every three minutes along a spout being monitored Weight data obtained will be used to generate plots of the product flow rate and trends which can be analysed in

An intelligent milling system

In recent times, a range of equipment and services have been made available to allow older mills to replace or retrofit core equipment or additional specialised equipment that help provide transparency in the flour milling system.

Henry Simon has introduced three advanced core milling equipment, namely, Roller Mill, Quadro Plansifter and Purifier. These equipment have a range of sensors which continuously collect data and provide user information, maintenance data, screen information, operational information (radius of oscillation, rpm, for example) on their display or for export to the MCC. The intelligence system also enables and sends notifications when parameters are outside normal range or standards, enhancing product quality control.

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When installed at critical or all passages (Figure 3), a complete dashboard (Figure 4 and Figure 5) of the mill can be created, allowing for easy adjustment and manipulation of passages to achieve better results. The HSIFM is designed to convert any mill into a smart mill.

This data can then be exploited to make changes in the plant, such as analysing particle size distribution results in real time.

In addition, it aids millers to detect potential maintenance issues early including abrupt changes in flow rate – like in the event of blockages or overflow etc. (Figure 5) The HSIFM allows for continuous mill survey without any down time, amendments or re-routing of the product flow.

Another benefit which HSIFM offers is to monitor and ensure feed balances between passages, which is a necessity but not easily accomplished or maintained every day, such as providing even feed into purifiers or sifters.

Efficient, balanced & optimum

In summary, it is inevitable that traditional mills must incorporate some form of intelligence in their plants to compete with new automated mills. Therefore, the retrofit technology offered by the HSIFM allows older milling plants to adopt smart milling technologies with minor adjustments to their design.

The resulting milling system after incorporating the HSIFMs has the potential to provide an efficient, balanced, and optimum mill in operation at any given time with minimal downtime due to maintenance or breakdowns.

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Scotland the resourceful New report highlights the country’s strength in agri-tech, animal health & aquaculture

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recent research report has identified more than 200 companies, research centres and academic partners as key stakeholders in the animal health, agri-tech and aquaculture (AAA) sector in Scotland.

The sector is important to both the life sciences and technology sectors and underpins the country’s high performing food and drink industry.

The future AAA landscape was also explored, with multiple new centres, hubs and new trial facilities planned over the coming years, showing the vast expansion and investment in this area.

A fellowship was set up to increase the understanding of and identify strengths and opportunities for the AAA sector in Scotland. It was funded by the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI) in partnership with the Scottish Life Sciences Industry Leadership Group and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). HIE is the economic development agency for the North and West of Scotland.

SEFARI fellow Dr Jenna Bowen, from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), has created an inventory by mapping what currently exists in the sector across Scotland, and analysed a survey of key stakeholders.

The fellowship has provided a greater understanding of Scotland’s world leading core capabilities and international assets within animal health, agri-tech and aquaculture and amplifies the voice of this fast-growing sector which is at the heart of the green

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and circular economies.

Alongside the report, the inventory provides an overview of the vast breadth and expertise within the sector across academic institutes, companies, innovation centres, networks and consortiums, charities, government and development agencies, and business gateways and venture studios.

A large proportion of identified stakeholder are based around the central belt of Scotland and the Highlands.

The report also includes a list of trial facilities, both animal and crop, which exist across Scotland and contribute to Scotland’s world leading research within the AAA Sector. Crop science also featured strongly in the report and several research institutes contribute to the knowledge base.

World leading facilities

The James Hutton Institute combines research and expertise in crops, soils, land use and environmental research to help address global challenges including food security. It has a broad range of expertise and resources including genome technologies, functional genomics to elucidate the genomes of key and commercially relevant crops for livestock feeds (e.g., barley grain), and pathogens within the crop and livestock sector. The institute houses world leading facilities including research farms, glasshouses and growth facilities. Its Centre for Sustainable Cropping delivers sustainable management practices and improved crop varieties.

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Highlands and Islands. The Institute collaborates with growers, end-users and other research organisations and has a wideranging research portfolio.

It collaborates with the food and drink industry to develop higher value markets for locally grown cereals and create a wider range of distinctive food and drink products using Highlands and Islands ingredients. Current activities include major projects with three Scottish malt whisky distilleries and the identification and utilisation of early maturing varieties of barley, oats and wheat from northern Europe.

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consultancy in the land-based sector, and is the largest institution of its type in Europe. It operates dedicated facilities for crop trials and offers consulting services to over 12,000 customers, using expertise in veterinary services, livestock and crops, environment design, farm diversification and rural business management.

Attracting new start-ups & investment

The AAA sector is developing fast and new crop science developments are coming on stream across the country, for example the International Barley Hub and Advanced Plant Growth Centre (APGC).

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Funded through UK£62m/US$74.8m investment by the UK Government and Scottish Government (through Tay Cities Region Deal), they will attract new start-ups and investment.

The International Barley Hub will develop new varieties and growing systems to future proof the barley sector against climate change. The APGC will revolutionise crop productions including the use of indoor vertical farms ultimately reducing cop productions environmental impact.

APGC focuses on pre-and post-harvest technologies and solutions to support, develop and create plant and crop-based industries. This places the APGC at the centre of the emerging disruptive global technologies of total controlled environment agriculture including vertical farming.

The report also showcases the Scottish business base that forms the supply chain for the AAA sector, supporting production companies with new technologies and services.

For example, the Edinburgh based company Crover offers unique grain storage solutions to automate monitoring for optimal storage conditions. Another Edinburgh company, Celestia, specialises in terrestrial and space borne IoT devices including drone and unmanned aerial vehicles for crop spraying.

As mentioned above, the report is the output of a SEFARI Fellowship project aiming to increase the understanding of the AAA sector in Scotland and improve understanding of opportunities and challenges facing the sector.

Co-designed with key partners

SEFARI, the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes, is a consortium of six globally renowned

research institutes: Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, The James Hutton Institute, Moredun Research Institute, The Rowett Institute, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and Scotland’s Rural College.

As SEFARI, these institutes deliver the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme, which addresses key mid to longer-term challenges for Scotland’s environment, agriculture, land use, food and rural communities. SEFARI was launched by the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform on 29 March 2017.

SEFARI Gateway Fellowships are bespoke opportunities codesigned with key partners to deliver solutions to priority needs that also meet Scottish Government National Outcomes and aligned United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The report and inventory can be downloaded from the Life Sciences in Scotland website https://lcshome.directories.scot/

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Cost-effective Salmonella control in feed The development of preventative and corrective feed pathogen control strategies

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by Dr Enrique Montiel, DVM, MSc, PhD, DACPV Global Director of Nutrition and Live Production, & Jorge Trindade, DVM, MBA, Commercial Sales Director EMEA, Anitox, USA

eed ingredient processors and millers have a new cost-effective option for Salmonella control. Fortrol, from feed safety and productivity specialist Anitox, offers producers the flexibility and power to tackle Salmonella at source, reducing load and prevalence entering live production to improve livestock performance and food safety. “Feed is the most significant investment into animal production and it’s a proven fomite for pathogens,” explains Dr Enrique Montiel, Anitox Director of Nutrition and Live Production.

“It gathers raw materials from multiple sources at the feed mill and can then reach across the entire production operation in a very short time. That means feed is uniquely positioned to continuously introduce pathogens into the food production chain.

“Feed-source pathogens including Salmonella, Clostridia, E. coli and Campylobacter negatively impact animal performance and productivity, operation profitability and consumer food safety.

“But with feed costs at near record levels, our R&D team has been focused on finding ever more cost-effective solutions to the challenge. The result, Fortrol, in isolation or when used alongside our Finio feed sanitiser, enables ingredient processors and feed millers to tailor their Salmonella strategy to incoming risk.

“Increasingly we see producers prioritising feed in their biosecurity programs, and for good reason,” adds Dr Montiel. “Anitox tracks the microbial quality of feed and feed ingredients in its global database.

Over the past 10 years, our records show that 100% of wheat, 69% of soybean meal and 43% of fishmeal samples transiting through our laboratory were contaminated with Enterobacteriaceae.

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Those same ingredients were found to have Salmonella contamination rates of 30%, 5% and 34% respectively. Recent experiments using CRISPR – based protocols have demonstrated that not only is Salmonella prevalent in feed and feed ingredients but found that approximately 6% of samples from over 130 commercial mills yielded a positive result and harbored multiple serovars and diverse populations.”

A synergistic organic acid blend

Anitox’s latest feed pathogen control innovation, Fortrol® is a synergistic organic acid blend that is applied to feed and feed ingredients via the same best-in-class application technology as our feed sanitiser, Finio®.

“Fortrol effectively controls Salmonella in feed: Preliminary studies demonstrate a clearly effective dosedependent control of Salmonella when used at inclusion rates ranging from 2kg/MT to 8kg/MT, granting producers the flexibility to mitigate feed-source pathogens based on specific risk,” Anitox’s Commercial Director for EMEA and veterinarian, Jorge Trindade explains.

Fortrol is used in preventative and corrective feed pathogen control strategies, whether that be via application to feed and feed ingredients, use in mill flush programs to uphold facility hygiene or in combination with our feed sanitiser, Finio, to maintain a comprehensive, total feed pathogen control program.

Microbial loads in feed and feed ingredients vary and pathogen prevalence and risk change from batch to batch.

The producer’s ability to create and implement customisable feed pathogen control programs is achieved by the ability to easily switch between the use of Fortrol and Finio quickly should the need arise.

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“The addition of Fortrol to Anitox’s feed pathogen control portfolio gives feed and food producers a cost-effective, challenge-dependent, option for comprehensive Salmonella control and supports the production of clean feed. Producing and providing clean feed promotes performance and profitability. It’s supported by a team of expert engineers working with highperformance application technology,” Jorge Trindade continues.

“A large body of evidence exists supporting microbial contamination of animal feeds with Salmonella, Clostridia and E. coli. Feed containing high levels of Enterobacteriaceae are more likely to be contaminated with Salmonella. Feed and feed ingredients can sustain bacterial populations of up to one million cfu/g and more.

“Untreated pelleted and non-pelleted feed have been found to contain approximately a thousand cfu/g and 10,000 cfu/g, respectively, at loadout. Salmonella mapping has shown the prevalence in raw materials arriving at feed mills to be as high as 27%, decreasing to almost 6% during pelleting, but rebounding to over 12% by the time finished feed reaches loadout.

“We know that Salmonella persists in feed and feed ingredients, but also in production environments. Unless conditions are properly and consistently managed, feed contamination can worsen during storage and transport.

“That’s why we’re adding Fortrol to our product portfolio, to give producers value tools to respond appropriately to incoming Salmonella risk and to the challenge of resident colonies in some mills.”

If you are a producer seeking more information on how to take cost-effective action against feed-source pathogens with Fortrol, visit Anitox’s website.

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rain has been one of the most important food sources for thousands of years. It is grown and harvested with care. Unconsumed excess grains are stored in silos and when necessary, grain needs are met from these silos.

The temperature and humidity values of the grain in the silo must be kept under control in order to keep the grain intact for a long time in the silos and to protect it from insect and mould fungi that damage the grain.

In order to preserve the nutritional value of the grain and to keep the moisture value in the grain within the targeted value ranges, cooling is necessary. Thanks to the cooling process performed with TKS Grain Cooling Units designed and produced by TMS Industrial Cooling Industry and Trade Inc, the temperature and humidity in the silo are kept under control and grain; stored for a long time in fresh and healthy environments.

Brief review of today's situation

When analysed on a yearly basis throughout the world, it is seen that grain production is in an increasing trend. According to the latest data of the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2021, grain production increased by 0.7% compared to last year and reached 2.796 million tonne.

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Consumption and storage data also follow production data in a similar way. As seen in Figure-1, when FAO examines the latest data, it can be understood that approximately one third of the produced grain is stored. Considering that production and consumption follow each other in similar amounts, it becomes very important to keep the stored grain in suitable conditions without losing quantity and nutritional value.c On the other hand, the development of agricultural technologies has reduced the time between harvest and storage of grain from weeks to a few hours. In this case, the grain may need to be dried and cooled according to climatic conditions. Another issue is the cases where the grain is transported and stored again for long and even intercontinental transport under harsh conditions.

In this case, since the grain is exposed to conditions that are very different from the ideal storage conditions, the balance of nutrients and moisture may be disturbed.

Grain storage and aeration of silos

The life cycle of the grain, stored in the silo, continues. As the life cycle of grain continues, it produces heat and water vapour as a result of respiration. While this chemical reaction continues; on one hand, the nutritional value of the grain decreases, on the other hand, the temperature and humidity value in the silo increases.

This situation also triggers the increase of insect and mold fungus that has entered the silo with the grain. The temperature

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Considering that the insects in the silo breathe, they accelerate the increase in temperature and humidity.

Generally, growth of mold fungus increases above 70% relative humidity. All these adverse conditions trigger each other, causing an increase in temperature and relative humidity inside the silo. As a result, significant losses occur in stored grain.

Considering that the grain is a good insulator due to its very low heat transmission coefficient; released heat is kept inside the silo.

As a result, the constantly heated environment creates an ideal condition for harmful organisms to reproduce.

When the data based on observations and measurements are examined, temperatures above 21°C generally provide ideal conditions for the reproduction of harmful creatures. It has been understood that there is a significant decrease in the growth rate of insect and other pest populations at temperatures below 16°C (12°C wet bulb and 65% relative humidity).

Reducing the temperature inside the silo is an important factor in the long-term preservation of the grain in the silo, because it also slows down the life cycle of the grain.

The storage of the grain in the silo depends on many external factors such as ambient temperature, ambient relative humidity, exposure to sunlight, silo structure, as well as internal conditions.

The change in ambient conditions during the day affects the stored grain positively or negatively.

Different methods are used for long-term preservation of the grain, stored in the silo. The main methods can be listed as; the use of chemical preservatives, natural ventilation with the help of a fan, and the cooling. Fan assisted ventilation is also called “natural or passive cooling.” It is one of the most widely used method.

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Briefly, with this method, outdoor air is directed into the silo from the lower part of the silo with the help of a fan. The main purpose of the ventilation method can be summarised as: - Preserving the vitality of the grain, - Reducing the internal moisture content of the grain, - Slowing down insect growth, - Prevention of mould and fungus formation, - Reducing the use of chemical preservatives, For homogeneous air distribution inside the silo, and easy cleaning, when necessary, appropriate grid and duct systems should be constructed on the bottom of the silo. Although, directing the outdoor air into the silo with the help of a fan seems to be an effective method, for ventilating the stored grain, and improving the storage conditions, it is a process that needs to be well managed. According to the environmental conditions, this method has some difficulties and negative effects. The most important ones are listed below: - Ventilation times and conditions are directly dependent on environmental conditions. For this reason, fans can be operated for limited periods at appropriate ambient temperature and relative humidity values. Considering the recent climatic changes all over the world, these periods can be further restricted.

- Since the air rises upwards from places where the counter pressure is lower, temperature and humidity imbalances may occur inside the silo. The temperature variation within the silo is more constant as the silo diameter increases. However, if the

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F condensation and dripping from the silo roof to the grain. As a result of the wetting of the grain in the upper region due to the result of dripping, these areas become ideal environments for mould and insect reproduction. In order to prevent this situation, the use of additional exhaust fans on the roof reduces this risk.

Cooling of silos & maintaining a grain moisture equilibrium

In order to improve the difficulties and negativities encountered during the ventilation of the silos with the help of fans, the vapour compression cycle (VCC) method can be used for cooling. In this method, with the help of the compressor, the refrigerant is circulated between the heat exchangers in a closed cycle, transferring heat to the environment, and the air passed through the heat exchanger, which meets the desired conditions, is directed into the silo with the help of a fan.

The air taken from the outside is directed into the silo at the desired temperature and relative humidity. Thus, it is ensured that the stored grain is kept in ideal storage conditions for long periods of time. Environment air is conditioned, and directed into the bottom of the silo. The air moves upwards inside the silo and performs the cooling process inside the silo.

The heated air is exhausted back to the atmosphere through the vents on the roof of the silo. During the cooling of the air, the relative humidity value is also controlled.

The cooling capacity, performed using the vapour compression cycle method, can be calculated with the following equation: W = Δh x Q x ρw W : Cooling Capacity (kW) Δh : The enthalpy difference between the ambient temperature and the cooled air (kJ/kg) Q : Air flow rate directed into the silo (m3/hour) ρw: Density of outdoor air (kg/m3)

stored grain temperature is higher than ambient temperature, it takes much longer to cool the larger silos. For this reason, smaller diameter silos should be preferred in cold climates and larger diameter silos should be preferred in tropical climates.

- While the grain is being stored in the silo, a slope angle is formed in the upper region depending on the grain type. In this case, the air ascending from the bottom of the silo will not be able to pass sufficiently over the grain in the top region.

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The relative humidity ratio is as important as the temperature of the air directed into the silo. Therefore, it must be controlled. If the relative humidity ratio of the air, in the area where the grain is stored exceeds 70%, it can lead to mould growth, which also causes the temperature to increase due to mould respiration.

Grain is hygroscopic due to its ability to take in and give out moisture from the environment. Water is retained in the grain in three ways; absorbed water, adsorbed water and chemically bound water. The absorbed water is retained within the grain tissues by capillary forces.

It is associated with water-soluble components such as sugars, mineral salts, organic acids, and some vitamins that the grain contains. Absorbed water, consists of gas molecules of water trapped on the surface of porous particulate materials by electrostatic forces. Chemically bound water is present in association with grain components during the developmental growth and maturation of seeds.

Each grain type has a value in which the intra-grain moisture is in equilibrium against the different relative humidity ratios of the air. The curve obtained by plotting these values is called the equilibrium moisture content (EMC) curve. Equilibrium values varies depending on the type of grain, the ambient air temperature, and the relative humidity ratio. EMC represents the moisture content of the grain at which it will eventually stabilise, if weather conditions remain stable for a long period of time.

In this way, depending on the ambient conditions of the stored grain, the moisture values of the grain can be estimated or the moisture value of the grain can be controlled by changing the

F ambient conditions. For this process, psychometry diagram, on which moisture balance content (EMC) curves of different grains, can be used (Figure 2).

In addition, regarding the most consumed grains, tables showing the EMC, according to the ambient temperature and relative humidity ratio have been prepared. As an example, tables for wheat, and barley are given in Table-1a and Table-1b. The moisture balance value of the grain can be seen from these tables.

For instance, for wheat, it is read from Table 1a that the EMC is 14.5% in an environment at 15 °C and 65% relative humidity.

The moisture balance value shows the ratio of the moisture mass in the wheat to the total mass.

Temperature & humidity movement inside the silo

When air is passed over the grain inside the silo, 3 zones and fronts are formed in the silo. Figure 2 shows schematically the zones formed inside a silo, where the aeration process continues.

The temperature and relative humidity values in the lowest region are the same as the values of the air directed into the silo (Zone A). At the top region, temperature and relative humidity values are the same as the initial conditions (before the air is directed into the silo) (Zone C).

The region in between has a value between the values in the lowest and highest regions (Zone B). The movement of these zones moves in the same direction as the air flow. The fastest moving part of the region is called the leading edge and the slowest moving part is called the trailing edge. As long as the air is directed into the silo, after a certain period of time, the temperature and relative humidity values in the whole silo reach the air values directed into the silo.

Temperature and humidity fronts are formed in the area between Zone A and Zone C inside the silo. The reason for the formation of fronts inside the silo is that the temperature moves relatively faster than the relative humidity. Practically, the temperature advance rate is one thousandth of the air speed. (10-3). The relative humidity advance rate is 100 times slower than the temperature advance rate. [4] The variation of the equilibrium moisture content (EMC) for the stored grain in the silo depending on the weather conditions directed into the silo is explained through sample problems prepared by using the book named “The mechanics and physics of modern grain aeration management.”

Example 1:

Wheat is stored in the silo at a temperature of 35°C and containing 12% humidity. If the silo is started to be aerated with air, having 11°C (dry bulb temperature) and 90% relative humidity ratio, calculate the values of the 3 zones (A, B, C) that will form inside the silo?

The temperature and relative humidity values in the zone C, are equal to the initial conditions in which the wheat was stored.

Wheat in this region has a temperature of 35°C and a relative humidity of 12%.

Zone A has the same conditions with the air directed into the silo. When the condition of 11°C (dry bulb temperature) and 90% relative humidity is marked on the psychometric diagram in Figure-3 (A), it is read that the temperature of the wheat in this region is 11°C and the equilibrium humidity is 18%.

For 11°C (dry bulb temperature) and 90% relative humidity, the wet bulb temperature is read 10°C on the curve. This is also the saturation temperature of the air. In order to calculate the values of the grain in the B zone, the wet-bulb temperature curve in the diagram is matched with the grain moisture equilibrium curve.

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For a more detailed estimation, the rule that the grain internal moisture balance changes by 1% for every 28°C temperature difference is applied. By applying this rule, the humidity of zone B is approximately 0.70% ((35-15.5)/28=0.70) lower than zone C is calculated. In this case, the equilibrium moisture content of the grain for the zone B is 11.3% (12-0.7=11.3).

In the diagram, the dry bulb temperature is 16.7°C for 11.3% on the wet bulb curve. Thus, it is seen that the temperature of the wheat for the B region is 16.7 °C and the equilibrium humidity is 11.3%.

With lower airflow rates, the cooling zone between the leading and trailing edges becomes thinner. When air flow rates are higher, the cooling zone becomes wider or thicker due to the reduced contact time of each air particle with an individual grain core.

Since the moisture front closely follows a constant air enthalpy (parallel to the wet bulb temperature), wet bulb temperature is considered a more satisfactory criterion than dry bulb temperature for the control of grain aeration systems.

The cooling time of the grain, stored in the silo, to the desired

F temperature depends on many variables. However, a simple calculation method that can make an approximate time prediction was introduced by Navaro and Calderon: F= (M x ΔT x C) / (Q x ρw x CF x ΔH) F: Cooling time (h) M: Mass of stored grain (kg) ΔT: The temperature difference between the initial condition of the stored grain and the cooled grain (°C) C: Specific heat of stored grain (kcal/ (kg°C) Q: Air flow rate over the stored grain (m3/h) ρw: Average density of cooled air (kg/m3) CF: Correction factor for enthalpy (0.4 ~ 0.5) ΔH: Maximum enthalpy difference between the air entering and leaving the silo (kcal/kg) Using this method, an approximate cooling time can be calculated for the grain, stored inside the silo. If it is proceed through the example;

Example 2:

5000 tonnes of soybean (12% moisture) were stored in the silo. While the outdoor temperature of the silo is 45 °C (30% rH), 25,000 m3/h air is supplied to the silo with 20 °C and 65% relative humidity. How many days will the soybean reach to the desired conditions?

Enthalpy differences are calculated on the psychometric diagram. The average specific heat value for soybean is read as 0.34 from the graph in Figure-4. If all values are substituted in the formula;

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F = [5,106 x (45 – 25) x 0.34] / [25,000 x 1,225 x 0.5 x (20.5 – 10.5)] F = 222 hours F = 9.25 days As a result of the calculations, it takes approximately 10 days, for the soybean to reach the target temperature value.

Aeration san selection

The air directed into the silo is subjected to a high back pressure due to the stored grain. The back pressure value briefly changes depending on the type of grain, the height of the silo and the air velocity. The grain in the silo creates a porous environment due to

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F its structure and the air moves upwards in this environment.

For this reason, small grain products, such as oilseeds, create higher back pressure than large grain products, such as peanuts.

When the air velocity increases, the friction losses in the duct also increase, which causes an increase at the back pressure.

Increasing the height of the silo increases the counter pressure as it makes it difficult for the air to move in the vertical axis.

While choosing a fan, these factors should be decided.

Centrifugal fans are the most suitable choice, as they are exposed to high back pressure values. Based on the observations, it is recommended that the optimum condition is 3 ~ 6 m3/h per ton in the selection of air flow rate.

When the silo height exceeds 30 metres, this value can be taken as 2 ~ 3 m3/h per ton. High air velocity improves cooling times while increasing static pressure and electricity consumption. As a general rule; a two times increase in air flow causes a three times increase in back pressure and a four times increase in electricity consumption.

Providing heat transfer

Grains coolers that are operating with the vapour compression cycle (VCC) method, have been developed in order to cool the air taken from the outside to the desired conditions, and direct it into the silo. These air conditioners are systems that work with 100 percent outdoor air. In the vapour compression cycle, the refrigerant circulates in a closed cycle, providing heat transfer.

Simple VCC is consisted of the compressor, evaporator, condenser, and expansion valve. In this cooling device, there are additional components such as heating coil and electric heater.

The refrigerant in the superheated vapour phase compressed in the compressor is directed to the condenser, where it condenses

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into the liquid phase by dissipating heat to the external environment.

The refrigerant then comes to the expansion valve, depressurised and directed to the evaporator. While the refrigerant flows through the copper pipes in the evaporator, the air taken from the outside with the help of the fan passes between the aluminium fins, and heat transfer from the air to the refrigerant is provided. The refrigerant, which evaporates by taking heat in the evaporator, moves towards compressor.

As the temperature of the air passing over the evaporator decreases, the water holding capacity of the cooled air decreases, so some of the moisture in it is condensed and evacuated from the device. Although the absolute humidity in the cooled air decreased, the relative humidity value increased. Since the temperature of the air directed into the silo and the relative humidity are also important, the relative humidity must be controlled before the air leaves the device.

For this reason, after the evaporator, the air is directed to the heating coil and the electric heater, respectively. First of all, in the heating coil, where the refrigerant in the superheated vapour phase is directed, the air is heated and the relative humidity is reduced.

If this heating process is not sufficient, the air is heated a little more in the electric heater to reach the desired output air temperature and relative humidity.

In order to reach the targeted air temperature and relative humidity value in the device outlet air, the air is cooled below the targeted temperature in the evaporator and the excess water in the air is condensed. Afterwards, the air is heated to reach the target temperature and relative humidity.

The air flow is controlled in order to achieve the targeted air

F output values in the grain cooler. The fan flow rate is increased or decreased according to the air outlet temperature. During the noon hours when the temperature is high, the air flow may decrease at certain times, while it reaches the highest flow rates at night.

According to the cooling capacity, the use of one or two compressors in the grain cooler may be preferred. At coolers, having two compressors, energy saving is achieved by turning off a single compressor when necessary, depending on the outdoor conditions.

In order to achieve the targeted precise values, proportionally controlled valves, drivers and measuring instruments, that can be controlled via PLC are used.

Grain cooler can be easily adjusted by entering targeted temperature and additional heating for targeted relative humidity.

Although it varies slightly according to the relative humidity value of the outdoor environment, it can be said that as a practical rule, every 1°C temperature increase provides a five percent decrease in relative humidity. For a more precise calculation, the psychometric diagram can be used practically.

It is possible to operate only the fan of the grain cooler, without activating the compressor according to the outdoor conditions. In other words, the inside of the silo can be aerated with the help of a fan.

Again, in cases where the grain is stored in the silo at high humidity values, the grain cooler can dry up to a certain temperature value.

During this process, the air outlet temperature of the device is increased by directing the high temperature refrigerant to the evaporator.

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The importance of preserving the product

In today's conditions, as the need for food increases, the importance of preserving the produced products without loss has also increased. In this context, it has become a necessity to use the most effective methods to preserve the nutritional value of the grain, stored in the silos for a long time, to slow down or even stop the reproduction of harmful organisms inside the silo.

The most commonly used method of aerating the silos with the help of fans includes the disadvantages mentioned in the previous sections. The most optimum solution to improve these negativities is the grain cooler. Thanks to these devices, uninterrupted cooling can be provided regardless of external environmental conditions.

After the grain cooler is connected to a silo, it can be operated for 24 hours according to the calculated period, ensuring that the grain in the silo reaches the desired temperature and relative humidity value. Since the grain is a good insulator, the grain can be stored for a long time under these conditions. Afterwards, the grain cooler can be connected to a different silo and the same process can be repeated.

When necessary, these devices can be operated in only fan mode, which has the same function with the aeration fans.

Additional chemical preservatives are not needed as the insect and mould formation inside the silo is slowed down or even stopped by cooling.

As a conclusion, if the proper selection is done according to the size of the silo, the type of the stored grain, and the targeted cooling times, grain coolers are the most suitable solution that improves the storage conditions.

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

Ancient or modern wheat?

A grain of wheat is characterized by a very complex structure, with different wrappings and membranes and moreover with variable characteristics from harvest to harvest, determined by the soil and the climate.

Making the nutrients contained in the grain accessible was a human requirement since the discovery of wheat; it was therefore necessary to work it, starting with the milling.

A real art milling and that of the miller a very special job, which contains a series of vast skills.

The miller must be a botanist, because he must know and distinguish the raw material, the cereals he grinds; the miller must be a chemist and biologist, because he needs to analyze the materials he uses and the products he creates; the miller must mean mechanics and hydraulics, to run the machinery.

All this makes the miller a craftsman and entrepreneur at the same time.

The first grinding techniques, from prehistoric times to the Roman age, are limited to shredding the cereal, crushing it between two smooth stones that are made to rotate only by the muscular strength of people or animals.

From the simple grinding we reach the milling, that is the technique to optimize the grinding process in order to obtain excellent quality flours, different in relation to their final use.

This result is attributable to the experience of the miller alone, who once controlled the results by relying on sight and touch.

Nowadays, in addition to manual rituals, we rely on laboratory results, where very sophisticated equipment is used to detect the physical characteristics of the products obtained.

The manual ritual, a gesture of attention and care, which recalls the caress of a mother to the son, as if the touch should affect the

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personality of the flour produced, saw a time, and still sees, the miller dip his hand under the incipient flow of the grind on exit, to feel the flour and act accordingly, educating the mechanism of regulating the millstones. The particular care of a time, to which the miller had to devote himself, are similar to today, obviously revised by virtue of technicalities and technologies now used.

Here is the repetition of the regulation of the distance between the two millstones, to obtain a flour of the desired fineness without burning it, periodically replenish the grooves of the millstones to revive and re-sharpen the edges, keep the hydraulic works clean by removing the infesting vegetation and removing the debris carried by the water: ancient gestures of the past, renewed even today.

Stone grinding is the statement that is increasingly read on the labels of flour bags, highlighting the old (or ancient) techniques and bringing back to us the memory of an old mill. Great confusion created by emotional language. At this juncture, the vocabulary of the Italian language comes to my aid: the old adjective indicates that the thing is dated, obsolete, outdated and often unusable, while the old adjective gives a value to things, value due to the culture and experience that they contain and transmit.

Old (or ancient?) mills with stone grinders are often obsolete and unusable, especially when referring to the current health and safety provisions at work, or to expectations of qualitative performance.

Chameleon information is generated, inaccurate and often misleading, often in the form of rules (which does not mean truth) in many cases generating orthoressia.

... the art,

In the era of communication that leads to act and not to UNDERSTAND, in the era of communication that leads to obedience and not to INTERPRETATION, you must leave out the bucolic imagery of television commercials and rely on the art of discernment, to develop a critical vision and filter everything that comes to our ears.

To make good flour the essential components are the quality of the cereal and the technology applied to processing, not limited to the milling technique, but extended to the preparation.

Essential, in fact, an important cleaning of the cereal itself, in order to avoid putting on the table a product contaminated by external elements and mycotoxins (secondary metabolites produced by plant fungi or molding agents of food) which, if ingested, may be responsible for the possible onset of acute or chronic diseases.

the universal language, the algorithm that, involving all the senses, is able to transmit messages and emotions.

Art, the light of the interior, the sound of the human soul, the tactile sensation of feelings, the aesthetic taste.

But not only... the expression of trades, of traditions, the safe of the human patrimony where opinions and thoughts

Ancient or modern wheat?

The information that repeatedly comes to us is inaccurate and often misleading. Different are the peculiarities of one and the other. The differences between the two grains, ancient and modern, are little consistent on the practical side, but decidedly important on the commercial side, in a media context.

However, ancient grains are richer in micro ingredients, such as iron and zinc, although futile in a diet already rich in such elements.

Ancient grains have characteristics that can be enhanced on the basis of different aspects, including agronomic, transformation

are the jewels of …

and genetic improvement: it is important to know that ancient grains do not have miraculous qualities.

Ancient wheat is ancient wheat and nothing else.

Modern wheat is modern wheat and nothing else.

The stone mill is the stone mill and nothing else.

The working technique is the ancient one.

The stone mill, or simply grinds, or millstone mill are synonymous. Its specificity is that of grinding the grain in its

Hands

The manual ritual, a gesture of attention, of care, which recalls the caress of a mother to her child ...

The solo of an instrument and then the symphony of an asceticism to untold sensations. The magic of transmitting what is unspeakable.

Finally the joy ...: “The love that moves the Sun and the other Stars”.

Filippo Manfroni

The hands have always been vehicles of deep meanings, bearers of a vocabulary of gestures and able to take on very strong symbolic and spiritual contents. A means of connection between man and the surrounding world, the touch communicates, but it is also capable of dividing or even creating deep wounds. But wounds that at the same time can heal and heal. And it is just a sort of salvation that these hands seem to offer to the eye, through that light and sweet touch that turns into a request for welcome and support, and that is charged with an intense psychological value. A touching that becomes a new birth, a meeting. A simple gesture, almost primordial and that might seem banal in its simplicity, but is totally renewed and very powerful in its impact, thanks also to a fine attention to detail and the game of contrasts between the dark background and the complexion of the hands.

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A large boat, built on divine indication to escape the flood and preserve the species.

Thought is based on religion and in relation to it reality is thought of as the set of effects of a divine cause. totally ignoring the tangible causes of physical, chemical and biological origin.

This mystical basis of archaic thought leads to total participation in surrounding beings, impermeable to individual experience, ignoring the principles of identity, of contradiction and causality.

You lose the precise idea of individuality, because you feel part of the group in which you live, you are not able to make a clear distinction between the possible and the impossible attributing every manifestation to a general magical cause.

Flying Ship Carlo Ravaioli

The subject of the flying ship that appears in some paintings

by Carlo Ravaioli is a theme dear to the artist and that finds some of its roots in science fiction stories: rudimentary spaceships, led by brave men, who sail the skies to discover new worlds. is the search for freedom to animate the sails of this fantastic vessel that transports to distant places an entire city. But the soul of these men, of this community that inhabits the sailing ship city, is not led by the feeling of fear, theirs is not to be read as an escape, an abandonment of their homeland, but a search.

It is the desire for freedom and the nomadic soul, always in search of a new place, that pushes to seek an answer to a call to which it is not possible to remain indifferent.

In this painting we find that meticulous attention to detail that distinguishes the works of Ravaioli and a technical skill in the use of oil mixed with acrylic able to make and highlight the most subtle shades.

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entirety, preserving its taste and the myriad of elements that it contains, in the quantities and qualities that nature alone (organic grains) or that nature controlled by man (modern grains) has delivered us. The choice to grind the ancient or the modern does not imply an inevitable pairing with the millstone or with cylinders (rollers).

The roller mill is a roller mill and nothing else.

It is a different technique from the stone one and its characteristic is that to undress the grain from its envelope (bran), separating it from the germ, and to proceed separately to the grinding in order to obtain products (always natural) that then, alone, or mixed in the desired proportions, can be used to obtain specific products.

We talk about the number of revolutions of the grinding element, stone grinds in one case, rollers, in the other: if the figure is overestimated, resulting in an increase in temperature, and are exceeded 42 degrees Celsius, there may be an undesirable overheating of the flour, undesirable condition of damage.

The temperature reflects the movement of molecular particles during grinding, closely related to kinetic energy.

It is spontaneous to deduce that the peripheral speed, the scoring, the distance between the grinding bodies are heat generating and therefore, of course, to be sized with great care.

With stone mills the expectation is the result of a pure whole flour, where bran and germ are present without being too chopped, without being heated (preserving the nutritional values) and without the color being changed. The resulting products are of high quality and richness, thanks to the higher concentration of nutrients, such as vitamins, proteins, magnesium, calcium, mineral salts, fiber, essential oils and enzymes.

The applied technique is always the same as in the past: the wheat is conveyed to the center of the two wheels and from here, passing through them, is milled.

The constant feeding of the grain to the grinding wheels, the perfect scoring of the grinding wheels themselves, their shape, their diameter and last but not least, the distance between one and the other, are the parameters that will ensure the success of grinding.

Little by little, the stone millstones have regained dignity and there are still ample possibilities of use today, both for organic, special or niche flours. With cylindrical mills the expectations, being the process aimed at the separate milling of the 3 products belonging to the grain (bran, germ and flour or semolina for durum wheat), the milling parameters are variable according to the desired final product.

Also in this application, the peripheral speed and the scoring of the grinding rollers, in addition to the grinding length, are the guidelines to optimize the final product, with the help of the screening sieves, key for the particle size and densimetric separation of the 3 mentioned elements, bran, flour and germ.

The truth is that the modern version of the old mills, is spreading today ennobled with the latest mechatronic technologies, to ensure the perfect control of grinding parameters and ensuring high expectations. ... the principle of non-contradiction.

(Plato)

It is impossible that the same attribute, at the same time, belongs and does not belong to the same object and under the same regard.

Aristotle

Popular Expressions

Myths change but traditions remain; men continue to do what their fathers did before them, even though the reason that the fathers acted in this way is long forgotten.

James George Frazer It could be said that the whole past deserves to be deepened because every step has led us to the present day, giving us the keys to understanding the facets of our present world.

During the journey, guests of prehistory, when the human being was part of nature and the value of his life was equal to the value of wild wheat or primitive animal, for the first man there was no border between the human species and that animal or plant.

The deep-rooted and ancestral feeling, which can be traced back to the ancestors, has always conditioned human action in its relations with the other, in epochs during which man was not yet at the center of the universe.

In almost all primitive societies the popular imagination, astonished by the inanimate, was satisfied with recognizing and lending faith to supernatural entities, and in particular to the grain spirit.

The ear, until the harvest, was the home, the custody from which that spirit was then to flee when the sickles arrived, transfigured and subsequently incarnated in the reaper or in an animal, came out frightened by his last hiding place. "(...) as the grain falls under the scythe the animal runs away (...) he who cuts the last grain (...) takes the name of the animal".

(James George Frazer, The Golden Branch) A ritual of the peasant people, a custom that remained so until the mechanization of agriculture.

Mythology itself, permeating every aspect and manifestation of real life, manifested all the interspecific violence of nature.

The rituals connected with the spirit of the wheat and the other zoomorphic divinities of the vegetation, customs of clear pagan derivation, justified as, incarnating the divinity, the man and the

animal were in parity, ignoring the speciesism of the civilized man.

The spirit of wheat leads back to Osiris, king of ancient Egypt and rural deity, member of the Ennead, the group of nine Egyptian deities venerated in Heliopolis.

Egyptian mythology tells of his killing and the custom of human sacrifices by spreading the limbs on the fields, to fertilize them and thus favor the incarnation of the spirit of the wheat. "(...) the god of wheat gave birth to the ears of his body, offered his body to nourish the people, died so that his people could live".

(James George Frazer, The Golden Branch) For agricultural populations, where the custom of deicide was still well rooted, the sacramental meal was also configured as a mystical meal and with killing the victim it was intended to offer a sacrifice to a deity, to kill preserving them from the ugliness of old age and last but not least, to kill the same divinity to assume its extraordinary powers.

To kill seems to be, for primitive man, a necessity, not so much for a matter of food as for a religious obligation, inserting himself in a panic dimension of nature where man has not yet proclaimed himself the center of creation, but on the contrary it is placed on the same level as plants and animals.

The Athenian sacrifice bouphonia provided that barley, wheat and cereal buns were placed on the altar of Zeus Polieus and then fed to two oxen, identifying the first ox that would eat the offerings the incarnation of wheat, and then sacrifice him as chosen as divine.

Then, with his skin sewn and filled with straw, was fashioned a simulacrum to be yoked to a plow.

The salient feature of the ceremonials and rites is the ferocity, propitiatory to increase harvests, scarecrow of famine and reparatory to appease the spirits and gods.

Popular expressions represent the oral tradition, that is, unwritten, which archaeologist Thomas called folklore.”

Happy is he, among the living men of the earth, who has seen these things! Those who have not been initiated into the sacred mysteries, those who have not had this fate, will never have the same fate, when they are dead, in the damp, rotting darkness beyond.”

(Homer, Hymn to Demeter)

Strangeness, dominance and control.

The strange attitude we have with our bodies.

A split relationship: the flow of life, in the physical plane in which we live, made of sensations, emotions, enjoyments and sufferings conveyed by the flesh, and then the body as a casing, a perfect organism, an equally perfect performer.

Time, Courage and Justice Davide Conti

The balance, symbol of justice and balance, from the astral point of view represents the mediation between physical decline and spiritual growth, between the incarnate being and the essence. While the lion symbolizes the maximum power of the energies, the determination to realize one’s own aspirations and the splendour of one’s own being and the courage of incarnating it. And precisely the balance between choices, acting with courage and the time that passes seems to investigate this image. The female figure in the center, the physical and symbolic cornerstone of this work, holds a balance, on whose plate there is a branch of a tree, while the lion forcefully seizes a leg. The woman looks without fear at the animal perhaps conscious of its ability to overcome and tame it, as well as totally impassive weighs that branch, that life. And that balance of forces that the image recounts is associated with that ability to manage light and shadow and the ability to investigate the body typical of the research of Davide Conti and that also in this case contribute to emphasize the content of the image.

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Markets still raw with supply risk

by John Buckley

‘The market will take care of this” - wise words in the past month from Joe Glauber, former chief economist with the US Department of Agriculture, now senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington.

Amidst all of the concern about global food shortages and rocketing costs, Mr Glauber’s address to a USDA webinar did not see agricultural markets as ‘broken,’ rather eventually encouraging enough output to rebuild supplies and restore calm. With plenty of incentive from high prices farmers will respond around the world – though, as Glauber noted, a key problem is timing.

Two thirds of the wheat supply currently available to the world market was sown last autumn - before recent Ukrainian, Indian, US and European supply issues came to the fore. So, the big sowing response cannot come before latter 2022 and actual harvests not till mid-2023. This is why forward grain futures show little significant price moderation until July 2024 (maybe a little pessimistic?) It seems a long way off for milling and feed consumers facing rocketing input costs right now amid the backdrop of declining global stocks.

Glauber compared things to the marketing years 2007-08 & 2010-11 when inventories were similarly tight & any bit of new information could be sending markets ‘screaming higher or lower.’ Still, in the end, “balance will be restored…the market will take care of this.”

Two million tonnes is better than nothing For the time being, though, with market input still dominated by the events in Ukraine, volatility remains the name of the game. In the past month, for example, President Putin raised hopes that some of the millions of tonnes of Ukraine’s blocked grain exports would be allowed to leave Black Sea ports unhindered by a Russian naval blockade.

CBOT and Paris futures prices plunged briefly, the US market to its lowest in a month, almost 20% cheaper than its mid-May peak. It didn’t last long. Even before renewed missile strikes on Kyiv questioned Russia’s sincerity, its representatives were maintaining its cooperation was tied to the (unlikely) lifting of western sanctions; Russian claims it was Ukraine’s responsibility, having put mines around its remaining ports, to remove them, did not inspire confidence that things could get moving again quickly.

Neither did analysts’ comments that this could take months and – in any event - Ukraine port loading facilities had been heavily damaged by Russian missiles. Even if Ukraine could get them out, there was the still punitive cost of maritime freight insurance for Black Sea grain cargoes.

Ukraine’s hope to still export 2m tonnes of grain a month (rather than the usual 6m) is better than nothing but all these obstacles, along with reminders that it expects far smaller 2022 cereal crops, quickly prompted a rebound in US and European wheat prices – albeit not quite back to their record spring highs.

Russia’s influence remains complex to say the least. President Putin and other domestic sources recently estimated a record wheat crop was on the way with potential exports of 42m (versus the USDA June forecast of 40m tonnes and this season’s expected 33m). Russia also stands accused still of stealing Ukrainian wheat and selling it on the cheap to cash strapped importers in return for their political support. Meanwhile its monthly exports have been falling within a dwindling quota (if staying above last year’s).

It should also be remembered that, before the invasion halted its sea trade, Ukraine had been shipping more wheat and maize than last year from record 2021 crops. However, if its 2022 harvests drop by as much as 40% as some predict, there will clearly be a large gap for others to try to fill on the global export market for wheat and maize.

Another key player in the past month has been India, which, instead of replacing Ukrainian losses, halted its exports after a dry heat-wave reduced its expected record wheat harvest.

It now seems the message is sinking in with the Indian government that it will be easier/more economical to go ahead and export more of the wheat blocked in its ports by this embargo than to transport it back to the domestic market (let

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alone let it rot uncovered in the approaching monsoon season).

Amongst the other wheat exporters, the US has so far failed to capitalise on the global wheat ‘shortage.’ Apart from growing smaller crops and reducing its stocks in recent years, the strong dollar on top of dearer trans-Atlantic freight costs has kept it supplier of last resort for all but its most loyal customers.

Its smaller, usually higher-quality spring wheat crop has been late planting but not so much as to rule out a reasonable harvest. Neighbouring Canada has suffered weather issues for its mainly spring-sown crop – some areas too dry, others too wet - but again, can yet come right if recently improved conditions persist. It has been a little surprising that Canada and Australia, among the few major exporters able to plant more now, have reacted in a fairly restrained way to the US$10/11/bushel wheat market and intense media coverage of ‘global food shortages.’

Canadian exports have had to fall this season after a weaker 2021 crop but could jump back if this year’s yields recover to more normal levels. Australia meanwhile says it can export 26 million tonnes next season which, for the third year running would be far more than usual. (50% more than its five-yearaverage).

The other big Southern Hemisphere supplier Argentina has meanwhile seen dry weather trim its planting and production forecasts. Finally, Europe seems to be heading for a normal wheat crop, especially if major producer France continues

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to benefit from rain after struggling with hot dry weather earlier.

Recent wheat news…

- Russian consultant IKAR in June forecast an 87m tonne 2022 crop – 12m more than last year.

- The Paris milling wheat futures market hit all-time record highs in May. - The EU has not seen an expected surge in exports in response to Ukraine’s shortfall, officials blaming the unexpected strength of Russian competition.

- The US winter wheat crop remains in a poor state, the ‘good/ excellent’ proportion dropped to just 27% at one stage versus 48% this time last year (which was hardly a banner one).

- Even if its 2022 crop has fallen under forecast, India has been carrying forward massive stocks which may contribute more to exports than the markets expect.

- A US attaché report saw a possible Australian crop decline of 20% as yields retreated from above normal levels from its last two record harvests. But crop is still seen far larger than the average of seasons prior to 2020/21.

- Argentina’s Rosario Grain Exchange forecast its next crop falling 2m from last year’s record 21m tonnes.

- World stocks of wheat carried into 2022/23 look comfortable in paper around 280m tonnes according to the USDA. But half is ‘off-market’ in China, under government control and probably of questionable milling quality. A 12.5 million tonne global stock decline forecast by the USDA for 2022/23 may continue to interest bullish outside investors in wheat futures.

- A decade or so ago, the US was the world’s largest wheat exporter, accounting for almost a fifth of trade. Since Russia took that place and other rivals like Ukraine, Europe, Australia, Argentina - and now India - upped their game, the US share plummeted and will probably not much exceed 10% for the current season.

- Canadian officials initially forecast 2022/23 planted area plus 7% at 25.03m acres but USDA later saw a smaller 4.9% gain.

- USDA’s June supply/demand update only trimmed the India crop by 2.5m to 106m tonnes – still one of its largest ever; Its 2022/23 exports also drop 2m to 6m tonnes, partly offset by 1m tonnes added to Russian exports. The USA’s 2022 crop estimate went up slightly to 47.3m tonnes, 2.5m more than last year and the first increase for some years.

Maize hopes pinned on US & LatAm crops CBOT maize futures hit new multi-year highs in early May as traders fretted about rain delays to US planting on this year’s estimated 4.4% smaller area (some analysts think that’s at least 1m acres too low). Later in the period things have dried out and warmed up enough for planting to catch up, so USDA has made no further changes yet to its initial 367m tonne 2022 crop forecast (versus last year’s 383.9m).

As we go to press a hotter, drier forecast is being closely watched as an upside risk factor. However, at this stage, with US consumption 5m tonnes lower at 309m tonnes and exports unchanged at 62m, USDA thinks carryout stocks will only tighten by around 2m tonnes. That looks manageable, albeit

supporting a projected higher average seasonal farm price of US$6.75/bu (last season US$6.95 and previous year US$4.53).

USDA has raised its Ukrainian crop forecast by 5.5m tonnes to 25m. That’s more or less into line with recent private forecasts of up to 26m but far below last year’s record 42m. With the Russian blockages, however, the export forecast remains at a multi-year low of 9m tonnes compared with the previous four year range of 30.3/23m tonnes).

That should be offset considerably by growing supplies from Brazil, expected in 2022/23 to add another 10m tonnes to this season’s already record 116m tonne crop (versus 87m in 2020/21 and just over 100m in the previous couple of seasons).

That’s expected to enable Brazil to raise its exports by 12.5m to a new record 46.5m tonnes. Argentina is also expected to raise output for 2022/23 by 2m ton 55m tonnes.

Also helping to take some of the strain off maize supplies, import demand next season is expected to show an unusual 6m tonne decline in the face of high prices. World corn consumption is seen down too – by over 12m tonnes – led by a near 7m tonne decline in the US. As a result, global stocks are not expected to tighten from this season’s expected closing level of around 311m tonnes (previous season 293m).

Here in Europe, the crop is seen about 2.25m tonnes below last year’s bumper 70.5m tonnes after rain reduced the yield threat from a long, hot spell in key producer France. EU corn consumption is seen relatively stable near the past season’s higher level, requiring imports of some 16m tonnes.

Given the logistical issues within top supplier Ukraine, it’s likely importers here will have to source further afield, hopefully

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being able to take advantage of the larger Latin American crops.

- Helping to restrain US prices, its export sales have been depleted this season by falling trade to China, offset only partially by more going to Mexico. Going forward, both the USDA and Chinese officials see imports down next season – the former by as much as 5m tonnes.

- Maize is still trading at twice its long-term average price and is still being underpinned to some extent by the expended premium now commanded for wheat. 10-years ago, maize prices in Chicago topped out in the US$8.30’s per bushel, a level neared in early May this year.

Soya at decade highs The 2021/22 season that draws to a close at the end of August, has long been characterised as a year of shrinking soya stocks.

Although the US had a respectable 121m tonne crop last year, South American production was a disappointment, especially Brazil’s harvest, now assessed around 126m tonnes versus 144m initially.

Globally, soybean stocks are expected to finish 2021/22 season at a multi-year low of 86m tonnes versus 100m last season and as much as 114m just two years before that.

While 2022/23 season is promising better supply, markets continue to respond to the tighter old-crop supply situation, CBOT futures this month reaching a new ten-year peak of over US$17.80/bushel. Prior to last season, over several years, the price had spent more time under than over US$10/bushel.

The forward situation continues to promise looser supply.

The USDA’s early appraisals suggest top producer Brazil can expand its output from last year’s 126m to 149m tonnes, the US from 121m to over 126m and Argentina from 43.4m to 51m tonnes.

For the Latin producers, the forecasts are somewhat speculative, depending on unknown weather for crops that will not be planted until October at the earliest. The markets remember that last year, the auspices were initially promising – then the La Nina weather phenomenon edged in with droughts and heatwaves. There is also the question of fertiliser availability and cost, although soya requires far less than corn, its main competitor for farmland.

This factor may actually boost the US planted area and the crop beyond the USDA forecast. Despite some rainy interruptions, it has been sown more or less on time and, provided a forecast hot dry spell this month doesn’t last too long, may benefit from, so far, mostly favourable weather.

Even if global soybean crush increases as much as USDA expects (around 3.7% or about 12m tonnes), global stocks could be rebuilt to some extent in the season ahead (current forecast over 100m tonnes. Despite that, the forward price picture still looks fairly firm. USDA predicts average US crusher costs of beans of US$14.70/bushel against last year’s US$13.35 but meal is expected average a bit cheaper than in 2021/22 at US$400 versus US$425/ton.

The price outlook, as always, also depends on demand – where there are some uncertainties. In top consumer China, covid lockdowns could affect meat consumption that has only recently been recovering from herd cutbacks caused by African Swine Fever.

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China uses 70m tonnes of soya meal a year, twice as much as the next largest consumer, the USA. The US has already seen its sales to China shrink considerably from the briefly-inflated levels of the Trump era trade pacts.

Other oilmeals While soya provides 70% of global meal consumption (and more like 58% in Europe), next biggest component rapeseed meal also provides an important role (12% globally, 25% in Europe).

While costs of rape meal have had to rocket alongside soya, its supply has been less affected than the grains by events in key producing country Ukraine.

That is mainly because its 2021 crop had been quite rapidly marketed while its 2022 one was, as usual, mainly winter sown.

The current forecast for that is around 3.2m tonnes- slightly larger than last year’s although how it gets marketed, and who claims ownership under occupied areas is clearly subject to some uncertainty. Russia itself is expected to produce something similar to last year’s 2.8m tonnes.

USDA’s initial predictions for global rapeseed supply look encouraging – projecting 80.8m tonnes versus last year’s 71.4m and 200’s 73.6m tonnes. The main increase is expected in Canada, despite an expected small decline in planted area, as yields (assuming more normal conditions) bounce back from last year’s weak 1.4 tonnes/hectare by some 66%, delivering a crop of 20m tonnes (12.6m).

Slightly larger sowings and normal yields are also expected to boost EU supply by about 1m to 18.25m tonnes. Australia, an increasingly important source has seen its 2021/22 crop uprated to a new record 6.35m tonnes and, even if the stellar yields that delivered this are not quite repeated, should still deliver a much larger than usual 5.4m tonne crop.

Rapeseed prices are still unusually high – blame soya and last year’s Canadian crop shortfall. However, they are at least off the record peaks reached in April, especially in Europe, where the Paris futures benchmark has declined by almost 30% from those levels. Weather issues to watch include less than ideal conditions for sowing the Canadian crop, which still faces some risk from dry weather/moisture reserves after last year’s devastating drought.

Canadian officials recently cut their own crop forecast from 20.2m to 17.95m tonnes, reducing both total crush and export potential by a similar amount. Canadian stocks are also unusually low despite exports almost halving to their lowest since 2008.

Some analysts put the starting stock for 2022/23 at just 400,000 tonnes versus the 3.5/1.7m tonne range of the previous two years.

The French crop was stressed earlier this year by drought and heat but is not yet being written off.

Overall, global oilmeal production is expected to increase by 12.4m tonnes or about 3.5% with gains in soya, rape and cottonseed meal only partly offset by lower sunflower meal production (mainly the result of an expected 46% drop in Ukraine’s production of this spring-planted oilseed).

Global meal consumption – growth of which slowed almost to a standstill this season – is expected to increase in 2022/23 by about 3% but could expand more if prices – led by soya make a bigger retreat from this year’s record highs.

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Bühler Bühler and IMDHER join forces in Mexico

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Swiss Bühler Group announces the creation of a joint venture with IMDHER SA de CV, a leading player in the animal nutrition market in Mexico, that will drive process efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the feed industry.

nimal protein remains an important part of human nutrition and global meat consumption is rising. It is therefore essential to ensure that the animal protein value chain is as efficient and sustainable as possible.

Bühler is committed to reducing the environmental impact of all its customers' operations.

The new company, called IMDHER Bühler, will offer Bühler's core machines as well as IMDHER's expertise to IMDHER's customers, providing solutions that will help them to improve the capacity and efficiency of their operations. IMDHER brings four decades of experience building plants to produce animal feed, including pet food and aqua.

The family-owned business is a turnkey supplier to the Mexican feed market, with 20 percent market share. Bühler is buying a minority stake of 49 percent in the joint venture. The new company, IMDHER Bühler, will be managed by IMDHER General Manager, Luis Díaz.

Despite recent trends in western societies towards plant-based alternatives, meat consumption globally is rising, largely driven by increasing wealth and growing middle classes. Bühler is committed to ensuring this growth is achieved in a sustainable way, with the joint venture being an important step toward that goal.

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Expertise in sustainable growth

“We believe that the growth in meat consumption can be achieved while reducing environmental impact. By using the latest and most efficient technologies to reduce waste and energy consumption and to contribute to animal welfare, we provide our support toward meeting the nutritional needs of millions of people in a more sustainable way,” says Johannes Wick, CEO of Bühler's Grains & Food business.

“With IMDHER, we have a perfect partner to serve the important and growing Mexican market with more efficient solutions and optimise an extensive installed technology base.”

IMDHER is one of the best recognised players in the Mexican animal feed market, specialised in the integral design, manufacture, assembly, construction, and start-up of turnkey plants for the production of nutritious feed for animal consumption for various species.

The company has built over 100 feed plants in Mexico and has the experience and capacity to carry out works of high complexity while customizing to the specific needs of its customers.

Bühler offers process solutions and services to transform a wide range of feed ingredients to safe, healthy, and nutritious animal feeds at the highest yields with animal welfare and feed conversion rate in mind. It brings the technology for efficient and hygienic animal feed processing installations, as well as over 150 years of sound processing expertise, which also allow retrofits and improvements on the installed base.

Industry Profile 'The joint venture with Bühler represents an opportunity for us to add Bühler's technology and solutions to our existing assets and therefore to expand the offering to our customers in Mexico's vibrant and expanding market,' says IMDHER General Manager, Luis Díaz.

Bühler's expertise in feed solutions will help IMDHER's customers produce top quality feed while making more economical use of their raw materials and energy, Left to right: Olivia Enriquez (Director General, Bühler Mexico), Johannes Wick thus improving the CO2 footprint (CEO Grains & Food, Bühler) and Luis Díaz (General Manager, IMDHER). of operations. This is in line with Bühler's target to have solutions ready to multiply that reduce energy, waste, and water in customers' Bühler has been present in Mexico since 1959. Today it has a local value chains in all the markets it addresses by 50 percent by 2025. and dedicated team of 115 employees providing services to customers across the region, as well as Cuba and Central America. Mexico is the sixth biggest producer of animal feed in the world, and is particularly A proven partnership strong in broiler and layer chickens, pigs, and dairy. In addition, the “The participation has come about as a result of our talks with pet and aqua feed markets are currently growing fast.

IMDHER over several years. Our first joint projects are already under “With this equity stake, we will be able to combine IMDHER's and way and working well. We will not only install Bühler core machines Bühler's expertise to provide the dynamic animal nutrition market in but also enable IMDHER's existing installed base to be connected Mexico with solutions that help them meet their process, efficiency, to Bühler Insights, our central platform for connected products and sustainability targets. We look forward to working with Luis Díaz and services. This will improve the efficiency of IMDHER plants, and his team and leveraging their skills and experience and ours in and reduce energy consumption and waste,” says Olivia Enriquez, this fast-growing market,” says Johannes Wick.

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New feed mill for Arabian Farms

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A recently opened facility in Al Ain, UAE seeks to enhance local food production

t’s hard to imagine increasing agriculture and food production in an inhospitable landscape.

But that’s what the United Arab Emirates is doing.

Three-quarters of land in the UAE is covered by desert. Summer temperatures in the country often soar above 40 degrees Celsius, and freshwater is hard to find. Growing agriculture and food production in such a harsh environment seems ambitious in the country.

In fact, its dunes are better known for tourist safaris than their agricultural productivity. Every year, UAE needs to import 90 percent of its food requirements from various countries across the world. It relies on imports of not only food but of nearly all inputs for agriculture and food production.

With rapid growth and development and an increase in a diverse population that is largely made up of protein preferring young population coupling a surging demand in locally produced food led by health awareness and Covid-19 pandemic impacts, the importance of food security and the necessity to achieve self-sufficiency in food has been well recognized in the country.

In November 2018, the UAE launched the National Food Security Strategy 2051. And On 28 June 2020, the UAE Cabinet approved the national system for sustainable agriculture to improve the efficiency of farms, enhance selfsufficiency in food and create new opportunities to ensure that the agriculture sector is always ranked among the best. More and more agri-food producers invest in modern technologies to build sustainable and profitable local food production that will maintain the country’s supply, improve its food security and transform its food system. Arabian Farms is one of these ambitious companies.

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Arabian Farms: An ambitious poultry business integrator

In 1978 Jeddah-based corporate houses Sedco Holding and Bugshan Investments joined hands to establish Arabian Farms, with a vision to produce fresh, local, safe and quality table eggs. After working successfully for more than 40 years, the company has become the largest poultry products provider in the UAE and is well-known for the high quality and safety of its products and the flagship brand SAHA Eggs. Arabian Farms is the UAE’s only producer of high-end pasteurised shell eggs.

The company currently operates a fully integrated poultry business in the UEA and Saudi Arabia. Its farms manage over 8.7 million birds and produces more than 270 million eggs a year at locations close to the main cities, which allow consumers easy access to fresh, locally produced premium products from grocers, food distributors, and food service companies across the region.

Its feed mills in Dubai, Al Kharj, and the new feed mill in Al Ain produce layer chick starter, commercial layer feeds, and Omega-3 enriched specially formulated feed. Becoming self-sufficient in feed, Arabian Farms is able to maintain the premium quality of all its poultry products and increase traceability.

Arabian Farms has also expanded into poultry meat products with the development of a greenfield broiler chicken site in Al Ain, UAE. When finished, the state-of-the-art project will produce 6000 tonnes per year of broiler meat an annum, helping Arabian Farms capture two percent of the regional fresh chicken market.

Boosting production with an advanced new feed mill

To support Arabian Farms’ new business ambition and production expansion plan, the company entrusted feed mill expert- the integrated solution provider Famsun to deliver a

The same purpose: Increasing local food security

state-of-the-art feed mill in Al Ain. For the turnkey project, Famsun provided project design, process engineering, manufacturing, project management, installation, commissioning and training services.

The greenfield project has 12 robust storage silos with a combined capacity of 4500 tonnes for maize, soybean meal and finished products. Of which, flat bottom silos are for maize and the hopper bottom silos are for soybean meal and finished products.

The hoppers are designed in different specifications according to the properties of soybean meal and finished feed. Together with supplying a conveying system of 80 TPH and associate equipment, the Famsun solution ensures hygiene, safety and efficiency in the storage, handling and processing.

The company’s delivery range also includes steel structure warehouse and workshop tower. Layout in the buildings keeps biosecurity, lean manufacturing and ergonomic concept in mind to improve production efficiency, product quality and user-friendly. Broiler feed and layer feed are produced flexibly and reliably on the same K-series pelleting line according to the orders from Arabian Farms’ poultry raising facilities nearby.

It can also produce crumbles for chicks. The feed can be delivered to Arabian Farms’ poultry farms in a bulk truck with the reasonably arranged finished product silos or delivered in bags at the last step of production. The feed mill is fully automated with the latest automation system and digital solutions from Famsun to cope up with the demand in production and quality.

Arabian Farms needs full supply chain resilience when investing in new capacity for local production. The new feed mill in Al Ain acquires advanced productivities, quality feed and better traceability to secure its food supply locally and protect birds and consumers.

The feed mill was built during the inconvenience of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Construction work was started on August 5, 2020 and was completed successfully on June 2, 2021. Famsun’s local team, global experts, and partners from the local industry worked closely with Arabian Farms experts to overcome obstacles and secure construction continuity for the project.

The partners worked out an effective biosecurity strategy to protect workers on the construction site. Famsun’s digital service solutions allowed Famsun experts from its headquarters in China and other local teams worldwide to provide engineering guidance and share skills remotely to push the construction schedule ahead.

Modern technologies and investments are the drivers to bolster food resilience. “As a technology partner in the agrifood sector, the company is committed to partnering with ambitious producers to create more regional and local food production and supply capacities to ensure that people can access sufficient and nutritious food easily,” says Paul Zhu, Famsun representative in the GCC region.

“And Arabian Farms has made their resolve stronger to increase local production and protect the health and well-being of local people. We at Famsun have the same purpose.”

“We are proud to bring new resilient agri-food production capacity to the UAE’s food ecosystem with Arabian Farms,” adds Mr Zhu.” The new feed mill definitely will contribute to the next phase of the region’s food security and better life.”

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Cereals 2022

An industry event in recovery shows green shoots of new growth & optimism

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by Andrew Wilkinson, Milling and Grain magazine

ocated in Eastern England, the Fens is a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species.

The word Fen is a colloquialism for an individual area of marshland or former marshland, whilst also designating the type of marsh typical of this particular area of the UK, which is either neutral or alkaline.

Centuries ago, most of these watery outcrops were drained, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels and man-made rivers, as well as a smattering of automated pumping stations.

Lying inland of a large coastal area called the Wash, it covers an area of nearly 1500 miles2 (3,900 km2) in Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire - which is where Cereals agricultural event was held this year.

With the long sweeping flat horizons evocative of northern France, much of the landscape surrounding this year’s location is dominated by evidence of mankind’s timeless and often troubled partnership with nature, with the view broken only by the large blue coils of potato irrigation systems and the pylons supporting the buzzing powerlines overhead.

The flat ground around the village of Duxford has not only supported agriculture over the years, but the village also lends its name to RAF Duxford, a former Royal Air Force airfield that was used as a sector station during the Battle of Britain.

This role was cemented into history in 1972 when the British Ministry of Defence began to house historically important aircraft in the hangars, which became the Imperial War Museum Duxford – with the many vintage aircraft partaking in a spot of aerobatics above our heads during this year’s edition of Cereals standing testament to this.

In June of 1941, an RAF Tiger Moth training biplane was attacked by a Luftwaffe aircraft over a local village, losing its entire tail section but owing to the pilot’s skill and bravery, the aircraft still managed to land safely.

Arriving in a much less dramatic fashion in 2022, the team from Milling and Grain magazine wallowed into the car park in a silver Vauxhall Zafira and set about reconnecting with some of our industry colleagues, many of whom we had not seen since the easing of Covid restrictions.

Recovering attendance figures

The event itself was launched back in 1979, and since then

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it has attracted around 470 exhibitors and around 27,000 visitors each year. The show also features 64ha of working demonstrations of agricultural equipment, stands, business advice and specialist services, covering the entire arable industry, including potatoes and renewable energy.

WEDNESDAY 8TH & THURSDAY 9TH JUNE 2022

This year, Cereals 2022 hosted 17,000 visitors, 320 exhibitors & sponsors, nearly 100 speakers, several hundred demonstrations and a wide range of crop plots on display over the two days in Chrishall Grange, in the famous English county of Cambridgeshire.

Now, as the more astute mathematicians amongst you will have already noticed, these figures are noticeably lower than the show’s annual averages. That said, speaking as someone who attended the shows in 2016 and in last year’s Covid-19 hit event, I will say that this event bore more similarities with the show six years ago than last year’s incarnation.

So, there is little cause for panic just yet.

In addition, from talking to stall holders and industry colleagues at the event, I can say that the general buzz was a positive one – there was a feeling that their attendance was well worth the effort and expense. Unlike last year, where there was also an absence of the long strips of empty lots that must have been a cause of real concern for the event’s organisers.

Gone too were the placards mounted on stakes, which last year stood like gravestones in the empty plots, where stall holders had fallen sick or changed their minds in the days leading up to the event.

So, in short, the trepidation of last year was all but forgotten – with a good healthy tweed and polo shirt clad crowd to be found, stomping on Chelsea and Wellington boots throughout the site.

Finding security amidst global uncertainty

Amongst the long tented villages that house the majority of the exhibitors, sit larger constructions that house make-shift lecture theatres where the seminars took place. Running across the two days of Cereals – Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 June, both days boasted a full programme of unique sessions.

Few would argue that in the current economic climate, the agricultural landscape is changing like never before. This statement holds truth in terms of policy, economics, environment, farming systems, food security and more.

Designed to bring farmers bang up to date with the latest thinking on how to produce food sustainably, this year the

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Cereals AHDB Theatre was themed 'Code Green for Farming.’.

So, whether it's making the environment pay, finding security amid global uncertainty, or transitioning to a new farming system, a panel of experienced and well qualified experts were on hand to give visitors the answers they needed in order to run a more successful business.

In the session titled ‘Climate change – adapting for financial success’, sponsored by terravesta, Dr Jon Foot, head of environment and resource management at AHDB discussed environmental risk. “This is partly connected to climate change but also changes in nitrogen regulations,” he says.

“Farmers need to prepare for these changes and understand the options to reduce their carbon footprint. Carbon is money and goes hand in hand with greater efficiency and productivity.Global events have focused the industry's need to tackle high fuel and fertiliser prices by optimising production to ensure a profitable return,” he adds.

Sustainable & environmentally beneficial food systems

In a session which asked the question of whether the incoming co-designed farming grant schemes are going to help or hinder farmers, Emily Norton, director of research at Savills, sought answers from industry experts.

“We need to make sure farm businesses are protected from a pure focus on environmental land management. We should be talking agricultural policy not environmental policy and making

sure those messages get through to government,” she says.

Looking at food security, the government has delayed its response to the Food Strategy document and needs to grapple with the twin problems of rising cost of food production and consumers being squeezed and not able to afford food, she says.

“We can't sustain a society on cheap food when the core factors that sustain food production are at risk. For farmers, it is about how they act in a responsible way to the crisis – not by chasing yield and ever diminishing returns in making food cheaper, but instead in playing the long game, developing sustainable and environmentally beneficial systems. The ask to policymakers to support this transition is clear.”

One farmer who has sought to develop more sustainable systems is Ian Piggot OBE, who took part in a panel session looking at the practical aspects of regenerative farming. Managing partner at Thrales End Farm, near Harpenden, Mr Piggot began his journey around seven years ago.

“We recognised that our soils were degrading under intensive cultivation and excessive use of fertilisers and sprays - we needed to make a significant step change in the way we approached growing crops,'' he says.

“With a reduction in farm support on the horizon we also needed to find a way of driving costs out of our business.

Diesel was almost an insignificant cost when we started with regenerative farming – now it is five times the price it was.”

The closing session focuses on the latest technology to help farmers farm more sustainably and profitably. Dr Jenna Ross, international business development manager at CHAP, will speak about autonomous slug monitoring and precision biomolluscicide treatment, helping to boost a very limited slug control toolbox.

“This kind of technology could potentially be used to control any pest or disease and speaking about it at Cereals will encourage visitors to think about other possible applications.”

See you next year!

The organising committee look forward to welcoming you to Cereals 2023, which will take place from 14-15 June, 2023 at a rather different location of Thoresby Farming, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Milling and Grain magazine will be there again, so please do get in touch to arrange an appointment.

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The 6th Annual Aqua Feed Extrusion Conference

Highlights from the program held at VIV Europe 2022 in Utrecht, The Netherlands

by Dr Mian N Riaz, Texas A&M University, USA

Perendale Publishers Limited, VIV worldwide and Dr Mian N Riaz from Texas A&M University hosted their annual 6th Aqua feed conference at the VIV Event in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on June 1, 2022. This conference was attended by more than 50 participants from all over the world.

Below are the highlights for each talk given by 10 international speakers at this conference.

Dr Mian N Riaz, Head of the Extrusion Technology Program at Texas A&M University, USA

Dr Riaz gave his talk on effect of protein, starch, and fat on aqua feed extrusion. He discussed the sources of the protein (animal vs plant protein) for the aqua feed and their nutritional and functional quality.

Dr Riaz also explains how the functional and non-functional proteins work in the aqua feed extrusion. The role of starch in making floating and sinking feed and fat in the raw material, whilst small changes in fat contact in the raw material can make difference in density and can affect the floatability of the pellet.

With recent changes in raw material demand and availability, the extrusion of ‘new’ raw materials for dry fish feed and petfood products has challenged the traditional way of producing quality products from premium raw materials.

Mr Arthur Vom Hofe, Segment Manager Feed & Oilseed, CPM Europe BV Netherlands.

The first step in making aqua feed is to prepare your raw material using proper grinder for extrusion and that can be very costly, if not careful, you can spend lot of energy and efforts and then still ended up with poor quality pellets.

Mr Hofe discussed the raw material grinding to make quality aqua feed. In his presentation he explained hammer mills, their design and operating principles. He talked about tip speed, screen area, hammer pattern, grinding chamber design and hammer position.

Hadrien Delemazure, Manager for Pet Food and Fish Feed Processing, Clextral France:

Twin-screw extrusion has been extensively used to manufacture quality aqua pellets for the last 40 years.

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flexibility, reliability and durability that can be achieved using twin-screw extrusion technology. Furthermore, in order to produce both optimal floating and sinking feed, a precise control of the pellet expansion and density is necessary.

Michel Bauer Pereira, Global Application Manager – Aqua and Pet; Andritz, Denmark

Mr Pereira gave an overview about making shrimp feed with extrusion technology. There are several different types of shrimp feed that is being made such as larvae and post larvae, starter, grower, finisher and brood stock.

This feed can be herbivore and omnivore and pellet stability in water and making is 100 percent sinking are most important factors for shrimp feed. Finished feed must have high protein, low starch and fibre and required amount of minerals and vitamins.

Jessica Wiertz -Brabender GmbH & Co KG and Carolina Schillinger Evonik Operations GmbHGermany

Jessica Wiertz and Carolina Schillinger discussed their work on extrusion processing of fish feed pellets: Influence of silica and oil content on the product properties. Over the last several decades, aquaculture has gained importance since wild capture can no longer meet the global demand for fish.

Therefore, this market has grown exponentially, and with it, the demand for fish feed. In particular feed with high amounts of fat has gained relevance, since it allows for many species (e.g., salmon, trout) the most efficient growth and, thus, farming.

Extrusion processing is often used to produce fish feed pellets.

Dr Michael Cheng, Global Business Development Manager, Pet and Aqua; Buhler, Switzerland

Dr Cheng disused Aqua feed extrusion; Focusing on precision.

By explain how the precision has move in extrusion technology

from automated plant to digital assisted plants to self-adjusted plants to finally smart plants. These smart plants provide solutions to digital related services, and expert services.

These plants are targeted to provide highest yield, optimise manpower, support operator, efficient energy uses, flatten consumption, optimise product flow, real time monitoring, enhanced quality, digital assistance for process tracing, higher capacity, optimal performance and reduce downtime.

He explained how sensor technology can be used in granulation control loop for precision particle size distribution to make sure it is not too fine or to coarse.

Jens Erik Stengaard - Global sales of RAS extrusion systems; Wenger Manufacturing, USA

Mr Stengaard discussed in his talk about clean feed, clean water for aquaculture. The world’s demand for aquaculture (farmed fish) is estimated to have a growth of additional two million tonnes per year approaching 2050.

Moving aquaculture into land-based recirculating systems (RAS) is one of the best ways to reduce or eliminate the environmental impacts of farming fish, and as the number of RAS installation is increasing, the demand for RAS-specialised feed is also increasing.

For this reason, it may be prudent to look for newer extrusion technology to produce feed, not only for specialised RAS feeds, but also more environmentally feed for the general aquaculture.

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concepts to improve the cost and quality of the aqua feed.

The first concept he discussed was by adding surfactant as a milling aid and mix in before entering to precondition.

Surfactant milling aid enhances the preconditioning and improves overall milling performance and feed quality. Some of the benefits can include improved moisture retention, improve starch gelatinisation and strengthen the pellet durability.

James Laxton, Engineering Manager– Dryer Group Famsun, China

Every Aquafeed manufacturer faces operational challenges from time to time when producing high quality feed at maximum throughput and energy efficiency. Understanding the underlying cause of the problems faced during operation is a critical step in defining practical solutions to ensure reliable, high quality, efficient aquafeed production.

Mr Laxton gave his presentation on optimising energy efficiency in aqua feed drying. He explained what is energy efficiency and how is it calculated? What operational factors impact energy efficiency and how can energy efficiency be improved during drying of aqua feed.

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Charlly Hansen, Sales Director Asia & Europe Extru-Tech, USA

Mr Hansen gave his talk on extrusion processing for floating and sinking aquatic feed. Cooking extrusion offers many advantages over alternative forming technology and as a result has been the preferred method for producing many aquatic feeds. Very near or even at the top of the list of advantages is the potential to control the final density of feeds.

Floating and sinking pellet characteristics are often considered a primary specification. Because cooking extruders operate at higher temperatures and moisture levels than other forming methods, the effects of this often equate to significant advantages in the physical characteristics of the finished pellets.

Physical durability that protects feed from disintegration during handling and transport, water stability that helps reduce leaching of nutrients into the environment.

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Dr Tom Verleyen- Global Platform Director Nutrition and LiquiSMART Kemin Europe

Dr Verleyen started his presentation by explaining different challenges faced today to the feed industry such as variation in the raw material and production cost which can bring the profitability under pressure. But feed industry does not want to compromise in feed quality, stability and animal performance. He provided few

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Welcome to a new home for showtime Victam Asia and Health & Nutrition Asia Online visitor registration for the ‘Total Animal Feed and Health’ event is now open Set to be held in co-location with Health & Nutrition Asia, Victam Asia is officially opening from September 7-9, 2022, and will be hosted at the IMPACT Halls 9 and 10, in Bangkok, Thailand.

The international trade show organisers Victam and VIV worldwide, after a couple of postponements due to the pandemic, are finally ready to stage this co-location and present in Bangkok the much-awaited Animal Feed and Health event for Asia.

The event program was presented at the recent official press conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands where both organisers are currently hosting their first joint partnership, with the co-location of VIV Europe and Victam International already proving the powerful synergy of this cooperation.

Thailand: relaxed entry to an expanding market The Press Conference was honored by the presence of HE Mr Chatri Archjananun, Ambassador, Royal Thai Embassy, Hague, the Netherlands who showed his unfeigned support to this first in-person animal health and feed event for Asia and wished for it to run smoothly and contribute to the MICE Industry in Thailand.

HE Mr. Chatri Archjananun reassured on Thailand’s relaxed Covid-19 measures for travelers. Fully vaccinated travelers will no longer need to book a quarantine hotel or show a pre-post departure PCR test. For non-vaccinated travelers, PCR test 72 hours before arrival is mandatory, with no quarantine required.

The Ambassador also focused on a few key industry insights and highlighted that statistically for Thailand, the feed additives market is projected to reach 2.56 billion USD by 2025, with the poultry market and compound feed industry as the major growth drivers.

“There are many international as well as local companies in the Thai feed additive market, which are adopting various strategies, like expansions and partnerships to increase their market presence” he says.

Concluding, he addressed both the event organisers by adding, “to sum up, you have made the right choice choosing Thailand to host this event.”

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for VNU Asia Pacific, the 50+ press representatives attending the conference gained latest insights about the show and its program from various panelists – Mr Heiko M Stutzinger, VIV worldwide Director and Chief Operating Officer, Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs; Mr Sebas van den Ende, General Manager Victam International; Mr Anuj Arora, Amorvet; Mr Jérôme Dubuc, Amandus Kahl; Mr Greg Liu, Famsun; and Mr Roger Gilbert, Perendale Publishers Limited.

“We are finally ready to present to the Asian markets, a complete Animal Feed and Health event that we have been working on for the last couple of years. Booth confirmations are well underway, and we will be able to jointly present a total of 300 exhibitors at the modern IMPACT venue in Bangkok.

We expect professional visitors from the whole ASEAN region and the rest of Asia with the main profiles being CEOs, feed formulators, mill managers, nutritionists, operation directors, transportation managers, and veterinarians,” comments Mr Sebas van den Ende.

“VIV and Victam are committed in serving Asia’s feed and animal protein industries by jointly developing business opportunities within the feed ingredients and additives segments, which is the fastest growing sector of the Feed to Food supply chain.

“After more than two years without a dedicated show in the region, the market needs a face-to-face show to get back to action,” adds Mr Heiko M Stutzinger.

Daily struggles for the industry Nutrition-related illnesses that affect livestock animals are daily struggles for the industry.

Deficiencies and malnutrition severely impact animal growth, development, and production.

The tropical environment of many regions in Asia, represents a high-risk element for pathogen growth in livestock. At the same time, drug residue & bacteria resistance in animals are concerning issues that require attention.

Victam Asia in co-location with Health & Nutrition Asia, want to serve as the business stage where top supplier solutions, innovations and expert knowledge are presented to this booming and growing market.

An elaborate conference & technical seminar program is being organised alongside the exhibition halls. A wide range of topics will

visitors is now open on the official websites www.victamasia. com and www.vivhealthandnutrition.nl.

See you in Bangkok, Thailand from September 7-9, 2022 at Victam Asia and Health & Nutrition Asia, by Victam and VIV. Victam international & Grapas Europe 2022 Organisers ‘very satisfied’ with another successfully delivered edition This was the early verdict of visitors, conference delegates and exhibitors alike. The exhibition and series of accompanying conferences were successfully held at Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands from May 31 – June 2.

Victam International and GRAPAS Europe, co-located with VIV Europe, was the first large animal feed technology and grain milling event organised after the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It was an anxious time in the lead-up to the exhibition due to the uncertain progress of the Covid pandemic around the world," says general manager of the Victam Corporation, Sebas van de Ende.

"Due to this long-lasting uncertainty, a number of exhibitors, unfortunately, did not participate. The war in Ukraine also influenced the participation of a number of exhibitors and visitors.” be discussed including feed milling and formulation, feed safety, aquafeed, petfood, grain and rice milling, high-tech animal health technology, genetics, pharmaceutical solutions for Asia, veterinary equipment, feed additives, bio-energy & biomass pelleting technology and much more.

As one of the main partners, FAVA, the Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations, will hold the Asian Animal Health Award 2022 during the event with two award categories open for qualified veterinarians – field practitioner and academician/ researcher – to recognise its involvement and engagement in animal health. Candidates can apply until August 5, 2022.

All information about the FAVA application is available on the NEWS section at www.vivhealthandnutrition.nl.

Victam Corporation and VIV worldwide are confident that the co-location in Bangkok will mark another milestone in this win-win cooperation. Registration for professional buyers and

246 exhibitors from 27 countries Van den Ende continues: “On the other hand, the participating exhibitors came with exciting stands, machinery, and innovations. We were also able to welcome a number of new exhibitors.

The fact that we were able to organise a trade exhibition where people could meet each other in person again was, of course, great. We are very satisfied with the result!

“The next edition will be held in 2025 and we have already received numerous stand applications. It will also be a special edition as we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victam International!”

The visitors of the 2022 edition were pleased with the number of exhibitors and the wide range of products on display.

Especially the newly launched products and the large number of machines at the different stands were very impressive.

There were 246 exhibitors from 27 countries present.

Likewise, the exhibitors were very satisfied with the visitors. Several stated that it was great to meet their clients and prospects face-to-face again. The exhibitors also commented on the very high quality of the visitors and the wide range of countries from which they came.

Over the three show days, there were over 7000 visitors attending the exhibition, a significantly higher number compared to 2019. Most of the visitors were from Europe, and the organisation was also happy to welcome visitors from other parts of the world. Unfortunately, there was a decline in visitors from Asia and Russia due to Covid and the war in Ukraine.

The conference delegates also confirmed the quality of the presentations presented at the numerous conferences. The conferences had extensive programs, which were well received.

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The International Feed Technology Conference (IFTC) was held for the second time. The IFTC is a cooperation between the University of Wageningen and the Victam Foundation.

The conference was fully booked, and the 90 delegates listened to presentations of (among others) Ruurd Zijlstra (University of Alberta), Birger Svihus (University of Life Sciences), Volker Heinz (CEO DIL), and Mia Eeckhout (Ghent University).

We are also proud that we could host several other conferences and meetings: 1. 2nd International Feed Technology Congress (IFTC) 2. Network event of the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association 3. GRAPAS and AFTaN Innovations Seminars 4. PetXpert Processing Conference 5. 6th Annual Aquafeed Extrusion Conference 6. 66th FEFAC Annual Public Meeting 7. Young Feed Professionals Congress 8. Grain storage seminar Additionally, several exhibitors like Kahl, Bühler, KSE, Van Aarsen, PremierTech, Clextral, Promtek, Seid, and Atline presented technical seminars, in the purposely build theater on the exhibition floor.

Innovation rewarded To put all the innovations presented at the event in the limelight there were two innovation awards presented at the event: the Animal Feed Technology & Nutrition Awards (AFTaN) and the GRAPAS Innovation Awards.

During the Exhibitor Reception on the first show day, the winners of these coveted awards were announced.

GRAPAS Award winners: - The GRAPAS Award was won by Bühler with the Arrius Integrated Grinding System.

- The GRAPAS Distinction Award was given to Henry Simon for their HSPU Purifier.

- The Highly Commended was awarded to RollCare Profile Measurement by Yenar AFTaN Award winners: - Winner awarded to The M007 Cooler by Agentis Innovations - Distinction awarded to Dryer Heat Recovery by Famsun - Highly Commended awarded to Lube for Life Rolls by CPM - Winner - Aquafeed awarded to SJPS156 Twin-screw Extruder by Famsun - Distinction - Aquafeed awarded to The Extruder Microfeed System by Andritz The 60th anniversary edition of VICTAM International and GRAPAS Europe will take place from June 3 – 5, 2025 at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Upcoming events: The next event organised by the Victam Corporation is Victam Asia and Health & Nutrition Asia 2022 in co-location with GRAPAS Asia.

The event will be held from September 7 – 9, 2022 at the IMPACT in Bangkok, Thailand. For more information, please visit www. victamasia.com.

Victam Latin America will be organised in 2023. More information will be available soon!

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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

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

Behlen +1 402 564 3111 www.behlengrainsystems.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

A/S Cimbria +45 9617 9000 www.cimbria.com CSI +90 322 428 3350 www.cukurovasilo.com

Roll fluting Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

The Essmueller +1 800 325 7175 www.essmueller.com

Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A. +34 965564075 www.balaguer-rolls.com

Obial +90 382 2662120 www.obial.com.tr

Yenar Dˆk¸m A.S. +90 332 2391073 www.yenar.com.tr

Ozpolat Makina Gida +90 342 337 1217 www.ozpolatmakina.com.tr

Reclaim system

Silo Construction & Engineering +32 51723128 www.sce.be

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

Silos Cordoba +34 957 325 165 www.siloscordoba.com

Scalling Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Brock +1 866 658 4191 www.brockgrain.com

Temperature monitoring Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Dinnissen BV +31 77 467 3555 www.dinnissen.nl

Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Filip GmbH +49 5241 29330 www.filip-gmbh.com

vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Training

Koyuncu Sanayi +91 224 723 92 92 www.koyuncufirca.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Sefar AG +41 898 57 00 www.sefar.com

IAOM +1 913 338 3377 www.iaom.info

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

IFF +495307 92220 www.iff-braunschweig.de

Zaccaria +1 5519 34045715 www.zaccaria.com.br

Kansas State University +1 785 532 6161 www.grains.k-state.edu

Silos

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com PLP +39 05 23 89 16 29 www.plp-systems.com Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com Vibrafloor +33 3 85 44 06 78 www.vibrafloor.com vibronet-Gräf GmbH & Co.KG +49 6441 62031 www.vibronet.com

Yeast products Leiber GmbH +49 5461 93030 www.leibergmbh.de

Top Silo Constructions (TSC) +31 543 473 979 www.tsc-silos.com

ASG Group (Degirmen Makine) +90 342 357 01 50 www.degirmen.com

Golden Grain Group +86 371 68631308 www.g-grain.com

Weighing equipment

Symaga +34 91 726 43 04 www.symaga.com

Sifters

Gazel +90 364 2549630 www.gazelmakina.com

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

Sukup +1 641 892 4222 www.sukup.com

NorthWind +1 785 284 0080 www.northwindts.com

Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Vibrators

OMS +441242 267700 www.onlinemillingschool.com

AGI www.aggrowth.com

Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com

Altinbiliek +90 222 236 13 99 www.abms.com.tr

UK Flour Millers +44 2074 932521 www.ukflourmillers.org

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the interview

Andy Sharpe, President & CEO North American Region, Bühler

As well as holding the positions of President, CEO, and Vice President of Business Development of Bühler Aeroglide, Andy Sharpe is also the current President and CEO of the North American Region at Bühler.

As head of the Bühler North American Sales and Service organisation, Mr Sharpe has developed a culture of trust, respect and honesty – transforming the organisation into one where entrepreneurship, accountability and innovation flourishes.

Prior to holding these positions, he was the Business Manager Cereal and Snack Business Manager Cereal and Snack at Baker Perkins for more than 17 years from 1978 - 1996.

Milling and Grain magazine recently met with Mr Sharpe to discuss his colourful career, his views on the current state of our industry and the many challenges that we are all set to face over the coming years.

You were born and raised in the UK. How did your career lead to you working for Bühler and ending up in the USA as its President and CEO of North America?

What is it about the milling industry and in particular the range of equipment your company supplies that keeps you motivated and driven?

Following my four years apprenticeship and foundation in mechanical engineering I took the decision to move into procurement. Baker Perkins supported continued education, which enabled me to complete a business degree with a focus on supply chain management.

Our purpose, to create innovations for a better world, means that we get the opportunity to help these same customers strive daily for excellence in support of this purpose. For me, this is more than enough to get me out of bed every morning!

My next step was toward Sales with a stopover in contract management. Then my time in sales started with coverage of the Nordic region and UK. At this time, again with the support of Baker Perkins, I studied for a Marketing degree, which has helped me in so many ways.

What are some of the personal challenges you have overcome in order to continue to lead a company that dominates the supply of milling equipment globally?

My career started with Baker Perkins based in Peterborough England as an Apprentice. Baker Perkins focused upon ‘biscuit – bakery- chocolate -confectionery’ plus cereal and snack equipment.

Within Baker Perkins I ended up managing the Cereal and Snack division globally. This led me to interact with Aeroglide Corporation, which ended up being my next home. My wife Kate and I moved to Raleigh NC for about 18 months to really get to know the team in Aeroglide.

Upon completion of this work, we returned to UK with a baby girl who was born halfway through our time in Raleigh. From 1998 to 2008 I worked for Aeroglide building a business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In 2008, Bühler acquired the Aeroglide business, so this was the point where I joined the Bühler family.

My next step was moving back to USA to lead Business Development for Bühler Aeroglide in 2012. Then in 2014, Bühler asked me to take over as President and CEO of the Bühler Aeroglide business. This position brought many challenges in terms of driving new business development and ensuring we could grow the business profitably.

The full team in Raleigh got behind these goals and supported in a wonderful way. We worked every day on our values and building a culture that ensured we engaged everyone and provided an environment where lessons could be learned, with positive feedback!

Then, in 2018 Stefan Scheiber and Dieter Vogelti asked me if I would lead the North American region for Bühler to help create a broader collaboration across all of the Bühler business units. So, on January 1, 2019, I officially took over from Rene Steiner as President and CEO for Bühler North America.

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Within Bühler, one of our core beliefs is that every human has a right to safe and nutritious food. With the milling industry being the foundation of Bühler, the products our milling customers supply provides staple foods for so many, globally.

The challenges I deal with are really around understanding myself and putting myself in other’s shoes, be they customers or the team in Bühler. Remaining consistent in my approach and values every day is key.

It compels me to be present when engaging with both our team and customers. When I am on task, it’s around being able to ‘disconnect to connect’ not allowing other stuff to get in the way.

Has technology reached its peak in making the milling industry more efficient?

I don’t believe so. We now have tools to create a more holistic examination of the total process, from the field to the bakery or store. We will find additional areas where improvements can be made!

Just look at our Mill E3 concept and the opportunities it presents for millers. I think there are efficiency gains to be made, and technology and digitalisation will lead the way.

Bühler wants the milling industry to cut its waste, water and energy consumption by 50 percent by 2030. Are millers in North America working towards this target too and how important is this goal in your opinion to the future of milling?

This goal is not just about Milling. It’s a commitment made

by Bühler to make these reductions in all our customers’ value chains. It was initially stated in 2016 as 30-30-30, then expanded to 50-50-50 at the 2019 Networking Days.

These goals really force the need to create collaboration across industries to learn and share opportunities and best practices while we drive the innovation necessary to address these targets and be able to sustainably feed 10 billion people by the year 2050. As you may have seen from the NWD 2022 event, these collaborations and innovations are growing exponentially.

Finally, what is the importance of milling in the eyes of consumers?

What more must we do to prove that our sector is the most essential to the human condition in the years ahead?

Consumers sometimes struggle to connect the dots, in terms of the work that goes on before a product or ingredient is purchased by them from the supermarket or store.

So, my thought would be to create the transparency needed to show consumers the efforts already on going in managing this essential resource, like improving yields and driving the reduction of energy use, and what that means for them individually and what it means for the planet.

And of course, all this must be done while maintaining, and even improving quality and safety every single day.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES New senior appointment seeks to accelerate AB Agri’s plans for global dairy growth

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B Agri appoints Dr Michael de Veth as Head of Dairy Innovation – a new role designed to support AB Agri’s growth plans across the global dairy sector.

Dr de Veth joins the AB Agri Innovation Lab, reporting to AB Agri’s Innovation Director, Dr Helen (Nell) Masey O’Neill. He will also work closely with Strategic Marketing Director, Ricardo Daura.

“Our goal is to serve progressive dairy farmers across the world in novel and increasingly valuable ways,” says Ricardo Daura. “Michael’s knowledge, experience and leadership will be invaluable in achieving this, and we are glad to have him on our team.”

“AB Agri and its family of businesses are renowned for innovation and deep technical expertise,”says Dr Michael de Veth.“I am excited to be working alongside the experienced and dedicated colleagues within AB Agri.”

Brock Grain Systems promotes new Product Manager of Storage Systems

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an Wuthrich has been promoted to product manager of Storage Systems for Brock Grain Systems, according to Mark Dingeldein, new product development director for the CTB, Inc business unit.

In his new position, Wuthrich will be responsible for managing projects and programs to help Brock increase market share and ensure profitable sales of its industryleading storage products.

He will develop a deep knowledge of customer needs, market trends and channel opportunities, while working closely with the sales team to improve service, value-added solutions and customer satisfaction.

A native of Milford, Indiana. He currently resides in New Paris, Indiana. A CTB employee since his college graduation in 1994, Wuthrich has gained vast experience at Brock.

His past positions with the company include International Project Manager, Customer Service Representative, Product Specialist and Product Technical Group Manager.

Anpario appoints new Sales Manager for Egypt, UAE and Oman

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npario, the independent manufacturer of natural sustainable feed additives for health, nutrition and biosecurity for livestock and aquaculture production, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Khaled Elganainy as Sales Manager for Egypt, UAE and Oman.

Anpario has seen significant sales growth over the past few years in the region and have responded by opening a new office in Turkey in addition to the office situated in Dubai.

The company also recognises the increasing opportunity for their feed additive solutions within the region across all livestock sectors.

Dr Elganainy graduated from Mansoura University in Egypt with a degree in Veterinary Science and recently completed his MBA at Brooklyn University in the USA. He is a knowledgeable animal health professional with extensive experience in veterinary pharmaceuticals, providing both technical support and business development for producers across all sectors within the region.

Zinpro Corporation promotes colleague to General Counsel

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inpro Corporation announces the promotion of LaToya J. Burrell, MBA, J.D., to the role of general counsel.

In addition to providing legal counsel, Burrell will retain her current responsibilities leading the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and corporate giving activities, as well as her role as executive director of Anderson Foundation.

“LaToya truly lives our core values, and we have benefited greatly from her dedication to excellence and continuous improvement,” says Zinpro President and CEO Rob Sheffer.

“We look forward to leveraging her leadership skills and legal expertise on our leadership team as we continue to grow.”

Since joining Zinpro in February 2021, Mr Sheffer notes that Ms Burrell has led numerous culture-building initiatives, including an employee-focused mental health education campaign – an effort that earned Zinpro NAMI Minnesota’s Employer of the Year award for 2021.

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