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FACES
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EVENTS
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STORAGE
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66 Cargill invests in the first

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TRAINING
39 IAOMs Fundamentals
of Milling
COLUMNS
10 Mildred Cookson
20 Tom Blacker
22 Christophe Pelletier
26 Chris Jackson
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2 GUEST EDITOR
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76 MARKETS
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102 INTERVIEW
Aidan Connolly
Guest
Editor
To fortify or not to fortify?
To mark our 125th

anniversary in a
meaningful way, Im
pleased to announce
that Milling and Grain
has extended its reach
globally by adding a
regular schedule of
additional languages to
its publishing plans for
2016 and beyond.
Last year we took the magazine monthly,
and thanks to the support of advertisers we are
able to continue on a monthly basis in 2016
with increased pages of upward of 100 per
edition.
Throughout 2015 we gained sufficient
experience in translating our title on an ad-hoc
basis that we can now offer a regular bi-monthly
schedule: translating every second edition in four
languages including Spanish, Turkish, Arabic and
now Chinese.
As a result we are extremely pleased to be able
to announce the appointment of two additional
international editors to join Professor Dr Hikmet
Boyacioglu who manages our Turkish edition,
and oversee our Spanish and Chinese editions.
Roberto Bernardi of Argentina who started
work in a technical school before developing a
long-standing reputation in the milling industry
working in both Latin America and Spain and
who from February takes up the editorship of our
Spanish edition.
Our Chinese edition, which saw its first
translation in January this year, will be managed
by Professor Dr Wenbin Wu who lectures on grain
processing machinery at Henan University of
Technology in Zhengzhou, China.
All three international editors have their details
on our masthead and you are welcome to contact
them with your news and views. We will be
publishing their contributions in

the form of an editorial plus one
or two news items every second month in each
of the translated editions. The translated editions
in 2016 will be January, March, May, July,
September and November.
We welcome both new editors and thank all
three on behalf of our existing and new readers
for the effort they are putting in to bring about
this opportunity to exchange knowledge and
information between cultures through the pages of
Milling and Grain.
While welcoming our international editors, I
cannot overlook the additional staff who have also
joined our editorial team this year - read more
overleaf!
To fortify or not to fortify?
This edition is packed with interesting news

items along with a range of features to satisfy all
tastes. What takes my eye is the feature on flour
fortification which identifies failings occurring
in existing programs and whereby adopting good
management practices will readily overcome.
We hear that Scotland is also backing flour
fortification for its people and that England has
been reviewing its position also.
To us, the providers of staple milled foodstuffs
to the worlds population, we must remain
focused on ensuring our products provide
the most nutritional benefits they can and if
fortification is necessary to alleviate sickness or
disease, then we should consider fortification
whether we are in a developed or developing
country. Only through sound nutrition can our
children achieve their genetic potential while
avoiding some severe but avoidable health
problems in early life.
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In 2016 Milling and

Grain will be going
through a big change
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languages
Meet the new members of the Milling and

Grain Editorial team
Managing Editor - Eloise Hillier-Richardson
We are pleased to welcome Eloise Hillier-Richardson into the

fold as the new Managing Editor of Milling and Grain magazine.
Eloise joins us with a Bachelors degree in English Literature
from Queen Mary, University of London and a Masters degree in
Comparative Literature from University College London.
I am very excited to embark upon my role here at Milling and
Grain magazine, and continue in our efforts to take the publication
from strength to strength. I am looking forward to getting to know
more about the industry as well as the people within it. I hope
to ultimately help convey the importance of the industry within
Eloise Hillier-Richardson
our society, and continue to be at the vanguard of innovative
developments, bringing our readers the latest advancements in the industry from around the globe.
Asia-Pacific Representative - Peter Parker
Peter Parker joins our team from New Zealand after doing a threemonth residential internship in the UK at the end of 2015. Peter
has a Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences from Waikato University,
graduating in 2014. He has worked as a behavioural therapist in
New Zealand primary schools.
He joins us as our Asia-Pacific Representative for both Milling
and Grain magazine and our sister publication International
Aquafeed, and will provide us with both an editorial input and a
sales role with regard to our developing Fish Farming Technology
section within International Aquafeed.
Peter Parker
During his training he displayed a keen interest in aquaculture
and fish feeding and represented International Aquafeed on field
and industry events including Europes AquaNor in Norway and the European Aquaculture
Societys event in Rotterdam.
Editorial Journalist - Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson
Another recent addition to our ever- expanding editorial team is

Andrew Wilkinson. Andrew joins us with a wealth of journalistic
experience, having previously worked for a number of prestigious
establishments including the BBC. Andrew graduated from the
University of Gloucestershire and with a BA in Journalism in 2014,
having previously been employed in the food service industry at
management level.
Andrews journalistic experience as well as his in depth knowledge
of the food industry, makes him a key addition to the team. Andrew is
relishing the opportunity to working in such a vastly expanding industry
and is looking forward to working with each and every one of you.
Circulations manager - Antoine Tanguy
Antoine Tanguy of France has a bachelor degree in international trade

and intercultural communications and joins Perendale Publishers
Limited as its circulations manager. He is tasked with ensuring our
magazines reach the right readers every time.
I am pleased and excited to join the Perendale Publishers team. After my
internship there in 2013, I continued my studies and I am glad to be back
in this innovative company. I am looking forward to getting to know more
about this important industry as well as our readers. Hopefully, my work
will improve our magazines circulation around the world. The satisfaction
Antoine Tanguy
of MAG and IAFs readers is indeed my main goal and motivation.
Antoine graduated in international trade and communication in
November 2015. His studies covered a wide range of skills and he did several internships abroad, in
different sectors and activities. For example, he worked as a French Market Product Specialist for
Boca do Lobo, Porto Area, Portugal for four months until the end of November 2014. And as a parttime Logistics Manager for Ziegler France Group in Bordeaux in December 2013.
... the International editiors team

Spanish-edition Editor - Roberto Luis Bernardi
"When I was 20 years old I started working as a professor of the Technical School,
placed in Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, teaching mathematics and
technical subjects, but a year later I got involved into the exciting milling industry
probably by chance.
My first works within this exciting industry were, like any beginner, reception,
control and delivery of materials for new facilities under construction at Molinos
Rio de la Plata, in the town of Tres Arroyos. A year later I began to organize the
preventive maintenance of the entire plant, which was recently expanded.
After three years in that role, I went more deeper into the Milling Industry itself,
Roberto Luis Bernardi
as I was appointed as a Duty Manager, performing theoretical / practical courses,
and once again linked to teaching, profession that I love so much.
Years later, I went to work in the Plant Dique III of Buenos Aires, in the role of Miller Shift in the Candeal
Mill and later in Flour Mill. By the year 1974, taking into account my dedication and passion for the industry,
Molino Argentino hired me as Chief Miller, position where I stayed until 1985.
From this year until 1987, I worked as Production Manager of Minettis Mill, in Buenos Aires City , the
year the mill closed its doors. I spent the tree following years in Cordobas Province, working as Production
Manager at Molino Boero Romano San Francisco.
In 1990 I returned to my hometown, Chacabuco, located in Provincia Buenos Aires, at 250 km from Buenos
Aires City, with the aim of working in the growing mill Molino Chacabuco as a Production manager,
position I held until 2009, when I decided to retired at the age of 65.
Today, with more time for any other activities, I`ve been advising and involved in the commissioning of
Flour Mills in the region. Now with a great pleasure, joy and commitment, I bring my knowledge to this
legendary and excellent magazine, which is focused on Milling, Grains, Handling, Ports, Feed for some
species, Management, Equipments, among others, with the aim of providing an insight of the milling
Industry of the Latin American region and its roots". - Roberto Luis Bernardi
Chinese-edition Editor - Professor Wenbin Wu
Professor Wenbin Wu, Phd, has a long career in teaching and science research
about grain processing machinery in Henan University of Technology in
Zhengzhou.
He graduated from the Dalian University of Technology, NTNU visiting scholar,
Deputy Secretary General of Chinas Grain Committee for Standardization Group
of Machine and Instrument, Director of the Grain and Oil Machinery Research
Institute of Henan University of Technology.
His research interests are focused on modern design and manufacturing
technology of grain processing machinery. His research results have been
published in more than 106 articles, he has published three books, for example
Professor Wenbin Wu
Theory and Application of Grain Processing Machinery. He has authorized eight
patents in grain machinery, completed six key projects, directed and completed 12
national standards, such as those controlling roll, corrugation and coating machinery and technology and has
completed two projects with private enterprises based on science and technology.
Turkish-edition Editor - Professor Dr M Hikmet Boyacolu
"Id like to extend my welcome from Turkey to my new fellow International

Editors for Spanish and Chinese editions of Milling and Grain.
This year, for the first time in my life, I welcomed the New Year in in a
farmhouse belonging to my daughter-in-laws family in Western Kansas, USA
where Kansas means Oil, Cattle and Wheat. On New Years Day, we visited a
friend of mine who is a wheat farmer as well as a former Chairman of the Kansas
Wheat Commission and of US Wheat Associates. We talked about wheat prices
and wheat research at Kansas State University and the Kansas Wheat Innovation
Centre. We all agree, the future for us as stakeholders in the cereal industry farmers, traders, millers, bakers, scientists and equipment manufacturers - depends
Professor Dr M Hikmet
on research and training. One of the biggest opportunities to discuss our research
Boyacog
lu
and training needs is conferences and trade shows. Milling and Grain, now in its
regular, multi-language editions will pay a central role in reviewing and discussing both these important
activities" - Professor Dr M Hikmet Boyacolu
To see all of the Milling and Grain language editions, please visit: bit.ly/mag_languages
REGIONAL FOCUS
ITALY
COLUMN
TRAINING
IAOMs Fundamentals of Milling

The IAOM is proud to announce that the Fundamentals of
Milling courses will once again be held at Ocrims International
School of Milling Technology this coming April, in Cremona,
Italy.
See the full story on page 39
Feed Safety Awareness

in Southern Europe
GMP+ International facilitates access
for Italian companies by introducing
the GMP+ FSA Country Note Italy
Well attended workshop marks fast
growing Feed Safety Awareness in
Southern Europe.
Towards the end of 2015, nearly
100 representatives of Italian Feed
companies attended a workshop
organized by GMP+ International in
Bologna Italy, to introduce the GMP+
FSA Country Note Italy (GMP+ BCNIT).
ITALY STATS
1951 The year the FAO set up HQ

in Italy
PROFILE
CASE STUDY
29.4 Italy's total land area in

millions of hectares
46.6 Percentage of land area used
for agriculture
17.5 Percentage of agricultural area
that is permanent crops
10 Amount, in millions of US
dollars that Italy has donated to
the International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture, making the country
the Treaty's main donor. US$4.5
million of this has gone towards
the treatys Benefit-Sharing Fund
Source: FAO
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Big thinking Italian

excellence
In January of this year, Tom Blacker from
the Milling and Grain team was fortunate
enough be the guests of world-renowned
manufacturers Omas at their new facility
in the Italian town of San Giorgio delle
Pertiche, just north of Padua.
Functional and
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Ulusoy Flour Companys third flour

plant in Turkey
lusoy Flour Company established its first plant in 1989 in

Samsun, Turkey, with an initial production capacity was
180 metric tons per day. In 2014 the firm achieved a 5
percent share of Turkeys flour export market, making it 5th in the
industry.
Today, the company has expanded its milling capacity to 900
metric tons per day in two plants, one located in Samsun and the
other in orlu, Tekirda. Ulusoy Flour currently exports flour to
80 countries on 5 continents.
Ulusoy Flour Company, as one of the biggest flour
manufacturers, has already exceeded its export target, said Mr
Gnhan Ulusoy, Company President.
Mr Ulusoy is currently also president of the executive board of
the Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation (TUSAF).
According to Mr Ulusoy, at the beginning of 2015 the
companys export target was about 126 thousand tons of wheat
flour, but by the end of the year the actual total export volume is
forecast to reach 160 thousand tons, beating the original target by
27 percent.
Ulusoy Flours next target is to double its wheat flour export
market share to ten percent. According to news provided to
Milling and Grain by the company, in response to rising market
demand, Ulusoy decided to expand its capacity with a third
factory, in the Samsun Food Organised Industrial Zone, beginning
construction in 2014. Completion is expected in 2016 and the
factory will have a 600 ton/day milling capacity in a 30,000m2
area.
According to 2015 data from the Istanbul Chamber of Industry,
based on total production sales, Ulusoy Flour are in the top 500
Turkish producers and third in the Turkish flour industry. In
November 2014, Ulusoy Flour became the first company in the
sector and in Samsun City to trade its shares on the Istanbul Stock
Exchange.
Once again Alltech has done the feed industry

proud by collating feed output figures by
country for the fifth year in a row.
Knowing how much formulated compound
feed we produce by species and by country
will help us address food security issues in the
years ahead.
Milling and Grain believes that every citizen
in every country whos government subscribes
to the United Nations and thats over 180
countries in total should have access to the
worlds average per capita output through their
diets when it comes to protein. That is, their
domesticated livestock industries should have
access to scientifically formulated compound
feeds, produced by feed millers that use
modern feed manufacturing and formulation
systems, that matches the world average of
133.6kg per capita.
Today, over half the worlds countries do not
meet this figure.
Simple supply-and-demand equations tell us
that if food is in short supply, prices are high.
When food is plentiful prices fall.
We at Milling and Grain and through
our news blog The Global Miller, will be
campaigning throughout 2016 to make this per
capita figure a globally-recognised benchmark
for countries when addressing food security or
food insecurity.
In this issue we look at the figures produced
by Alltech in its 2015 survey (see page 58),
published at IPPE on January 26, 2016. In our
March edition we will collate these figures and
provide a table ranking all countries by per
capita production.
It is Milling and Grains belief that without
the infrastructure to support the development
of fully-functioning, modern feedmills with all
the equipment and computer control systems to
allow the production of balanced, formulated
feeds that meet the needs for growth by species
and age, then addressing protein requirements
of poorer populations will not be solved in a
sustainable way.
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Milling around the World at

the Mills Archive
- British Empire Mills
Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive
by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK
On looking through our journals
at the Mills Archive I feel none
seem to cover the story of roller
flour milling as well as the
two most popular in the UK
and one from the USA. They
reflect the story with articles and
illustrations of their time. I refer
to The Miller, Milling and The
Northwestern Miller.
In June 1902, eleven years after it first appeared, Milling
published an article entitled British Empire Mills. In those
days the magazine described itself as A Leading Weekly
Organ of British and Irish Millers; nowadays its successor,
Milling and Grain has a worldwide reach, in print and
electronically, that would have been unthinkable at the start of
the 20th century. It is, nevertheless, enlightening to see how
the infant magazine addressed its international relevance.
The Milling article is well illustrated with exterior
photographs of typical British mills in various countries,
some of which are reproduced here. The mills selected
were fitted out by one of three, well-known firms, Simon,
Robinson and Turner. The setting and architecture of the
buildings housing these roller mill plants were all very
different, depending on the country in which they were
located. The mills covered varied from the large port mills
to the smaller country mill, with many recording the use of
horses and wagons for the carting of the grain and flour. The
following paragraphs illustrate the breadth and depth of the
article. Some of the mills were described in great detail, while
for others there is just a brief paragraph giving the date of the
mill, its name and location with a note of the milling plant
and number of bags per hour that could be achieved.
The Antipodes were represented by four mills, two using
the Robinson system and two that from Simon. Messrs. W
Webb & Cos mill in Victoria was erected early in 1888 and
contained a complete Robinson grain cleaning and flour
milling plant of 12 bags (200lbs) capacity per hour. Similarly
equipped was the mill in Hobart owned by J Murdoch and
Son, whose six-bag plant, driven by a Robinson compound
tandem condensing engine, was erected in 1892.
In New Zealand, the mill at Ngapara, owned at the time by
Messrs Milligan & Bond, had been refitted with the Simon
system to produce 4 sacks per hour of flour, which sold
under the trade name Peerless. Among the first to install
the Simon system in New South Wales, Messrs G Fielder &
Son of the Phoenix Mills, Tamworth had a long association
Messrs W Webb & Cos Roller Flour Mills, Sandhurst,

Victoria (Robinsons System)
Messrs J Murdoch and Sons Victoria Flour Mills,

Hobart (Robinsons System)
with milling in the northern regions of the State. The original

system, installed in 1890, was re-equipped with an up to date
ten-sack plant in 1902. The mill itself was at one end of the
building, whilst at the other were arranged the storage bins
for the wheat. In front of the building was a large balcony
which was used to store the sacks of flour.
South Africa was another important location for British
exports of milling technology. WF Hornby & Companys
roller flour mill at Bloemfontein was a typical Simon mill.
Similarly, the South African Milling Co Ltd in Cape Town
had the Simon system in place and could produce fourteen
sacks of flour per hour. The same company also has a large
mill and silo granary in Port Elizabeth and a smaller one at
Artois in Cape Colony, all fitted out with up to date Simon
systems.
Messrs Brook & Pote, in Grahamstown, Cape Colony sported
Robinson equipment. In 1895 their fine new building was
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Messrs Milligan and Bonds
Roller Flour Mills, Ngapara, NZ
(Simons System)
Messrs Brook and Potes Roller

Flour Mills, Grahamstown, Cape
Colony (Robinsons System)
Messrs WF Hornby &

Cos Roller Four Mills,
Bloemfontein (Simons
System)
The Diamond Jubilee Flour Mills,

Delhi (Turners System)
fitted with a Robinson three bag plant, complete with cleaning

and preparation machinery. The following year, a Boer meal
plant, with a capacity of six bags per hour, on Robinsons
roller system was added. The mill was kept up to date and
driven by one of Robinsons horizontal engines. It was also
noted that the premises throughout were lit by electricity!
In India, the Diamond Jubilee Flour Mills in Delhi were built
around 1902 and fitted out with the Turner system to produce
12 sacks per hour. On the extreme right of the building was
the wheat store and wheat cleaning department. Next to this
was a cast iron water tank, which also furnished the washing
and conditioning plant, comprising a Concentrio washer
and stoner, a vertical whizzer and a Turner patent conditioner
with hot and cold blasts. In the mill itself, the breaks were
performed on four of Turners roller mills with 9-inch
diameter rolls, 30 inches long. Three patent Vibromotors
with double sieves were responsible for the scalping, five
Turner Dustless purifiers and one gravity handled the
purifying, and sundry inter-elevator reels and centrifugals
were used for dressing. The right hand side of the photograph
shows various out-buildings, the most prominent of which
contained the steam engine with a work room above it. The
engine was a coupled compound condensing engine, fitted
with the Turner-Pegg patent positive Corliss gear. The
Lancashire type boiler was in an outhouse and was 28ft long
and 7ft diameter.
Other countries, including Canada, Scotland and Ireland,
also featuring typical British mills were described and will be
covered in the next article in this series. These articles only
give a brief glimpse of the several million records held by the
Mills Archive Trust. If you would like to know more please
email me at mills@millsarchive.org .
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Can you help save a vital part

of the worlds flour milling heritage?
An appeal from Liz Bartram, Development Manager, The Mills Archive
he Mills Archive, possibly the worlds largest

left with a UK2,500 shortfall to cover the cost of binding.
specialist milling archive and library, is an
We are looking for a company or an individual who
educational heritage charity based in the UK
recognises the value of these journals and who wishes to
(registered charity no 1155828).
make a difference by covering this shortfall. If you would
Since 2002 we have provided a safe home for images and like to donate to this project and ensure that this collection
documents relating to traditional wind- and watermills,
is preserved and made available to the world, we would
which we make freely available on our website and online
love to hear from you.
catalogue (millsarchive.org).
Once bound, the journals will become publically
We now include the care and conservation of roller
accessible for the first time. We are also working to scan
flour mill records, a hugely significant part of the worlds
some of the best examples of the front covers, which
milling heritage and vital to the educational story of the
display some stunning and evolving mill-related artwork
evolution of milling.
and these will be available to view by anyone around the
Since we announced our intentions to establish the
world.
worlds first roller flour mill archive, in this magazine
Unless we act now to care for this vulnerable and
and elsewhere, we have been given more than 1500 loose
increasingly rare material, we will pass the point at which
issues of the important Northwestern Miller journal from
it can be rescued. Can you help?
the USA.
To find out more, or to make a donation, please email me
The journals capture the important revolution in
on mills@millsarchive.org
the milling world during a period of rapid
technological change from wind- and watermills to
much larger factory-style mills. The new collection
extends from 1886 to 1973 and is the largest set
available to the public in Europe, and possibly
worldwide.
In 2015 we received a grant of almost UK9,000
from the Mercers Company to bind and house
these journals, in order to protect their fragile state
The journals are very
fragile and by supporting
and prevent further degradation.
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However, since receiving this grant, our collection help to prevent this from
happening to more issues.
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Alltech acquires
Masterfeeds,
Canadas leading
animal nutrition
company
lltech has acquired 100 percent

of the outstanding shares of
Masterfeeds, Inc., in a share
purchase agreement with Ag Processing
Inc (AGP). Masterfeeds, a leading
commercial animal nutrition company
in Canada, is now part of the Alltech
family of companies, which includes
12 other companies that Alltech has
acquired globally since 2011.
Masterfeeds has long been a partner
and friend of Alltech. With them fully
on board now as an Alltech company,
together we can narrow our focus and
accelerate on-farm performance,
said Dr Pearse Lyons, founder and
president of Alltech.
Between Alltechs primacy in
science and Masterfeeds robust
network of farm-focused team
and dealers, we have a winning
combination for moving Canadian
agriculture forward to greater farm
and ranch efficiency and profitability.
The addition of Masterfeeds to
Alltechs existing Canadian operations
and other Canadian acquisition, EMF
Nutrition, brings the companies
total presence to approximately 700
Canadian employees. Together they
operate 25 feed manufacturing and
premix facilities, nine retail locations
and seven distribution centres in a
business spanning the entire country.
Alltech has a strong presence in all
Rob Flack, CEO of

Masterfeeds, joins Dr
Pearse Lyons, president
and founder of Alltech,
in celebrating Alltechs
completed acquisition of
Masterfeeds, Canadas
leading animal nutrition
company
regions of the world with more than

4700 employees worldwide.
Never in our 86-year history has
our future been as exciting as it is
now that we have joined the Alltech
family, stated Rob Flack, president
and CEO of Masterfeeds.
Alltech is at the forefront of
science in everything they do. This
strengthens our ability to deliver
on-farm nutrition solutions like never
before.
Alltech and Masterfeeds have
identified possible growth
opportunities together, which may
include nutritional technologies and
feeding programmes for antibioticfree formulation, feed efficiency,
organic minerals, algae, mycotoxin
management and crop protection and
performance. Masterfeeds also has
equine and pet product lines, which
may be further developed with Alltech
nutritional technologies.
Masterfeeds will continue to be
headquartered in London, Ontario,
Canada, and led by its current chief
executive officer, Rob Flack. In
Bunge donates US$1 million to

new Saint Louis Science Centre
GROW agriculture exhibit
unge North America, the North American operating

arm of Bunge Limited, announced a significant
gift in support of the Saint Louis Science Centres
recently announced permanent exhibit on agriculture.
Bunge is contributing US$1 million over five years to the
exhibit titled 'GROW,' which will teach visitors about food
from farm to fork.
Agriculture touches every life, every day in the food we
eat, and it is important to give everyone an opportunity to
understand how the food value chain works, said Todd
Bastean, president and CEO, Bunge North America.
As a leading agrifood company with roots in St Louis,
Bunge is proud to help the Saint Louis Science Centre
highlight how agriculture will meet the growing global
addition, Alltechs own entity, Alltech

Canada, remains headquartered in
Guelph, Ontario, serving the entire
Canadian feed industry.
Alltech has more than tripled its
sales in the last three years and is
on target to achieve US$4 billion in
sales in the next few years. Since
2011, Alltech has completed 13
acquisitions successfully. This is
Alltechs second acquisition of a
company headquartered in Canada,
following the success in acquiring
EMF Nutrition in 2013.
The pressure on agriculture today
requires the feed business to take an
aggressive approach to continuous
improvement of nutritional
technology, said Steve Bourne, vice
president of Alltech.
Our number one focus is and
always will be: How do we improve
profitability and efficiency for our
customers on the farm and on the
ranch? This commitment defines
our strategy and underscores why
we are moving forward with trusted
companies like Masterfeeds.
demand for food.

In addition to financial support, Bunge employees
will offer industry expertise to the Science Centre team
developing the exhibit, which will include more than 40
exhibits about agriculture and economics, chemistry, culture,
technology and life sciences all in a permanent one-acre
site that includes indoor and outdoor experiences. Bunge
employees will also provide ongoing volunteer support to
the exhibit, the first major addition of a permanent exhibit
by the Saint Louis Science Centre since 1991.
We are grateful to Bunge not only for its financial
commitment but for the companys willingness to provide
real working knowledge of the food supply chain from
the producer to the processors to the consumer, said Bert
Vescolani, president and CEO, Saint Louis Science Centre.
Through this partnership, visitors will have a better
understanding of how food moves from the field to the
table and the challenges we face to make sure the world
has enough to eat.
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arm conditions mean that aphids may still be

multiplying and moving within many autumnsown crops, particularly in areas with less
extreme rainfall, says AHDB Aphid News.
The risk of virus spread (BYDV and TuYV) for January is
unusually high.
Monitoring at risk crops is still advised until winter
conditions take hold, which latest forecasts suggest could be
as early as next week.
Met Office figures suggest last month was the wettest
December on record.
The UK mean temperature for December was a recordbreaking at 7.9C, which is 4.1C above the long-term
average. The previous record was 6.9C in 1934.
Temperatures for December 2015 were closer to those
normally experienced during April or May. Along with the
remarkable warmth, there has been a virtual complete lack
of air frost across much of England.
The exceptionally mild weather has led to further late
aphid flight activity in south west and south east England,
particularly during the week 14-20 December but less so
between December 21 to January 3.
It has been very wet through most of December and it
is possible that this will have restricted aphid movement
within crops. However, in the less extreme wet areas, aphids
will still be multiplying and moving within many autumnsown crops, so the risk of virus spread (BYDV and TuYV)
is still high.
The exceptionally mild weather has led to further late
aphid flight activity in south west and south east England,
particularly during the week December 14-20 but less so
21st December to 3rd January.
Two field reports of wingless aphids thriving on winter
cereals, one of bird cherryoat aphid in Hertfordshire
and one of rose-grain aphid in Somerset, have also
been received by the authors of AHDB Aphid News at
Rothamsted Research.
AHDB forecast the arrival of the first aphid flights each
year.
They do this by using a long run of aphid data from the
suction-trap network, managed by Rothamsted Research,
combined with the long run of weather
data available from the Met Office
and others.
Analysing this data makes it
possible to establish relationships
between weather and the timing
of the start of aphid flights and aphid
abundance in spring and early summer.
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nabim Varieties Working Group reclassifies

KWS Siskin winter wheat
he winter wheat variety KWS

Siskins status has been changed
from Group 4 to Group 2 after
a review of data by the nabim Varieties
Working Group.
Following the original decision in
November 2015, a careful review of
extensive milling and baking test data
for KWS Siskin was undertaken by
nabim. Crucially, the review included
performance data..
As a result of the review, it was
concluded on 13 January 2016 that
the original decision did not reflect all
growing situations.
Martin Savage, nabim Trade Policy
Manager, said: Based on the evidence
we had in November, KWS Siskin was
judged to have the characteristics of a
Group 4 variety.
An appeal was received from KWS,
the plant breeder, stating that the
original nabim decision had placed
undue weight on one data set.
Additional data was then considered
which helped to show that KWS
Siskins bread-making performance
variability was within the acceptable
range for a Group 2 variety.

This is the first appeal against a
decision made by the nabim Varieties
Working Group and we are delighted
at the positive outcome as it shows the
value of appeal.
The first online edition of the
Recommended Lists for cereals and
oilseeds 2016/17 (RL) was launched
on 30 November 2015.
Based on the latest variety trial
information, the online Lists represent
the most accurate source of information
on yield and quality performance,
agronomic features and market options
to assist growers with variety selection.
The final RL booklet is published in late
winter, typically February.
Dr Simon Oxley, who heads the
Recommended Lists project, said:
The period between the publication
of the online Lists and the final RL
publication provides opportunities to
refine recommendations.
Because of the commercial
importance of the RL, it is not unusual
for plant breeders to appeal decisions.
Each appeal is considered seriously
and evidence reviewed thoroughly.

As this decision related to the milling
performance of KWS Siskin, the
appeal was considered by the nabim
Varieties Working Group.
We fully support the decision made
by nabim to alter KWS Siskins group
status from Group 4 to Group 2 and
have updated our online tables to
reflect this decision.
KWS Siskin joins two other nabim
Group 2 varieties KWS Lili and
Cordiale on the 2016/17 RL
strengthening options for growers
looking for varieties with breadmaking potential.
KWS managing director Andrew
Newby welcomed the decision saying he
had always been confident in the varietys
suitability as a bread-making wheat.
The decision to downgrade KWS
Siskin to a Group 4 came as a surprise
and after consulting our technical
team, led by Mark Dodds and Kirsty
Richards, we felt there was justification
for an appeal.
nabim is also to be applauded for the
way in which it managed the appeal.
This is the first appeal of its kind and
there was no precedent for how it
should be handled.
Milling News
What is phytase superdosing?

AB Vistas Dr Mike Bedford explains the science
n a recently released technical

video, Mike Bedford, Research
Director at AB Vista, highlights
new research that more precisely
identifies how phytases work in the
animal. This helps explain where
the performance benefits of phytase
superdosing are really coming from
and why important differences can be
seen between commercial phytases.
Many end-users have now adopted
the practice of superdosing, using
higher phytase doses in feed to reduce
the anti-nutritional effects of phytate
(IP6) in pigs and poultry. This has
proven to give additional animal
performance benefits beyond standard
phytases doses.
Recent publications have shown
that it is not just phytate that has
antinutritive effects; the breakdown
products of phytate - IP5, IP4 and IP3
can also have an anti-nutritive effect
in the animal. These lower phytate
esters have been shown to correlate
with poor digestion of protein, energy
and minerals, indicating that they

have an anti-nutritive effect in the
animal. The key point is that, with
standard phytase dosing, we may
be degrading one anti-nutrient and
simply replacing with another.
Despite this, confusion still exists
in the market as to what superdosing
is and how this should be defined.
Ongoing research and customer
experience has helped AB Vista go a
step further in defining superdosing
as feeding enough of an effective
phytase to prevent the build-up of
lower phytate esters such as IP3 and
IP4 in the gut of the animal.
When we think about phytases, we
should think about them as enzymes
to effectively breakdown IP5, IP4, and
IP3 as well as IP6. We want phytases
not only to release the P we need, but
to eliminate all inhibitors of digestion,
and enable the animal to grow more
efficiently. Superdosing phytase does
exactly that.
This also sheds light on why we
see differences between commercial

phytases, which differ significantly in
their ability to break down phytate and
the lower esters IP5, IP4, IP3, even when
fed at high levels. For animal producers
to see a greater return from their phytase
programme, they need to select an
effective phytase, such as Quantum
Blue which, when applied at superdosed
levels, can break down IP6 and continue
to destroy the antinutritive lower phytate
esters, even at low concentrations of
phytate, Dr Bedford says.
Choosing a phytase simply by
determining how much phosphorus it
releases does not give the full picture.
Scientific data now allows us to
better understand exactly what effect
phytases have in the gut, and thus
maximise the performance benefits
that can be made through effective
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[ Museum Story No. 2 ]
FLOUR
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Happy Chinese New Year

Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain
Directory
One of over 3,000 flour sacks collected and exhibited

to the public at the FlourWorld Museum. Flour sacks are
more than just packaging. Behind their artistic designs
there lie stories that reveal the symbolic power of wheat.
Besides secular motifs, the collection includes representations of spiritual strength. The beautiful sack from
Guatemala shows the Virgin of Covadonga revered in
Spain for her strong, pure faith. It is precisely these attributes strength and purity that symbolize the quality of
wheat. This connection has a long tradition in Christianity.
Grain was the beginning
With its collection of over 3,000 flour sacks from 130
countries around the globe, the FlourWorld Museum in
Wittenburg, near Hamburg (Germany), is unique in the
world of grain. It is an initiative and cultural project of
Mhlenchemie and a token of thanks to all millers. The
museum shows the history of flour and its significance for
mankind: FLOUR IS LIFE. Every new sack with an interesting motif is welcome in the Sackotheque and will find a
permanent home there.
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Greetings from The

International Milling
and Grain Directory.
Following our fantastic
distribution and frankly
staggering interest shown
from the industry at
IPPE in Atlanta, USA
recently; we now hope to
experience an equally positive reception at GEAPS
later this month. This month the Chinese New Year is
also celebrated, so I would like to take this opportunity
to wish a happy Happy Chinese New Year or Xin
Nian Kuai Le! to you all, especially the manufacturers,
millers and users of the directory in China.
Recently, GMD enjoyed a very constructive tour of
some of our member companys factories and their
customers flourmills. I personally spent four days in
Italy, whilst my close colleague Darren visited grain
storage solution manufacturers in Spain.
The purpose of these tours is to form a deeper
understanding of the engineering and thinking behind
solving challenges in our industry, whilst presenting
an opportunity to increase our network. This process
is incredibly positive because I firmly believe that
as our own knowledge increases, so does that of our
readership.
More visits of this nature are planned in the upcoming
months, as well as more events. We will ensure that
comprehensive reports of all of our visits are published
in this magazine, so do look out for these over this and
the next couple of issues.
Looking ahead, we will soon have reached the
milestone of the 25th edition that we hope to publish
later this year ready for 2017. In the meantime, it
has been great to see the great care taken by our
member companies in notifying us immediately of
any changes to their contact details. Although I always
have encouraged this but the activity of many of the
members, this has been particularly good recently.
The ability to log-in to amend these changes is also
increasing in popularity. Please if you are also keen
to manage your own profile, then just email me at
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Forage Harvest Analysis, dairy and beef cattle are at
high risk for mycotoxin exposure. Inconsistent weather
conditions during the summer increased the risk for mycotoxin
contamination, leading to challenges in plant growth with
marked negative effects on the 2015 European crop.
The annual study surveyed 174 grain samples at the Analytical
Services Laboratory of Alltech using UPLC-MS/MS testing for
mycotoxin contamination to determine the risk of performance
impairment to ruminant animals. The Alltech 37+ mycotoxin
analysis found an average 2.8 mycotoxins per sample, with
more than 91 percent of samples tested positive for at least one
mycotoxin. The harvest analysis revealed multiple mycotoxins
present in 2015 corn silage, with 75 percent of samples testing at
higher risk for performance impairment to dairy and two-thirds
at higher risk for beef cow performance. The harvest analysis
revealed multiple mycotoxins present in corn silage, showing
the greatest risk for Type A Trichothecenes, Fusaric Acid and
Type B Trichothecenes. Fusaric Acid and Type B Trichothecenes
were present in almost all corn silage samples and can interact
synergistically with each other, increasing toxicity and elevating
the potential to impact herd health and performance.
It is important for producers to understand the synergistic
effects toxins can have when multiple are present in feed,
causing an increase in animal and rumen health challenges,
said Pedro Ramos Caramona, European Mycotoxin
Management team project manager.
Management practices to prevent exposure are always
the best course of action. Producers should look to test feed
samples at harvest and prior to feed out to identify the risk
posed to their animals.
According to Caramona, studies have shown that higher
levels of mycotoxins can lead to a reduction of up to 0.59 litres
in milk per day for dairy cows. Additionally, milk somatic cell
count (SCC) may increase by eight percent. With this loss in
performance and considering current milk prices, producers
could see an estimated reduction in profitability per cow at
53.98 over one lactation.
Common symptoms with the ingestion of these toxins
include reduced feed intake, lowered blood pressure, swelling
and oedema of the legs, liver damage, immune response and
lowered milk and meat production. Also present this year
were Pencillium mycotoxins, commonly known as storage
toxins. Hay and grass silage contained the greatest levels of
Pencilliums, which can have a strong impact on rumen health,
altering microbial protein and affecting rumen and gut health,
which can result in altered performance.
By looking at the overall risk to the animal, known as Risk
Equivalent Quantity (REQ), producers can assess the quality
of their feed and identify the risk as low, moderate or high and
take steps to minimise the impact of mycotoxins on ruminant
animals.
Producers need to be cautious, now more than ever, to ensure
proper packing procedures are implemented to avoid spoilage
prior to feed out, Mr Caramona said.
If left uncontrolled, contamination even at lower levels can
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The Pelletier Column
Searching for a new economic model
by Christophe Pelletier
With the many challenges
arising from a growing world
population, it becomes more and
more obvious that the economic
model of the past six decades
needs to be refreshed.
As such, providing consumer
goods at an affordable price for
the masses is not a bad idea.
Helping people to have a more comfortable and pleasant
life is certainly welcomed by most of us.
The problem is that the so-called consumption society
is not so much about consumption as it is about people
buying and giving their money to someone else. In the
current system, consumption is optional. Research has
shown that consumers use 75 to 80 percent of the goods
that they buy no more than once.
What really matters is the act of purchasing the goods.
It is good for growth and the GDP, currently the leading
metrics for the state of the economy. The problem is that
mass production has gradually shifted from affordability to
cheapness and from value to price.
It has also focused mostly on volume and has not taken
into account that consumers would have to get rid of what
they bought after usage. Negative externalities have been
kept external indeed. Short-term financial results have had
the preference and long-term impact has been ignored.
The system is hitting a wall and issues of greenhouse gases
emissions and waste of resources are now becoming urgent
matters to address. All industries will be affected one way
or the other. Food and agriculture will be no exception.
The big question is how to change the system without
having it implode. That is not an easy one to answer but
sooner or later it will have to change. Vision and leadership
are crucial to manage the transition. I wish I had seen more
of it. So far, I see and hear more about pro this and anti
that. It is highly insufficient and produces more noise
than results. In my opinion, the problem is not so much
about growth as it is about what growth means.
Over the previous few decades, growth has been mostly
about volume numbers; it has been a quantitative growth. I
believe that the best transition towards the next model is to
focus on what I call qualitative growth.
It is not so much about volume as it is about adding value
to the buyer. For consumers and countries, qualitative
growth would be to quantitative growth what EVA
(economic value added) is to turn-over for a business. It is
about prosperity.
For food producers, such shift growth will lead to a
different approach. The most valuable areas of value added

for consumers and society probably lies in providing good
and enjoyable nutrition, yet affordable, thorough advice
and education. The industry will have to help consumers
eat better and help them have healthy diets. It will go
beyond just supply food; consumers will also have to
rediscover what proper nutrition is.
Initiatives such as the Global Access to Nutrition Index
can play a pivotal role in helping food producers make the
transition towards quantitative growth. The food sector has
also an important role to play in keeping our environment
liveable. The trend towards transparency is an important part
of the evolution on both health and environment fronts.
Of course, such a change of economic model means that
the economics must change, too. In my previous column, I
stated that those who do the right thing must be rewarded.
A new reward system must be introduced in the set of
rules and regulations so that producers get the proper
incentive to make the shift because adding the type of
value that I mention to consumers also requires a different
price tag in the store, or at least a different breakdown of
costs and benefits along the entire chain from producers to
consumers.
How to fairly distribute the cost tag of the change is
still open for debate. The system has to be rewarding
for businesses by allowing margins to be comparatively
competitive in the new arrangement. Consumers doing
the right thing must also be rewarded; the new systems
rewards should also apply at the remuneration level.
In particular, the share of qualitative improvements in
companies bonus systems will have to increase at the
expense of qualitative growth targets. The adjustments
needed in the food and agriculture sectors will not end
in this sector. They will have to include other areas of
government too; in particular the health sector will have to
be involved, as the consequences of the quality of nutrition
on health are obvious for individuals and society both at
the personal as at the financial level.
I also believe that such a shift in economic model will
mean that business partners within the value chain will
have to challenge each other to carry out the transition and
it will become a critical point in choosing with whom to do
business in the future.
Christophe Pelletier is a food and agriculture strategist
and futurist from Canada. He works internationally. He
has published two books on feeding the worlds growing
population. His blog is called The Food Futurist.
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Opportunities in Indonesia
by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG
In these columns I have written
before about Indonesia, but I make no
apologies for doing so again from a
UK perspective. It was the first Asian
country that our newly elected Prime
Minister visited in 2015 and very
soon their President will make his
first State Visit to our country. These
very high profile visits reiterate the
importance given by us to trade between our two countries.
Indonesia is widely regarded as a politically stable, democratic
country with a population of over 250 million people, 84 million
of whom are now rated as middle class and having disposable
incomes for luxury goods. With a trillion dollar economy it is
the largest in SE Asia and ranked tenth in the world.
And with over 60 percent of its population of working age
and young who are enthusiastically embracing all new
technology and becoming more urbanised.
The challenge for our agri and aquaculture industries allied
with food production and safety must be to help them
develop their industries.
Agriculture is a vital sector with food security a priority
to meet the populations needs and to help its economy by
increasing its exports. It already accounts for 15 percent of
GDP; the third largest after hydrocarbons and manufacture
Indonesia is seeking to move its agricultural and aquaculture
industries further up the value chain and is trying to attract foreign
investment, technology and innovation from global companies.
The aim: to improve production by more than 20 percent.
This cannot be achieved on its own and the Government
is already improving and building roads air and sea ports
along with dedicated business and manufacturing parks with
improved power supplies to enable modern manufacturing,
packaging and distribution to be efficient and effective.
This includes for the production of inputs of manufactured
feedstuffs, fertilisers, sprays and pharmaceuticals.
From the foreign investment perspective corruption and
illegal trading is being very effectively tackled, making the
country a very safe place to trade.
As a country based around thousands of islands aquaculture
is a main source of income with a clamp down on illegal
fishing mostly carried out by foreign countries the
opportunities for home based production are significantly
increased, along with the development of efficient fish
farming both from salt and fresh water.
These industries cannot be developed without efficient milling
and feed formulation to meet every growth stage and fulfil the
genetic potential, whilst using the best technologies available.
To this end foreign expertise and investment is being actively
sought. Placing Indonesia as a world leader in fish and shrimp
production. Once produced the industry needs to be developed
to meet the Global GAP standards not just for export but also
to safely feed the increasingly urbanised population.

With fish shrimp and other crustacean species a source
of human protein that can now be effectively farmed
opportunities for efficient production abound.
For agriculture the country offers climate and soil types
ideal for crop production horticulture being of significant
importance as well as the staple of rice and potatoes.
There are massive marketing opportunities for storage and
marketing for perishable crops.
Similarly the livestock industry is open for investment and
improvement along with the genetic improvement (which
can be easily achieved) management and production systems
need to be upgraded to realise the full potential
Already innovative crop genetics in country have developed
a soya bean that can be produced in sub tropical conditions,
with these sort of developments and the use of hitherto under
developed protein sources from algae and insects the future
for stock farming can be better assured.
Improving production and incomes, maintaining a
sustainable future whilst also protecting the environment.
Already in place to help overseas potential investors is a
free service the EU TCF EU Indonesian Trade Cooperation
Facility dedicated to assisting European companies better
understand the opportunities for investment working closely
with BKPM.
Technology and training are key issues along with
investment. The Government are committed to improvement
and are keen to help especially foreign investors take full
advantage of the countries capabilities.
Utilising technology, co operation the rural population
will make significant improvements to their industries and
countries well being
In summary the country in my view offers business and
entrepreneurs opportunities in:
The supply chain (waste reduction, logistics, cool chain,
packaging)
Quality & quality improvement.
Food safety, hygiene, trace ability, standards.
Post harvest technology.
Science & Innovation, R&D Collaboration.
Aquaculture & fisheries.
Genetics.
Value adding.
Investment.
Emphasis on environment and sustainable production
technologies.
Agriculture, crop and livestock production.
Finally for this column I think that Indonesia offers fantastic
opportunities for investors, traders farmers and I am looking
forward to my next visit
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Milling News
COMPANY
UPDATES
Due to continuing worldwide

success, Chief Industries UK are
nearing completion of their new
factory expansion doubling
the size of their existing factory
to 24 000 ft. The new extension
will help further improve the
companys already renowned levels
of customer service and provide
much needed storage and assembly
space. Work is also due to start on
a major extension of their offices to
accommodate new staff and scope
for future expansion.
Great Aunty Harriet Swift - circa 1863
BBC TV history programme inspires

modern bread baking
Archer Daniels Midland

Company (ADM) announced on
8 February that it has agreed
to acquire from Tate & Lyle a
Casablanca, Morocco-based corn
wet mill that produces glucose
and native starch. The facility
is the leading sweetener and
starch supplier in a country that
should see substantial demand
growth in the coming years. It is
well-positioned to serve Moroccan
customers as well as Mediterranean
export markets, said Chris
Cuddy, president of ADMs Corn
Processing business unit. The
acquisition is subject to regulatory
approval. ADM targets closing
during the first half of 2016.
DLG International, organiser of

international trade exhibitions in
the agricultural and food sector,
has established an independent
subsidiary in Moscow, Russia,
incorporated as DLG RUS
OOO. The opening of the new
office in Russia means that DLG
International now has eight
international subsidiaries: DLG
RUS OOO in Russia; DLG
Italia; DLG BENELUX in the
Netherlands; DLG AgroFood in
Poland; DLG Inter Marketing
in Romania; DLG Fuarcilik in
Turkey; and DLG AgroTechService
in China, as well as IFWexpo in
Heidelberg, Germany.
uring his involvement in the

BBCs new Victorian Bakers
television series, 5th generation
family and Master Baker John Swift was
inspired to create new breads from old
ideas.
35-year-old John from Clee Hill in South
Shropshire was filming the new three-part
series for BBC2 last year and with the
help of two programme historians, gained
an insight into the world of bread baking
in Victorian times. The ingredients and
techniques he was learning about were
closely replicating those probably used by
his Great Aunt Hannah Swift when she set
up the family business as a grocery store
and Swifts Bakery in 1863.
Sponge and dough breads were prepared
using a longer fermentation process that
took time to prove and a second stage mix
with the final ingredients. This method was
used before bread improvers were invented
and gave the bread a better taste, texture
and chemistry. Taking this knowledge
from history and applying the modern
techniques of a 21st century bakery, John
has created two new loaves. The Clee
Hill Cob is a white seeded loaf sprinkled
with wheat flakes and is named after the
town in which the family business has
operated since the late 1970s. Whilst the
Quarry Cob is made using locally-milled
Shropshire wholemeal flour and is named
after the nearby granite quarries that
overlook internationally-known foodie
destination, Ludlow.
Traditional production methods - dating
back more than 150 years, have been

brought together with current innovation,
as John Swift explains:
These sponge and dough breads were
originally produced as a cheap, staple food
that would have been essential; especially
for the very poor working classes of the
Victorian era. Ill always remember the
look of Ive just been to heaven and back
on the face of my fellow Victorian Baker
John Foster, when we were filming and he
had just smelled the first successful batch
of loaves.
We will respect tradition by using the
same long fermentation processes; but
Im sure the newer versions will bring
something fresh and appealing to the table
for our modern day customer.
Johns inspiration is borne of a passion
for craft baking, traditional methods and
natural ingredients. But filming for the
BBC programme also developed a strong
desire to have a greater appreciation of
how things were for his family in the past.
My Father Richard and my Grandfather
Charles have both inspired me and guided
me, but this gave me an opportunity
to learn more and feel more closely
connected to earlier generations of my
family as well. Victorian times were tough
compared to our lives now and living
conditions were often harsh. The Swift
family were providing an essential service
to the local villages. Im now even more
determined to blend what was important
and good in the past, with what the 21st
century wants from a Master Baker.
Milling News
Pre-harvest food safety
ederal US food safety surveillance data in recent years

shows significant progress by the poultry and red meat
industries in reducing foodborne pathogens. Nonetheless,
notes Doug Smith, PhD, Director of Food Safety at Diamond V,
the rates of human illness persist.
The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network
operated by US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
has been tracking trends for human infections transmitted
through food for nearly 20 years. Salmonella, Campylobacter,
and Escherichia coli have been frequently associated with
consumption of animal protein products. Often these bacteria
have been cited among the top five pathogens causing
foodborne illness in the US.
Despite progress against pathogenic E coli, Dr Smith says,
the level of Salmonella infections have been constant for
nearly a decade and Campylobacter infections have been on the
rise.
This ongoing challenge is part of the impetus for new federal

feed and food production regulations stemming from passage
of the US Food Safety and Modernisation Act.
In order to lower the risk of human illness, Dr Smith says,
companies producing foods of animal origin must implement
effective pre-harvest food safety programs.
Producing a safe, sustainable, and affordable food supply, says
Don McIntyre, PhD, Diamond V Director of North American
Poultry Research and Technical Service, means strengthening
each link in the food supply chain -- from farm to fork.
Dr McIntyre notes: Abstracts and posters at the 2016
International Poultry Scientific Forum (IPSF) report research
focused on human pathogens that occur in poultry during
production as well as on the effects of production challenges
like heat and crowding stress.
Key presentations at IPSF 2016, January 25, at the World
Congress Centre in Atlanta include:
Effects of feeding Diamond V Original XPC on the
virulence, antibiotic resistance, intestinal colonisation and
faecal shedding of multiple antibiotic-resistant Salmonella
Typhimurium in broilers. SA
Carlson* (Iowa State University),
KL Anderson, MF Scott, and
DR McIntyre -- 2:00 pm, Room
B-312, M46
Including Original XPC feed
additive in the diet of inoculated
broilers during grow-out helps
control Salmonella associated
with their carcasses after
processing. NA Cox* (USDA
Agricultural Research Service
and University of Georgia), DE
Cosby, JL Wilson, DV Bourassa,
RJ Buhr, ME Berrang, DR
McIntyre, and DP Smith -- 4:30
p.m., Room B-313, P273
Effect of Original-XPC on
the cecal microbiome of broilers
influencing the survival of
Salmonella in an anaerobic in vitro
mixed culture assay. SM Roto*
(University of Arkansas), PM
Rubinelli, SH Park, and SC Ricke
-- 4:30 pm, Room B-313, P334
Effect of feeding Original
XPC on Salmonella
populations in the cecum
(hindgut) of experimentally
Salmonella-challenged
6-weekold broiler chickens.
PM Rubinelli (University of
Arkansas), SM Roto, SH Park,
and SC Ricke* -- 4:30 pm, Room
B-313, P239
Effects of heat and crowding
stress on commercial turkey hen
performance supplemented with
dietary Original XPC or combined
with AviCare in water. B
Bartz* (North Carolina State
University), JL Grimes, SB Black,
IB Barasch, and DR McIntyre -9:15 am, Room B-314, M86
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Feed Safety Awareness in Southern Europe

by Johan den Hartog Managing Director of GMP+ International
GMP+ International facilitates
access for Italian companies
by introducing the GMP+ FSA
Country Note Italy
Well attended workshop marks
fast growing Feed Safety
Awareness in Southern Europe.
Towards the end of 2015, nearly
100 representatives of Italian
Feed companies attended a workshop organized by GMP+
International in Bologna Italy, to introduce the GMP+ FSA
Country Note Italy (GMP+ BCN-IT).
GMP+ International manages the unique GMP+ Feed
Certification scheme (GMP+ FC scheme). This certification
scheme is focused on controlling feed safety (GMP+
Feed Safety Assurance) and responsibility (GMP+ Feed
Responsibility Assurance). The scheme consists of standards
and rules for certification and is intended for companies
active in the feed chain around the world.
Since 2010 the number of GMP+ FSA certified companies
in Italy increased by 900 percent to almost 400 companies
today, which makes this country the sixth most important
country for GMP+ International.
The introduction of this Country Note is the result of
initiatives taken by local feed companies and certification
bodies to overcome some of the most important hurdles
for these companies in establishing a GMP+ feed safety
management system and for getting a GMP+ FSA certificate.
Why get a Country Note?
During the workshop representatives of GMP+ certified

companies Agricola Grains S.P.A and Methodo Chemicals
S.R.L, shared their experiences and bottlenecks with
the audience. The chain approach, the founding concept
of GMP+ FSA, often causes issues with sourcing of
feed materials in countries where the density of GMP+
participants is relativelylow.
This Italian country note, which is purely a temporary
standard; applicable until the end 2019, is meant to address
issues in the following areas;
Gatekeeper protocols to allow sourcing of non-assured feed
materials
Requirements to combine the production of GMP+ assured

and non-assured feed in the same production facility
Special conditions allowing transport companies to perform
gatekeeper protocols, subject to approval of the producer or
trader
Labeling conditions for BCN-IT and non-assured

products
This country note offers Italian companies the opportunity to

participate in the GMP+ scheme -- even when their suppliers
are not yet utilising a certified feed safety management
system.
The country note can only be granted for a period of just a
few years, in which assured, certified supply chains can be
achieved. So for this reason, any products that are produced
by a company who possess a country note, can only be
placed on the local, Italian market.
Dik Wolters, Program Manager Standards of GMP+
International comments this project is a great example
how the involved stakeholders committed themselves
to achieve compliance with the high GMP+ feed safety
standard. They joined forces and took their responsibility
to solve some issues in the long road to GMP+ feed safety
assurance. Over the next months we will closely monitor
the experiences of Italian companies in order to make this
Country Note as practical as possible, yet ensuring safe
practices.
An Italian company can apply this country note in addition
to one of the basic GMP+ standards, from the 1st of January
2016 onwards. Compliance is checked by the auditor. A
successful audit results in a certificate with relevant scopes.
For details about application and certification of this
country note in combination with a basic GMP+ standard,
a company should contact a certification body approved
for GMP+ certification by GMP+ International. Please also
refer to the GMP+ website.
Certification bodies, who are approved to carry out GMP+
certification, will be informed separately by GMP+
International about specific certification details.
The Italian translation of the Country Note Italy as well
as a FAQ-document regarding this country note will all be
available shortly.
Milling News
Milling and Grain talk to

Merryl Webster from Format
International about the recent
aquasition by Cargill
argill has acquired Format International Ltd,

a leading global feed formulation software
company with more than thirty years of
experience and more than 5 000 users across 93
countries. With the move said to have been driven by
opportunities in the global feed software market to
provide customers with integrated formulation software,
as well as solutions on a larger scale.
Format International is a well established British based
company that specialises in the design, authoring and
marketing of recipe optimisation, ingredient allocation
and food and feed formulation solutions for the animal
feed, aqua feed, pet food, human food, premix and other
industries.
Founded in 1980, Format Internationalcurrently
delivers software to customers in over93 countries
world-wide; ranging from small local companies and
consultants to large, multi-national corporations.
The new arrangement will see Format International and
FMS join its software businesses together and operate as
a separate part of the Cargill Animal Nutrition business.
FMS currently has more than 12 000 users and provides
formulation and operations solutions to the feed industry.
According to a recent press release from Cargill, the
acquisition has created a unique opportunity to create
world-class formulation solutions, as well the ability to
provide customers with an even more comprehensive
range of products and services.
However, Cargill has assured Format Internationals
existing customers and its employees that they will
benefit not only from Cargills scale and animal nutrition
expertise, but also from working with a company that
shares their values.
What impresses me about Cargill is its high ethical
standards, sustainable business practices and valuesbased culture, focused on customers, employees and
communities, said Merryl Webster, former managing
director, Format International.
Milling and Grain Magazine recently spoke with
Merryl to learn how Decembers marriage with Cargill
will affect their existing user-base, as well as how she
believes the arrangement will work going forward.
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These must be slightly unfamiliar

times for Format International, with
the company having previously been
an independent entity. With this in
mind, does Format International
currently have any plans to launch
any new products over the next year
or so?
Yes. In fact weve just released a new
version of Format iNDIGO and of NC software, both
of which have wonderful new features included.Full details
will be presented to users at the upcoming User Group
meeting.We have exciting plans for new products and the
merger with Cargill brings the opportunity to present new
products to our user-base, which have been developed by
our colleagues in the US and which we believe can bring
value.
Will this new product be available to everyone, or do
you believe that any new software will be made available
to both Format Internationals and Cargills existing
customers?
Absolutely, yes.
It has been a number of months now since the acquisition
of Format International by Cargill, have you seen any
wholesale changes in your working practices since this
happened?
Its still very early days. We are expecting that there will
be some back-office changes such as hardware and some
internal systems. In terms of our service to customers, its
absolutely business as usual, and over time; well enhance
the offering from a basis that is stronger as a result of the
new relationship.
In your opinion, do you believe that Format
Internationals customers have experienced any change
(good or bad) since the acquisition?
Formats clients havent experienced any change in the way
that they relate to the team, to the support services or to the
products. We can give complete assurances concerning
client confidentiality, protection of IP
and our total commitment to
continuing and enhancing our
services. Its our intention and
expectation that any changes
over time will be only for the
better.
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Mill
Training
The IAOM is proud to announce that the Fundamentals of

Milling courses will once again be held at Ocrims International
School of Milling Technology this coming April, in Cremona, Italy.
IAOMs Fundamentals of Milling

The Ocrim school and training center, located in the center of
Ocrims manufacturing workshops, allows participants to take
advantage of a classroom setting with a nearby lab, as well as a
full machine production center. In addition, a small pilot mill is
available, all these resources combining to both complement and
deepen expertise in mill processing.
The two courses Fundamentals of Milling I and Fundamentals of
Milling II, are both instructed by Dr Jeff Gwirtz of JAG Services.Dr Gwirtz taught the courses last year and has also provided
exceptional consultant and volunteer services to IAOM over the
years. The courses are designed for those who are closely associated
with flour milling plant operations and those who are directly
associated with flour milling plant operations, respectively.
Fundamentals of Milling I will be offered April 11-15 (registration
closes March 11, 2016). This technical training course is intended
for employees, supervisors and managers closely associated with
flour milling plant operations.
Participants will be introduced to general flour milling plant operations
including the grain elevator, cleaning, conditioning, milling, packaging
and warehouse departments. Special focus will be placed on grain
cleaning, conditioning and milling equipment role in the milling process
and system flow sheets. Wheat quality characteristics as well as the
cleaning and condition impact on mill processing will be qualitatively

explored. Flour quality specifications and quality measurements will be
identified for basic bakery product systems.
In addition to lecture and discussions, participants will be engaged
in hands on laboratory and pilot scale milling exercises.
Fundamentals of Milling II will be offered April 18-22 (registration
closes March 11, 2016). This technical training course is intended
for employees, supervisors and managers directly associated with
flour milling plant operations.
Participants will be introduced to a variety of technical and
economic analytical tools for milling process evaluation. Technical
tools to be presented include product granulation, cumulative
ash, step chart development, and flow sheet equipment allocation
analysis. Economic tools to be discussed include yield management,
divide milling, and the impact of moisture on profitability. The
impact of wheat quality characteristics, cleaning, and conditioning
on mill operations will be quantitatively explored.
Selected roller mill grinding, sifting, and purification variables
will be examined in depth and special emphasis will be put on mill
balance and troubleshooting skill development during hands on
laboratory and pilot scale milling exercises.
The registration fee includes; tuition, laboratory fees, books,
special instruction, materials, transportation, and lunch on class
days; fees do not include lodging and evening meals. One course for
an IAOM Member is 1,950, and for a Non- Member it is 2,050.
Two courses for an IAOM Member is 3,700, and for a NonMember it is 3,900. With regards to lodging - Ocrim has reserved
a block of rooms at the Hotel Continental with a special rate for
course participants. This rate includes breakfast. Students will be
responsible for their hotel, meals outside of the course, incidentals,
and travel to and from Cremona.
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TCQY63 drum sieve
PRODUCT FOCUS
FEBRUARY 2016
In every edition of Milling and Grain,
we take a look at the products that will
be saving you time and money in the
milling process.
TCQY63 drum sieve by Yongxiang is designed to clean raw

material in rice milling plant and feedstuff plant, mainly removing
large impurities such as stalks, hemptwist, clods, fragments of brick
and stone and other pollutants, so as to ensure the rice is of the
highest quality and prevent the equipment from be damaged.
TCQY63 drum sieve can
handle a large
capacity at a
low power. Only
a small area is
required for the
machine and with
easily replaceable
parts, such as
the screen, it is a
compact, relatively
low maintenance
machine.
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Chief Caldwell Heaters

Chief are dedicated to supplying crop drying products that
are safe, reliable, and less costly to the end user.
Designed to work in combination with either axial,
centrifugal or inline fans, Caldwell heaters are adaptable.
Fueled by natural gas and liquid or vapour propane they
are available in upstream and downstream models.
Caldwell heaters boast:
Easy access service door and control
box.
Heavy gauge galvanized housings
built to last.
High and low temperature
configurations.
Nine models of electric humidity
controllers.
Models manufactured to CSA 3.82014 Standard and listed with CSA are
available.
SEE THIS AT:

Check out Chief Agri/
Industrial, a division of
Chief Industries Inc, at
GEAPS Exchange 2016 this
February. With over 60 years
of experience, Chief offers
customers a wide range of
products and the expertise
to serve their individual
needs. Come and find them
at booth 1769 to talk about
their products!
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Famsun SZLH Series Pellet Mill

The SZLH Series Pellet Mill (V4/V6) offers distinguished pelleting
stability.
To enable long term stable production the SZLH Series Pellet Mill
(V4/V6) has a unique double-timing belt driving and cooling
system which output the same torque simultaneously.
There is also a sectional ring die clamper for fixing the ring die firmly
onto the rotor, as well as a widened supporting area for the main
shaft.
The optimized feed-to-pellet deflector structure,
widened ring die working area allow for a
consistently high output and low energy
consumption.
With its user-friendly hydraulic system for
die change and roller adjustment, autolubrication system and overload and door
protection the SZLH Series Pellet Mill (V4/V6)
can boast enhanced safety.
All ensuring a superior pellet quality.
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Granolino II whole kernel quick

moisture tester
The Granolino II will provide most accurate moisture readings
within seconds for a wide variety of products.
The keypad has only 5 keys for intuitive operation without training.
There are calibration curves for several kinds of grain, which have
been evaluated in Agromatic laboratories by means of a drying
cupboard, are integrated in the Granolino II.
The Flow thru Design allows the performance of quick,
fully-automatic measurements. Simply
select your product pour a sample
into the hopper until accoustic signal
appears then the Granolino II will load
the sample, perform a measurement
and unload the product sample
automatically.
The unit will display humidity and
temperature on the easy to read
alphanumerical LCD display in english,
german, french or italian.
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FOCUS
SPECIAL FOCUS
A good quality flour begins with efficient wheat cleaning. Sieving

or screening to remove foreign bodies from a top quality grain is
of the utmost importance. The removal of these foreign bodies,
such as dust and other fine and course impurities, from the wheat
can be tackled in a variety of manners.
Grain separators like the Grain Separator TCSI from Alapala
removes fine and course impurities from cereal cayopses by using
a sifting action. Of course it is not simply applicable to flour, due
to its adjustable speed and inclinable screen, it can be used as a
multilateral grain-cleaning machine.
The Grain Separator TCSI can boast many application fields
including, but not exclusive to, flour and semolina mills, cereals
cleaning and collaboration centres, malt factories, feed mills,
cereal storage silos and other similar industrial plants.
Structurally, the vibrating motors provide the oscillation for the
separator. This vibrating structure is supported by elastic shockabsorbing elements, containing the sifting body with two rows of
sieve pairs. The sieves are held in place by steel or wooden made
sieve frames, which come equipped with easily replaceable perforated
plates. The sieve covers are self-cleaning by means of rubber balls. The
grain feed is also self-adjusting, but for personal solace there is also
transparent plexi-glass panels for checking cereal strata.
The working principle of the Grain Separator TCSI is as follows;
the vibrating process is maintained by means of vibro-motors,
which are placed in the center of gravity of the machine. The
grain feeding chamber and body, which are mounted on the
rubber shock absorbers by vibrating together and driven by vibromotors, convey the product into midsection of inlet. The grain is
separated uniformly on the entire surface of the screen by means
of an adjustable regulating gate.
If it is necessary, for better product flow another adjustable
regulating gate can be fixed to the inlet of the screen.
When the grain passes through from the first screen to the second
one, larger size impurities or foreign particles are kept by the
first screen and directed to coarse offal discharge line. Then, the
cleaned product is transported to an air canal or tarar.
Specific advantages of Alapalas Grain Separator TCSI are that,
Grain Separator - TCSI

for low energy consumption, it boasts a high capacity output, thus
can claim advanced efficiency. The self- cleaning features and
trouble free operation, by way of vibro-motors, accredit it with
easy and low key maintenance, and the adjustable inclination
(angle) of the screen (grades ranging from 2 12) reinforce this
notion of efficiency as it can be used for any kind of cereals.
The quick and easy replacement of screens and practical cleaning
possibility, durability and long lifetime, and noiseless working
condition improves and expands sieving capabilities and efficiencies.
Ever advancing technology seeks to maximise equipment
utilisation, decrease energy consumption and above all improve
the quality of the flour, cereals and grains produced. At a time
where food standards and safety are of paramount importance
such advancements in technology yield a safer higher quality end
product for the consumer.
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Millers essential
to public health
success story
Fortifying flour is a great public
health success story. Millers add
vitamins and minerals to their
products, and consumers increase
their nutrient intake while eating
foods they enjoy. In turn, the
population greatly reduces its
risk of debilitating anemia from
nutritional deficiencies and devas
tating birth defects from insufficient
folic acid.
uccess is only achieved if flour fortification

is well implemented and monitored.
Unfortunately these two criteria are not
always met. A study published in 2015
estimated that less than half the samples
from 20 national food fortification
programs in 12 countries met the countrys
fortification standard for the relevant staple
food.
Food inspectors are typically in charge of monitoring flour
mills, according to Guidelines on Food Fortification with
Micronutrients published by the World Health Organization
(WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations. At the same time, flour millers are responsible for
quality implementation.
The Food Fortification Initiative (FFI) offers the following
suggestions for flour millers to be sure that their products are
adequately and consistently fortified. Following these steps will
help ensure that fortification meets the public health expectations:
Premix Procurement: Choose reputable premix manufacturers
which use high-quality nutrients. The Global Alliance for
Improved Nutrition (GAIN) maintains a list of premix suppliers
that meet quality requirements (www.gainhealth.org).
Premix Receiving: When premix is delivered, inspect the box to
be sure the content has not been damaged in shipment. Confirm
that the nutrient content indicated on the certificate of analysis
matches what was ordered.
Premix Storage: Keep premix away from sunlight, excessive
heat and humidity, and potential water damage.
Premix Supply: Use the oldest premix first. Also, regularly
compare the amount of premix used to the rate of flour produced.
Unusual increases or decreases in the amount of premix used
indicate problems in fortification procedures.
Feed Rate: Check the premix feeder or dosifier hourly and refill
it as needed. Also, weigh the amount of premix discharged by
the feeder over one to two minutes then compare the result to the
weight of premix expected to be discharged over that period. Do
this at least once in every eight-hour shift.
Iron Spot Test: Conduct this simple, rapid test to indicate
qualitatively whether iron has been added to the flour. The
test involves adding a solution of hydrochloric acid, hydrogen
peroxide, and potassium thiocyanate to a flour sample. In a few
minutes, dark spots will appear if the flour has been fortified with
iron. The presence of iron in fortified flour is considered a proxy
F
for other nutrients that were included in the premix. The iron
spot test is formally Method 40-40.01: Iron Qualitative Method
as approved by the American Association of Cereal Chemists
(AACC).
The spot test works well for ferrous sulfate, ferrous fumarate, and
electrolytic iron. When flour is fortified with sodium iron EDTA
(NaFeEDTA), the test works when hydrogen peroxide is not used
as a reagent.
Outside Testing: Periodically send fortified flour samples to
laboratories to be sure that all the specified nutrients are present
in the correct amounts. This requires sophisticated equipment and
careful adherence to protocols because the level of vitamins and
minerals is very small compared to the volume of flour. Some
milling associations or large milling companies have centralized
laboratories for this work.
Keeping accurate records of these procedures will be useful
when regulatory authorities audit the mill for compliance with
the national fortification standard. More importantly for public
health, these steps will give millers confidence that they are
investing in the well-being of their families, their staff, and their
customers.
Wheat and maize flours are commonly fortified with iron to
prevent anemia from iron deficiency. When asked what it felt
like to have anemia, people compared it to walking in quicksand
and having constant jet lag. In addition, iron deficiency limits
a childs cognitive development which affects future earning
potential, and it contributes to 20% of all maternal deaths.
Anemia from iron deficiency is not confined to lower-income
countries. Iron deficiency is the most common and widespread
nutritional disorder in the world, according to WHO. WHO
estimates that 42% of anemia in children, 49% of anemia
in non-pregnant women of child-bearing age, and 50% of
anemia in pregnant women ages 15-49 years is related to iron

deficiency.That translates to 114.7 million children, 243.2 million
non-pregnant women of child-bearing age, and 16.2 million
pregnant women with anemia from iron deficiency.
Imagine that each non-pregnant woman with anemia is 1.65
meters tall. Now imagine all these women standing head to toe
they would be able to reach the moon and circle it.
Whether fortification was effective against this widespread
health problem was the subject of two studies published in 2015.
One study published in July showed that countries which fortify
wheat flour alone or in combination with maize flour show a
2.4% decrease in anemia each year. A second study published
in October provided little evidence that fortification improved
anemia prevalence. The difference was that most countries in the
first study followed WHO recommendations for fortifying flour
with iron; most evaluations in the second study did not.
The WHO recommendations are based on the type of flour
and the amount of flour that is available daily for human
consumption. The recommendations take into account issues of
sensory changes from fortification and bioavailability of various
iron compounds. As the two studies illustrated, following the
recommendations is more likely to have a health impact than
fortifying with an iron compound that is not easily absorbed or
using too little iron.
Only four iron compounds are included in WHO
recommendations for wheat and maize flour fortification: ferrous
fumarate, ferrous sulfate, sodium iron EDTA, and electrolytic
iron. Sodium iron EDTA is the only compound recommended
for use in flour with an extraction rate greater than 80%. The
phytate content of such high extraction flour is likely to inhibit
the absorption of other iron compounds. Also, electrolytic iron
is only recommended where at least 150 grams of flour per
Image courtesy of the

US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC)
Assuming each woman is 1.6 meters tall; each female figure

above represtents 15 million women.
Number of women of reproductive age with anemia reported
in The Global Prevalence of Anemia in 2011, published by World
Health Organisation in 2015. Photo from NASA Earth Observatory
Iron spot test - The red dots in the flour sample indicate that the
flour has been fortified with iron, and that is considered a proxy
for the other nutrients that were in the premix.
Photo courtesy of FFI.
person per day are available for human consumption. If wheat

flour availability is lower than that, the amount of electrolytic
iron needed for the desired health impact might cause sensory
problems in the flour.
Another nutrient commonly added to flour is folic acid, which
is a form of vitamin B9. Everyone needs this nutrient for cell
reproduction. Women who may become pregnant especially need
folic acid to reduce the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs). These
birth defects include spina bifida which causes permanent loss of
sensation and varying degrees of paralysis. Another NTD called
anencephaly is the result of a malformed brain, and it is always
fatal. A rare NTD is encephalocele in which part of the brain
protrudes through the skull.
The neural tube forms within the first few weeks after
conception, and women may not realize they are pregnant during
this time. If they wait until the pregnancy is confirmed to take
folic acid supplements, it may be too late for folic acid to have
its protective effect. Adding folic acid to flour, on the other hand,
helps ensure that women have enough folic acid as they enter the
pregnancy and throughout the critical first few weeks.
Every country that studied its birth defect prevalence showed a
decline in NTDs after fortification. One analysis showed that the
average drop in NTD birth prevalence after fortification was 46%.
The most recent example is from Brazil which recorded a 30%
decline in NTDs after fortification.
Another benefit to preventing NTDs is healthcare savings.
People with spina bifida can lead productive lives, but they may
need a lifetime of surgeries and treatments. Some countries have
compared the cost of fortification with healthcare expenditures
averted when spina bifida is prevented. The cost:benefit ratios
reported were 1:12 in Chile and 1:30 in South Africa. A recent
study in the United States showed that the cost savings were US$
603 million more than the cost of fortification.
Currently 79 countries have national mandates that require
fortifying wheat flour, maize flour, and/or rice with folic acid.
Yet less than 30% of the worlds industrially milled wheat flour
is fortified, according to FFI. About 48% of industrially milled
maize flour is fortified, but the proportion of maize flour that is
industrially milled is low. Less than 1% of industrially milled rice
is fortified.
In addition to the actions listed above for internal quality
control, millers can take several steps to make progress with
flour fortification. First, if your country already has legislation to
fortify flour, compare the standard with WHO recommendations
which are available in six languages.
See table one for recommended levels of five nutrients based
on the amount of wheat flour that is available for human
consumption. Notice that the iron and zinc recommendations are
different for high and low extraction flours. The estimates are
also based on grain availability. Those estimates from the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are on the
country profiles on the FFI website.
Countries may want to include nutrients that are not in
the WHO recommendations in their fortifition standards.
For example, many countries include the B vitamins niacin,
riboflavin, and thiamin in flour fortification. On the other hand,
many countries do not include vitamin A in flour fortification
even though it is included in the WHO recommendations
because they fortify adequately fortify cooking oil or sugar with
vitamin A. Contact FFI at info@ffinetwork.org for assistance in
developing an appropriate flour fortification standard.
If your country does not have a fortification mandate, participate in
a National Fortification Alliance to promote fortification. Information
from the milling industry will help ensure that a country develops
standards that are feasible to implement. Contact FFI at info@
ffinetwork.org to find out if your country has a National Fortification
Alliance or other group advocating for fortification.
For more information on internal quality control and fortifying
flour to prevent nutritional anemia and neural tube birth defects,
see the FFI website.
www.ffinetwork.org
175 years of
sound British
engineering
by Lyndsey Filby, Christy Turner, UK
n 2012 Christy Turner celebrated 175 years of

supplying high quality, robust and reliable flaking
mills, hammer mills, pulverisers and associated
plant equipment for industries around the world that
process food for humans, feed for humans animals,
biomass, waste recycling, minerals, chemicals and
pharmaceuticals.
By combining years of experience with innovative
ideas, the latest design tools, top quality materials
and sound engineering, Christy Turner still manufacture their
machines on the very same site in Ipswich; where the E R & F
Turner brand was established back in 1837.
Created by the merging of E R & F Turner, Christy & Norris
and Miracle Mills, Christy Turner Ltd boasts an international
reputation for producing high quality British engineering as well
as innovation in the milling industry.
This reputation has been forged by the companys apparent
willingness to combine generations of manufacturing skills and

expertise with modern technological advances. In doing so,
Christy Turner have continued to produce the machines of choice
for manufacturers around the globe. For example, over 90 percent
of the machines used by UK cereal giant Weetabix at Burton,
Latimer & Corby sites are Christy Turners E R & F Turner
Flaking Mills.
Generations old reputation for robust, durable

machines
What are the reasons behind Christy Turners longevity? It

could their reputation for robust, durable machines and spares
and servicing, coupled with their innovative and dynamic
approach to the ever-changing milling.
Managing Director Chris Jones believes that the companys
focus on innovation has been the key ingredient in Christy Turner
maintaining their position as a market leader. We are constantly
working to improve the machinery we supply and the parts that
go with them across all our machines; whether that is looking for
the highest possible grade materials to make the toughest possible
hammer parts or using modern technology to produce machines
that come equipped with intuitive control panels for ease of use,
helping overcome language barriers.
Chris Jones also believes that it is vital that Christy Turner
embrace any new materials or technology when they become
available so that they are able to quickly deliver these benefits to
our customers.
To determine the optimum milling solution we have access to
test records and reports from the 1940s to the present day. When
combined with the latest advances in technology and materials, it
is not surprising that our machines remain market leaders.
Jones believes that Christy Turner have worked hard to gain
an excellent reputation for supplying countries around the world
with durable, versatile equipment of the highest standard and we
are committed to maintaining this position.
Currently wholly owned by the Gosling family, Christy Turners

trio of leading engineering brands have each helped shape the
UKs milling landscape and played an important role in the
countrys esteemed milling history.
Establishing the E R & F Turner brand
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600, 550 and 460 model flaking mills that are all designed for
flaking breakfast cereals and are also widely used across the
animal feed industry. However, the longest-established of Christy
Turners core brands was established back when brothers Edward
Rush and Frederick Turner began making steam engines from St
Peters Works in Ipswich.
The company pioneered machine engine design and in 1851
exhibited its own portable steam engine design to more than six
million visitors at the famous Great Exhibition, held at Crystal
Palace. The exhibition put Turners on the world stage and helped
them attract a world-wide reputation as esteemed engine builders
and boiler makers. The portable steam engine of 4-horse power
was cutting edge technology. Subsequent successes included the
introduction of its traction engine in 1865.
Throughout the 19th Century, Turners were gainfully employed
The Introduction of Roller Mills and the Demise of

Stone
Then in 1846, Mr Turner entered into a contract to fit up a

complete steam driven flour millstone system for the eminent
miller Mr Joseph Fison of Ipswich. Sixteen years later, in 1862,
they manufactured from the designs of Mr G A Buckholz, a
Prussian Engineer, another milling plant for Mr Fison which
included roller mills, which is believed to be the first of its
kind in England. This system enabled the bran and germ to be
separated from the flour to meet the increasing demand for whiter
and lighter flours.
During this period, two major changes were taking place,
roller mills were replacing mill stones and electric motors
were replacing steam engines. The demand for flour milling
development was also being stimulated by imported flours from
Hungary that were said to be of a much such superior quality. The
Hungarians were producing superior flour using horizontal rolling
mills that could produce finer more consistent flour.
To fully understand the pioneering system, a milling expert
named Mr J Harrison Carter and Pierson Turner travelled to
Hungary to investigate these mills. Upon their return ER & F
Turner conceived a new range of milling machinery. By 1888 ER
& F Turner were designing and producing their own roller mills mills that could crush seeds and beans for their oil, and maize, to
create cornflakes and other breakfast cereal.
Turners: equipping millers across the globe
An original E R & F Turner Flaking Mill

E R & F Turner 600 Breakfast Cereal with integral conveyor
manufacturing agricultural machinery, steam engines and boilers,

with their main customers being flour millers and animal feed
processors. The development of the steam engine allowed for
increased innovation and greater efficiency into many forms of
agriculture and early food processing. Up to that time milling had
been carried out using either wind or water power. However, the
steam engine was now able to power the operation of a number
of different machines to be used continuously without relying
on wind or water. Even back then, ER & F Turner was at the
forefront of the new technology.
For the 20 years that followed, a considerable number of mills

were equipped with Turners products, including engines and
boilers, transmission gears and drive shafts. In 1908 Turners
decided to discontinue the manufacture of steam engines and
boilers to make way for the growing demands of its milling
business. The success at this time necessitated the acquisition of
further premises which became known as Greyfriars Works. In
addition to flour milling machinery the firm manufactured and
erected the first complete maize flaking plant for animal feed in
the UK.
The outbreak of war in 1914 saw an immediate response
from the company. Arthur Leggett (then works manager, later
to become managing director and in 1932 owner) conceived
the idea of a single purpose lathe for the accurate production
of shell bodies. These were so successful that some 2,000
similar machines were produced for plants in all parts of the
country.
Following the end of the war, demand for manufactured
products and agricultural machinery collapsed and all UK
engineering companies went through very tough times. The
manufacturing of military hardware had kept their factories
during the war years, then suddenly came to an end. The
large export markets which had sustained these companies
before the war had now either been lost or were greatly
diminished.
A number of leading companies in the region were struggling
and following discussions, in June 1919, formed Agricultural
& General Engineers Ltd (AGE) working on a together we
are stronger premise. AGE combined 14 companies, including
E R & F Turner, and took over the entire share capital of the
companies. Others included Barford and Perkins of Peterborough,
E H Bentall of Maldon, Peter Brotherhood of Peterborough, Bull
Motors of Stowmarket, Davey Paxman of Colchester and Richard
Garrett of Leiston.
In 1921, an advertisement in The Miller Magazine listed the
companys products as flour milling machinery, maize milling
and flaking machinery, wheat and maize cleaning machinery,
grinding mills and chilled iron rolls.
ER & F Turner relocate to Foxhall Road site, Ipswich.
In 1922, ER & F Turner purchased a nine acre site on Foxhall

Road in Ipswich that had previously been occupied by Valley
Brickworks. It was to here that they began the lengthy process of
moving the works from their town centre site in College Street to
the new premises. The original St Peters Works site included
the famous Wolseys Gate, and on vacating the premises, the firm
presented the Gate to the town of Ipswich.
By 1932 AGE was suffering from a desperate shortage of
liquidity and a receiver was appointed. Each constituent company
was then sold off separately by the receiver and in most cases
back to the original owner. The firm underwent a reorganisation
under the Chairmanship of Mr Arthur Leggett and E R & F
Turner became independent once again, while also acquiring Bull
Motors Ltd.
The new premises offered the opportunity to re-plan production
on the most up-to-date lines and to consolidate the firms electric
motor production and milling machinery production onto one site
and in 1937 they opened the new factory in Foxhall Road.
It was around this time that the landscape of breakfast cereal
market was undergoing a transformation. In addition to the
traditional porridge oats, other products were now being
introduced to the UK. In 1937 Turners supplied its first flaking
mills to Weetabix Ltd, which laid the foundations of a significant
working relationship with the breakfast giants; which it continues
today.
E R & F Turner through World War II
The outbreak of the Second World War found E R & F Turner

well prepared to meet the heavy demands that were to be made
for its products to contribute to the armaments programme.
As well as making their turning lathes for shells, a quarter of a
A view of St Peters works in Ipswich
million electric motors were manufactured by the firm during the

war years. They included motors for radar equipment, bomber
flap operating gear, electrical transmitters and generating sets.
On the milling side, Turners long experience of seed cleaning
plant was also being put to good use during the war years,
enabling the country to produce products it once relied on imports
for, including the separating, cleaning and drying of flax. Another
application of the companys experience in this field was the
manufacture and installation of large numbers of drying, cleaning
and storage plants for grain. With the introduction of combine
harvesting this equipment became essential to the UKs home
food production.
E R & F Turner and Post War Austerity
Following the Second World War, E R & F Turner invested in

improving their milling products by introducing a new totally
enclosed flour roller mill and a completely new flaking mill with
improved bearing design and lubrication.
The 1960s once again sparked turbulent times for the business
and saw considerable changes in ownership and management.
The Leggett family that had owned and run the company since
1932, first under the stewardship of Mr Arthur Leggett and then
his two sons Alan and Percy, decided to retire. As a result the
business was sold in 1966 to an investment company, Forgeway
Finance, at a time when corporate asset stripping was par for the
course. Forgeway liquidated a lot of the property and E R & F
Turner again was set on a new course.
On May 1, 1969 the company of E R & F Turner Ltd
(incorporating J Harrison Carter), complete with all the drawings,
patterns, spare parts and work in progress, was purchased by
precision engineers W G Gosling & Sons Ltd; an Ipswich
company founded by Walter George Gosling in 1925 and run at
that time by his grandsons. The company selling electric motors
remained at the Foxhall Road site and became Bull Motors Ltd.
The business of E R & T Turner Ltd was relocated to Knightsdale
Road, Ipswich, where it stands today. Also included in the sale
was the associate company of J. Harrison Carter Limited, which
manufactured a wide range of crushing and grinding equipment.
During 1970s the first flaking mill made by the new owners was
sold to a South African company. Since then larger and more
sophisticated mills have been designed, leading to hundreds of
flaking mills being manufactured and shipped all over the world.
Adapting throughout the 20th Century and the Birth of

the 550 Diameter Flaking Mill
F
Norris brand has an equally rich heritage going back to 1858. A
leading competitor in the size reduction industry, Christy Hunt
(Agricultural) Ltd of Scunthorpe (formally Christy & Norris of
Chelmsford) became available in May of 2002 and was bought
and relocated to Ipswich at the end of that year, joining an
impressive line up of leading UK engineering brands.
Fell Christy, the youngest son of a Chelmsford Quaker family,
was apprenticed in1853 to Whitmore and Bunyon, renowned
millwrights and agricultural engineers based in Wickham
Market. With this experience he set up in partnership with his
father in 1858, and they established works in Broomfield Road,
Chelmsford. In the 1860s Fell Christy, working as an engineer
and millwright, travelled widely throughout Britain to service
wind and water-mills - gaining a reputation for meticulous care
and attention to detail.
The beater type disintegrator is introduced.
In 1872 Fell Christy introduced to the UK the manufacture of

the beater type disintegrator, a machine pioneered in the USA. It
reduced dry material to powder with great efficiency, and found
extensive use in agriculture, milling, food manufacture and other
industries.
In 1880 with business expanding rapidly, Mr J A Norris was
recruited from another Chelmsford firm, and five years later he
was taken into partnership to form the firm Christy & Norris.
Christys son William was taken on in 1897 to concentrate on
maintaining the companys fine reputation as millwrights and
mill engineers.
The following century saw the company develop its range of
hammer mills and pulverizers and expand into complete animal
feed plants which they installed around the world. Christy Norris
In the 1980s, a project led by Simon Foods Ltd to make

cornflakes using extruders instead of the traditional process,
resulted in the design of a 550 diameter flaking mill. As a result,
a lot of machines were then sold to parts of the world where
cornflakes had not previously been traditionally eaten.
The 1990s saw computerisation introduced to the flaking
mill and a brand new 600mm diameter roller mill was designed
incorporating computerised gap control and many other
innovative features. This gave a larger roll diameter and higher
capacity than the existing 550 mill. Development of this mill
continues today with the introduction of intuitive touch screen
controls. Christy Turner also launched a simplified version of its
E R & F Turner 600 Flaking Mill specifically re-engineered for
the animal feed market at Victam earlier this year (2015).
The J. Harrison Carter products acquired with E R & F Turner
Ltd back in 1969 had resulted in the manufacture of numerous
crushing & grinding machines. In January 1986 a London firm,
Miracle Mills Ltd of Penge, producing similar machines to the
Harrison Carter range, came up for sale and was quickly snapped
up by E R & F Turner Ltd. Its relocation to Ipswich enabled the
company to combine the skills and engineering expertise of its
staff, which led to the development of a new and improved range
of hammer mills under the Miracle Mills brand.
Miracle Mills currently produces a range of heavy duty swing
top hammer mills primarily designed for feed milling but also
widely used for grinding waste wood products and more abrasive
applications, ideal for reducing products such as waste wood for
animal bedding and biomass. The Miracle Mill 300 Series is a
range of heavy duty mills with a hardened top section especially
suited to particle size reduction of abrasive materials.
The Christy & Norris Brand: Going Strong Since 1858

And last, but by no means least, Christy Turners Christy &
of heavy duty pulverizers used for limestone, plasterboard and

general recycling.
Over the years thousands of X15 and X26 hammer mills have
been made and the industry is very familiar with these models,
many still in service today and forming the basis of design for
many modern hammer mills, including the current Christy &
Norris X mill series. Christy Turner continue to provide supply
parts and servicing for all Christy Norris machines, including the
Sturtevant Crushers & Beken Mixers.
Christy Turners World Famous Spares and Service

Department
As well as supplying new and reconditioned machines, Christy

Turner also has a spares and service department, delivering
everything from machine maintenance advice, on-site servicing,
roll regrinding and replacement rolls to wear parts such as
beaters, screens, rotor parts, scraper blades, bearings and bearing
housings.
Businesses looking for high quality flaking equipment for
breakfast cereal and animal feed production, hammer mills with
a reputation for reliability and longevity or excellent spares
and servicing can comfortably place their trust in a trio of Great
British brands with a rich heritage of the finest UK engineering.
In addition to the machines at Weetabixs Burton Latimer &
Corby sites, E R & F Turner Flaking Mills, are also installed at
Weetabix sites in Kenya, South Africa & Canada. Over 650 E R
& F Turner Flaking Mills are operational across the globe with
mills installed across sites in the UK, Europe, Australia/New
Zealand, South America, Middle East, Kenya, South Africa and
Canada.
Structural simplification and the appointment of Chris

Jones Becomes Managing Director
earned the enviable reputation of being able to build a complete

feed mill installation from the ground up.
The companys diversification continued still further in
the 1980s, when Christys acquired the businesses of Beken
Engineering and Sturtevant Engineering Ltd. Shortly after the
company became one of the UKs most renowned manufacturers
of size reduction machinery, producing a full range of the original
Christy & Norris pulverizers and hammer mills, Beken mixers
and Sturtevant crushers.
The Acquisition of the Hunt and Co. Works
In 1985 Christy & Norris Ltd acquired the company of R Hunt

& Co, and moved from its Chelmsford factory to the R Hunt
& Co works in Earls Colne, creating the combined company of
Christy Hunt Ltd. This union did not prove successful and the
attraction of the large Earls Colne Works for housing proved too
great and in 1988 the works was closed and the Christy & Norris
and R Hunt & Co product ranges were sold to Bentall Simplex, a
Scunthorpe company.
In May 2002 Christy Hunt Agricultural Ltd, whose foundations
were laid in Essex, was brought back to East Anglia by the
Goslings.
Under the Christy Turner umbrella, and reverting to its original
brand name, Christy & Norris currently offers a range of high
speed dual rotation swing beater hammer mills with direct drive,
including the X380, X660 and X960, ideal for grinding cereals
for livestock feed, pet food and aquatic feed; size reduction of
wood waste for animal bedding or pelleting and size reduction of
biomass materials for power generation. It also produces a range
In 2004, an effort was made to simplify the company

administration. E R & F Turner, Christy Hunt and Miracle Mills
were combined by the Goslings into one trading company called
Christy Turner Ltd. However, the consolidation process did lead
to some confusion for customers; with some thinking the historic
brands no longer existed.
This year Christy Turner embarked on an important rebrand
across its business to reclaim its rich heritage and ensure E R
& F Turner, Christy & Norris and Miracle Mills continue to
benefit from their own hard-earned reputations, while trading
under the Christy Turner umbrella. A new and updated web site
allows customers to view all the products now available across
its extensive range which is a veritable one-stop shop for most
milling needs.
In January 2013, Chris Jones became Managing Director of
Christy Turner Ltd, he was also joined by Mags Humphrey as
Finance Director. The company remains wholly owned by the
Gosling family with Ron Gosling as Chairman. Bringing business
experience from outside the industry the new appointments were
made to introduce fresh new leadership and re-invigorate product
development to continue the work and safeguard the legacy of
those early innovators who started the Christy Turner journey
almost 200 years ago.
What Does the Future Have in Store For Christy

Turner
While continuing to provide support for its legacy equipment,

Christy Turner is also committed to furthering the evolution of
its range of machines and maintain an ambitious development
program to ensure its machines remain market leaders in their
field. With the consolidation process firmly established the last
10 years has seen the company go from strength to strength.
can do (almost) anything

Possibilities of modern NIR systems as exemplified by Bhlers Multi Online Analyser MYRG
by Thomas Ziolko, Marketing and Product Manager, Grain Milling, Bhler
and Juste Hahne, Chemometrics, Grains & Food Automation, Bhler
he latest generation of near-infrared

systems for online measurements in
grain, flour and semolina open up
new possibilities regarding gluten,
water absorption and starch damage.
These allow millers to optimise flour
production directly and individually.
The grain processing industry has
been using the near-infrared system
(NIR) to continuously monitor the contents of raw, intermediate
and end products for years. More and more companies are now
using the advantages NIR technology offers for optimising
processes in real time.
NIR analysis makes it possible to assure consistent product
quality, and it makes a substantial contribution to the profitability
of a mill.
The evolution of the NIR machine ultimately means that
previous temporal restrictions and expenditures associated with
laboratory tests and raw materials are a thing of the past.
New generation of NIR
The first generation of NIR equipment focused on analysing

protein content, moisture and ash. These parameters were and are
the classics of most online systems.
In addition, however, there are other quality parameters that
require compliance by the mills. For example, in wheat flour the
amount of gluten, the flours ability to absorb water, or the extent
to which the starch has been damaged, are important factors.
Older generations of online NIR systems were only able to
determine these parameters with insufficient accuracy and
reproducibility. By employing photodiode arrays (diode array,
DA), as in Bhlers NIR Multi Online Analyzer MYRG, the
latest generation of NIR systems offers new possibilities for such
additional parameters and thus new potential for millers.
The NIR Multi Online Analyser MYRG is further

distinguishable by its durability and reliability, a claim reinforced
by some of its new features. The compact measurement probes of
the latest generation NIR are suited to the retrofitting of existing
production systems and it is the only probe actually located in the
production environment.
The control cabinet with its centralised spectrometer provides
ideal protection of the optical and electronic components.
There is also the possibility to add a probe for colour and speck
measurement to the same centralised system
The real time monitoring aspect is one of the major advantages
of Bhlers new NIR system. The NIR units are extremely easy to
use once they are calibrated. Anyone can do measurements with
NIR units, compared to traditional reference method in the lab,
where a trained chemistry technician is needed.
Immediate corrective action is thus applied to the ongoing
production process without the need to wait for laboratory value,
giving you protein, ash, and moisture values in a matter of a few
seconds.
These additional calibrations eliminate long periods of waiting
for laboratory results and correctional measures can be performed
without delay, while simultaneously driving down costs
Possibilities for NIR
Near-infrared spectroscopy is very well suited for determining

the dominant contents in organic materials such as food and
feed products. But to do so, an NIR system needs not only good
hardware in order to function reliably, but a good mathematical
model (calibration) to determine the properties of an unknown
product.
The most important and NIR-active biochemical components,
such as water, starch, protein and fat, can be modeled (or
calibrated) without difficulty. However, other physical or
biochemical product properties can also be correlated with the
F
NIR spectra as long as they are dependent on the combination of
the dominant contents and other properties such as particle size
distribution.
An example of this is the ability of flour to absorb and retain
water during the making of dough. The ability to absorb water
depends on the volume and quality of the protein, the condition
of the starch grains and the particle size distribution, among other
things.
Table 1
Wheat Flour
Parameters
Reference Method
Moisture
Protein
Ash
TGA 701 @900C
Range
Target SEP
TGA 701 @130C
7 16 %
0.20 %
Dumas / Kjeldahl
8 23 %dm
0.25 %
0.3 0.9 % dm
0.03 %
0.9 2.5 % dm
0.05 %
ICC 137
18 47 %mb14%
0.7 %
Brabender
Farinogram
47 85 %mb14%
1.0 %
Chopin SDmatic
AACC 76-33
5 31 UCD
1.0 UCD
Sandstedt &
Mattern
AACC 76-30
3.5 17 %
0.8 %
Wet gluten
Limits of NIR
Only those characteristics which actually leave information

in the NIR spectra and correlate with them can be calibrated.
An example of this is the so-called sample which is used to
evaluate the activity of certain enzymes in the flour.
NIR technology is only conditionally suited for lower ranges of
concentration. It is technically impossible to calibrate enzymes
for NIR because it takes only few ppm enzymes in the flour to
become active.
For generating NIR calibrations, the breadth of data is decisive
for accuracy and the sturdiness of the model. Models can only
predict products if their characteristics have already been
included in the model itself.
On the one hand, it is essential to cover the entire range of
features that are to be measured because the models are not
allowed to extrapolate. On the other hand, any disturbance
factors, such as specific product characteristics (particle size,
temperatures, source, chemical composition), the instrumentation
used and the surroundings, must also be taken into consideration
along with the characteristics which are supposed to be measured.
For the best calibration, several hundred samples can easily
become necessary under these conditions.
Water absorption
Starch damage
The future of NIR
Currently NIR is not a method for trace analysis and many

believe it would be beneficial to be able to measure parameters in
ppm or ppb concentration.
More importantly, perhaps, is the notion that every NIR unit
needs a calibration to get quantitative and qualitative results. The
calculation of such a calibrations is based on chemometric software
tools which needs resources and expert knowhow to be used.
Process
In order to compare spectra and samples, data must

be prepared and calculated using certain algorithms
(chemometry). The preparation of the spectra data using
various mathematical functions depends on the product itself
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as well as the hardware being used and is necessary for better
separation of the interesting information (such as the protein
contents) from the uninteresting information (such as particle
size distribution).
Various possibilities exist which fall under the skill set of
chemometricians. The quantitative calibration models are usually
calculated with the PLS (partial least squares) algorithm which
searches for the largest differences in spectra and links these with
the characteristics to be calibrated.
NIR systems at work
The accuracy of an online NIR measurement system is usually

indicated by SEP (standard error of prediction). SEP is a random
standard error which is found between the reference laboratory
and the online measurement during at least 20 validation
measurements.
The random error in NIR (SEP) cannot be smaller than the
random error of the lab (SEL) since the calibration is based
on the data from the reference laboratory. For inhomogeneous
samples, where taking a representative sampling is already a large
problem, an online NIR measurement can be significantly more
accurate simply because of the size of the sample volume.
NIR devices require constant adjusting. First, the hardware (i.e.,
the light source, measuring window) must be frequently checked,
and secondly, the NIR calibrations themselves also need regular
monitoring and expanding since the product can undergo a natural
change in an unknown direction after a certain amount of time.
One of the main differences in the Multi NIR concept is that
there is one centralised spectrometer onto which can be added up
to six probes, allowing for NIR measurement in various places
throughout a mill.
QUALITY PARAMETERS
Gluten
The protein content in wheat flour consists of 90 percent gluten

(gluten protein). The important proteins in gluten are gliadin
and glutenin in equal portions. Gluten is a more or less flexibleelastic substance which results when wheat flour dough is
allowed to rise.
In other words, it is essentially soaked gliadin and glutenin.
Since a higher protein content does not always mean a higher
content of gluten, an NIR calibration of gluten can offer a high
added value.
The gluten contents of wheat flour and its texture are a decisive
determinant of the doughs behavior during kneading and baking.
In general: The higher the gluten content, the greater the water
absorption, the gas-retention ability and the expected volume of
baked product. Good gluten values: 3034 percent.
The reproducibility of lab measurements is 0.4. With the NIR
Multi Online Analyzer MYRG, 0.7 is achieved.
Starch damage
Starch damage, from a scientific point of view, refers to

mechanically deformed starch.
Compared to intact starch, mechanically deformed starch can
absorb five times more water. That makes it the most important
factor in water absorption for flour and dough yield besides the
protein content.
Starch damage occurs during the various passages in the
milling process. If the technologist knows the desired degree of
starch damage they can adjust the grinding process according to
expectations, for example, by dimensioning the roll lengths (the
longer, the higher the starch damage) or the grinding pressure.
The reproducibility of lab measurements is 0.7. With the NIR
Water absorption
Water absorption [%] is the amount of water which must be

added to a flour in order to achieve a fixed dough consistency of
500 farinograph units (FU). For determining the water absorption
capacity, the farinograph from the Brabender company is
frequently used in the laboratory.
Industrial bakeries need raw materials of consistent quality so
that the process doesnt need constant adjustment. This includes
the water absorption capacity of the flour.
The water absorption capacity is important for proper dough
preparation and controlling the dough during the rising and
baking process, among other things. So naturally, the amount of
water which is added in the baking process will depend on the
water absorption capacity.
There are possible corrective measures that a miller can
undertake: Adjusting the grinding process, performing various
types of conditioning, or adding attrition flour when the water
absorption is too low.
The reproducibility of lab measurements is 0.8, with the NIR
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FEED STATS
More robust and accurate global figures

for feed output in 2015
Milling and Grain congratulates Alltech on producing
the most up-to-date, reliable statistics on feed
production the industry has access to.
The European Feed Manufacturers Association
continues to provide in-depth statistics on its 27
member counties in its annual Feed Facts, but this is
more a historical record which provides three-yearold figures plus forecasts. Other national associations
also collect data, such as the American Feed Industry
Association.
Others servicing the industry, such as Feed International
and AllAboutFeed, have attempted to provide
meaningful global figures and did provided a useful
service to readers in the past.
However, Alltechs ongoing annual survey, which is
right up-to-date and which sees value in the industry
having access to accurate figures, has become the
record of choice. While there were estimates and
missing data in the early years, the 2015 figures
published in January 2016 - are the most accurate yet.
sk and you shall receive. As global disposable

income increases, consumers have developed a
palate for protein, and, over the past five years the
feed industry has delivered.
Results from the 2016 Global Feed Survey released in late
January by Alltech estimates international feed tonnage now at
995.50 million metric tonnes, a 1.97 percent increase over last
year and a 14 percent increase since Alltech first published Global
Feed Survey results in 2011 - but still just 4.5 million tonnes short
of the one billion tonne mark.
The analysis of five-year trends showed growth predominantly
from the pig, and poultry feed sectors and intensification of
production in the African, Middle Eastern, Latin American and
European regions.
Aquafeed output shows a year-on-year decline according to
these latest figures.
Aquafeeds recorded 35.47 million tonnes, down from 41
million tonnes in the figures released for 2014.
China still accounts for over 50 percent of all farmed fish
"Aqua feed numbers fall despite global

increase in farmed fish production"
produced and its aquafeed output is between 60-70 percent of the
total consumed globally.
Aquafeed numbers dont reflect the strong growth in this sector.
We do not see that in this survey, admits Aidan Connolly, chief
innovation officer of Alltech, who headed up the initiative to
conduct the survey when he hosted the news webinar in January.
The production of farmed fish exceeds what we see in feed

production increases, he acknowledged. He says this could be
due to more efficient farming, better feed conversion ratios and/or
better statistics gathering.
Traditionally, there has been a lot of wastage and we see
production systems are becoming more efficient, he added.
Regarding statistics gathering, Mr Connolly said that while it
has become increasingly easier to collect data and the figures
more comprehensive over the years, there always would be
difficulties in achieving accuracy and that some estimates had to
be used. In addition, this years survey cover 32,341 feedmills in
total, up form 31,043 for 2014.
The feed barometer
The feed industry is an excellent barometer of economic health

and, based on our five years of data, predicts economic growth
more accurately than many other indices, says Mr Connolly.
The Global Feed Survey assesses the compound feed production
"The number of feedmills in China, the United

States and Brazil, the first, second and third
largest markets has declined"
from more than 130 countries through information obtained in
partnership with local feed associations and Alltechs sales team,
who visit the 32,341 feed mills annually.
The 2016 survey showed poultry feed has the market share and
is growing faster than any other species, with 46 percent of total
global feed manufactured specifically for broilers, egg layers,
turkeys, duck and other fowl. This years survey also confirmed
that corn and soybean meal are the standard feed ingredients
globally.
The top 10 feed producers in the world remained the same:
China, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India, Spain, Russia,
Germany, Japan and France. As a region, Europe saw the most
growth, up 13 million tonnes over last year, with the largest
contributions coming from Russia, Turkey, Belarus and Poland.
Down two percent from last year, China still holds the title
of leading feed producer in Alltechs annual Feed Survey with
179.93 million tonnes manufactured throughout the countrys
8550 feedmills.
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" This is the third year the worlds leader has

reported a consolidation of its feed tonnage
production into a smaller number of feedmills"
However, this is the third year the worlds leader has reported
a consolidation of its feed tonnage production into a smaller
number of feedmills.
The number of feedmills in the United States and Brazil, the
second and third largest markets, also declined. The US
produced 172.73 million metric tonnes from 6012
feedmills (6718 mills in 2014) and Brazil
manufactured 68.70 million metric tonnes
from 1556 feedmills (1698 mills in 2014).
According to Mr Connolly, the consolidation
of feed production into fewer mills is driven by
many factors.
The Chinese, in particular, see a benefit of having
fewer feedmillslower cost, more efficient and easier to
control from the perspective of traceability and food safety, Mr
Connolly said.
Other notable regional and species statistics from the 2016 Feed
Survey are:
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" Poultry feed production continues to surge

with a 5% increase, now at a total 463.69 million
metric tonnes"
augmented their production by 22 percent in 2015 compared to
the previous year. The Middle East demonstrated a 17 percent
increase with 21.438 million tonnes from the regions 719 mills.
Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America were up 5, 4 and 3 percent
respectively while North America remained flat.
Pig feed production was down 2 percent, with 253.53 million
tonnes. Aqua, with 35.47 million metric tonnes, is down 5
percent this year; although outside of China this figure seems to
relate to more accurate data collection and not a specific decline,
especially given that aqua has been a grower, up 19 percent
overall in the past five years. Equine feed, at 8.22 million tonnes,
declined 2 percent compared to 2014.
Poultry feed production continues to surge with a 5 percent
increase, now at a total 463.69 million metric tonnes. Ruminant
feed was also positive with 201.36 million tonnes, a 3 percent
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increase. Pets are up 4 percent at 22.59 million tonnes.

Having met with groups such as the United Nations Food &
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome and the International
Feed Industry Federation (IFIF), Alltech appreciates how difficult
it is to collect and collate this data, but also how valuable it is on
our journey to feed a planet with more than nine billion people by
2050, Mr Connolly said.
With five years of work behind it, this is the most robust and
reliable dataset on the sector available today.
The Global Feed Survey outlines Alltechs estimate of the
worlds feed tonnage and trends and is intended to serve as open
information resource for policy and decision makers and industry
insiders alike.
A summary of the 2016 Alltech Global Feed Survey findings,
including a recording of the webinar with Aidan Connolly, a
booklet of the results and an interactive map, is available.
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"The Global Feed Survey outlines

Alltechs estimate of the worlds feed
tonnage and trends and is intended to
serve as open information resource
for policy and decision makers and
industry insiders alike"
STORAGE
EXPORT PORT AND STORAGE FACILITIES

Global Industries partners with Terminales Graneleras
Uruguayas on Nueva Palmira port expansion project
erminales Graneleras Uruguayas S.A.

(TGU), a major company engaged in
the international trade of grains and
their by-products both in Uruguay and
countries included in the Parana-Paraguay
Waterway, recently teamed up with Global
Industries, Inc to undertake a major
expansion of their Export Port and Storage
Facilities in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay.
Following extensive discussions and research, the two
companies determined that the expansion would include multiple
grain storage silos, a new dump hopper reception area as well as
new material handling equipment to improve both the capacity
and functionality of the Land Area facilities.
Additionally, the Port Area portion of the facilities would be
significantly upgraded with a new ship loader, portable belt
conveyors to receive the grain unloaded from river barges, a 600
MT/h Bulk Weighting Scale System and additional materials

handling equipment to transfer the grain from the barges to either
the ship loader or the storage facility, and from the storage facility
at the Land Area to the ship loader.
Before construction could begin, considerable engineering work
was required to accommodate the new equipment and support
structures. Global Industries technical team in conjunction
conducted these engineering studies with BILPA S.A. from
Montevideo, Uruguay.
As part of their research, the existing installation including
the complete main concrete tower for the bucket elevators, the
metallic structures, and belt conveyors to the port facility, were
meticulously photographed, measured and included in the project
drawings. A special 3D design was then prepared, showing all of
the floor levels of the concrete tower with the existing and new
bucket elevators, the existing bulk weighting scale system and the
three new incoming/outgoing enclosed belt conveyors.
Further, new spouting was arranged so that the new equipment

interconnected with all existing equipment based on the flow
diagram provided by TGU. Each spouting piece was designed to
gently carry the grain to avoid damage, and self-cleaning spout
ends were installed in all long vertical and horizontal spouts.
Global Industries provided new standard accessories and spouts,
while BILPA S.A supplied any special adapters or inlets for the
existing bucket elevators.
Global Industries supplied three MFS silos, each with a
capacity of 10 000 tonnes, as well as all of the new belt conveyor
and bucket elevator systems. This equipment was galvanized
finished and, based on TGU specifications, SEW direct drives and
STORAGE
4B Watchdog Elite monitoring systems were included with each

new enclosed belt conveyor or bucket elevator.
To support the new material handling equipment, Global
Industries supplied Brownie catwalks and towers. At the port
area, the Port Authorities requested that new support catwalk
and towers to load the new ship loader be placed on top of the
existing catwalk. To accomplish

this, a special double access
bracing was included in each
intermediate support tower, which
was placed in location heights
corresponding to the catwalk
inclination.
In addition, BILPA S.A.
designed and supplied special
heavy structures to be placed at
the peak of the MFS storage silos,
in front of the Bobcat doors to
support the Brownie intermediate
towers. Heavy-duty SEW drives
were also installed on some of
the Brownie towers to enable
operation.
BILPA S.A. was in charge of
the design and construction of
the complete foundations for the
MFS silos, the Brownie towers
and the building for the new
truck dumper. They were also
responsible for the civil works
for the new tunnels and bucket
elevator pits as well as the mounting and start-up of the new
equipment supplied by Global Industries.
Work on this project has been ongoing since early 2015. All of
the new equipment for the Land area has been installed and is in
operation. The new equipment for the Port Area is currently being
installed and is scheduled to be operational by mid-2016.
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STORAGE
Storage project
Cargill invests in the first ever bulk
storage of corn in India
by BK Anand, Director, Cargill India and Business Unit Head- Grains and
Oil seed Crush, India and Bangladesh
ood grains form an important and integral
part of the Indian diet. Grain production
has been steadily increasing due to
advancement in production technology,
hence the growing need for scientific
storage.
Traditionally, India has been known
to store grains in gunny bags in covered
and open flatbed storage. Over the years,
country realised the need for enhance the covered flatbed storage
in order to protect the quality and quantity of stored grains from
the weather vagaries.
This drew the attention of both the government as well as
private players and a significant capacity of covered flatbed
storage was constructed over the years.
With enough covered flatbed storage, the problem of storing
large quantities of grains was resolved to a great extent, however
the next challenge was to maintain the quality of grains stored
and more efficient modernised storage practices.
In the year 2004-05, government of India floated pilot project of
Bulk Storage Tender and witnessed partial success. Thereon, Bulk
Storage started finding its utility for captive usage by the food
processing industry where capacity utilisation was guaranteed by
their in house processing capacities. As well various provincial
governments are also taking up Storage ONLY project under bulk
storage by delinking from movement in bulk as well.
So far Bulk storage was restricted to only Wheat storage and
later for premium quality Rice also.

Over the years, due to changing eating habits and enhanced
food processing capacities, Maize has become a very popular
grain with the industry. Growing need and demand for quality
maize as a key raw material in the food processing industry has
encouraged Cargill to innovate Bulk Storage in Maize.
However, Bulk Storage or Silos for Maize have to be
customized to address challenges relating to local growing
conditions, fragmented supply base and Indian climatic
conditions for maize storage in the sub-continent.
Cargill will need to make significant technological
interventions to make the bulk storage worthy for maize to
be stored under tropical climatic conditions. This will be a
comprehensive value proposition for farmers, equipment
manufacturers, food processors as well as our Indian/Global
consumer.
To begin with, the first bulk storage facility of 60,000 metric
tonnes is being set up by Cargill in Davangere, in the state of
Karnataka. This multi-million dollar investment in storage will
manage the supply chain for Cargills new Corn Wet milling plant
in Davangere, Karnataka and also for our customers in poultry
and other related industries.
In anticipation of the growing demand for good quality corn,
Cargill is banking on the Bulk Storage which will help secure
corn supply and manage the quality during storage to ensure year
best service to our customers. The silos will be ready to store the
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Storage News
Newcastle Agri Terminal

facilitates historic mega
grain train
Australian grain export and logistics company Newcastle Agri
Terminal (NAT) has arranged and facilitated what is believed
to be the longest export grain train in Australian history. After
6 years of development NAT will have achieved one of the key
milestones that inspired the project. NAT has worked with a
number of innovative industry players to make this possible
including innovative rail operator Southern Shorthaul Railroad
(SSR) and exporters Agrex (a division of Mitsubishi) and
Louis Dreyfus. ARTC have also played a key role in enabling
NAT to demonstrate to industry what can be possible.
The mega train measuring 1.25km and carrying over 5000
tonnes of wheat from Northern New South Wales bound
for south east Asian markets, is nearly two and a half times
the tonnage transported by regular grain trains in New
South Wales. The train was loaded in Moree on Tuesday 1st
December and reached the Port of Newcastle on Wednesday
2nd December in the evening.
NAT executive Director Jock Carter said this milestone
demonstrated what was possible through innovation and
working collaboratively with industry stakeholders.
Bigger trains means increased efficiency and lower costs,
which equals better returns for growers. It also frees up
capacity for other users of the rail network.
He said larger trains were increasingly important with growth
in the Australian freight task. He called on all levels of
government to support innovation in road and rail freight to
deliver productivity gains and value to growers across New
South Wales.
As well as upgrades to strategic sections of regional track,
road infrastructure and access improvements are needed
to streamline the connectivity from farm gate to major rail
interchanges.
He said that the mega train would not have been possible
without support from industry and rail operators.
We commend both ARTC and Port of Newcastle for helping
to make this possible. The challenge is to make larger trains a
key part of the environment in the future.
For example ARTC worked with us to increase the axle load
from 20 to 23 tonnes for this train. This may sound small but
this translates into a real saving of over Aus$1.30 (US$0.91)

per tonne. The inland rail upgrade will further increase
this to 25 tonnes. This then justifies investment in new,
more productive grain wagons which leads to further cost
savings.
He also thanked Louis Dreyfus and NAT shareholder Agrex
(a division of Mitsubishi) for committing the exporter
support to make this possible.
These exporters have generally been posting higher prices
at up-country sites which demonstrates how larger trains and
lower costs translates into higher returns for the farmer.
NAT is a new player on the grain export front commencing
export operations in early 2014. NAT was the brainchild of
Jock Carter and Martin MacKay. Jock and Martin grew up
on farms in regional NSW and forged successful careers
in agriculture before embarking on their vision to promote
competition and innovation in the NSW grain industry
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Industry profile
Omas
Big thinking Italian excellence
by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain magazine
n January of this year, I was fortunate enough be the guests

of world-renowned manufacturers Omas at their new facility
in the Italian town of San Giorgio delle Pertiche, just north of
Padua.
Omas, the company who like to think big, have just opened a
brand new facility that is very well equipped; boasting an assembly
and delivery hall, sales marketing and technical design office.
I was informed by my hosts Laura Nelti, from Omas Export &
Sales Dept. and Danilo Carloni, Omas, Area Manager for Russia,
that the new arrangement will allow for more efficient skills
training and the open plan of set up of the assembly hall really did
make the workspace feel very spacious.
Attention to detail
Other than the cleanliness, another quality that I noticed was on

show at Omas was their meticulous attention to detail. As part of
my tour I was shown their new computer aided component storage
that makes every single machine component very easily traceable.
Every single machine part that Omas uses is stored in this large
filing system; right down to the washers and bolts. Each component
is marked with its own unique serial number, so when one wishes
to find a particular nut or screw, rather than searching through miles
of racking, a few seconds spent punching numbers into a keypad is
all it takes to find the part that was required.
I was also shown a test model of one of Omas Galileo plan-sifters.
The model itself is fully insulated by sandwich panel used for sorting
but in this instance and to display this particular models sorting
prowess, instead of grain this model displayed was in fact using sand.
Versatility
One attribute that I noted to be ubiquitous throughout Omas set

up here was versatility. One example of this is their ability to not
only manufacture large machines like those pictured, but are also
able to offer bespoke customised solutions.
This apparent attitude to versatility and flexibility also extends
to where they source their components. I was informed by my
guides that Omas will always try to cooperate with local suppliers
where possible; thus keeping costs lower whilst ensuring European
standards of quality.
In the past 5 years, Omas has enjoyed huge export growth. Going
Industry profile
forward however, they have designated all four corners of the

world, with Africa as their main target growth market. And there
appeared to be some evidence that their strategy has already been
successful on display. A comprehensive set of milling equipment
was on display, including a full set of roller mills and other
machinery to build a mill in Burkina Faso in Western Africa.
Forward thinking
Going forward, much of Omas Srls success hinges on their new

Leonardo roller mill. This, their latest design features direct drive
motors which will reduce energy costs as this uses will save
fifty percent of the electrical powerof conventional roller mills

according to an Omas spokesman.
Following my visit, I was left with the lasting impression that
Omas facility was incredibly clean, well-organised, versatile
and spacious; with the companys ambitions for future growth
and success very firmly entrenched in every aspect of their new
buildings design.
I believe that Omas entire set up reflects their positive, forward
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CASE STUDY
know-how comes from

the extensive study of
functional and logistical
solutions for plants
Milling and Grain visit a mill that

has been set up using the Golfetto
Sangati philosophy
uring the last century, this particular

companys evolution developed
progressively. A transformation
dominated by the interweaving
stories of three single companies,
culminating with the formation of
Italian manufacturing powerhouse
Golfetto Sangati. The formation of
this industrial heavyweight finds its
roots way back in the 1920s.

Golfetto was originally founded in Padua, Italy. The company
specialised in engineering cereal manufacturing plants, and the
foundation of this company marks the initial spark that instigated
all future events. The formation of Golfetto was followed by
Sangatis foundation in 1929. This company swiftly rose to
prominence; becoming a well renowned name in the milling
industry in just a few years.
In 1952, Berga S.p.A. was set up. At first the company specialised
in milling machines and silos. However in the 1970s they
broadened their business interests to accommodate animal feed
production; becoming a recognized leader in the engineering and
building of mills, animal feed plants, cereal storage and handling
for harbour terminals. As time progressed, so did their rate of
expansion; with the opening of new branches in Europe and
Northern Africa.
Towards the end of the Eighties, Berga acquired Sangati.
This event marks the very commencement of a series of events
that eventually lead to a new generation of highly automated
computerised systems and machines.
The prestigious technological marriage of the two milling
schools, gave a new lease of life to the cereal processing market,
marked the pinnacle of the modern milling industry. The final
merger took place in 1997 and Sangati
Berga was born. The turn of the new
millennium saw a further key development
in the formation of the Golfetto Sangati
company that exists see today.
This event saw Sangati Berga
acquire 50 percent of the capital stock
of Golfetto S.p.A. The result of this
acquisition provided the perfect cocktail
of engineering, technological aptitude
and know-how. This investment inturn necessitated the integration of
the technical, productive and sales
departments of both Sangati Berga and
Golfetto.
This is how GBS group S.p.A. was
born, holder of the Sangati Berga and
Golfetto brands. The two brands prided
themselves on being capable of satisfying
even the most demanding requests coming
CASE STUDY F
companies in the North East of Italy grow horizontally, putting

from the marketplace, with technologically advanced and fully
together shared knowledge and strength, adding that the
customisable solutions. The Golfetto Sangati brand we know and
integration of family companies is a winning policy
love today was formed in 2010 when the Pavan Group acquired the
Golfetto Sangatis belief that know-how comes from the
assets of Golfetto Berga Sangati.
extensive study of functional and logistical solutions for plants.
In January of this year, Milling and Grain magazine had
Due to this level of attention to detail, Golfetto Sangati are able to
the pleasure of being the guests of Golfetto Sangati at their
tailor their equipment to develop effective custom made solutions
headquarters in Treviso, a short drive from Venice, in the
to meet their clients specific requirements.
northeastern most reaches of Italy.
To demonstrate these key principles in practice, I was taken to a
Their headquarters occupy a 35 000 square metre piece of
flourmill to see Golfetto Sangatis equipment in action.
prime industrial real estate in Veneto; which is one of the most
industrially developed areas in Italy. Golfetto Sangati
currently employ a team of thirty specialised engineers who
During the visit to the Golfetto
are credited with the production of a proud total of some 5
Sangati production plant, Mr.
Francesco Piacentini, area
000 plants, sprawled right across the globe in 130 different
manager, shows a detail of
countries.
the thermal insulating panel of
Modulo plansichters
Golfetto Sangati currently employs a workforce of over
200 who work in various departments throughout the
company; right from the very first design development
stage, right up to the final actualisation and construction.
As well as housing the various departments, much of
the facility at Treviso is occupied by the production and
assembly factory that produces half, full and double
height roller mills. In fact, during my tour I was shown
flourmilling machinery that was being readied for delivery
to Papua New Guinea and Cameroon.
These roller mills form a key component of Golfetto
Sangatis very customisable product range. However,
their versatility does extend well beyond their range of
milling equipment. This level of flexibility has enabled
Golfetto Sangati to sustain relationships in other associated
industries, such as ship loading and unloading projects.
Berga, who are one of the companies that a key part of
the Golfetto Sangati brand, recently worked with Cargill on
a 800 ton/h loading and unloading project on the Danube
River in Romania.
According to Golfetto Sangatis CEO Claudio Zavatta,
this level of flexibility is afforded by the fact that
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CASE STUDY F
MULINO PADANO
The Italian town of Rovigo is a large bustling community situated in the Veneto region of
North-Eastern Italy the capital of the eponymous province with a population of just under a
quarter of a million people. Not far from the typically Italian community, that lies 25 miles
south-west of Padua, sits a very large flour mill.
The current mill at Ciniselli replaced an aging Golfetto flourmill with the capacity to produce
120 tonnes per day (tpd), that had been previously upgraded to a production capacity of 200tpd.
Mulino Padano then moved to a very nice site where they now have the capacity to sustain
a typical output of 380tpd. In July of last year, a new building project commenced that saw the
capacity increased to 400tpd.
Currently, the mill has an output of 380tpd, however the mill will soon have the potential to
deliver an output over 600tpd. This situation is incredibly likely, given that Mulino Padano
currently have 18 roller mills, but there is easily enough space for an upgrade.
Both the miller at Mulino Padano and Golfetto Sangati are very proud of the efficiency with
which they are able to deliver their products. In fact, just two members of staff were operating
an impressive total of five floors when I visited. The mill also has a whole raft of systems and
guidelines in place to ensure wastage of energy is kept to an absolute minimum.
The equipment on show here featured an impressive array of Golfetto Sangati equipment on
display including a safety sifter and an Infra red colour sorter.
Most of the produce from the mill is destined for use in 'mass market products such as for the
manufacturing of pizza flour. With the potential output and with the focus clearly being on minimal
staffing, twinned with maximum investment in assets such as equipment, it could be said that the
mill at Mulino Padano may have taken great strides towards finding the winning formula.
The ambitious target of reduction of energy utilisation fixed in the project was largely
achieved thanks to specific design of the layout and the use of high-efficiency components.
Much of what I was shown by Golfetto Sangati did much to prove that their philosophies
are present throughout their manufacturing process. Their passion for expansion, attention to
detail, cleanliness, efficiency and accuracy can be found at almost every turn.
This ethos is also sustained right through the mills that I visited too; meaning that their high
standards are maintained right from plant to plate.
MARKETS OUTLOOK
by John Buckley
It is not surprising
that, amongst the
largest crop futures
markets, soybeans
show the weakest
forward price curve
the distant months
on the bellwether
CBOT market (ranging
into 2018) showing
hardly any significant
premium over the
current spot or cash
values.
Another year of cheap & plentiful inputs?

Forecasting prices even one year ahead can be a hazardous business. That applies especially
to markets so dominated by that most unpredictable element of weather and, increasingly these
days; the sometimes even more capricious influence of global economic trends trade and GDP
growth, currency volatility, the price of crude oil, etc.
Who would have thought that the latter would have halved for a second year running, with all
the implications for using food crops as fuel?
Also, many of the regular market outlooks come from crop producing countries - or from
outside investors understandably skewed by wishful thinking to the price upside (Shell
punting crudes recovery prospects in mid-January seems a good example). Also, consumers will
naturally see the factors that will help input costs fall in a more friendly light.
Forward futures markets are another guide to price revelation but can also be heavily
influenced by speculative interests working their own agendas. That said, these instruments are
assumed to reflect the largest possible number of factors known and likely sowing trends,
weather patterns, trade policy, influences on demand etc.
Looking at the three biggest futures markets that dominate the headlines Chicago wheat,
maize and soybeans this month suggests consumers dont have much to worry about in terms
of a significant rise in raw material costs at least for this calendar year.
Further forward, around the spring and early summer of 2017, that view changes as prices
begin to point North a little more significantly (over 10 percent higher for wheat a trend
reflected in the EU wheat futures markets too). Yet at this time last year, Chicago wheat was
forecast to rise to the US$6.20s per bushel and its recently been trading in the US$4.50s,
Corns year-hence prediction was a bit closer in the US$4.40s (versus the US$3.60s now) while
soybeans were way out, looking for over US$10 per bushel now against under US$8.80 actually
trading as we go to press.
A key factor restraining the prices of grains and oilseed in the year ahead will remain to
be the high levels of stocks carried from one season to the next. These will provide ample
cushions against all but the most severe weather disruptions to this years crops (though current
pointers suggest all three of the market leading crops will be large again in 2016 if the weather
is normal. The USDA has recently raised its forecast of surplus wheat stocks yet again to a
new record peak of 232million tonnes; five million more than it estimated at the time of our
last review in November; and equal to about one third of annual global wheat consumption.
Maize stocks, although trimmed slightly since last year, still amount to almost 22 percent of
consumption while soybean stocks are about 29 percent of the estimate global crush.
On the demand side, world wheat consumption is apparently growing by less than 1.3 percent
or 9 million tonnes during the current season (which ends halfway through 2016) about the
same trend as in 2014/15. Maize consumption on the other hand, actually seems to be falling by
about one percent (9.7million tonnes) after a couple of years of very strong growth.
World consumption of oilseed meals is meanwhile expected to grow at a more robust 3.75
percent - about 11million tonnes. But even that marks a slowdown from the 5.95 percent
growth that it achieved in 2014/15. This lacklustre growth in demand (which may yet prove too
optimistic if the world economy continues to sag and it does look likely that is to be one of the
main restraints on commodity prices in 2016.
As we go to press, market sentiment is dominated by fear factors led by the spectre of failing
Chinese economic growth and its implications for the global economy. No less important has
been the collapse of energy markets and its potential destabilising impact both on the oil
supplier countries and their trading partners.
How ironic that the flip side of rocketing oil prices - the very factor that presaged the economic
problems and rocketing inflation of the 1970s - should be viewed so negatively in 2016?
Cheap crude oil and slowing global trade are also reflected in a further steep decline in ocean
shipping costs. The leading indicator, the Baltic Dry freight index fell in mid-January to its
lowest level since records began in 1985. That is good news for
grain importing countries, effectively widening their choice of
supplier to more distant origins with minimal additional transport
cost.
Wheat Outlook
Global wheat prices have struggled to get far off the five-year
lows they reached earlier this season in response to record 2015
crops and stock build-ups. A mild rally in Chicago in December
and in the EU at the turn of the year largely reflected the ongoing
concerns we highlighted in our last review about crops in the
former Soviet countries being at greater risk of winterkill after
droughts downsized and delayed planting plans, emergence and
development.
However, the two main producers, Russia and Ukraine, have
been a bit luckier since with some much needed showers and a
long spell of unusually mild conditions, probably helping some of
those crops that were border-line for abandonment manage to get
established after all. Some snow cover also arrived just in time to
protect crops as weather turned more typically colder.

That said, by mid-January it seemed much of that snow had been
washed away in Ukraine, where winter crop losses will likely still
be quite substantial. At this stage, that land seems most likely to
go to maize to make up for last years crop shortfall in Ukraines
largest export grain and possibly to sunflowers too. Russia, the
largest wheat supplier of the two, is probably doing rather better
than Ukraine and is officially expecting a crop not much smaller
than last years big one which, officials now claim, reached a new
record 61.8million tonnes (versus 2014s 59.7million).
If Ukraine does produce, say five million or six million tonnes
less wheat this summer, as some analysts suggest, it will not be
game-changing in terms of global wheat export availability or
world wheat export prices which, nowadays, have considerable
influence on domestic prices on European and other consuming
markets.
Argentina resurfacing as an important export force could
potentially partially offset this as its new more liberal government
frees up trade from quotas, export duties and currency controls.
With the ink hardly dry on these edicts at the turn of the year,
Argentina has already been undercutting not only the usually
cheapest Russian and Ukrainian suppliers but also the EU which
had recently been offering the best fob quotes (before freight) to
big buyers like Egypt.
For wheat, maize and soya, Argentinas new business-friendly
administration is likely to result in larger sown areas and a rising
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phase, Argentina exported almost 12million tonnes of wheat
three times what it sold abroad last season and seven times what it
exported in 2013/14.
It was interesting this month to hear reports that Argentina
had even sold some feed wheat recently to US hog producers
bearding the lion in its den. It has also made unusual sales to
of feed wheat to Asian markets and milling wheat to the Middle
East.
Among the biggest producers of wheat, European farmers are
estimated to have sown a similar acreage to last years, some
countries a bit less, some more. So far, the mostly trouble-free
sowing campaign and a mild, often rainy winters have seen crops
well established and in very good condition in the majority of
member states.
We still have to see what the weather might bring at the tail end
of winter and how summer rains and sunshine will shape up for
yields and bread-making quality. But at this stage, the foundations
are there for another big crop.
Meanwhile estimates of the EUs last one keep on rising. The
latest estimate from the USDA is for just under 158million tonnes
a new record high and 1.45million tonnes over the previous
peak of 2014/15. So for two years running the EU wheat crop has
been almost 20million tonnes over the average of the previous
three.
Will 2016 make that a hat trick? Even if EU production eases

back by, say, 5million tonnes? It will still be very well, if not
over-supplied. At this stage, the current season is forecast to finish
with record carryover stocks of about 19.3million tonnes 6
million more than it started and 9.4 million more than at the close
of 2013/14.
That forecast also assumes the EU will find export homes for
at least 32.5million tonnes amid the competition from the CIS
countries, Argentina and others. It is possible but not guaranteed.
In addition to strong CIS competition, Canadian wheat exports
are so far running 4.6 percent higher this year than last while
Australia has been forecast to raise exports by about 1million
tonnes.
The last and by no means least piece in the wheat supply jigsaw
is the USA, traditionally the largest single country exporter but, in
recent years, narrowly overtaken by Russia.
A key factor keeping Chicago wheat futures prices on the floor
this past year has been the poor performance of US exports not
surprising as these can account for over half its crop disposals.
From a recent peak of 31.5million tonnes these have slumped to
around 22million and are expected to stay that low this season.
As in the EU, this has resulted in a big buildup in US carryover
stocks from 16million in 2013/14 to 20.5million at the start of this
season and a projected 25.6million at its close.
That accumulation of stock completely negates the impact on
US supply of a recently estimated cut in its winter wheat sowings
(the lions share of production). In early January, the USDA
issued an estimate that area would drop 7 percent - far more than
the markets expected and including a 9 percent cut for hard red
winter breadwheat the largest US export component.
The trade had been expecting something closer to 3-5 percent
but clearly those weak prices and poor exports are feeding back
now to farmer choices.
Total US wheat area for harvest 2015 had actually risen by 1.5
percent, putting it almost 3.9 percent over 2013/14. That was
almost double the world trend (plus 2.2 percent over the two years
as CIS and European countries also raised plantings).
Foreign customers probably dont need to worry too much,
though, as this simply presents an opportunity for the US (if it
can muster enough trade amid the strengthening US dollar) to
start reducing its excess stocks. Moreover, the USDA also views a
possible yield increase keeping the US crop as large as last years.
Overall then, barring some severe weather upset in the next
few months, there seems like chance that the world will run short
of wheat in the near future. Export competition, heightened by
Argentinas return, and lack of growth in global wheat trade
should combine to keep prices trim on world markets and
European values should reflect that.
If maize output rebounds in 2016, that will put further restraint
on the feed sector which accounts for almost one fifth of world
wheat use and as much as 45% in the EU.
The USDAs first crop forecasts for 2015/16 season were
made back in May 2015, expecting world wheat production of
719million tonnes. That has now risen to 735m due to larger than
expected crops in Europe, Russia and Ukraine.
Maize Outlook
Maize prices finished 2015 with an on-year loss of almost 10
percent on the leading indicator, the CBOT futures market. The
current forward futures price curve suggests they could put most
of this back by the end of this year; which then flattens out for
virtually all of 2017.
Key factors driving the current market are last years smaller
than expected global crop, offset by an even bigger cut in
consumption. Last summer the USDAs forecast global output of
990million tonnes. Its now seen 16million tonnes lower after dry
weather cut crops in Europe and Ukraine. But the consumption
estimate has meanwhile dropped by 200m tonnes, resulting in the
end season stock forecast rising by 20 million.
Most of that is considered off-market within China where the
USDA has drastically revised down its estimates for consumption
(including recent historical numbers). However, this may have
implications for trade and for prices going forward.
Carrying over 87million tonnes more than a third of the global
stock total and spending a fortune propping up domestic crops
at inflated producer prices, China is expected to cut back on
these supports and continue its efforts to auction off old stocks.
In the near term, that implies less demand for imported corn
(about 2milllion tonnes a year in recent seasons and as much as
6.8million in 2012/13).
But going forward probably well beyond 2016 this suggests
lower Chinese crops and possibly more reliance on imports. China
is also seen cutting back on imports of dried distillers grains; the
by-product of corn ethanol grinding. This could have a big impact
on the main source, the USA, where ethanol producers depend on
this trade for part of their profits.
However, even amid the current bearish pressure from weak

crude oil markets, output of the green fuel is so far still running
at record levels and expected to account for a stable 44 percent of
US corn use (about the same as its feed industry).
The early auspices for 2016 suggest no drastic change in planted
area within the USA but probably a big yield rebound in Europe
and more planting in the CIS countries on failed winter wheat
land. That applies particularly to Ukraine, where corn sowings
could be up by as much as 10 percent.
Russia is also expected to sow another large crop. Its corn output
last year was a record 12.7 million versus 2014s 11.3million on
higher planted area and a sharp rise in yields. Exports from this,
the second largest CIS supplier have been running at about four
million tonnes this season and the last two about double the
level in recent prior years.
From the other main supplying region, Latin America, the
USDA currently expects smaller but harvests than last year
but these will still b e well above the average of recent years,
arriving in the spring. Some analysts think these may be underrated at 25.6million for Argentina (v last years 26.5million) and
81.5million for Brazil (85million).
Both were still sowing as we went to press Argentine farmers
making a last minute response to their new governments laxer
trading rules and Brazil trying to make up for a slightly late soya
crop delaying its second-crop/Safrinha maize sowing. Brazil
seems to have consistently beaten USDA crop forecasts in recent
years. Both countries also have larger than usual stocks; which
in Brazils case may allow exports to rocket this season from
22million to 35million tonnes.
Latin American and Ukrainian maize exporters have already
been providing stiff price competition for the traditionally
dominant US suppliers whose share is falling as their trade slips
well under the forecast pace; down 20 percent on the year so far.
Ukrainian maize imports have meanwhile been piling into the EU,
adding pressure on feed-wheat prices and helping to keep maize
costs here under control after last years EU corn crop failures.
Going forward, Argentine maize production is expected to get a
big boost some analysts think by as much as 20-30 percent, as
the Argentinian government relaxes their export quotas, abolishes
duties and loosens exchange controls; allowing the weak peso
to sharpen its export prices. Given the amounts farmers have so
marketed, the peak pressure from these moves is clearly yet to
come, probably starting from first quarter 2016 onward.
On the current planting outlook and, given the drop in this
seasons consumption and no growth in world maize trade, there
is little here to justify firmer prices going forward. However, as
in the wheat market, we have to see what spring and summer
weather will bring.
Oilmeal Outlook
It is not surprising that, amongst the largest crop futures
markets, soybeans show the weakest forward price curve the
distant months on the bellwether CBOT market (ranging into
2018) showing hardly any significant premium over the current
spot or cash values.
The reason remains as outlined in our recent reviews, the huge
global stock build-up from recent bumper soya harvests in the
main North and South American source countries, the likelihood
that all three (US, Brazil, Argentina) will continue to sow big crop
areas and, not least, the slowdown in growth of global demand for
oilseed meals.
In the current season, consumption of the eight most important
items is expected to increase by about 3.75 percent or 11million
tonnes compared with last seasons 5.95 percent (16.5million)
and the previous years 4.85 percent (12.8million). Amidst the
slowdown/contraction in production of several other major oilseeds,
most of this growth will be supplied by market leader soya.
This abundance is reflected in European prices of soya meal
which, in dollar terms at least, have declined again since our

last review, although the bonus has been offset by the chronic
weakness of the euro, down over 10% over the past twelve
months.
In late January, the CBOT soybean market seemed to have
bottomed out somewhat after its steep fall in 2015 but some
analysts will not be surprised to see it go lower still. Recent
support came initially from slow Brazilian sowing which has
now more or less caught up and latterly from US export sales
picking up and then the USDA revising down its 2015 crop
estimate (although the latter remains record large.
Overall, the USDA has reduced its estimate of global soya
surplus stocks from 85million tonnes when the season started
last autumn to about 79million tonnes. Thats a step in the
right direction for farmers wanting better prices but is also a
record large figure equal to almost 30 percent of global crush
requirements.
Amid good weather, Brazil and Argentina remain on course
for another year of large production, coming on stream from this
month onward. The US is expected to sow at least as much soya
as it did last year. Whilst weather and other factors might mean
other big producers like China and India grow a bit less in 2016,
they are not pivotal to export supplies.
Further forward, the weakness of Brazilian and Argentine
currencies is offsetting the price fall in financial terms on the
world markets on which both depend. Brazilian farmers are
actually getting as much or more for their soybeans in their own
currency as they were before the global slump so have no reason
to cut plantings next Autumn for harvest in 2017. Argentine
farmers will also grow all the soybeans they can as their Peso
currency also drops and their government continues to favour
export trade.
Rapeseed supply prospects have improved since our last
review as Canadian officials raised their 2015 crop estimate by
a surprisingly large three million tonnes, rather than the one
million expected by the trade. It puts a much looser slant on
this market, earlier facing its tightest stock outlook for some
years.
The effect has faded somewhat in recent weeks however, due to
strong Canadian crushing and exports, also now exceeding official
forecasts. Rapeseed also drew support from reports highlighting
the poor state of much of Ukraines crop after a drought delayed
sowing and stressed emerging crops.
This important EU source could see output down by a third or
more. Europes rapeseed crop outlook has been mixed, pointing to
larger German but lower French and UK winter sowings although
crops are at least in good shape after their mild, damp start.
Consumers will be hoping that Canada can fill a bit more global
import demand, especially to largest importer China, leaving
Australian producers to sell more here.
Sunflower-seed supply was also ratcheted up a bit in recent
months by better than expected Russian and Ukrainian 2015 crop
estimates. Sunflower sowings could rise this spring in CIS & EU;
we will hopefully cover this topic in more detail on that in our
next review.
While overall oilseed production is down this season (mainly
rapeseed and cottonseed) oilmeal supply will be adequately
maintained by the large soya supply, keeping pricing across the
sector under control in financial terms at least.
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n 04-08 April 2016
120th IAOM International Association of Operative

Millers Annual Conference & Expo
Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus,
Ohio, USA
http://www.iaom.info/annualmeeting
n 18-21 April 2016
15th ICC Cereal and Bread Congress

Istanbul Military Museum, Turkey
https://www.icc.or.at/node/2143
n 29-31 May 2016
PIX/AMC 2016 - 2016 Poultry Information Exchange

(PIX) and Australasian Milling Conference (AMC)
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold
Coast, Australia
http://www.millingconference.com.au
n 08-11 October 2016
International Baking Industry Exposition

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA
http://www.ibie2016.com
Indonesias no1 livestock,

feed, dairy & fisheries industry
event
akarta, Indonesia will once again host the 11th

edition of Indonesias no1 livestock, feed, dairy,
and fisheries industry show in Indonesia.
Indo Livestock 2016 Expo & Forum will
incorporate Indo Feed 2016, Indo Dairy 2016 and
Indo Fisheries 2016.
It will be held on 27 - 29 July 2016 at the Jakarta
Convention Centre.
More than 15,000 trade visitors and delegates are
expected to attend the Expo, Seminar and Technical
Presentation in 2016.
More importantly, Over 500 exhibitors from 33
countries are expected to once again participate
in Indo Livestock Expo & Forum. Indo Livestock
2016 is proven to be the preferred venue for buyers
to source for new technology and equipment and
where industry professionals get update on the latest
technological advances and industry trends.
The Global Milling & GRAPAS

Asia Conference 2016
egister now for the Global Milling &

GRAPAS Asia Conference 2016, to be held
during this years GRAPAS Exhibition in
Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday 29 March 2016.
The Global Milling Conference will boast a series
of expert guest speakers who will cover a range
of exciting and relevant topics in the world of rice
milling, flour milling and milling innovations.
Focusing on food, flour, rice milling and storage,
the conference is split into three sessions; Session A,
Session B and Session C.
Session A the morning session from 10:00
- will cover the processing, quality, storage and
transportation of flour milling with a view to
expand on such topics as the sustainability and energy
efficiency or rice processing, rice storage, as well as
new analysis methods for rice and flour milling.
After lunch, Session B looks to explore rice milling
with a specific focus on processing and handling,
covering a range of areas from fuzzy control of highefficient feed pelleting, to extrusion technology for
processing cereals.
Lastly, following a coffee break, Session C, entitled
Milling Innovation, has a keen focus on technology
and development within the industry discussing
a range of topics including the benefits of rice
fortification, organic rice and the impact of milling
on the production of seafood.
The day is rounded off with a World Rice Overview
by conference chairman Roger Gilbert, with a
particular focus on the supply and demand of rice.
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Industry events
Full VIV MEA programme features content-rich seminars
IV MEA 2016 will be rich in valuable business

information for animal protein producers when it
opens in February in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the
United Arab Emirates.
The new show takes place 15th-17th February 2016 and
is dedicated to serving animal protein providers from the
Middle East and Africa to Turkey, Iran and the countries of
the Indian sub-continent.
Covering the animal proteins spectrum
Already sure to be the Middle East regions largest trade

fair on modern poultry production and processing, the
event will also give significant attention to the dairy milk
sector and to aquaculture.
What is more, the schedule features a highly informative
programme of seminars and conferences on different
animal proteins, prepared in association with media
partners and technical leaders.
From health and feed to industry structure
On Sunday 14th February, International Poultry

Production/International Hatchery Practice presents a
full-day knowledge session for poultry managers on topics
including how to give chicks a healthy start. A parallel
presentation on the same day by Perendales International
Aquafeed will provide a short course on manufacturing
aquaculture feeds.
The morning of Monday 15th February brings a Global
Milling conference from magazine Milling & Grain
alongside a Watt Global Media poultry seminar that covers
broiler production and trade issues in the Middle East/
Africa region. The afternoon sessions include a seminar
sponsored by the Dutch Poultry Centre to look at some egg
quality issues and Middle East Agrifood Publishers MEAP
teaming up with the Worlds Poultry Science Association
to discuss commercial and scientific trends in poultry
production.
For the morning sessions of the conference programme
on Tuesday 16th February there is a Reed Business
International focus on poultry health and an International
Dairy Topics seminar that asks Upsizing --- Is it the way
forward?. Vertical integration in the dairy supply chain
is the theme for a Global Dairy Farmers afternoon session
while International Meat Topics runs a discussion on how
to meet the meat safety challenge.
Registration numbers reflect great interest
Exhibition space for VIV MEA 2016 was fully booked in

just eight months, with the leading global suppliers to the
animal protein sectors showing their support. In total there
will about 270 exhibitors with stands in three halls of the
Abu Dhabi national exhibition centre (ADNEC).
The strong worldwide interest in this first-ever VIV MEA
has been demonstrated further by the number of people
registering in advance to attend the event. A preliminary
count at the start of 2016 found individual pre-registrations
from 84 countries. Almost 70 percent of applications had
come from countries in the Middle East with Asia and
another 9-10 percent were from Africa. The other large

segment involved applications from Europe and Russia,
but South America, North America and Oceania were also
represented.
Top Ten countries for advance booking
The early indication is that we will have most preregistrations from Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates,
Bangladesh, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, says VIV shows
manager Ruwan Berculo.
The other countries in the Top Ten are Egypt, India, Iran,
Sudan and Jordan. I think it shows that we have succeeded
in promoting the appeal of the inaugural VIV MEA as
being for an extended region of the world, so that it is well
on course to become the third international hub in our
portfolio of business events for the animal protein sectors,
alongside VIV Asia and VIV Europe.
As well as the pre-registered individual participants, Mr
Berculo continues, the show is set to receive special VIP
delegations from over a dozen countries. Those confirmed
so far will travel not only from the Middle East area
(UAE, Iran, Turkey), but also from India and Pakistan,
from further into Asia (China, Indonesia, Philippines,
Thailand) and from Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria,
Sudan).
Preliminary estimates suggest that there will be
approximately 4000 visitors over the three days of the trade
fair. The organisers expect that the largest number will
come from the countries bordering the Persian Gulf along
with Iran and Turkey. Another 25 percent or so are likely
to be from African countries and around 10 percent from
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Other events add to visitor appeal
VIV MEA 2016 in Abu Dhabi has the added advantage

that it will be co-located at the ADNEC exhibitions
complex with a world event that works with organisations
including the United Nations and the World Bank in
offering a showcase for innovative and sustainable
technologies relating to food production. Known as the
Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture or GFIA, in
2016 this returns to Abu Dhabi for the third consecutive
year.
Even more notable for all executives in the poultry
industry is the opening of a conference on 17th February
only a short distance from ADNEC. For the first time, the
International Poultry Council is bringing to Abu Dhabi its
spring conference of poultry world leaders. The conference
is open to VIV MEA visitors who have IPC membership.
Moreover, across at the Dubai World Trade Centre
between 21st-25th February there is the opportunity to
visit the worlds largest annual show on food and related
hospitality products. Gulfood in its 2016 edition will
have more than 110 international pavilions in addition to
several hundred stands featuring individual companies,
providing valuable insights into food product developments
for all Middle East businesses involved in animal protein
production and processing.
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XXVII FEFAC Congress:
Societal acceptance of livestock
& feed production in the EU
t is with great pleasure that Fefac and Turkiyembir,

representing the Turkish feed industry, invite members
and EU feed chain partners to the XXVII Fefac Congress
in Antalya, 2122 April 2016, on the key conference theme
Societal acceptance of livestock & feed production in the EU.
The European Commissions Circular Economy Package
released in December 2015 provides a new holistic policy
approach to a more resource-efficient food and feed chain
management respecting both food & feed safety and
environmental objectives.
In the first session, speakers from DG Sante and EFSA will
share their outlook on creating a win-win situation both for
European Consumers and operators in the EU feed and food
chain, paving the way for increased societal acceptance of
modern sustainable feed and livestock production systems,
based on the Circular economy approach, taking on board
latest risk assessments at global and EU level on alternative
feed ingredients, which could pave the way. Fefac experts,
national regulators and key food chain partners will discuss
their views and respective expectations and demands as
regards the role of feed production in the circular economy.
In the wake of the COP21 agreement and its ambitious
Climate Change targets, Michele Galatola from DG Envi,

Pascal Grverath from Nestl, Nick Major from ForFarmers
and Thomas Kaufmann from Evonik will discuss the
new LCA tools that allow for the measurement of the
environmental footprint of feed production and its impact on
developing effective GHG emission mitigation strategies for
livestock production.
In the final session, on the sourcing of responsible feed
ingredients, Fefac shows it looks beyond the manufacturing
sites of feed producers and has invested in building
responsible supply chains. Maria Pilu Giraudo from
Aapresid, Argentina, Carlo Lovatelli from Abiove, Brazil,
and Brent Babb from USSEC, US, will showcase their
efforts in the field of supplying responsible soy to the EU
feed industry.
Fefac President, Mr Ruud Tijssens, and Turkiyembir
President, Mr lkur Karaku, look forward to welcoming
you as guests in Antalya at the XXVII Fefac Congress.
Your active participation to this event will provide the
best guarantee that this event will succeed in generating
new approaches on how to best present the feed industrys
contribution to safe & sustainable intensive livestock
systems to be shared by Fefac members and its livestock
sector partners. For the first time, Fefacs Congress will
be held in conjunction with the 5th Global Feed and Food
Congress, co-hosted by IFIF, Fefac and Turkiyembir, in
cooperation with FAO, 1820 April 2016.
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hinas plans to realise one of the most ambitious and

expensive infrastructure projects - dubbed The Silk
Road Economic Belt and The 21st-century Maritime
Silk Road - providing investment inflows to seaports as
well as overland transport communication, will contribute
to further strengthening of economic relations between
the countries of Europe and Asia. At the same time, China
holds firm to a strategy focusing on creation of a network of
alternative routes.
The reported logistics structure will draw in all countries
geographically located in the territory between China and
Europe, including the countries of the Black Sea and Caspian
Sea regions. In turn, the project will contribute not only
to further cutting time of goods delivery, but also to the
economic development of the countries in the region, which
to be integrated into the reporting transport system.
The all-Ukrainian public organisation Ukrainian Grain
Association and the information-analytical agency APKInform are the organisers of the Caspian and Black
Sea Agrarian Congress, which will take place in Baku,
Azerbaijan on April 12-13, 2016.
The organisers aim to turn the Congress into one of the
most significant agricultural forums, linking the interests of
Ukraine, the EU and many neighbouring countries along the
so-called New Silk Road,Congress is an excellent platform
for discussion at the highest expert level on the production
and trade of grains, oilseeds and their by-products.
Industry events
World supplies of oilseeds,
except for soybeans, to be tight
for 2016;
Thomas Mielke of OIL WORLD to
explain at next months Oilseed
Congress
his month at the second annual Oilseed Congress

Europe/MENA, February 9-10, editor-in-chief of
OIL WORLD and foremost authority on the oilseed
complex, Thomas Mielke, will provide the global outlook
for the oilseed market.
Mr Mielke will open the conference on February 9
elaborating on several forecasts from OIL WORLD, a
leading global authority on independent supply, demand
and price forecasts for oilseeds, vegetable oils and
oilmeals.
It is understood Mr Mielke will cover the expectation
for a production deficit for vegetable oils in the current
season. It is anticipated that stocks will decline and
vegetable oil prices will appreciate under the lead of palm
oil. In conjunction with this, the impact of the palm oil
production losses, anticipated in several parts of Indonesia
and Malaysia in 2016, will also be discussed.
Mr Mielke will further look into the implication that
the bullishness of oils and fats is partly moderated by the
ampleness of soybeans and a slowdown in the demand
growth in China and several other countries caused by
deteriorating economic conditions.
Other considerations to be observed are that vegetable
oils will gain relative to oilmeals, and while some of the
adjustment has already happened, this trend will accelerate in
2016 and that world supplies of soybeans are likely to remain
ample. This is expected to keep soybean prices relatively low
in the world crop season despite the fact that there are likely
to be some production losses in South America owing to
unfavorable conditions, primarily in Brazil.
Mr Mielke added that most other oilseeds are tight,
particularly rapeseed and canola. Despite larger than
expected production in Canada, world supplies of
rapeseed and canola will still decline sizably in 2015/16,
primarily as a result of crop losses in the EU, Ukraine,
China, Australia and India, he said in a pre-conference
interview.
A part of the OIL WORLD team since the mid-1970s,
since 2002 Mr Mielke has been executive director of ISTA
Mr Mielke GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where OIL
WORLD is produced. He will be joined by speakers from
around the globe at the Oilseed Congress, including David
Hightower of The Hightower Report, Kevin Brassington
of Noble Agri, and John Corbett of aWhere.
Learn more about the Congress, the event that provides
industry intelligence and networking opportunities for
those -- producers, exporters, commodity risk managers,
procurement specialists -- operating in the oilseed value
chain throughout Europe, the Middle East and North
Africa, at www.oilseedcongress.com. The conference
is hosted by HighQuest Group and sponsored by CME
Group and SGS.
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he Grain Elevator and Processing Society
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GEAPS Exchange 2016 in Austin, Texas
has officially become the largest in GEAPS
history
GEAPS Exchange 2016 boasts over
409 exhibitors in nearly 250,000 square
feet of space. The previous record had
been 400 exhibitors at Exchange 2014 in
Omaha, Nebraska.
We knew we had the potential to set records for the Expo at
Exchange 2016 in Austin, said GEAPS International President
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Matt Kerrigan, EGT LLC. GEAPS has seen tremendous
growth in the Expo over the last few years. We sold out our
initial 200,000 square feet of floor space early in February,
2015.
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year will be our largest both in terms of exhibitors and total space.
The sheer size of the Expo can be intimidating for some
attendees, and so for the first time ever, GEAPS is offering
the Austin Mixer to help welcome first-time and international
attendees.
The event will provide an opportunity for attendees to network
with their peers while learning some helpful tips for navigating
the Expo from longtime GEAPS members.
There is also now an interactive map available to on the GEAPS
Exchange website help attendees make the most of their time on
the Expo floor.
Attendees can browse exhibitor listings by keyword, category
or country, mark booths to visit and email companies for more
information.
When users create a new login, they can also save exhibitors
and import them to the Exchange 2016 Mobile App.
Janice Kantola, Premier Components Inc., who helped plan
the event as chair of GEAPS Membership Committee said, As
the Expo keeps growing, it is important for us to make sure that
every attendee is prepared to make the most of their time at
Exchange 2016.
Networking is one of the most valuable parts of being a part
of GEAPS, and we wanted to give every new and international
attendee an opportunity to meet their peers and make connections
before heading into the Expo Hall.
GEAPS Associates Board President Jeff Roumph, WD
Patterson Co Inc., explains why so many companies find value
in exhibiting; GEAPS Exchange is one of best ways to connect
with grain industry operations professionals.

Between the education and the Expo, it is a one-stop
opportunity for attendees to find solutions for continual
improvement in operations safety, efficiency and grain quality
management across the global grain and oilseeds supply change.
The Expo attracts a wide audience of operations management
decision makers, and provides a tremendous opportunity for
exhibitors to show off the value of their products.
The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) is an
international professional association that supports its members
and the industry by serving as The Knowledge Resource for the
world of grain handling industry operations.
GEAPS addresses the industrys critical grain handling,
storage and processing operations needs by providing the finest
networking, professional development programs, and access
to a global marketplace of equipment, services and technology
solutions providers.
The global network of industry professionals GEAPS holds
includes more than 2,800 individual members from about 1,150
companies.
There is still time to register and take full advantage of all that
GEAPS has to offer and with flexible registration options to help
attendees customise an Exchange 2016 experience to meet their
needs, there is no time like the present.
There is, however, limited space available in the Expo Hall,
so companies interested in exhibiting at Exchange 2016 should
contact the GEAPS sales team at conferences@geaps.com or +1
763 999 4300.
Industry events
IPPE 2016
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ould the weather again impact this years 2016

International Production & Processing Expo
(IPPE) held in Atlanta, USA? That was the
question exhibitors were asking in sunny Atlanta on the day
prior to the opening of this years event, which ran from
January 26-28, 2016.
Both international connections and internal flights had been
seriously disrupted due to snow and winter weather moving
across the Midwest and up into the north-east of the country
in the run-up to Tuesday, January 26.
The show got off to a cold start in Atlanta on the first day
but quickly reached boiling point on day two and three to
make up for any disruption to travel that had occurred on the
first day.
An estimated 30,000 poultry, meat and feed industry
visitors attending from all over the world at the time
of going to press the organisers, the US Poultry & Egg
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figures.
In addition to the good turnout of visitors, this years show
presented 1301 exhibitors; a new record, with more than
43,000 square meters (464,750 square feet) of exhibit space
in two halls, Hall A and Hall B.
IPPE is the worlds largest annual poultry, meat and feed
industry event of its kind and for the milling industry visitor
it was mostly Hall A he or she was interested in.
In fact, this years turnout of exhibitors in Hall A was so
great that it forced some 46 smaller booth holders onto Level
3, which was the entrance area leading down to the main hall
itself.
This years tremendous exhibitor and attendance numbers
are a tribute to IPPEs unparalleled education sessions,
abundant networking opportunities and distinctive exhibits,
says the three organisations through a joint communiqu.
The enthusiasm and energy displayed by this years
attendees and exhibitors will only ensure the success and
growth of future IPPEs.
Exhibitors demonstrated the most current innovations in
equipment, supplies and services used by industry firms in
the production and processing of meat, poultry, eggs and
feed products.
Numerous companies highlighted their new products at the
trade show. All phases of the feed, meat and poultry industry
were represented, from live production and processing to
further processing and packaging.
The wide variety of educational programs complemented
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the exhibits by keeping industry management

apprised on the latest issues and events. This
years educational line-up featured 25 programs,
ranging from a conference on challenges and
opportunities in meat product traceability, to a
program on the Veterinary Feed Directive, to a
technical seminar on maximizing the efficiency
of the poultry industry conducted entirely in
Spanish.
Other featured events included the International
Poultry Scientific Forum, Pet Food Conference,
Pork 101 Workshop, Tech XChange program,
Meat Me in @LANTA activities and publishersponsored programs, all of which have made the
2016 IPPE the leading annual protein and feed
event in the world.
Products on display
This event is so large and diverse its extremely
difficult to point to a selection of key products, in
the limited amount of space we have available,
without disadvantaging others. The show
catalogue itself ran to over 140 pages and the
pocket-size handbook to over 100 pages. The
range of product and services on display were
extraordinary and showed off every aspect of
compound feed manufacturing.
In the view of this magazine, this must be one
of the most complete and comprehensive feed
milling events anywhere.
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with the city center a brisk walk away with a good
transportation system, range of restaurants and of
course plenty of shopping.
Great feed safety sought
AFIA maintains the costs of the Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation
to industry to total more than US$1billion,
reports Richard Sellers, American Feed Industry
Assocaitions senior vice president of public policy
and education.
FDA estimates the cost of FSMA to be between
US$135-170 million per year, and suggests that
keeping electronic records and existing histories
may help reduce costs.
He was speaking at an IPPE seminar addressing
the third phase in the introduction of FSMA, set
over two years, covered various components of the
new FSMA final rule, Current Good Manufacturing
Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-based
Preventive Controls for Food for Animals. More
than 250 Expo-goers were in attendance.
Other presentations covered the creation of an
animal safety plan, how to develop an effective
supply-chain program, recordkeeping for FSMA
compliance and an overview of the Foreign Supplier
Verification Program and third-party rules.
Dr Daniel McChesney, US Food and Drug
Administrations Center for Veterinary Medicine
director of office of surveillance and compliance
says, There is not always a bright line between
current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs)

and preventive controls.
Think of CGMPs as observational, routine,
facility and staff focused, whereas preventive
controls occur in the process and controls or
eliminates hazards.
The FSMA final rule was published on
September 17, 2015. The first implementation
period will affect firms with more than 500
employees and begins September 19, 2016.
September 19, 2017, is when firms with
less than 500 employees must begin CGMP
implementation. Large firms must complete
implementation of preventive controls (PCs)
by this date and small firms must complete
implementation of PCs by September 18, 2018.
Very small firms, those with under US$2.5
million in sales annually (as determined by the last
three years average), that have notified the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration of their size, have
until September 17, 2019, to complete CGMPs.
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the interview
Aidan Connolly
Other than Aidan Connollys main role of Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President of Corporate
Accounts with Alltech, Mr Connolly also works hand-in-hand with their Director of Research, Dr. Karl
Dawson, in developing the next generation of technologies for Alltech.
As well as being the well-known architect of Alltechs annual global feed survey, which assesses global feed
tonnage in more than 130 countries, Mr Connolly is also responsible for organising Alltechs ONE symposium
as well as their internal management/leadership development programs.
A graduate of University College Dublin with an MBS in International Marketing, Mr. Connolly is now an
adjunct professor of marketing at that very same institution. He is also a board member of IFIF, IAMA, the
National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation, and a former board member of FEFANA.
Milling and Grain magazine met with Mr Connolly recently to discuss recent developments at Alltech, as
well as any plans or strategies that the company has going forward.
How do you feel that your background has

contributed to your ability to carry out your role at
Alltech?
Early in my career, I gained experience in sales and

marketing and was directly involved in research
development. Over time, I gained hands-on experience
through working in 100 different countries and living in Brazil,
France, Ireland, Italy and the US. All of these experiences
gave me valuable insights into how the global agribusiness
world was and is evolving and the increasing link between
feed and food. This perspective helps me every day in my
leadership role at Alltech.
It has now been a number of months since Alltech

purchased Masterfeeds. What is the strategy behind
this particular development? And has this had any
effect on the manner in which both companies now
operate?
The purchase of Masterfeeds is part of an ongoing strategy

to acquire more companies that will bring us closer to the
farmer so that we can better develop technologies that
will be put to use on the farm. As the two companies have
begun to interact, we have enjoyed an immediate working
relationship that is steadily progressing into integrated
corporate cultures. We do see tremendous synergies in
motion that will clearly be of great benefit. This is similar to
what we have seen in previous acquisitions, including Ridleys.
We will learn a lot from Masterfeeds, and I am sure they will
learn from us also.
Alltechs feed statistics survey results were recently

published at IPPE. Which of the reports findings do
you believe to be the most remarkable and to have
greatest influence on the growth of our industry?
I think the most important finding from our survey this year is
the continued growth in India, which is now the fourth largest
market globally. We have seen very strong growth in Russia
as well, and certainly continued growth in Africa as a region.
Poultry continues to be the species that is becoming more
and more important. We have not seen growth in some of
the other species, although we feel the underlying trend for
aquaculture continues to be very strong.
Given that Alltech has now successfully completed

13 acquisitions and are now on track to achieve
US$4million over the next few years, what measures
have Alltech taken to ensure that it is able to sustain
this level of growth?
Our intent is to fully integrate the acquisitions we have made

and to put ourselves in a situation where we can consider
other acquisition opportunities when they become available.
We want to have a global presence on farm through our
acquisitions, which will mirror our global presence in feed
ingredients today. Since we are present in 130 countries
with 4 500 employees, one important factor is to have
our acquisitions fully engaged and involved in our ONE
symposium. This year, we will have a record attendance and
we encourage our readers to attend also.
Alltech acquisitions have also been involved in our induction
program, which we refer to as Back to Basics and the Mini
MBA, which is our management development program.
The amalgamation and merging of all of these cultures
together through the experience of these events will make
for a much stronger overall organisation.
Going forward, do Alltech have any plans or major

projects in the pipeline for the coming months? How
important are your companys developments in China
to the future of Alltech?
Alltech continues to look at opportunities for acquisitions and

I am sure that there will be more announcements in the next
12 months. We view China as being a very important market,
but also imagine that investments in many of the other BRIC
and MINT countries--Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, Indonesia,
Nigeria and Turkey--will also be equally critical in terms of
how this company moves and increases its global footprint.
We have also written a paper on The Blueprint for Food
Safety in China and The History of the Feed Industry.
These two articles are good resources for information about
Alltechs ongoing outreach efforts.
We work closely with organizations such as IFIF, IFAMA, and
many other organisations to support the importance of
the feed industrys overall goal of feeding 9 billion people
globally.
PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES

IGP Institute welcomes new program services coordinator
he IGP Institute welcomes new staff member Kelly Hannigan to fill the position of program
services coordinator. Ms Hannigan joined the IGP team on January 4, 2016. Kellys
understanding of IGP Institute along with her marketing and communications skills make her a
great asset to our team, says Brandi Miller, IGP Institute interim associate director.
Kelly Hannigan
Ms Hannigan graduated in December 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in agricultural

communications and journalism from Kansas State University. During her time at K-State, Ms
Hannigan spent two years as the IGP communications intern. In this role, she handled a variety of
communications tasks including writing, photography, design, and the development of web and social
media content. She also worked as a communications intern for the Global Food Systems Initiative
working closely with members of the division of communications and marketing team at K-State.
Through her internships, Kelly gained experiences in all aspects of marketing and communications that will add to our
programming and course promotions at the IGP Institute, Ms Miller says. As the program services coordinator, Ms Hannigan
will be providing support in the areas of marketing, participant relations and building administration.
I really enjoyed my time working at IGP as a student. Looking ahead, Im excited to be a part of such an energetic work
environment that allows me to interact with people across the globe.
Chris Burton joins Anitox from Moy Park
hris Burton joins global pathogen control and feed milling efficiency specialist Anitox from
Moy Park, where he was Operations Manager at the Billinghay Feed Mill in Lincolnshire.
As Anitox Sales Manager for UK and Ireland he adds extensive experience in broiler farm
management, feed production and operations management to the team.
Anitox EMEA Commercial Director John Thornton comments: Chris joins a highly experienced
team under the direction of our recently-promoted Western Europe Regional Sales Manager Neil
Turner. Together, they will support a sector thats working hard to produce safe, high quality poultry
meat and eggs more efficiently, with less dependence on antibiotics, and amidst the threat posed by
Avian Influenza. Chris brings with him extensive live production experience. He joins us at an exciting
Chris Burton
time, as the business shares new data on Termin-8s ability to control AI in feed.
Mr Burton, his wife and young daughter will be based in the UK where hell operate from the
companys EMEA headquarters at Earls Barton in Northamptonshire. He is currently undertaking an MSc in Poultry Science.
MFS/York/Stormor announces David Vettel to

assume Sales Management position
FS/York/Stormor, a Grand Island based industry leader in the design, manufacture and
distribution of high quality grain storage, handling, and towers and catwalk systems, has
named David Vettel to the position of Sales Manager.
David Vettel
Mr Vettel brings a strong background in agricultural industry sales to his new position,
having accumulated nearly 40 years of experience in the grain storage, drying and handling business in the
US and internationally. He comes to MFS/York/Stormor following a stint as International Sales Manager
for Sioux Steel. Before joining Sioux Steel, he served as Vice President/President of GSI International and
was also previously a member of the International Sales Management team for Chief Industries.
With the upcoming retirement of Randy VanLangen, who directed our sales efforts for many years, we needed someone to assume
these duties who knew agricultural markets and how to address the many challenges they present, explained MFS President Dan Faltin.
[Mr] Vettel will manage, develop and direct the companys sales staff as well as assume responsibility for growing our
business through the continued development and expansion of our dealer network in the United States. His product and
industry knowledge will help us as we focus on developing and manufacturing new and improved products that set the
industry standard for strength, long life and quality. MFS/York/Stormor is a division of Global Industries, Inc.
US Wheat Associates realigns regional

management as long-time EU Director retires
S Wheat Associates (USW) announces the retirement of Goris van Lit, Regional
Director for Europe, the Former Soviet Union and Israel, and promotes Ian Flagg,
Regional Director, who will add Mr van Lits responsibilities and continue to direct
activities in the Middle East and North Africa region effective February 1, 2016.
Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Mr van Lit has worked for USW for 30 years. Mr
Flagg, who joined USW in 2005, is also based in Rotterdam and will now have responsibility
for that office as well as offices in Moscow, Cairo and Casablanca. USW is the export market
development organisation for the US wheat industry Looking forward, Ian has proven his ability to analyse changing market
conditions and identify the best opportunities for US wheat exports first in Cairo, then Casablanca, Mr Peterson noted.
Goris van Lit
Ian Flagg
I am very confident that he will be equally effective with his expanded responsibilities. Minnesota native Ian Flagg served
USW as Assistant Director, West Coast Office, Portland, Oregon, and as Market Analyst in the Headquarters office in Arlington,
Virginia, before accepting a position in 2009 as Assistant Director for the Middle East, East and North Africa region in Cairo. He was
promoted to Regional Director in 2014 and moved to Casablanca. Mr Flagg has a bachelors degree in economics from Minnesota
State University, Moorhead, and a masters degree in Agribusiness and Applied Economics from North Dakota State University.
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