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MILLING NEWS Charentes Alliance selects Perten NIR grain analyzers Durum semolina mill commissioned in India Grain uncertainty at Crimea port Connecting pipework couldn’t be easier New Symaga website Feed Safety Culture - an essential factor Australian malt processing plant in Vietnam R-Biopharm Rhône welcomes Scottish government moves to improve food safety standards

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MILL MAINTENANCE Understanding the threat from mycotoxins

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COMMODITIES Raw material outlook, by John Buckley

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EVENTS 46 Campden BRI - Safety and Quality of Livestock Feed Seminar 48 Indo Livestock 2014 expo & forum 49 TUSAF congress and expo review 50 The GFMT interview Melinda Farris, executive vice president, IAOM

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INDUSTRY FACES 56 Cargill appoints new chief executive officer Former UK NFU president takes over World Farmers Chris Barnes joins Anitox Right company at the right time for Cuban animal nutritionist

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t was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to be guest editor on this magazine. As an analyst at heart, I believe trade journals are an important ingredient in the mix of information sources that contribute to deeper market understanding. I have been involved with commodity markets for over 25 years - a period in which data has become more widely and rapidly available, trading has evolved into a global round the clock activity, and the price impact of relevant news is felt within seconds. In this fast moving environment, well-informed interpretation of developments is more crucial than ever.

Enhancing market transparency Against this background, the principle purpose of the International Grains Council (IGC) is to enhance market transparency, whether through sharing data and analysis, or discussion of policy developments.

By monitoring the markets across the grains, rice and oilseeds complex on a daily basis, we aim to give an independent and balanced perspective on the current situation and outlook, for our member governments, and also for the public.

In particular, the IGC compiles and tracks more than a hundred daily export quotations worldwide, providing independent and credible benchmarks for physical trade. From these we also construct a daily Grains and Oilseeds Index (GOI), which is freely available on the public website. This provides a broad guide to developments in physical prices across the key producing regions, while sub-Indices for wheat, maize, barley, rice and soyabeans indicate trends at the commodity level.

These indices are now used as key indicators by the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) – a G20 initiative to enhance food market transparency and encourage international policy coordination in times of crisis. The IGC joined the AMIS Secretariat in 2012. Since the financial market crisis, commodity markets, along with other financial markets, have come under much closer scrutiny, with more intensive regulation and potential reputational risk for those deemed to be raising food prices through speculation.

With the increasing diversification of supplies, there is an urgent need for capacity building to improve data quality. However, data for more advanced economies is also far from perfect. In particular, inventory figures range from survey-derived estimates at best, to unmeasured in some countries, and a state secret in others. Measuring consumption is also notoriously difficult, not least due to the extent of unrecorded on-farm use. Arguably the increasing deregulation of the industry, moving increasing volumes of trade from public into private hands, has made the markets even more opaque. The

IGC devotes significant resources to monitoring global trade, which underpins the market forecasts.

However, more and better information Helen Henton, Chief Economist, is only part of the solu- International Grains Council tion, and vast amounts of data can be overwhelming to the unpractised eye. The IGC’s flagship monthly Grain Market Report aims to clarify the picture, providing analysis and forecasts for grains, rice and oilseeds, while the weekly Grain Market Indicators is more focused on market developments, including news, freight and trade activity, and includes a range of the IGC’s export quotations. Also, for the first time this year, our annual assessment of the fiveyear outlook was made fully available to the public, outlining our analysts’ views of the key trends facing the markets over the medium term, and providing a baseline scenario that our members can bear in mind when considering policy.

Ultimately, one of the most productive ways of enhancing understanding of these markets is from listening to the perspectives and experiences of those involved in the industry. The annual IGC Grains Conference, to be held in London on 10th June this year, is a golden opportunity to meet both private industry practitioners and policymakers. In its 23rd year, the event attracts a regular following, along with fresh influx of new market participants. Under the theme “Shifting Horizons for Global Trade”, this year’s programme of speakers will focus not only on the market outlook, but also the fundamental shifts that are occurring in trade patterns as the range of suppliers and the nature of the market place continue to evolve. We look forward to seeing you there.

Helen Henton Chief Economist, International Grains Council

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Helen Henton is Chief Economist of the International Grains Council. She has 25 years of experience in the commodity sector, principally in the financial sector.

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Hello Millers Following the presentation of our very own GRAPAS award for innovation at the Victam Asia show in Thailand, in this issue of GFMT we take a look at awards from around the industry ...

Cargill leaders cited in most influential lists in 2014 Cargill senior leaders Sarena Lin and Chris Roberts were recently recognized

by U.S.-based media outlets for their influential leadership roles and approaches to Cargill’s business. We are very proud of both Sarena and Chris for their achievements. They are truly a testament to the depth, breadth and strength of Cargill's leadership team,” said David MacLennan, president and CEO of Cargill. “Sarena and Chris have unique skills, experiences and perspectives that help Cargill achieve high performance and innovation not only in the workplace, but in an ever-changing marketplace. We are a better company thanks to their leadership.” http://bit.ly/1i5jsWv Cortical Studios wins top international film award for CLOSTAT™ – a next generation probiotic, explaining Kemin Industries’ active microbial Kemin is pleased to congratulate the bioinformatics company Cortical Studios for its award-winning film, CLOSTAT™ – a next generation probiotic, at the New York Festivals® International Television & Film Awards™ ceremony on April 8 at the annual National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas. http://bit.ly/1iaTBgH Silos Cordoba Cordoba’s companies of the Year 2013 DIARIO CORDOBA recognizes the work of individuals and organizations from Cordoba that have stand out over the past 2013 with the “Cordovan of the Year” award. In the Business section, the distinctions lie in the Faasa Group; Rafael Carrillo, owner of the restaurant El Churrasco; and Silos Córdoba. The company Silos Córdoba is the example of a successful family business. It was founded by Juan López in 1975, originally focused on livestock equipment, and currently is in the second generation and also dedicated to storage facilities and grain storage, conveying machinery and metal coatings. http://bit.ly/1nlA9jg BIOMIN and BOKU awarded first place in Houska Prize for fumonisin research The Houska Prize (Houskapreis)—Austria’s largest private award for applied sciences research—is the latest in a string of celebrated recognitions for outstanding achievements in mycotoxin research at BIOMIN. In the latest acknowledgement for pioneering research in mycotoxins at BIOMIN, the Viennabased B&C Foundation has awarded the first place in the Houska Prize for the fumonisin-degrading enzyme FUMzyme®. http://bit.ly/1twxODx

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harentes Alliance, a large French grain farmer cooperative, has selected the Inframatic 9500 NIR grain analyzer from Perten Instruments to be used at more than 100 grain receiving stations.

The IM9500 is the latest NIR grain analyzer model from Perten.

Launched in 2011 it combines industry standard transmittance NIR technology with ruggedness and ease of use.

“Grain traders and cooperatives really appreciate the IM9500 for its accuracy and reliability,” says Henrik Andrén, Grain Business Area Manager at Perten Instruments.

Charentes Alliance collects close to one million tons of grain and oilseed per year, from its member farmers in south western France.

Wheat and corn make up more than half of the traded volume but sunflower seed and rapeseed are also important crops.

Charentes Alliance will use the IM9500 at 119 grain stations to test incoming grain for protein and oil content.

“The IM9500 is an excellent grain analyzer, and Perten is a very reliable partner.

“Being able to test the incoming grain immediately will allow us to segregate different qualities and increase the total value of the grain we handle,” says Monsieur Xavier Charbonneau, crop production market director at Charentes Alliance. www.perten.com

Durum semolina mill commissioned in India

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lapala is proud to announce that it has successfully commissioned its 300 tonne-per 24 hours, durum semolina mill for the company Seshsayi Foods Pvt Ltd in Indore, India.

Seshsayi Foods Pvt Ltd is part of the Hyderabad, India, based Bambino Agro Industries Ltd who are one of the largest vermicelli manufacturers in South East Asia.

The new durum semolina mill is the most modern and automated mill in India with high hygienic standards. Seshsayi Foods Pvt Ltd put its confidence in Alapalas quality, milling technology and engineering in line with their high standard requirements for the products that they manufacture. These include long- and short-cut pasta, vermicelli, instant soups and instant Indian delicacies. Being a food company nothing is more important to its values and beliefs more than its relentless focus on healthy food.

Bambino’s products are being exported to various countries including USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Middle East, Far East, Japan and Africa.

Bambino Agro Industries Ltd is one of Alapala’s most important clients in India and the two companies endeavour to see a successful future through their partnership.

Connecting pipework couldn’t be easier

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ounter flanges have simplif ied the transition to modular pipework systems and include ‘adaptor’ flanges in the seriesmanufactured range, which are available in both square and round forms.

The J acob company says , development has been in response to customer demand.

The new adapters are welded onto the machine outlet or inlet ports. Matching counter flanges from Jacob’s modular range can then be used to connect the adapters to the pipeline, simply and quickly, using bolts.

Counter flanges are available in un-primed mild steel or stainless steel.

They are used in conjunction with silicone or NBR gaskets to ensure reliable connections to the pipe system.

P rev io u s l y, t h e c u s t o m e r h ad t o provide a counter f lange or adapt it to the correct hole Machine connections made easy – pattern.

Jacob’s counter flanges make it easier The new counter than ever to create transitions to its f lange completes modular, easy-to-install pipework the wide range of system Jacob transitions and connection adapters, which also includes welding ends and transition to DN 00mm. Larger diameters are available on request. pieces.

The series manufactured range Jacob is specialised in dust covers diameters from DN80 extraction, exhaust air and bulk

Grain uncertainty at Crimea port

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kraine is one of the world's largest suppliers of cereals, especially maize and wheat, and the Crimean ports are the main transit points for sending grain by sea. Crimea ports are somewhat paralysed due to the political issues between Ukraine and Russia and this is unsettling according to Ukrainian authorities.

These problems are considered very serious as shipping may negatively affect the global grain market and lead to price rises and uncertainty.

Whilst some of the problems are related to military maneuvering (Ukranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Russian military had st ationed large antisubmarine ships near the port

NEWS IN BRIEF Assembly of the Port of Montevideo Project signed with Obrinel SA to begin in April Shipping of the material have begun and the installation of the Port of Montevideo Unit will start late April. The project consists of a storage facility of 200,000 tons for wheat, with the provision of silos, dumping platforms and boarding vehicle scales, conveyors,

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of Novoozernoe, completely blocking the channel) the implications to trade activities are immense.

Secret ar y of the por t of Sevastopol, Andrey Telni, said, “The shipping is partly paralysed mainly because of psychological reasons. There is a possibility of conflict escalation, and some people are afraid of this. Now we have a situation on the peninsula where confrontation between the two or even three fleets – as Crimea has created its own fleet – must be considered,” Mr Telni added “The navy is thus in a state of tension and war y of any possible provocations. And as is quite common, nobody really wants to go near the warships in such a situation.”

elevators and mechanical accessories, with a warranty of 12 months since its launch, for a total value of $ 60 million.

Silos Córdoba will provide the 10 silos of 10,000 tons each, model 27.50/17, with Z-600 steel sheet, for a greater warranty against environmental corrosion, with minimum resistance to winds of 180 km/h, central tower of 9.3 x 9.3 x 45 meters high, secondary tower of 9 x 7 x 28 meters high and weighing center of 12 x 6.5 meters and its accessories.

goods handling, and is a leading manufacturer for pipe systems based on the modular concept in Europe with a worldwide market presence.

Pipe systems for bulk material handling as well as dust extraction and exhaust air units for environmental engineering (cooling air/exhaust air) are the largest application areas for Jacob pipe systems (diameters 60 - 800mm or larger for customised production, 1-3mm pipe wall thickness, steel pipes are primed, galvanised or stainless steel).

Easy installations, in addition to innovative developments and the ability to quickly deliver from the warehouse, ensure an outstanding position for Jacob pipe systems in all industries which employ metal piping for manufacturing processes. www.pipe-systems.eu

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ymaga has recently launched a new and fully reimagined version of their website, deigned to improve the customer experience; provide more information and added value.

“Af ter several months of trials, we can conclude that the website launch has been successful,” the company said in a press statement.

First and foremost, the new website has been designed to be ‘friendly and engaging’ for the end user, and to ensure that all its resources and tools are accessible quickly and easily.

The site is also totally mobile device-friendly, and is available in five different languages with more being added soon.

The site includes product details, PDF brochure and certificate downloads, a social responsibilities section, as well as full company history and an overview of each of the four divisions - silos, livestock, agriculture and steel. In addition, Symaga have developed two innovative new resources for their customers - ‘Symaga in the world’, and ‘factory tour’.

‘Symaga in the world’ shows each installation

on a map of the world, and one of the four corporate colours is used to indicate the appropriate division. Full project information can then be obtained simply by clicking on a particular icon.

‘Factory tour’ is a virtual tour of Symaga’s factory. Visitors to the site can navigate the facility, seeing each and every s t a ge in t he prod u c t ion process for themselves. Many of the individual areas include videos that allow the visitor to see a key piece of machinery in action. All of this allows customers to experience the entire process for themselves as if they were sanding on the factory floor, and in so doing come to appreciate the quality, care and attention to detail that goes into every single Symaga product. www.symaga.com

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Feed Safety Culture - an essential factor

by Johan den Hartog, managing director of GMP+ International, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

In the past 20 years, many companies in the feed and food chain have invested a lot of money and effort in building up a feed and food safety control system. It was a process of learning by doing. Sometimes, hard lessons were learned.

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n the feed sector, one of the learned lessons was the importance of control of the supply chain. Companies can use some helpful tools for implementing a feed or food safety management system successfully.

A useful tool is a feed or food safety assurance standard.

I n s u c h a s t a n d a rd , t h e experiences, knowledge and insight of a lot of people has condensed. Some generic ISO standards are available, like ISO 22000. There are also branchspecific standards available, like GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance (GMP+ FSA), which is a module in the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme. This cer tif ication

scheme has been developed over more than 20 years, based on practical experiences regarding feed safety control and insights regarding risk assessment and quality management practices.

A third-par ty cer tif ication can contribute to a proper application of the feed or food safety assurance. In that case, a qualified auditor of a certification body carries out an audit by assessing compliances with the standard.

An additional condition is to have the knowledge about products, production processes and possible hazards and risks in the whole production chain.

GMP+ International provides a HACCP guidance as well as about 20 0 generic risk assessments of over 500 feed materials.

G M P + F S A ce r t i f ie d (or applicants) can use these risk assessments for carrying out their company-specific risk assessment or to carry out a suppliers evaluation.

H aving t he s t and ard and information about risks available is one part. The second part is that people are able to use the standard and the information in an effective way.

For that reason, training courses are valuable. Companies spend a lot of money to train their personnel. In order to stimulate training to transfer knowledge and create competence to use it in the right way, GMP+ International started with a GMP+ Academy some years ago, but besides that there are a lot of other training possibilities.

But besides having the right tools available, knowledge and competence, it is also important that management and employees are convinced about the need of effective feed and food safety control.

It is rationally understandable that adequate feed and food safet y assur ance is in the own interest of a company,

because it contributes to continuity of the company. It will increase trust and avoid liability claims.

Entrepreneurs need to realise that having the right tools and competent employees as well as having the conviction of the need of feed and food safety assurance, is not enough.

Feed and food safety is more than just systems. The culture of a company is also crucial.

Especially feed and food safety culture. This issue is clearly addressed by Mr Frank Yiannas in his publication ‘Food Safety Culture - Creating a Behaviour Based Food Safety Management System’ (2010).

Although this publication is mainly focused on the US food industry and on microbiology, one statement is extremely relevant. That statement is the following: food safety is not a priority; it must be a company value.

In case it is a priority, it can be high or low depending on other (often short term) priorities. A value is always applicable at the same level of urgency, because it is a driving force for daily operations and is focused on the long term.

Culture is about behaviour of people. Many feed and food safety incidents are caused by a lack of responsible behaviour of employees (Griffith, 2008).

But: the management of a company is mostly determining the company culture. The mind-set of a manager influences the mind-set of all employees, because the mind-set results in a certain behaviour.

Considering feed and food safety as a value is based on moral values and standards, s o c i e t a l r e s p o n s i b i l i t y, accountability, reliability, and credibility. Feed & food safety culture is an important risk factor, which should be more realized than currently is done.

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Australian malt processing plant in Vietnam

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new malt processing facility is begining to take shape about two hours south of Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, thanks to investment from Western Australia's grain handler - CBH Group.

Work is now underway on the two-year construction project on what will be the only malting plant in South East Asia valued at $75 million, and will be run by Intermalt, an offshoot of CBH part-owned Interflour.

NUMBER CRUNCHING Soy Beans

49% of U.S. soybean meal is used by poultry livestock 1,100 million gallons of biodiesel produced with soy within the U.S in 2012 1 bushel of soybeans produces 1.5 gallons of bio-diesel and 48 pounds of protein-rich meal.

34.9 million tonnes of soybean meal was produced in 2012 Inside the U.S. 60 lbs or 27.22kg is the weight of one bushel of soybean.

60-80 pods are produced in each soybean plant – producing 3 pea-sized beans per pod

43 billion ($US) is the total value of U.S. bean crops in 2012.

3.015 billion bushels of soybean produced in 2012 by the U.S.

45% of bushel production in 2012 from the U.S was exported – equalling a total of 1.345 billion bushels exported.

57% of the world’s oilseed production comes from soybeans 1.411 billion bushels produced

by Brazil in 2012

39.6 bushels per acre produced in the U.S. in 2012 77.2 million acres of soybean in the U.S. planted in 2012 – equalling 31.2 million hectares.

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R-Biopharm Rhône welcomes Scottish government moves to improve food safety standards

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he Glasgow-based company which was at the forefront of the UK's defences against food contamination during the horsemeat scandal has welcomed the news that Scotland is to strengthen its food safety laws.

R-Biopharm Rhône, the manufacturer and one of Scotland's biggest exporters of diagnostic test kits, endorsed legislation contained in the Food Standards Scotland Bill, which will create a new body to focus on consumer protection.

Vic toria Jord an , R- B iopharm Rhône's UK product specialist (food and feed), said, "Having been in the front line when the horse meat scandal broke, R-Biopharm Rhône is strongly in favour of the most stringent standards as far as the safety of the public is concerned.

NEWS IN BRIEF Cargill plans to establish new feed bovine feed mill in India by 2015 Within the next year Cargill, India is working towards building a new cattle feed mill in Punjab – investing $11.3 million into the project. The feed mill itself will produce 120,000 tonnes of cattle feed annually – utilising approximately 8.5 acres of land to do so. Cargill is hoping that by investing into this project they will be able to help improve India’s entire production of feed, safety and bio-security features – in the process training twenty-thousand Indian farmers in dairy farming.

BEC feed solutions establishes operation in New Zealand - New Zealand produced 953,000 tonnes of compound feed in 2012. Which has shown that the market is rapidly expanding and improving; with dairy production growing 70% over the past 20 years – with 35-40% of these farmers using supplementary feeding. Because of this growth BEC Feed Solutions Australia has made a commitment to developing the New Zealand market.

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"Consumers are understandably keen to see improvements after such an event and it is greatly to the credit of the Scottish Government that it has acted so swiftly and so effectively in this important area."

The new bill will provide inspectors with powers to impound food which does not come up to standard or is deficient in labelling requirements.

R-Biopharm Rhône mobilised all its resources to meet the tremendous demands for its services when the issue of contamination burgers and other products broke in the spring of last year.

R-Biopharm Rhône's expertise lies in identifying species' DNA which, generally, remains in a product until the end of the food production chain, surviving the heat and the chemical elements within that process.

Customers can send samples to R-Biopharm Rhône for testing and it also sells kits so that labs can perform testing themselves.

The company, which is based in the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow, now employs 50 people, including 15 research and development scientists and is actively recruiting more scientists and production staff.

Indian demand for poultry feed increasing exponentially - India's local demand for poultry feed is drastically increasing; with an expected increase in demand for poultry products by 6% within the year. Currently India's consumption of poultry per person is measured at 3.1 per kilogram; while the global average for consumption stands at 10.5kg; it is expected however that by 2030, the need in India will rise to 9.1kg. Leading to a higher demand for local feed or the future need to import more poultry feed from the global market.

Olmix expands into the Ivory Coast - The French animal nutrition company Olmnix which has been active in West Africa for the past 10 years met with the Ivory Coasts Minister of Livestock and Fishery Resources, Kobenan Kouassi Adjournani. Meeting him was the CEO of Olmix, Herve Balusson - where their expansion into the Ivory Coast was agreed upon. Establishing multiple zones in which Olmix could operate out of in order to produce feed and conduct research.

by Tom Blacker, directory coordinator

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ince the last issue, the change of seasons must have had an effect on the International Milling Directory. It has been brought out of hibernation by new advertisers and member companies. Alternatively, maybe it was the extra distribution at the Turkish Flour Industry Federation’s 10th Conference, Victam Asia, VIV India and more events.

Eight new companies from three different continents are now included for the new edition which is great news. If you received the April newsletter, then you will have read more about this. Please sign up for the free newsletter today from our homepage, ‘join our mailing list’ with your own email address – www.internationalmilling.com.

Member companies of the International Milling Directory were active at Victam Asia, and Perendale’s own conference GR APAS. Morillion, Bühler and 4B Braime Elevator Components were all honoured for the innovation and skill in new products. There is a meaning to everything we do in the industr y and it deser ves encouragement and recognition for excellence. The International Milling Directory has been there with the same intentions and goals. The publication is reaching new heights and is going to be in a great position for an autumn publication this year. The continuation and deepening of our ties to this magazine are also bearing great fruits, and at many events we hear about the great benefits for registering, using and adver tising in the directory. It is a great par tner to the magazine and one that I am happy to see moving under its own momentum more and more.

On the detail of this magazine from the director y’s perspective, this is an exciting issue with lots of great things to read for millers especially. I recommend the interesting interview with Melinda Farris, Vice President of the IAOM and past Guest Editor of this magazine on pages 60-61 of this issue I am looking forward to a good spring and hope to hear from more directory companies in renewing or registering with us.

Please do find all my contact details on the opening contents page of the magazine.

In addition to the other recent activity, we are embarking on a project of compiling more data and interesting updates for the milling industry in the UK. Our centre of attention has been on our home industry recently, and we are open to working with others to volunteer suggestions and any information you wish to be published. More to follow in the next issue's column.

Lastly, the directory's Facebook passed the 100 'Likes' milestone. It is proving to be a popular source for our content of updates, photos and more. Do Check us out at https:// www.facebook.com/internationalmillingdirectory.

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The USA Rice Federation is the global advocate for all segments of the US rice industry with a mission to promote and protect the interests of producers, millers, merchants and allied businesses.

USA Rice is made up of the USA Rice Producers' Group, the USA Rice Millers' Association, the USA Rice Council and the USA Rice Merchants' Association. Each organization has a distinct identity and mission, overseen by its own board of directors. But when the membership sits down at the federation table, they come together as USA Rice. It is the place where they discuss, and sometimes debate, the critical issues that can make or break a viable U.S. rice industry.

The USA Rice Federation represents a commitment to consensusbuilding, to equipping the US rice industry with the strength of a united voice.

USA Rice is also the mechanism through which a full-scope program of work is carried out on behalf of the rice industry, funded by producers, millers and allied members through the member organizations. Each segment of the membership brings more than financial support to USA Rice. A wealth of varied experience and expertise enriches the representative committee system. Programs for domestic and international rice promotion, government affairs, communications and member services are all operated with guidance from committees composed of producers, millers and representatives from allied industries, who advise the board of directors.

The board provides direction to the USA Rice staff, which implements programs and policies. www.usarice.com

The Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters (FCRE) Cambodia

The Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters (FCRE) was created on June 21, 2012, under the patronage of the Ministry of Commerce in Cambodia. The FCRE’s ambition is to expand Cambodian rice exports and to work relentlessly to continuously improve the Cambodian rice sector. It is a fully independent organization whose members consist of rice exporters, banks, logistic companies and other allied businesses. All these individuals pull together in order to create a dynamic force, working with other related entities to support and improve the Cambodian rice industry towards a successful future.

The Federation is working closely with several governmental bodies in order to facilitate the communication between the public and private sector – it acts as the channel and centre of information relay; acting as a national advocate for Cambodia’s rice sector. The FCRE represents its members by providing them with a professional forum in which they can voice their opinions on important issues affecting Cambodian rice exports – working with the government and related entities to find solutions. The FCRE promotes and protects the interest of Cambodian rice exporters and allied businesses. In the few years that it has been established, the FCRE has managed to successfully organize events and meetings with the help of several foreign institutions such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Angence Francaise de Developpment (AFD) – helping to promote Cambodian rice to the world. The promotion of Cambodian Rice continues to be the organizations primary focus – winning the worlds best rice award for two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013.

Focus: The Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters’ primary focus is to create and maintain the presence of Cambodian rice exports within the international market. Rice is one of Cambodia’s main agricultural products and has gained a large amount of interest from the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC). RGC’s vision is to transform Cambodia into the ‘rice basket’ of the world – establishing itself as a major exporter of milled rice within the global market. Because of this, RGC has created encouraging rice policies in the attempt to develop an industry that can produce one million tones of milled rice exports yearly by 2015. Due to support from RGC, helping to reduce export formality costs and simplifying export procedures – as well as other beneficial legislation. Cambodia has seen a drastic increase in milled rice exports, increasing from 12,613 tons in 2009 to 378,856 tons in 2013. However, in order to achieve this goal in a sustainable manner it will be necessary for Cambodian rice exporters to compete on the global market in both quality and pricing. www.fedocrex.com

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Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) Myanmar

Myanmar is an agricultural country where the rice industry is its most predominant segment in agriculture and agribusiness. The rice industry, in addition to its crucial aspect of food security, has been connected culturally, traditionally and socio-economically with the majority of the population in Myanmar. As the rice industry is significantly important to Myanmar, there are national level associations formed by the private sector that represents the various components. The Myanmar Rice Federations was established

All India Rice Exporters Association India

AIREA is an association of rice exporters with the prime mission of influencing export policy of rice. In addition, it projects and promotes rice in the international market as well as interacts with all government agencies, institutions, directly or indirectly related to the Rice Industry.

All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) is the only recognized apex body of Indian rice exporters worldwide. The organisation is consulted not only by the Indian Government but foreign buyers and foreign trade associations as well. Member of AIREA include multinationals and public sector undertakings in addition to major rice exporters. It is an indirect channel to promote and enhance Indian rice business across the world market, thereby facilitating the growth of Indian rice exporting industry.

AIREA makes efforts in promoting rice in the international market, through various meetings, summits, conferences and events such as the food fairs across the world. AIREA also organizes frequent seminars on business opportunities in rice exports and other similar topics. The association has been successfully making a name for Indian rice worldwide. www.airea.net

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in 2012, in order to lead, coordinate and provide guidance to member associations – encouraging sustainable development, efficient coordination and cooperation. The Myanmar Rice Federation promotes democratic practices such as collective decision-making, respect of the minority, freedom of speech and the exchange of new ideas – respect and responsibility is expected from every stakeholder.

The Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) was formed in 2012 as a national level federation. This was done through the process of restructuring and upgrading the Myanmar Rice Industry Association (MRIA). The MRF represents the private sector of the Myanmar rice industry. Strategic members that make up the MRF are the Rice Millers Association (MRMA), Myanmar Rice & Paddy Traders Association (MRPTA), Myanmar Paddy Producers Association (MPPA), Myanmar Farmers Association (MFA), Myanmar Agribusiness Public Corporation Ltd (MAPCO), Myanmar Fertilizer, Seed and Pesticide Entrepreneurs Association (MFSPEA) and Rice Specialization Companies (RSC). The objectives of MRF are to support and implement the sustainable development of the Myanmar rice industry, by optimizing the effective and efficient utilization of all available resources within the rice industry. MRF is a member-driven federation, which always acts in the best interests of it stakeholders – maintaining the welfare of its members. Moreover, MRF is implementing and encouraging market-based mechanisms to ensure supply and price stability. This is done to modernize and upgrade processing as well as storage facilities, providing incentive to both producers and stakeholders – most importantly, working to ensure that national food security is maintained. http://myanmarricefederation.org

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“Wheat brings new habits”

by Dr Ahmet Uhri, Archeologist, The Department of Archeology, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey

Dr Uhri gave a presentation on the 10th Anniversary of the Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation Congress and Exhibition in Antalya in late March 2014 on the history of wheat and its value in human nutrition.

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he one who owns petrol owns the commonwealth; the one who owns food owns the nation.” This quote is claimed to have been phrased by Henry A. Kissinger in 1974, the United States Foreign Minister at the time.

Confirming his saying, wheat has always played an important role in forming human history as it is the very first of our food resources. In this article, it will be mentioned how wheat had an ability to create a civilization and accordingly the archeological proofs that support this claim.

Wheat and humanity

Wheat has always been essential to humanity being one of the first domesticated crops.

It differs from other crops with it being satisfying in calorie and the raw material of bread. It also gets on well with humans, furthermore, it would not be wrong to say that it rules the world.

Wheat is cultivated in an area of about six million square meters in the world; more than half of Europe or all Australia. For instance, imagine an area fivefold of the USA and two-fold of India. This is the area on which wheat has a big impact.

Moreover, it has the biggest ecological tolerance as a plant in the world, other than human beings. What I want to say is that ecological tolerance is the ability to adapt oneself to different geographies and climates.

In other words, the ‘human-wheat’ relationship has always been involved in colonization throughout history.

This couple – human-and-wheat - probably started colonization 14,000 years ago.

We can also say that when humans first came across wheat, it stole his heart and became the ruler of the whole world.

Humans put wheat under his control, planting it in different lands and thus wheat con-

– Charles Darwin

vinced him to live together. This relationship means settlement and settlements means the beginning of a civilization.

Nutrition a basic human instinct

Nutrition has been one of the basic instincts for humans for about 3.5 million years. It was also a basic instinct before human began to be a human. Likewise, all living beings have the same instincts: a need for nutrition, surviving and reproducing.

It was 3.5 million years ago when human started to exist as a human beings and first initiated toolmaking in order to be able to use these tools to get food. 3,485,000 years of this time was all about hunting and collecting. For about 3,485,000 years, humans only maintained their existence by means of hunting and collecting from nature not attempting to make any agricultural production at all.

After that, about two million years ago, humans left Africa and spread into other parts of the world. During their journey, they invented agriculture. This was probably the most important invention after toolmaking and being able to keep fire under control.

Then, humans noticed something while observing nature: It was that the same plant was born again after the seeds fell to earth.

However, as I mentioned before, 3,485,000

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Göbekli Tepe near Urfa

The excavations in Hallan Çemi, Çayönü, Göbekli Tepe, Nevali Çori, Körtiktepe, Mezra Teleilat, Gürcütepe and Diyarbakır Çayönü give us some information including another meaning to the term ‘neolithic’. These excavations also claim that farmers first began to emerge gradually about 14,000 years ago.

Mehmet Özdoğan, an expert of this field, suggests that: Southeastern Anatolia “Briefly, the Neolithic period reflects the All of these have been proven to be true by the archeologists excavating in Southeastern period of reformation in the areas such as Anatolia Region within the body of GAP nutrition, technology and lifestyle.

“In the basis of these this period (Southeastern Anatolia Project).

Corporate Banner (190x132mm)(outlines)_Layout 1 23/12/2013 08:54 Page reforms, 1 years had to pass for him to discover such things. In other words, everything started 14 to 15,000 years ago when humans, first having lived as a wanderer, eventually settled down and started agriculture. This new beginning is called the Neolithic Revolution by archeologists and historians.

was a kind of revolution lasting from 12,000 to 6000 BC. The beginning of this period was mainly associated with the disappearance of what Last Ice Age caused and the appearance of today’s climates. Throughout the world, people tried to adapt themselves to these changing climatic conditions with the help of technology and their social habits.

“However, this revolution was a different one in some regions of the Near East when compared to the rest of the world. Thus, a new lifestyle came into being affecting the entire world.”

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The epigram above by Charles Darwin makes sense now: “Wheat brings new habits.” This revolution in the regions of Near East and the appearance of a new lifestyle are again connected to wheat as its ‘hometown’ is Southeastern Anatolia Region. Due to the archeobotanic data that we have, DNA analysis results show that today’s einkorn and emmer wheats have a kind of relation with the ones in Karacadağ in Southeastern Region.

Göbekli Tepe near Urfa, where the excavations have been going since 1995, contributes a lot to Near East archeology and provides some satisfactory results. This 12,000-year-old area makes us realise how people began agriculture and settlement.

Kalus Schmidt, one of the excavators in Göbekli Tepe says: “At that time, Göbekli Tepe still belonged to the hunters and

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Tell Mureybet in northern Syria, along with the seeds of barley, einkorn, acorn, lentil, chickpea, beans , ground stones, stoves and food storages have been found. 2 In the settlements of this culture named as Natuf Culture in literature, roasted grain samples and grain roasting places found in Tell Mureybet 3 are the proofs that people used roasting. Eroded teeth found in Natuf skeletons show that this was caused by the common usage of ground stones remained in their vegetables.

On the other hand, the examination made on the Hittite skeletons shows the same results and this leads us to the fact that this kind of grinding was used for a long time and in various places. Also, there is a fact that Strontium/Calcium in their bones was the consequence of being closer to the herbivores rather than carnivores. This sug-

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gatherers. This place also represents the final period of hunters who were about to discover a lifestyle based on farming to supply nutrition and to initiate the Neolithic Period.”

First use resembles today’s use

However, I can say that the first use of wheat resembles today’s use of wheat.

In the Southeastern Region, in the excavation sites like Çayönü, Nevali Çori and Hallan Çemi, Mediterreanean coasts (Nahal Oren, Hayonim etc.) in Palestine between the years of 11,000 – 9300 BC, Jordan Plateau and the Rift Valley (Ayn Mallaha),

gests that the vegetative food has a leading role in Natuf people’s diet.

That is to say, this was not easy for people to come to these days. It has been a long journey from the first grinding crops to today’s various and modern bakery products.

Wheat started our civilisation as we know it

The result of the transition from gathering and hunting period to the first production has been like a revolution for human beings.

They have reached a civilized level in the past 15,000 years. In other words, they have developed metallurgy, changed the way of

settlement, invented writing, started urbanisation and progressed on in time.

Shortly, wheat started civilisation or the civilisation started when it met the human.

It was love, but not love at first sight. They observed each other for a certain time and sometimes they got closer. However, sometimes they did not. In the end, they realised that they could not live without each other.

The main issue is the prehistoric period of wheat and it is possible to provide a basis for the place of wheat in prehistoric times by giving some examples. In the myths found in the documents of Sumerians, who first used writing, some information about wheat has been provided to lead us along the way.

Among these myths, Dumuzi and Enkimdu are highly interesting in content.

They are also considered as the sources of Kain and Habil. This myth is about the rivalry between the lifestyles of farmers and shepherds. The myth reveals that Goddess Inanna is about to choose her husband. The candidates are Shepherd God Dumuzi and Farmer God Enkimdu. Enkimdu says that he will give gifts to Dumuzi if he withdraws.

Moreover, there is also wheat among these gifts. When we are already into the prehistoric times, it will be a good idea to go further into the next periods since some other civilisations also emerge.

It is seen that Storm God Tarhunt is depicted as holding a bunch of wheat and grapes as a sign of fertility on the famous Ivriz embossment remained from Late Hittites.

In later periods, it is also clear in the descriptions that Demeter, Goddess of Fertility, again is holding some wheat.

Furthermore, there are about 180 bread, cake, pastry and pie names in Hittite documents1, but these names are given to them according to their forms, contents, ingredients and tastes.

For instance, thin bread (phyllo), thick bread (a loaf of bread), small bread, bread in the shape of a fish and the moon (croissant), bread in the shape of an ear, a bunch of grapes, a tooth, a sheep, a human, a boat and a tyre, sweet bread (pastry), bread with beer or peas, oily bread, sour bread, wet bread, wheat, rye, barley bread, etc.

Humans took wheat with him on migrations

About 14,000 years ago, the relationship between human and wheat that first started near Urfa in Southeastern Anatolia provided human with chance for settlement and enabled them to begin agriculture.

Having stayed in the same region for a long time together, this couple, human and wheat, became inseparable in time. As a consequence, human never left wheat and took him wherever it went during the migration started 9000 years ago.

This led to the rapid tranmission of the new lifestyles to other regions of the world.

During this 9000 year-period, wheat reached Atlantic coasts leaving Southeastern Anatolia with human. In the meantime, not only the new agriculture technologies and wheat, but also the new lifestyles reached the entire

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world like a packet referred to as Neolithic Pack by archeologists.

If we take the holy scriptures into consideration, since they are the products of humanity, the saying, “You shall eat weed; until you become earth, you shall eat bread by the sweat of your brow…”1 has come true. Human landing on Earth from heaven has lived his own heaven and hell on Earth.

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References & Footnotes 1 A.Uhri, “Ekmek ve Uygarlık”, Metro-Gastro/42, Metro Kültür Yay., İstanbul-2007, s.121.

2 M.Özdoğan, “Neolitik Dönem: Günümüz Uygarlığının Temel Taşları”, 12.000 Yıl Önce “Uygarlığın Anadolu’dan Avrupa’ya Yolculuğunun Başlangıcı” Neolitik Dönem, (edt.)N.Başgelen, YKY Yay., İstanbul-2007, 9-20.

3 G.Willcox-M.Savard, “Güneydoğu Anadolu’da Tarımın Benimsenmesine İlişkin Botanik Veriler”, Anadolu’da Uygarlığın Doğuşu ve Avrupa’ya Yayılımı-Türkiye’de Neolitik Dönem-Yeni Kazılar, Yeni Bulgular, (edt.)

M.Özdoğan-N.Başgelen, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yay., İstanbul-2007, s.427-440.

4 K.Schmidt, “Göbekli Tepe” 12.000 Yıl Önce “Uygarlığın Anadolu’dan Avrupa’ya Yolculuğunun Başlangıcı” Neolitik Dönem, (edt.)N.Başgelen, YKY Yay., İstanbul-2007, s.93-95.

5 P.Dolukhanov, Eski Ortadoğu’da Çevre ve Etnik Yapı, Çev.S.Aydın, İmge Yay., Ankara-1998, 200-202 ve M.N.Cohen, The Food Crisis in Prehistory, Yale Unv. Press., USA-1977, s.135.

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6 M.Roaf, Mezopotamya ve Eski Yakındoğu, Çev.Z.Kılıç, İletişim yay., İstanbul-1996, s.27.

7 C.K.Maisels, Uygarlığın Doğuşu, Çev.A.Şenel, İmge Ktbv. Yay., Ankara-1999, s.145.

8 Roaf 1996, s.29.

9 A.Ünal, Etiler ve Hititler, Etibank Yay., İstanbul-1999, s.221.

10 Dolukhanov 1998, s.204 Roaf 1996, s.29, ve

Maisels 1999, s.123 ayrıca Cohen 1977, s.135.

11 S.H.Hook, Ortadoğu Mitolojisi, Çev.A.Şenel, İmge Ktbv., Ankara-1993, s.36-37.

12 A.Ünal, Etiler ve Hititler, Etibank Yay., İstanbul-1999, 215 13 Ünal 1999, 215-217.

14 Tekvin, 3: 18-19. Kitabı Mukaddes, Kitabı Mukaddes Şirketi, İstanbul-1993.

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RESEARCHING AND REPORTING THE ROLLER FLOUR MILLING REVOLUTION

by Rob Shorland-Ball

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evolution is a loaded word, particularly, for instance, if it is preceded by a definite article, an adjective like ‘Hungarian’ and date such as ‘1956.’ However, the Hungarian Revolution, or uprising against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic, is still in living memory but the Roller Flour Milling Revolution began more than 150 years ago.

So why should readers of GFMT be concerned about it?

"Revolutions often need a catalyst to precipitate change. The catalyst in the UK was the International Exhibition of Flour Milling Machinery which opened in the Agricultural Halls, Islington, London 133 years ago" To begin to answer that question suppose we look back to May 1881 and an advertisement in trade journal THE MILLER (Figure 1) But this is only the beginning of an answer because there is no mention of roller flour mill machinery so we need a little more research. I have numbered and sub-titled the following 5 paragraphs because the Roller Flour Milling Revolution was a technological and sociological response to several interrelated factors: 01 Consumer preferences for white flour and bread: Wheat flour – for many people’s daily bread – had been stone ground for centuries and mainly in the UK by wind- or water-powered flour mills. It was a sudden death process which swiftly transformed wheat berries into wholemeal flour containing some bran and some wheat-germ. High milling – with the stones slightly further apart – and sieving or purification produced a whiter flour and a greater percentage of offal or animal feed. For generations, white bread had been the preferred bread of the rich while the poor ate dark bread. By the beginning of C-19th bakers made 3 classes of bread: white from which all the bran had been separated; wheaten from which the coarser bran was removed; and household which was made from whole-meal flour.

02 Market demand: During the C-18th and into the C-19th UK flour milling tried to keep pace with the growth of population, the development of densely-populated urban industrial centres and other changes caused by the Industrial Revolution – broadly dated between the 1760s and the 1840s.

03 Meeting the market demand with bigger flour mills: The needs of a growing urban settlement outstripped the supply of flour from rural wind- and water-mills and where there were town mills they had to compete for water-power with other forms of manufacture. So great was the demand for water-power in more prosperous and increasingly industrialised areas that it became difficult to find sites for additional water-powered mills of any kind within reasonable reach of the expanding urban areas which provided a market. From the early C-19th steam became a powerful alternative source of power to wind and water and big steam engines could drive big flour mills.

04 Competition from overseas: Millers were also experiencing competition from imported wheat and flour. Several

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European countries, especially Hungary, and the USA were ahead of England in developing large-scale industrial roller flour milling. Steam-powered railways and sea-going vessels could bring wheat, and fine-quality flour, from the USA in quantities that allowed very competitive pricing.

05 Supplying the market for flour: increasingly the customers for flour were urban bakeries which became larger, more centralised and increasingly mechanised. These bakeries demanded a consistent quality of white flour because most of their customers wanted white bread.

Revolutions often need a catalyst to precipitate change. The catalyst in the UK was the International Exhibition of Flour Milling Machinery which opened in the Agricultural Halls, Islington, London 133 years ago for 5 consecutive days in May 1881. Millers who visited the Exhibition were able to watch flour mills at work, to see, smell and – with the miller’s thumb – feel the flour being produced, and to learn from the exhibitors how they could join this Revolution.

The catalysts for further research

From 1975 to 1981 I was employed by South Yorkshire County Council as Curator, Miller, Mill Manager and general Gofer• at Worsbrough Flour Mill on the outskirts of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. (• Gofer [noun] A term for an employee, servant, or slave whose primary responsibility is to fetch items and bring them back to his or her boss, master, or owner. URBAN DICTIONARY www.urbandictionary.com.

My catalyst was a conducted visit to Ranks Hovis McDougall Town Mills, Rotherham by the Mill Manager, the [late] Frank O’Shea when I, like my predecessors in London, could see, smell and feel the flour being produced by a roller flour mill. Frank explained the technology so I learned the differences between a sudden death process stone mill like Worsbrough and a gradual reduction process mill like RHM Town Mills.

And Roger Gilbert’s catalyst which led to this article for GFMT: On Tuesday 11 March this year Bryan McGee and I gave a presentation to a very well-filled meeting of London & South East Millers Society at nabim in Arlington Street, London, entitled: The Roller Flour Milling Revolution in the UK

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In the discussion and networking which followed the presentation Roger introduced himself. He explained his role with Perendale Publishers, asked for some background information about my research and suggested that the story I had unfolded in the presentation might be a publishing lead for GFMT. GFMT has succeeded two of the important trade journals which were facilitators of the initial Roller Flour Milling Revolution – THE MILLER and MILLING – so to rediscover flour milling history in the C-21st trade journal is an educational and training resource.

• Roller flour mills • Disused roller flour mills including those converted to other uses 03 An illustrated Report on the flour mills recorded in 01 and 02 in the context of the Roller Milling Flour Revolution from the 1890s to the present.

The Project Team is now exploring the possibility of extending the researching and recording of roller flour mills over the whole of the UK and Eire plus a little European and USA input to give context to the Roller Flour Milling Revolution in the UK. I hope you have read thus far and, just to whet your appetite for more, I plan to tell an illustrated history of roller flour milling in future issues of GFMT and answer the questions: • Why was Hungary mentioned at the beginning of this piece?

• What was the origin of HOVIS as a trade name for flour and bread?

To complete this article with a picture may help to answer the first question.

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The first flour I milled at Worsbrough was from English wheat supplied by a local farmer and I soon learned about strong wheats when the Worsbrough Flour (vintage 1976) bread which my wife baked is still recalled by our children as “Mum’s brown brick.”

Frank O’Shea explained that I needed strong Canadian wheat – which he was then milling and, ideally, a roller plant.

The roller plant was not an option because I was developing Worsbrough Mill as a museum of flour milling. My researches into the history of Worsbrough Mills (and the plural is not a typo) dated the water-powered mill as c1625 and the steam powered mill to c1840; both were stone mills.

The older mill is the left-hand building in the picture and the steam mill, now bereft of boiler-house, chimney and steam engine, is the taller mill on the right.

I had also discovered that miller John Watson had been at Worsbrough from 1865 Worsbrough mill museum, to 1922 so he had taken Barnsley - opened in 1976 the Mills through the changes of the Roller Flour Milling Revolution and despite the competition from Co-op Roller Flour Mill in Summer Lane, Barnsley, which opened only 3 miles away in 1889 (Figure 2).

I left Worsbrough Mill Museum in 1981 but I have continued research into flour milling until, from 2011 to 2013 for an English Heritage Project, I was able to address an industrial heritage which has been overlooked or ignored but needs to be celebrated.

Following advice from nabim I invited Bryan McGee to join the small Project Team and, as a public access base for our data-base I brought in The Mills Archive, Reading.

The initial EH Project has achieved this: 01 A database of all the roller flour mills in England including those (currently) producing bread-flour from their own machinery.

02 A detailed Roller Flour Mills Record created from the database in 01– including historic and current photographs, text information, ma evidence and memories – of flour mills in the following categories: • Water-powered roller flour mills • Formerly steam-powered stone and roller flour mills

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constructing our new facilities,” says Bega’s Technical Director, Laimonas Rimkus.

In line with the design brief, the new terminal has more than doubled Bega’s cargo handling capacity to five million tonnes per year and significantly improved its potential for handling agricultural products.

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Mr Rimkus explains how Bega has benefited since its new terminal was commissioned.

“Thanks to the terminal’s rail loading and unloading station, we no longer have to store bulk material for export in railway wagons, as we were forced to do in the past. The powerful new Siwertell cargo handling equipment means we can load large vessels directly from rail wagons and from the warehouses.”

This means that rail wagons are used more efficiently; loaded wagons arriving can be discharged into the storage facility and then loaded with an onward agricultural cargo.

Mr Rimkus says it is no longer necessary for Bega to limit its agricultural operations to a particular season, which is normally the case for grain export.

“Now that we have the capacity to store agricultural products in our warehouses, the terminal will be in active use throughout the year, meeting the fluctuating market demands for grain, soybean meal and other feed derivatives.”

He says the terminal’s built-in functional flexibility allows Bega to provide all the functions of a hub-port; it can re-distribute large quantities of bulk material from vessels such as post-Panamax type bulk carriers, not only by road and rail, but also by smaller vessels covering the Eastern Baltic region. Customers appreciate the improved service and it saves them money.

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The Siwertell designed Bega complex includes two linked warehouses with a total floor area of 20,000m2 and a storage capacity of 160,000m3.

To segregate the different types of cargo, the warehouses are divided into eight compartments. A covered loading and unloading station for rail wagons and road transport is linked to the warehouses.

Agri-bulk cargo arriving at the terminal by rail wagons or trucks is tipped into four underground receiving hoppers. The four hoppers are served by two separate intake lines – each with a capacity of 500 tonnes/hour – so two types of cargo can be received simultaneously.

The bulk material is conveyed to one of the eight compartments in the two warehouses by fully automated overhead belt conveyors, according to a sequence set by the operator in the control room.

Mr Ojeda notes that the terminal is very flexible, and can also receive many types of bulk cargoes arriving by sea.

Bulk material arriving in this way is transferred, via a rail-mounted travelling hopper, to an underground conveying line with a capacity of 1000 tonnes/hour. The cargo can be conveyed directly to the two warehouses at full conveying capacity. Alternatively, part of the cargo can be conveyed to one of the warehouses while the remainder is sent simultaneously to the rail wagon and truck loading station.

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The cargo conveying alternatives do not end there, however.

“Bega also has the option of transferring cargo directly from the intake to a ship,” says Mr Ojeda.

“This is a very useful capability for small quantities of special materials that do not require intermediate storage. And of course it can also be useful if the warehouses are full.”

Bulk material stored in the warehouses can be conveyed to the Siwertell ship loader on the jetty via belt conveyors, or to the combined rail/road loading station for transfer to rail wagons or trucks.

This is achieved by means of pay loaders working inside the warehouse, feeding the bulk material onto one of two underground conveyor systems with capacities of 1200 tonnes/hour and 500 tonnes/hour.

The larger system is used for cargo to be loaded onto ships; the smaller one is used for cargo heading for overhead buffer bins installed in the loading station for rail wagons and trucks.

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A travelling belt conveyor transfers material from the pier conveyors to the loader.

As part of the infrastructure necessary to handle the massively increased cargo throughput, an additional Siwertell ship loader, capable of handling Panamax vessels at 1200 tonnes/hour, was installed on a new jetty, where vessels can also be unloaded using a mobile harbour crane.

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Understanding the threat from mycotoxins - A comparison of mycotoxin testing techniques, regulations and best practices for flour and feed milling

by Clare Milligan, Product Manager, R-Biopharm Rhône Ltd

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t has been known for some years that cereal commodities can contain mycotoxins. With the gradual increase of human life expectancy, it has now been proven that these natural toxins contribute to certain forms of cancers in both humans and animals.

Invasion of foods and feed by moulds under certain storage or environmental conditions, such as high moisture and/or specific temperatures, can lead to the development of these highly toxic components.

There are many different types of mycotoxins, the most common and dangerous of which are aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1 and G2).

However, legislation also exists for other mycotoxins such as ochratoxin A, deoxynivalenol, fumonisins, zearalenone and patulin.

Aflatoxins are produced by the fungi Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus and are often associated with commodities grown in tropical regions including various nuts, maize, dried fruits and spices.

Mycotoxins such as ochratoxin A are found in cold to temperate climates, but can often be found in similar commodities to aflatoxins including dried fruits, coffee, cocoa, cereals, herbs and animal feed ingredients.

Fumonisins, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone and T-2 and HT-2 toxins are produced by various Fusarium species and are mainly found in maize and maize-based commodities while patulin is commonly found in apple juice and purees.

(2013/165/EU). See Figure 1 for further information on current EU Legislation in Food.

Currently there are a wide variety of tests available for the detection of mycotoxins.

These include ‘traditional’ methods such as thin layer chromatography and more rapid tests such as enzyme immunoassays or lateral flow devices commonly known as dipstick tests.

However, for more sensitive analysis of mycotoxins, immunoaffinity columns are commonly used to allow legislative levels to be easily and accurately quantified by HPLC or LC-MS/MS. With the increase in mycotoxin legislation there is a growing need for fast, simple and accurate methods for both quantifying or screening mycotoxins, which are, not only capable of detecting the legislative levels but also of meeting the analytical criteria laid down by the European Commission.

R-Biopharm have developed a complete range of test formats including ELISAs, cards,

The method of choice

Immunoaffinity columns are the standard method of choice for regulatory mycotoxin analysis, however, there is also the need for columns, which can offer multi-mycotoxin analysis in conjunction with either HPLC or LC-MS/MS using a single extraction method.

The company has therefore developed a number of new multi-mycotoxin immunoaffinity columns including AFLAOCHRA PREP®, EASI-EXTRACT® T-2 & HT-2 and AO ZON PREP® for use in conjunction with HPLC and the most recent additions to it’s product line are DZT MS-PREP® and AOF MS-PREP® for simultaneous detection of mycotoxins in conjunction with LC-MS/MS (see Figure 2).

The multi-mycotoxin columns are produced using more than one monoclonal antibody bound to a solid support within

Figure 1: Overview of current EU Legislation in Food Toxin

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Due to the prevalence of mycotoxins in cereals, cereal products and animal feed there has been growing concern for human and animal safety resulting in increased surveillance plans for cereals and retail products to generate data on consumer exposure to the range of Fusarium mycotoxins in the human diet.

Legislation is currently in place (1126/2007/EC) for most of the Fusarium mycotoxins including DON, fumonisin, zearalenone and in March 2013 recommendations were introduced for T-2 and HT-2

lateral flow tests and immunoaffinity columns to allow users to comply with both European and International Mycotoxin regulations.

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Bread, pastries, biscuits, cereal snacks and breakfast cereals

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Unprocessed wheat, rye and other cereals

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Oats for direct human consumption

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Maize for direct human consumption

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Other cereals for direct human consumption

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Oat, bran and flaked oat products for human consumption

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Cereal bran except oat bran, oat milling products other than oat bran and flaked oats, and maize milling products

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Other cereal milling products

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a column. This enables the isolation and concentration of target mycotoxins and the use of monoclonal antibodies makes the test highly specific and offers improved sensitivity.

In all cases the toxins are extracted by blending the food or feed sample with a solvent, the extract is then filtered, diluted and a small volume passed through the immunoaffinity column by the analyst. If the target mycotoxins are present in the test

Figure 2: Example Immunoaffinity Column

sample, they are selectively bound to the antibodies in the column; the toxins are then released from the column using a solvent.

The eluate is then injected onto the HPLC or LC-MS/MS system ready for quantification (see Figure 3).

The advantage of these new multi-mycotoxin immunoaffinity columns is that only one sample preparation method is required for quantifying all mycotoxins in a single run

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therefore having greater sample throughput and a reduction in the use of solvents and consumables. The development of faster, accurate tests enables easier and more thorough monitoring of foods by the supplier.

If such testing is used in conjunction with preventative measures at all stages in the production process, contamination risk to the consumer will be significantly reduced.

With the new recommendations in March 2013 for T-2 and HT-2 (2013/165/ EU) Member States, should with the active involvement of food and feed business operators, perform monitoring for the presence of the toxins in food and feed samples.

Member States are encouraged to test samples simultaneously for the presence of T-2 and HT-2 and other Fusarium toxins such as deoxynivalenol, zearalenone and fumonisin B1 and B2 to allow the extent of co-occurence to be assessed.

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number of cereal products, HT-2 being a major metabolite. It is also recommended that if the method employed by the operator allows, that the presence of masked mycotoxins in particular the mono and di-glycosylated conjugates of T-2 and HT-2 should also be reported by Member States.

Masked mycotoxins just as toxic

A masked mycotoxin is a compound who's 'parent' mycotoxin is chemically altered into a conjugated or structurally related form of the original mycotoxin.

Masked mycotoxins are thought to be just as toxic as the original toxin but may behave very different chemically and can be more complex to analyse. R-Biopharm Rhone's immunoaffinity columns have been tested and have been found to cross react with the many of the masked mycotoxins and are suitable for use with LC-MS/MS allowing the analysis of all toxins in a single run.

With more commodities being covered by legislation comes the need for large and small food companies and importers to test for mycotoxins. R-Biopharm Rhone have developed a range of test formats to meet the growing demands of the market. For those customers who require quantitative analysis of mycotoxins, but who do not have an HPLC or LC-MS/MS, a wide range of ELISAs have been developed for a range of mycotoxins.

For port health authorities and small laboratories who need a fast, qualitative test, there are a range of test kits that can be used to screen cereals and cereal products. The AFLACARD, OCHRACARD and RIDA® QUICK tests allow for visual screening of the samples. These kits allow users to analyse samples quickly and easily yet be assured that they are keeping in line with current legislation.

Lateral flow dipsticks

RIDA® QUICK lateral flow dipsticks are available for screening for deoxynivalenol, aflatoxins, zearalenone and fumonisins.

Interpretation of results is easy; a visible test band appears for positive samples and no line is visible for negative samples. RIDA® QUICK SCAN is available to read the test bands in order to give customers a quantitative result (see Figure 4).

Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) can also be used for screening various mycotoxins. The RIDASCREEN® ELISAs use the high specificity of antigen and antibody interaction to detect and quantify the mycotoxin of interest by photometric detection. RIDASCREEN® T-2 / HT-2 R3805) has been recently added to

Figure 3: Overview of Immunoaffinity Column Principle the range and is a competitive enzyme immunoassay for the quantitative analysis of T-2 and HT-2 toxins in oat, corn, barley and wheat. The mycotoxins are extracted from the cereal samples with methanol / water and the concentration of mycotoxin present is determined by means of the standard curve (range: 1 - 36 ppb (μg/kg)).

The limit of detection is approximately 30 ppb (30 μg/kg) and the recovery in natural contaminated cereal samples (Trilogy® reference material, TR-MT100) was determined to be 105 percent ± 15 percent and in spiked samples was found to be 95 percent ± 15 percent.

The performance, stability and quality of RIDASCREEN® ELISA kits are validated both internally and externally before being officially released to the market for use.

Accreditations from recognised bodies such as AOAC, UKAS and AFNOR are also sought. It is important to stress that the research and development of a product does not end with its launch into the market.

Work continues and is carried out on a regular basis at laboratories in Germany and Scotland to ensure products continue to meet ever changing legislation and the different types of matrices that these regulations cover. Customer feedback is very much an integral part in ensuring that the company continues to develop successful products to be a leading supplier in this sector.

Drastically reducing contamination

The development of faster, accurate tests enables easier and more thorough monitoring of foods by the supplier. If such testing is used in conjunction with preventative measures at all stages in the production process; this will drastically reduce contamination and lower the risk to the consumer.

Since the formation of the company in the late 1980s R-Biopharm Rhone has established itself as a leading developer of test solutions for food and feed analysis, manufacturing test kits that offer high precision and accuracy. With over 30 years experience in the development of various test formats, methods and services for the detection of mycotoxins, the company plans to continue to develop and offer exciting prospects in the field of mycotoxins ahead of legislation and to provide complete mycotoxin solutions for both large and small food companies.

The company is well positioned to advance the development of innovative and versatile fast tests necessary to obtain accurate results from a wide range of new challenges.

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Flour miller values weighbridge technology on the island of Zanzibar

by Tim Harford-Cross Overseas Project Engineer, Griffith Elder

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he tropical island paradise of Zanzibar is most well known for its beaches, sea life and spice trade. Since the times of the spice trade, the port has been an integral part of the island and the ships are still bringing in containers of cargo to the varied industries on the island.

One of the largest Tanzanian companies, Bahkresa, is home on the island.

Bahkresa started his flourmill many decades ago and now is a major player of milling not only on Zanzibar but also on the Tanzanian mainland, in Mozambique, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi and Kenya.

Now the Bahkresa Group also produces ice cream, fizzy drinks, frozen food and many other foodstuffs.

In the East African region, wheat flour production and distribution is an important addition to the crop-base rather than just maize flour and allows for more stable prices throughout the year.

Reliance on a single crop has long been recognised as a key factor in famines.

Moving to a wider crop base alleviates food level fluctuations that can lead to poor diet, disease and high consumer prices, especially in areas where incomes are low.

It was recognised early in the 1980s that the mill would benefit from the accurate weighing of incoming grain and outgoing flour and by products. The company they went to for advise and assistance was Griffith-Elder.

Now, decades on, I have been sent back to complete an upgrade to the current system.

I arrive on site at the Zanzibar Milling

Corporation where the mill is tripling its capacity by fitting new silos.

Discussions with Mr Yussuf, the manager, immediately followed and covered the upgrading of the existing weighbridge, over a cup of chai. He was very happy to see me, the shipment of grain is due next week and he needs his digital recording system installed by then.

Tripling capacity means tripling weighing

Tripling the capacity will mean tripling of the number of vehicles to be weighed.

That in turn means a requirement to digitize weighing records for speed of ticketing and control of stocktaking. Every second costs when there is a container of wheat to offload from the port.

Together we go to inspect the weighbridge.

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I find one of our 15m weighbridges with analogue S-Type load cells. It has been nearly 25 years since the initial installation and the platform has no signs of rust or damage despite having had sea air blow over it for all this time.

The weighbridge has S-Type load cells giving it excellent stability. The weighbridge doesn’t wobble when the trucks enter the weighbridge, like canister load cells, giving quick steady weights.

This is exactly what is needed in high volume traffic situations.

There is no requirement for the precise leveling and grouting as with canister load cells making installation and maintenance simple and easy: A great advantage for a site is off the beaten track. Site staff can be easily trained meaning no expensive service contracts are needed.

Predating the ubiquitous PC

Inside the office there is the sturdy 80s indicator with a built in tally roll printer and a small LCD display.

Speaking with Mohammed, the weighbridge team leader, I find out that they have been very happy with the indicator and say that it is very reliable and strong. However, for this indicator, its years of reliable service are now over.

Now out-of-date, as it predates the ubiquitous PC and electronic reporting which is now preferable to keeping paper records.

I add a Weightel™ in between the analogue load cells and the new indicator, this digitizes the analogue load cell signals. The new indicator processes the digital load cell signal and stores the weight along with the date, time and a record number.

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The report data is output to a CSV file that is accessible in spreadsheet software directly and is able to imported to many other software programs.

Sharing the weighbridge

Full portability is available with PC, Printer and Indicator housed in a Winchester carry case and no floor bolts for our load cells The indicator can be linked to large LED external displays, traffic lights and printer to stand alone from a PC. A button fob system allows the whole system to be driver operated with preloaded tare weights stored on each fob. The whole system can be run off-grid using 12V solar panels or a battery: Excellent for use in countries where blackouts are common place or where 24-hour service is required. The units can be set to imperial - such as pounds and tons - or

Alternatively, the trucks can be weighed twice when empty and full, during filling/ dropping off the ticket is held in the system until the operator recalls the ticket for the second weighing allowing more trucks to be weighed in the meantime.

Adjustments can be made for the moisture content of the grain allowing the wet weight (current weight) and the weight after drying to be calculated.

The user friendly interface allows the

The original sturdy 1980s indicator with a small LCD display is still working and remains reliable metric units, such as kilograms or tonnes.

The important functionality at ZMC is the communication with a computer. The new PC is installed with Tontel™ Grain Storage Software and communicates directly with the indicator. The software allows for stock control giving quantities of stock in each store as well creating tickets for each truck and a powerful reporting utility.

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The ticket includes gross weight, tare weight and nett weight.

Tare weights can be set to enter automatically from a database relating to a given licence plate number.

Mohammed points to the new system that brings him significant advantages in ticketing and reporting

operator to define what information is included on the ticket. Usual items include goods, transporter, customer name, etc but also could be site specific info such as laboratory or test sample results.

Reporting systems

The weighbridge at the Zanzibar Milling Corporation is used by many other companies from the island as this is the only place they can find accurate weights for their trucks.

More advanced software is available where full costing options can be calculated for storage, weighing and grain handling.

Laboratory, screening and admixture data and test data can be input on the tickets such as mycotoxins: Ideal for large sites with laboratory capabilities.

I go through all the software options and functionality with Mohammed and tomorrow I will return to oversee the operation of the weighbridge by the staff.

At Griffith Elder we find it is essential to spend enough time as is necessary with operators on the ground to ensure that they fully understand the process and can utilise the software to the maximum.

After my upgrade to the system, Mohammed takes me on a tour the mill and meet the team building the silos.

The Zanzibar Milling Corporation understands the essential requirement to weigh the product at each stage of production.

The software has an in-built reporting utility that allows a reports for each store, truck or over any date range and for any item on the ticket.

For instance it is possible to generate a report for trucks coming from “Silo A” between “1 March and 1 April” but also to then further specialise the report by selecting only records where customer is ‘The Big

Not only for optimisation of the production procedure but also to calculate profit margins accurately.

Theft is not a problem on site as every kilo of grain and flour is accounted for at each stage. The most important of these stages is when interacting with other companies and this is done over the weighbridge.

Leaving site, the operators are very happy to be able to print tickets rather than write them out manually and the manager is very happy with having all their reports stored in spreadsheets that he can integrate with his mill and financial auditing software.

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IV Europe 2014 will be back to business when the world expo for poultry and livestock husbandry and processing returns in May. It feels wonderful to have the opportunity again of hosting the best business event in animal agriculture for poultry and feed industry leaders from around the world.

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With 20,000 key players from 140 countries expected to attend, this edition of VIV Europe is set to be bigger than ever. In addition to the grand amount of visitors from within the industry, there will be visits by entire diplomatic delegations as well. They will be coming to take a look at the world premieres on display or taking part in a series of scientific congresses that are being organised parallel to the show.

Six hundred exhibitors from 45 countries have their latest products ready for the long awaited world expo. Complete cattle farm complexes and systems which cannot be exhibited because of their size, will be visited via special field-trips. Foreign governments will also be in attendance, taking a look behind the scenes at hands-on farms in the Netherlands via exclusive VIP programmes. After all, together with the United States, the Netherlands has a worldwide reputation in the field of innovative livestock, meat and egg production.

Complete & Compact

VIV Europe 2014 means business, in fact it is an excluxive Businessto-Business show for professionals in the production and processing of poultry meat and eggs and other animal proteins. Its watchwords are that it will be complete and compact. Complete in the pure sense that all global leaders from feed to meat and eggs will be at the show.

We have a full week of business opportunities lined up for them, built around the three days of the VIV Europe 2014 exhibition itself which runs from Tuesday May 20th to Thursday May 22nd. Compact refers to the fact that the VIV Europe showground in the Dutch city of Utrecht offers all the facilities in which to do business, but in an environment that is comfortable for every visitor. Our visitors will not need shuttle buses to move between the exhibition halls.

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The last four years have been spent working on the return of VIV Europe to Utrecht, the ‘mother show’ of what has now become a thriving, worldwide network. The birth of successful VIVs around the world has also allowed us to expand our network, make contact with new partners, visit government ministries and establish relationships with livestock breeding organisations, which has of course helped us promote VIV Europe. Last year we held roadshows in 20 countries. We attended shows organised by others, where we arranged congresses, organised seminars and held workshops in order to demonstrate that we wanted to share knowledge and tell the world that it had to come to Utrecht since that is the essence of this event – assisting the worldwide industry: building relationships and sharing knowledge. More than ever before, people from foreign government departments are welcomed as if it was a state visit, and everything humanly possible is brought to the plate to ensure every single visitor is in the most comfortable state to do business and expand their individual network. In addition Utrecht and Amsterdam have a great deal to offer as well. The world premieres, the diverse programme of conferences and activities, the atmosphere, the farm visits and the scientific programme, and the people – that is what makes this edition of VIV Europe unique.

Now the moment is almost here. The most prestigious trade show for innovative poultry and livestock husbandry and processing is back in the Netherlands for the world to see: VIV Europe 2014.

We are ready. Are you?

Ruwan Berculo International Market Manager VIV

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Flexible feed formulation and production Karel Vervaet

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Processing & upgrading of (new) raw materials; How feed insects, algae and fruits sustainable and safe to animals Henri Michiels

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Inline product analysis control of the extrusion line process Jan Swiers and Thomas Jørgensen

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Input not yet available Additives to enhance Feed mill efficiency Paul Koolen

Chemoforma Feed additives for livestock and aquaculture, nucleotide products Dr. Haufmann

Feed returns to its favourite showplace

Feed forms a focal point of VIV Europe 2014, exhibition manager Ruwan Berculo confirms. International developments in the composition and manufacturing of feeds will feature strongly on the agenda.

“We always cover the agribusiness spectrum from feed to meat in every VIV event. But Utrecht in May will underline the feed aspect in several ways. For example, when our visitors arrive at the show they will find that a hall near to the main entrance contains displays by all the leading suppliers of feed manufacturing technology as well as for companies marketing ingredients and additives. A second hall only about a minute away on foot will have more nutritional products on show.

“By our preliminary calculation there will be more than 40 exhibitors with machinery or equipment for feed mills. In addition to that, about 15 companies supplying feed manufacturing systems will be represented on the stands forming a special CropTech-FeedTech pavilion.”

Ruwan also explains that a debate on digital engineering at the heart of feed production has been arranged for the CropTechFeedTech conference taking place on Wednesday 21 May. Before the conference launches an open discussion involving all of the participants, it will begin with short presentations on the digital engineering theme by six global suppliers who will address automation in all parts of the feed manufacturing chain, from mixing and conveying to pelleting and extrusion.

“Their comments are sure to be highly relevant to the profitability and competitiveness of every feed manufacturer, by offering a view of how automation can be extended further into the processes of the mill,” Ruwan continues. “Everyone in the feed business can gain from the knowledge transfer sessions available to our visitors as well as from seeing the displays of our exhibitors.

“It is something that we have emphasised repeatedly in the series of VIV Europe Roadshows which we have been taking around the world to promote the 2014 event. The people attending these Roadshows have included the directors and managers of feed manufacturing companies. They have made clear that they plan to attend the show in May, because of its strong feed flavour and it is being held in Utrecht, their favourite place for a professional business show!”

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- 43 exhibitors - 19 exhibitors located in the CropTech-FeedTech pavilion - A total of 1443 sq.m. CropTech-FeedTecj knowledge - Exhibitor from 15 countries - Complete turnkey solutions, logistics/handling/transport,storage, components, IT-solutions.

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• VIV Europe 2014 Opening The official Trade Show-opening, taking place on Tuesday 20th May, 10:30 hrs.

Key note address by: • Ruud Tijssens, President of the European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (fefac) • Anastasia Alieva, Global Head of Fresh Food Research at Euromonitor International • Ben Dellaert, Vice-Chair of the International Egg Commission (IEC) The winners of the Personality Awards will be announced during the VIV Europe 2014 Opening.

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Summary of activities A Summary of the activities and special delegations scheduled as part of VIV Europe 2014, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Innovations • VIV Europe 2014 Innovations Gallery The State-of-the-Art circle, located in the Centre Court, is a prime location for exhibitors to Introduce new innovations.

Hostesses will be pleased to guide any interested visitors to the exhibitors’ stand.

• VIV Europe 2014 Dutch Excellence Field Trips Reed Business has organized a series of Field Trips in The Netherlands on Monday 19th May (the day before the trade show VIV Europe 2014 starts). The following Field Trips are available - Broiler production & processing - Table egg production & processing - Pig farming - Feed mill technology & practice VIPs have free access to one of the tours.

Conferences & Seminars Monday 19th May • Incubation 2014 Positive Action Publications will host a pre-show conference at the Mitland Hotel in Utrecht on Monday 19th May (the day before the trade show VIV Europe 2014 starts).

Tuesday 20th May • Biosecurity Academy by Kiotechagil On Tuesday 20th May, 13:30 hrs to 15:50 hrs, Kiotechagil will present the latest trends in biosecurity.

• CropTech-FeedTech debate-conference by VIV On Tuesday 20th May, 11:00 hrs to 12:30 hrs, VIV and Perendale Publishers will address the subject Digital Engineering in Feed Manufacturing.

• GMP+ Conference On Tuesday 20th May, 14:00 hrs to 15:00 hrs, a GMP and conference will be held on trends & developments in Feed production.

• Invest in Africa A series of round table discussions regarding investment opportunities in Northern African countries on Tuesday 20th May. • Romijn-Conference: Feeding, and not eating the world An English-language series of lectures by WPSA, NL-branch addressing sustainable intensification in relation to organic produce and related challenges in food security, Tuesday 20th May from 14:30 hrs to 17:00 hrs.

• Seminars by exhibitors A series of 1-hour seminars presented by exhibitors

Wednesday 21st May1 • Animal Health Summit by VIV An extensive two-part program (morning and afternoon): 1. Seminars by exhibitors addressing technical best practices on the subject of Animal Health on Wednesday 21st May, 10:30 hrs to 13:30 hrs 2. WVPA Conference “Poultry Health Threats” on Wednesday 21st May, 13:30 hrs to 16:30 hrs.

• Biomin-Seminar A seminar on latest findings of the Biomin research study focusing Poultry Health & Nutrition on Wednesday 21st May, 14:00 hrs to 15:30 hrs.

• Early-feeding Conference by VIV This conference will cover technical topics with regard to feeding new born chicks. Date to be announced.

• Poultry Drinking Technology Conference by VIV A conference focusing on best practices in drinking technology, discussing topics related to hygiene and equipment. Date to be announced.

• Invest in Africa A series of round table discussions regarding investment opportunities in Northern African countries on Wednesday 21st May. • Invest in Russia A series of Round table discussions regarding investment opportunities in Russia on Wednesday 21st May, 15:15 hrs to 17:45 hrs.

• Seminars by exhibitors A series of 1 hour seminars presented by exhibitors • WATT Global Media Animal Welfare Conference A conference developed by WATT Global Media addressing welfare issues in Animal husbandry, Wednesday 21st May, 10:30 hrs to11:30 hrs.

• WPC2016 Conference A Poultry conference introducing topics that will be discussed in more depth during WPC 2016 in Beijing, China, Wednesday 21st May, 12:00 hrs to 13:30 hrs.

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Network opportunities Monday 19th May • VIV Europe 2014 & Rabobank Grand Eve An invitation-only network evening starting at 17:00 hrs on Monday 19th May, will be held at the Rabobank Global Headquarters in Utrecht. Open to 400 VIP relations of VIV & Rabobank.

Key-note speakers: • Dr. A.A. (Aalt) Dijkhuizen, Chairman Topteam Dutch Topsector Agri&Food, presents his vision on sustainable intensification.

• Mr. Adjiej Bakas, Trend Watcher This enterprise supports BIG CHALLENGE. This is an initiative led by a series of other Dutch industry players collecting donations within our industry for KWF Cancer Foundation (a Dutch organization funding cancer research).

Access to the Grand Eve requires a fee of EUR 50,- p.p. to ensure the attendance of registrations.

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- Southeast Asia => Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (in co-operation with VNUE AP) - Sudan (in co-operation with BOI France) - USA

Pre-show Campaign VIV Europe 2014 RoadShow The RoadShow activities to promote VIV Europe 2014 include round table meetings, conferences, master classes and other network opportunities taking place in Myanmar, China (twice), Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Africa, Iran, Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Other special promotion highlights will be the VIV International Nigeria Summit, the VIV International Pork Production Summit 2014 USA (in co-operation with IPPE2014 Atlanta) as well as the International India Summit as part of VIV India 2014.

VIV Europe 2014 Press Conferences A wide range of press conferences will run from February 2014 in Asia, Europe and Russia.

These fees will be collected and paid in full to BIG CHALLENGE, a certified association. The number of invitations is limited.

Tuesday 20th May DPC Network Cocktail - 17h00-19h00 A cocktail event, hosted by the Dutch Poultry Centre at the Centre Court, enabling VIPs and special international delegations to network with DPC members. Tuesday 20th May, by invitation only.

VIV Trade Dinner Africa - 19h00-20h30 Networking dinner enabling the investors and decision makers from Africa (mainly the invited delegations from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia) to network with exhibitors. This event is open to exhibitors upon paid registration (EUR 85,- p.p.). Free of charge for African attendees.

Wednesday 21st May VIV Spanish Network Cocktail - 17h30-18h30 A cocktail event, hosted by VIV at the Centre Court, enabling VIPs, exhibitors and special international delegations within the Spanishspeaking countries to network. Wednesday 21st May, by invitation only.

Special delegations • Poultry Veterinary Science Group A group of Poultry experts committed to advance poultry veterinary science in Europe.

• ENAJ European National Agriculture Journalists The ENAJ Federation of European Agriculture Journalists will visit VIV Europe with some 30 editors.

• Eurasco 2014-AGM Annual General Meeting of Eurasco, the network of Directors and Representatives of European Animal and Agriculture fairs (Sunday 18th May to Tuesday 20th May).

• Special international delegations arranged and co-ordinated by VIV: - China (in co-operation with Beijing Tech & DPC) - Central America (in co-operation with RN-Embassy) - Ethiopia (in co-operation with NABC) - India (in co-operation with DPC & InterAds) - Germany - Hungary - Iran (in co-operation with Sunsafa & IAHPG) - Mexico (in co-operation with UNA and RN-Embassy) - Nigeria (in co-operation with PAN, RN-Embassy and Nate Farms) - North Africa => Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia (in co-operation with BOI France) - Poland (in co-operation with the Polish Embassy in NL) - Russia (in co-operation with Asti Group & DPC) - Saudi Arabia (in co-operation with DPC)

Successfully introduced in other VIV shows this theme will be further extended at VIV Europe 2014.

At VIV Europe experts and exhibitors will be presenting their best knowledge and techniques in the field of feed production. Animal feed is also the theme of the opening congress on Tuesday May 20th. Exhibitors will be presenting all of the latest techniques and animal feed will be examined in depth.

This will also cover topics such as ingredients, additives and veterinary medication – the latter also being of major importance since there is a direct relationship between food quality and food safety.

The VIV Animal Health Summit starts of with a series of seminars in co-operation with the WVPA. For special theme Animal Health, VIV Europe organises several activities, for instance the Animal Health Summit. The WVPA (World Veterinary Poultry Association) will co-host the Animal Health Summit with their Animal Health Conference on Wednesday May 21st. Please find below a selection of the Animal Health programme.

MeatTech is a brand new theme for VIV events. Each year the supply chain for meat, poultry and aquaculture is getting further integrated. VIV has a long history with top decision makers in the bigger integrations and producers of poultry and pigs. Therefore VIV recognizes a growing interest from visitors in meat slaughtering and further meat processing. This growing interest is the starting point for the specialized MeatTech them at the larger VIV trade shows.

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unning up to the main trade show in Utrecht, The Netherlands, VIV Europe organised a global tour: the VIV Europe Roadshow. Take a look inside this 8 month roadshow, consisting of master classes, summits, pavilions and more unique networking opportunities for professionals to connect worldwide.

Utrecht – "Interacting directly and on a personal level with governments, the top of the business world, decision-makers in the animal production chain and showing them what we can do. And immediately inviting all these people to come to VIV Europe in Utrecht in May 2014.

That is the purpose of our North African mission", says Didier Nech from BOI, agent and promoter of the international event for the livestock, meat, poultry and egg sector since 2000. This new approach, in which a travelling networking event with master classes and a preview of the exhibition visits five countries, puts VIV Europe 2014 prominently on the agenda. It marks the return of VIV Europe to the place where the organisation, which now operates on a global scale, started initially.

175 million consumers

"The reason we are paying so much attention to North Africa is because these countries are on the threshold or in the middle of a major turnaround; and in some cases this turnaround is already complete. Although in some cases there is still political instability, we expect that our exhibitors and knowledge specialists can help these countries to develop or build their animal protein sector. These are countries with a total of around 175 million consumers, where a lot of investments will be made in the coming years in response to the growth requirement. Especially for the poultry sector, but for the production chains of cattle, goats and sheep there are also enormous opportunities", Didier Nech summarises.

At the end of November the roadshow travelled to Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The approach differed per country.

"In most countries we had to work extremely circumspectly and comply with the formal procedures, so in those countries we had direct contact with the government. Through Ministers and other highly placed government officials we also had better access to the top people. That put us in contact with the big animal husbandry organisations, leading producers, managers in the processing industry and research institutes.

We have mapped out everyone who matters.

Around a thousand prominent individuals were invited to our roadshows, followed by a personal invitation to visit Utrecht in May 2014", says the French partner of VIV Europe.

More than just attracting visitors

The roadshows are about much more than just attracting visitors, says Didier Nech. "Of course we try to reach and interest as many potential visitors as possible. In addition we help put together VIP delegations at the same time,

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because VIV has earned a lot of goodwill around the world with that approach. These VIPs are then welcomed to Utrecht and shown around whilst being showered with every attention. We also start sharing our substantive knowledge already during the VIV Europe roadshow, by means of master classes. Everything is aimed at enabling us to support the development in these countries, together with our exhibitors and scientists. All the links in the production chain are represented, so the VIV Europe Roadshow is a representation of what people can expect at VIV Europe", is the promise.

Morocco, November 26-29

The VIV representatives visited the Dawajine exhibition, devoted to poultry breeding, which is considered an important exhibition in Morocco (around 350 exhibitors, including 100 from other countries). Nech: "We systematically visited the stands of all the national companies.

We were in touch with the FISA (Federation Interprofessionnelle du Secteur Avicole), an efficient organisation with several departments for animal feed, for eggs and for slaughter practices.

In addition we organised individual meetings with important visitors to the exhibition."

Algeria, November 29 - December 4

In Algeria the mission was organised in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture. "In this country," explains Didier Nech, "it is advisable to take the official approach alongside the business approach. In this country there are many operators in the poultry section, both public companies and “I feel the Iranian feed industry is hungry for new technology. This exhibition is an excellent venue to accomplish this.”

- Michael Cody – Vice President DPI Global "It was a very successful and educative seminar." - Elizabeth O. Igbo, Animal Scientist, Federal Min. of Agric. & Rural Dev. Abuja.

"The Nigeria Summit proofed to be an excellent opportunity for many of the veterinarians involved in poultry health in Nigeria to get together and we were able to exchange ideas as to how they can organise themselves as a special interest group of their veterinary association, which in turn could affiliate with the WVPA." - Dr. Hannes Swart, Currently CEO of Deltamune, Director of Avimune and Managing Director of Avi-Farms.

"I congratulate VIV on hosting a good first event in Nigeria." - Michael Pretorius, Regional Sales Manager Africa/Middle East Alltech.

"It made a lot of impact on the Aqua and Poultry world in Nigeria." - Daisy Eruvbetine, Member of African Poultry Network Steering Committee and member of WPSA International.

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big private players. We were working together with the Chamber of Agriculture, the Algerian animal husbandry institute, CNIFA (National Poultry Business Association) and a group of approximately twenty key producers in food processing and marketing (CEVITAL). The main slaughterhouses were also involved." VIV organised round tables meetings with groups of participants in the capital and in some of the important regions like Biskra, Tlemcen and Tizi Ouzou.

Libya, December 14 - 17

In Libya not all the target regions could be visited, for security reasons due to the political situation. "We organised meetings in Tripoli where we invited companies from Benghazi and other places to reach us there. In conjunction with the Vice-Minister of Agriculture, we organised round table meetings with the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, the Veterinarian Network (National Center of Animal Health), business associations (Libyan Union of Veterinary Product Importers) and various operators in the animal feed and poultry sectors. Also in Libya, we organised a VIP delegation that will be visiting VIV Europe," says Didier Nech.

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Tunisia, December 17 – 21

The business organisation for poultry is very well organised and connected (GIPAC Groupement Interprofessionnel des produits avicoles et cunicoles). Nech: "We have a good relationship with them and our mission was organised jointly.

Round table conferences with companies took place in Tunis.

We also visited Sfax in the south of the country, where round table meetings were organised. With GIPAC we discussed the possibility of building a "Tunisia stand" at VIV Europe, to support the Tunisian poultry business and to create a meeting point for Tunisian visitors and representatives from the poultry sector. GIPAC is in charge of this activity, coordinates the VIP delegation and ensures that conferences can be held during VIV Europe."

Egypt, January 11 – 14

In Egypt the approach was more or less the same as in Tunisia, including meetings with institutions, business associations and private companies. Round table conferences were organised in Cairo. "In Egypt we worked closely with the WPSA. They organised an important forum, the 7th international Poultry Conference (March 24-27 2014)."

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From 20-22 February we went to the beautiful Kish island, Iran.

We had the pleasure to support the first edition of the International Kish Poultry & Livestock Expo by organising the first international VIV pavilion. A modest number of companies joined the pavilion.

Due to some international restrictions (or hesitations) a considerable number of companies participated via their local distributor.

Despite the challenges everyone agrees that Iran is a country with a lot of potential. It is expected that the newly installed Government will follow a modern course. At this moment Iran uses only 1/3 of the total agricultural capacity, which makes this country definitely an upcoming location to monitor very closely.

K.P.L.E 2014 brought together 5,000 key-players from 20 provinces. From poultry producers and layer or broiler farmers to technicians and local equipment dealers, they all attended. International exhibitors rated the exhibition with a 7.4 on average.

Mr Carlos Garimartin – Area Sales Manager Exafan said: “Iran is a very important market where we had some customers but never found a good trade fair to extend our contacts. Finally we have a place to meet the people in the business in Iran.”

VIV International Nigeria Summit

The VIV International Nigeria Summit on January 15th was a tremendous success. Over 260 professionals attended this summit, which consisted of several presentations focussing on Feed & Nutrition, Breeding & Hatching, Aqua Culture and Farm Management. Looking back almost every visitor had just one conclusive question: ‘Why just one day?’ A major compliment for this very first VIV Roadshow event in Nigeria.

To warmly accommodate our African visitors, VIV Europe will have a very special VIV African Trade Dinner on Tuesday May 20th.

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A technique of pest control using a toxic gas

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A Detia Phosphine dispenser electricallypowered for silos. This uses spherical tablets which roll down a plastic tube and into the silo, and will result in a powder contamination of the fumigated grain

Fumigation - its practice and effectiveness Because all fumigants are at least as toxic to all animals, including humans, as to invertebrates, in Europe, fumigation of commodities and buildings can only be carried out by trained and certificated fumigation operators.

However, it is very useful for all involved in the storage of food commodities and working in food manufacturing plants, to understand the principles and practical aspects, and constraints, of fumigation, so that they can consider or recommend fumigation only when it is likely to be the best option.

Hot-Fogging tobacco warehouse

At the time of writing, 2014, the Montreal Protocol has resulted in methyl bromide – previously the most frequently-used fumigant - being totally phased out from European and other developed countries’ fumigations.

Sulfuryl fluoride (SF), previously confined to termite and other wood-boring insect control mostly in America, has now received limited approval for use on many timber products including logs, and for use in empty grain storage situations and emptied flour & feed mills. In the USA SF has a few dried foods clearances (tree nuts, for example) but not in Europe. The principle reason seems to be that there will always be a fluoride residue, and in many situations there is no accepted, listed approval for fluoride in foods, which helps explain why SF is generally unacceptable for food container imports.

Phosphine (PH3) is the commonest fumigant in use worldwide. It has been available commercially since the 1950s, originally being produced solely in Germany, but in recent years also manufactured in India, some South American countries and China, in formulations very similar to those well known from Germany.

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of fumigation, so that they can consider or recommend fumigation only when it is likely to be the best option.

At the time of writing, 2014, the Montreal Protocol has resulted in methyl bromide – previously the most frequently-used fumigant - being totally phased out from European and other developed countries’ fumigations.

Sulfuryl fluoride (SF), previously confined to termite and other wood-boring insect control mostly in America, has now received limited approval for use on many timber products including logs, and for use in empty grain storage situations and emptied flour & feed mills. In the USA SF has a few dried foods clearances (tree nuts, for example) but not in Europe. The principle reason seems to be that there will always be a fluoride residue, and in many situations there is no accepted, listed approval for fluoride in foods, which helps explain why SF is generally unacceptable for food container imports.

Phosphine (PH3) is the commonest fumigant in use worldwide. It has been available commercially since the 1950s, originally being produced solely in Germany, but in recent years also manufactured in India, some South American countries and China, in formulations very similar to those well known from Germany.

Phosphine gas is invariably generated onsite by the action of atmospheric moisture, or commodity humidity, on solid aluminium, or magnesium, phosphide preparations, in tablet, pellet, sachet, plate or strip form. E.g.: AlP + H20 = PH3 + AlOH. Phosphine is a light gas (only slightly heavier than air) with a small very active mobile molecule.

It has a wide spectrum of activity, but is a slow-acting fumigant on insects, needing days, rather than hours of exposure in most situations. It will easily leak out of all but the best-sealed enclosures, can damage through

corrosion – silver phosphide - delicate silver, gold & copper fittings (e.g. computer equipment and switch boxes) and, if the loose pellets and tablets are used, leaves powder deposits of (mostly) aluminium hydroxide.

Residues of the gas itself are almost impossible to detect in the commodity following normal aeration after treatment, but the dry powder residue is usually an unacceptable contamination in dry foods, so a “contained” formulation should always be chosen to facilitate complete removal [see later in this paper for illustrated examples].

Due to the corrosion risk when the gas is in contact with copper gold and silver, phosphine is not normally used for buildings (electrical systems and computers) and never for aircraft (electronics). With great care it can be used in mills, by separating the gas from all computer-activated machinery – shrouding and separating with well-sealed polythene enclosures – almost the exact opposite of the fumigation procedure, where gas leakage is the big potential problem.

Phosphine is not therefore a complete replacement for methyl bromide in all circumstances. It also has a fire hazard potential when very high concentrations occur – the critical auto-ignition level is 1.8% which equates to 18,000 ppm – significantly higher than would occur in normal fumigations.

Concentration x Time [CTP]

chose the highest value quoted for the most “difficult” species. For Methyl Bromide this was a critical feature to achieve good kill and not cause excess bromide residues. But phosphine does not have these problems.

It is much more common simply to decide the dosage, and measure the end-point concentration.

Commodity fumigation in a warehouse

If the store floor is in poor condition, it will be necessary to stack on a base or ground fumigation sheet. This can later be drawn up, rolled and joined (clips, clamps, glue or tape, according to the sheeting in use) to the main stack fumigation sheets.

Since sealing is so vital to long-exposure phosphine fumigations, it may be difficult, or even impossible, to successfully fumigate normal warehouses, where the ridge is usually out of reach for any form of sealing.

Ventilated silos and bins are frequently fitted with aerated steel floors which, again, are almost impossible to seal to form a gas-tight enclosure suitable for phosphine..

Not only this, but there are many grain stores which are just not suitable for fumigation. In the days of 24-hour methyl bromide use, it may have been possible to achieve sufficient gas concentration to give a good kill. 5 to 15 day phosphine fumigations may not be possible, and it really is essential that the fumigator-in-charge makes this clear to the potential client

One of the most important features of all fumigations is the need to contain the gas within the fumigation enclosure at a specified concentration for a specified time (= the Building fumigations (= ‘space exposure period). These two factors can be fumigation’) varied within limits, provided the necessary The principles under which whole buildconcentration x time product is achieved. ings are fumigated are the same as for This value (the CTP) variesbeetle-proof accordingmesh to the stacks:Hot-Fogging the gastobacco must warehouse be contained at the Spraying – no gloves pest species and live stages, and for mixed correct concentration for the required time species infestations it will be necessary to (exposure period) to allow the gas time to

Some General Features of Fumigation

Spraying beetle-proof mesh – no gloves

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

Very penetrative into insects and mites, into food residues and spillage, through packaging and into foodstuffs and other materials, e.g.: timber

High risk of gas leakage out of fumigation enclosures over long exposure

Insect and mite tolerance to fumigants is reduced at higher temperatures

Overdosing of MeBr would kill fresh plant produce and cause high bromide residues. Phosphine does not have these problems

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Spray grain store roof ; note lake of spray fallout for next grain to sit on

Sealing and good condition sheeting is essential

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Tabs in first few minutes Concentration, or time, can be Smoke generator varied, within limits, providing No residual protection, therefore not the100 final product sufficient a bag-blanket prophylactic treatment AlPCxT sachets in oneisroll – the original – quick and easy no masks for required the species legallytoatbe thecontrolled time! Bulk grain with cover sheet ready to pull over. * Gas distribution affected by stowage, temperature, absorption, commodity etc

Spray grain store roof ; note fallout for next grain to sit on

Spray grain store roof ; note lake of spray fallout for next grain to sit on

Real bulk grain fumigation – only the doorway was sheeted to the ground!

All involved must be trained to wear protective respiratory protective clothing. Not very expensive but vital for survival Measurement of gas concentrations throughout the fumigation is essential – check on instruments and Real bulk grain fumigation – only the doorway was sheeted to the ground!! * detection tubes available

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Real bulk grain fumigation – only the doorway was sheeted to the ground!! *

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Water deactivation of ALOH

Zig-Zag MgP Fumistrip

Tablet residue wet deactivation – wearing a mask with filter * Magphos Fumistrip –for large-scale fumigations. Each ‘plate’ enough for 20ft container *

Tablet residues collected for disposal *

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Tabs in first

Spraying beetleproof door mesh

Spraying beetle-proof mesh – no gloves search out and kill the target pest. Sealing buildings is laborious, time-consuming (up to 2 days full work for a flour mill), and it will be necessary to do some pre-cleaning of machinery to ensure good penetration of the Fumigant But the gas at least changes - we mentioned Sulfuryl Fluoride earlier – this is now the gas of choice for whole buildings.

A Dow AgroSciences gas, supplied and used according to DAS safety and training standards.

The quantity of gas needed for a mill could be considerable (usually several tonnes) and this will require careful planning to ensure safe de-gassing, or ventilation.

Where phosphine can be filtered out using a mask and filter, SF cannot, so breathing apparatus is required, with the attendant training and understanding.

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Acheta’s Fumigation Handbook

Bag-blanket on grain surface

100 AlP sachets in one roll – the original bag-blanket – quick and easy no masks Hot-Fogging tobacco required legally at the warehouse time! Bulk grain with cover sheet ready to pull over. * All fumigations may leak gas, despite careful precautions. The success of the treatment will depend on knowing that the correct dosage has been used, and retained, throughout the fumigation exposure period.

Taking gas concentration readings, using simple gas-detector tubes or electronic instruments or, in the case of SF, specialist equipment will be needed to monitor this.

As SF is a cylinderised fumigant, additional gas may be introduced during a fumigation to “top up”, if leakage has occurs which cannot be fixed. Of course, reasons for leaks should be investigated; holes, tears and poor sealing should be repaired urgently where they are accessible.

Is fumigation necessary?

Fumigation is never a low-cost treatment. Although it has distinct advan-

tages over other forms of pest control (for example, its ‘seek and kill’ of insects hidden within foods), it will not guarantee zero reinfestation. As with all forms of chemical pest control, there should be a justification for the use of pesticides. How does one justify the fumigation of food commodities?

Interestingly, since Methyl bromide has disappeared, and SF is so relatively costly, many mills have adopted extra hygiene measures, and sometimes heat treatments, to achieve a similar degree of pest control.

But, whilst fumigation and heat treatments have no prophylactic role, targeted hygiene does!!! So removing methyl bromide has had the effect of minimising the use of fumigation in mills, and simultaneously encourBulk-bag of cos aging a much more hygiene-conscious mill risk industry (though this industry may not see it quite like that!!)

Spray grain store roof ; note lake of spray fallout for next grain to sit on Magphos Fumistrip –for large-scale fumigations. Each ‘plate’ enough for 20ft container *

Whilst I justify covering quite a bit of the older techniques (liquid fumigants, for example) because many older fumigators don't realise why they are no longer available, it also helps to put phosphine into perspective, and hopefully it will make all think twice - we have no other fumigant gases left if phosphine is pulled due to bad/unsafe practices. It can also take the place of the very old and outof-date BPCA Fumigation Manual, which also covers many of the older fumigation methods, and is therefore also a source of historical reference.

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reserving grain weight and quality whilst preventing insect infestation, mold presence and therefore avoiding dangerous toxins. The grain cooling techniques were developed by scientists originally with the target of temporary keeping the grain safe with higher moisture contents till their drying process, thus managing larger amounts of grain with existing driers. Later on, the grain cooling showed many more advantages. Wheat and corn were the targeted products at the beginning.

Having never been done before with paddy rice, Consergra lead this first ever practical test with paddy -and later with others- which took place at two rice co-operatives along the Ebro river delta in Spain. After some very successful results coming out of this research Consergra have led the way in chilling rice in bulk.

Through the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and noughties chilling rice has become a more and more common procedure.

Consergra have constantly kept innovating and it is this, which keeps them ahead of the field in grain chilling technology.

Talking with the Managing Director for Consergra Joan Rius, our International Marketing Manager Darren Parris learns what Joan, feels separates Consergra from the competition.

“For over 45 years we have researched and developed grain cooling technology, specializing in the chilled bulk preservation of all kinds of grains, seeds, oilseeds, and many other perishable products” Joan went on to say, “Our product Conserfrio® is a registered brand of the Consergra company, which stands for CONSERving GRAins”. Our experience includes the conservation of wheat, barley, corn, oats, paddy rice, milled rice, …, soybeans, sunflower seed, rapseed, cotton seed, …, green coffee beans, eadible beans, different kind of pellets, nuts and many other perishable products.

Continuing on from the early works with paddy rice, more recent tests with cargo and milled rice, in all varieties of long, semi-long and short grain have all showed the very same successful results as their counterparts back in the beginning. It is because of this research you will see that many different types of rice and grains are preserved using the Conserfrio® product. Many hundreds of these units are now being used in countries all over the world.

Consergra was estabilished near to Barcelona, Spain many years ago and since then, one of its key activities has been in the design and manufacturing of cooling machines which are mainly used for the grain conservation.

Joan Rius, further explained “besides the rationally scaled standard grain cooler production program, which covers capacities starting from 30 up to 500 tons per day, per machine, we build customized solutions for special projects where solutions are tailor made for process control applications in seeds, food, feed and other industries where a strict control of air and temperature, moisture and flow is needed. “ On asking Joan what sets Consergra apart from the competition, what USP’s do you have; Joan replied “ All our Conserfrio®

Case study 1: Capital Cereals Company

Capital Cereals Company (CCC), located near to Bangkok, is a Thai leading company in the process and reprocess of white (also called milled) rice. The current total storage capacity at just this plant alone (CCC currently owns other plants in different locations s as well) is 450.000 tons approximately.

As a leading Thai company they have high expectations to match their very own impressive and highly technologically advanced plant. Being such a large state of the art plant the white rice is stored in concrete silos as well as in huge warehouses. The white rice is stored for up to one year at a time. So it is clear with such high capacities and production, they needed a quality solution to keep their rice cool.

In the concrete silos there is a ducting system at their bottom. The chillers are placed under the silos.

At the warehouses, a combination of both on-floor ducting system and under-floor ducting system is used. On-floor for the older warehouses, under-floor at the newest warehouses, which were just built one year ago with the latest storage expansion program.

The clean, temperature and humidity controlled air blown by the Conserfrio® chillers is drawn into the grain mass cooling the entire product when crossing the pile. Using this method, the product keeps its original white color without getting yellowish or damaged by insects. The freshness and the best flavor of the CCC product are kept at their very best right up until the dispatching date, which can be a year after storage commences.

CCC purchased the first CONSERFRIO® units many years ago, and installed more units recently as the storing capacity increased with the new built warehouses.

On operations of this scale, the cost of purchasing and the efficiency of running the coolers can be recouped in product saving within 12 months to 18 months.

Joan added; “Currently 18 Conserfrio® units of different types help our customer in his task of having the best product by preserving the quality of the milled rice, avoiding product color deterioration (grain yellowing), aroma loss, insect infestation and all related issues to grain storage”

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Case study 2: Tonghua Rice

Tonghua Rice is another Thai leading company in the Jasmine rice process and trade, their rice is exported all over the world where highest quality is demanded.

Tonghua Rice is located in the Bua Yai District, Nakornrachasima, North Eastern area of Thailand where the jasmine rice is grown.

At this huge and highly technological facility of Tonghua Rice their activities include drying, storing, milling, packaging of most delicate jasmine rice.

Their current installed storage capacity is approx. 150.000 tons, which is divided into several large warehouses. The rice is safely stored for many months.

At the Tonghua Rice company, 24 Conserfrio® units keep the excellent quality of their jasmine rice. Not only are the paddy rice cooled, some chillers are also used to keep the white rice packed in a cold room before the rice is dispatched. The unique design of the cooling units permits high flexibility in their use without any modification.

This process of chilling allows the Tonghua rice company to maintain its high quality and demand good prices for its products.

machines are designed and built in-house, we have 100% control of the whole quality and build process. In addition to this we are very proud at Consergra to have the ISO 9001-2008 (TÜV certified) where we are certified for the design and manufacturing of industrial and agricultural machinery”. and the experience we gained throughout all these years and accurate after sales service are key.

Looking through the global list of Consergra customers, it is clear to see that Conserfrio® units are installed all over the world. They are being used more and more in mild weather countries, but especially in those areas where the ambient heat and moisture damage the grains quicker.

Joan Rius added, “With cooling, optimal grain conservation is achieved which often minimizes and even completely avoids the use of chemicals.

Besides being a cost-effective operation, the grain weight and quality is preserved at its best avoiding weight losses, insect infestation, mold presence and therefore the so dangerous toxins. The optimum product moisture content is kept as well. “ More than 15 years ago, the Conserfrio® chiller was introduced into Thailand and since then more than a hundred units have been set up and are in operation in this country alone. Some Thai customers owing their continued growth and success over the last decade to the excellent experience that have had with the Consergra chillers.

In Thailand the coolers conserve mainly rice (paddy and milled) and corn, including their seeds as well.

Below you will find two brief reports on where coolers were successfully introduced in two leading Thai companies for different applications of both paddy and white (milled) rice cooling in bulk in silos as well as in warehouses.

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GFMT’s market analyst John Buckley reviews world trading conditions which are impacting the full range of commodities used in food and feed production. His observations will influence your decision-making.

A much bigger jump has been seen in world wheat trade, up 11m tonnes or almost 8% to a new record 158.5m.

Much of that increase is down to China (+5.5m) and Egypt (+2m, catching up from a difficult financing period after the ‘Arab Spring’). However, wheat trade has quietened down considerably in recent weeks, probably due to the unexpected price rises.

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UST two months on from our last review, the mood in cereal markets has shifted markedly from bear to bull – for the short term at least. The over-riding influence has been events in the former Soviet Union, where the risk of political upheaval turning to military conflict cast a shadow over grain exports from this important supplying region.

Russia is the world’s fifth largest wheat exporter, Ukraine sixth. Combined they account for about 17.5% of world trade in this grain. Ukraine’s importance in the maize market is even more pivotal – third largest exporter. Along with Russia (number five for this grain) it accounts for 19% of world exports. In the barley market too, these two countries are key players, jostling for joint number three place on the export list accounting for almost a quarter of world trade. Neither must we forget the region’s increasing importance in the oilseed market. FSU sunflowerseed output, dominated by these two countries, accounts for well over half the world supply. Even in the rapeseed market they supply over 6% of world output and play a much larger role in supplying their near neighbours in the EU. Concerns about the impact of the Russian intervention in Crimea have focused on three main issues – 1) the risk – if hostilities escalated into outright military conflict (perhaps lower now as we go to press) of disruption to shipping; 2) conflict interfering with spring planting of Ukraine’s maize and oilseed crops, 3) the collapsing Ukrainian currency raising the cost and reducing the use of imported agro-chemical inputs, implying lower yields. Peripheral to some of these issues are the risks that western sanctions might also interfere with FSU cereal export trade (seen unlikely at this stage) and/or that this whole tangle of factors will be detrimental to the FSU’s long-cherished plans to expand grain exports – not only to its traditional big customer base in the Middle-east North Africa (MENA) area but to other regions like southeast Asia.

As far as issue No 1) goes, there has been no discernible impact on export shipments to date, albeit a tendency for some importers to start looking cautiously elsewhere for their supplies. In the season to date, Ukraine has just reported total grain exports of 26.7m tonnes – up 37.5% on last year’s including a record 15.84m tonnes of corn and 7.44m wheat. As recently as mid-March, they were still exporting as much as 760,000 tonnes of grain, largely corn, a week. Russian exports have also remained well ahead of last year’s at 19.36m to date including 14.29m wheat, 2.78m tonnes of corn and 2.05m tonnes of barley. Even in the period of recent greatest tension (March 1-12) they actually shipped 263,000 of corn and 212,000 tonnes of wheat – so no slowdown yet. Given full season projections for Russia to export 17.5m tonnes of wheat and 3m corn, Ukraine 10m wheat and 18.5m corn, it can also be seen that both countries have already gone well past their peak marketing period and, for wheat especially, are now on the home run – hostilities notwithstanding.

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FSU planting of spring grains and oilseeds (issue No 2) is meanwhile proceeding normally in both the affected countries and, according to recent reports, Ukraine has not yet had problems acquiring adequate seed or agrochemicals (issue no 3).

It’s also interesting to note that despite a lot of reports about drought in parts of Ukraine and Russia (the ‘European’ Black Sea Basin has seen 50% of normal winter rain), both countries agriculture ministries are reporting crops in better condition than last year. Some local observers suggest that the potential yield bonus might even make up for the fact that both sowed less winter wheat than intended (and less than last year) due to heavy rains last autumn.

While the bottom line to all this, at this stage at least, is FSU grain export ‘business as usual,’ markets are understandably jittery about where the politics could lead and what effects there might be down

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the road. Nobody knows but ‘nature abhors a vacuum’ as they say and the funds and other speculative interests have been only too keen to step into it and invest in higher wheat and maize prices – helping to bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the bellwether Chicago futures exchange, funds recently raised their long bets (on prices rising) to 209,600 contracts for maize – equivalent to 26.6m tonnes. They even went long on wheat to the tune of 10,500 lots after months of selling it short (gambling on price falls).

What impact has this had on cereal prices? On the CBOT wheat market, it has, perhaps surprisingly (given the lower level of fund buying and the fact that wheat shipments are far less at risk than those of maize) had a far greater firming effect than for maize. The front month for wheat in Chicago, for example has risen by over 30% or the equivalent of more than $60 per tonne from its late January

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lows, reaching its highest level since April last year.

The wheat contract has also had some support from the poor condition of the US winter wheat crops after another dry winter in the Southern Plains (main source of hard red bread wheat) and some extremely harsh weather across the Midwest, including damp and cold in the soft red winter belt. Crops are not as bad as last year’s but they are worse than expected earlier. Wheat does have a legendary capacity to recover when the weather improves and hopefully some of that loss of yield potential will be made up by a larger sown area.

US spring wheat area is also expected to rise quite sharply (by about 16%, according to one recent private estimate), which is promising for quality wheat buyers.

The EU wheat market has also risen sharply in response to the Ukrainian crisis, speculative buying and the knock-on effect of price rises across the Atlantic. Here the increase is closer to 12% from the January lows although that was still enough to put Paris milling wheat futures at their own 11-month high. European wheat market sentiment has been responsive to the Black Sea situation because of the dependence on maize imports from this region to supplement grain supply in the feed sector, allowing Europe to continue exporting record amounts of wheat. The last figures we have for this trade show total EU wheat export licences issued this season recently reached 21.3m tonnes – a staggering 50% increase on this time last year (14.2m). That’s well ahead of forecasts from bodies like the USDA for an increase of less than 22%. EU maize import licenses have meanwhile soared 13% on the year to 9.3m tonnes, already in sight of realising the USDA’s full season forecasts of 10.5m tonnes (which would actually be 7.5% down from last season.)

Will wheat prices continue to rise? Certainly the funds have the muscle, if supply fundamentals look encouraging enough, to help push the market higher. However, there seems little justification for that at this stage, especially with another big crop on the way. The respected US analysts AgResource recently estimated this at almost 714m tonnes, just over last year’s. Given some dry weather issues in East/ Central Europe, the FSU, the US and West Australia, that may look a bit optimistic. However, we might remember that last year’s world

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wheat crop was initially seen rising to only 680m tonnes (International Grains Council) yet ended up between 708/713m.

Looking across the main producing countries, Europe itself has just been predicted by French analysts Strategie Grains, to raise its soft wheat crop by 2% this year to 137.7m tonnes. The US expects to grow 3.4% more at 60m tonnes (government body FAPRI). As a big Kazakh crop offsets some trimming of Russian and Ukrainian production, total FSU output should not be far off last year’s large total of around 104m tones. India is heading for a record crop of perhaps 95m. China has no serious problems and may cap several years of record output (122m last year) with another big crop. Canada may sow less after producing rather too much last year but will carry in very large stocks. Overall, world wheat stocks carried in from this season will be up by about 8m tonnes although the US and Europe will be relatively low stocked compared with recent years, so favourable weather for their crops in the rest of the growing season will be important.

Wheat prices might also be reined in by demand slowing in the face of larger maize supplies and feed consumers’ response to relatively far higher wheat prices. Since March 2013, maize prices have collapsed by a third whereas the recent strength in the wheat market puts it on a par to slightly dearer than this time last year. Still, the USDA estimates that world wheat consumption will finish up 4.5% higher this season despite a near 24m hike in use of maize with the latter’s recovering crop.

A much bigger jump has been seen in world wheat trade, up 11m tonnes or almost 8% to a new record 158.5m. Much of that increase is down to China (+5.5m) and Egypt (+2m, catching up from a difficult financing period after the ‘Arab Spring’). However, wheat trade has quietened down considerably in recent weeks, probably due to the unexpected price rises.

CBOT futures markets suggest soft wheat will still be relatively dear in first quarter 2015, around $7.35/bu or about $270/tonne although FAPRI recently was far more bearish on the outlook, forecasting a seasonal average for 2014/15 of just $5.55/bu (under $205/t).

Maize supply prospects also good Although cheaper than a year ago, maize prices have risen by about 13% since our last review on speculative buying linked to the Ukrainian situation and in recognition of a stronger than expected pace of US export trade (probably at least partially linked to the latter).

The global suypply outlook for maize remains fairly promising.

Drought and heatwaves in Brazil do not seem to have affected the world’s second largest exporter as much as earlier feared and while less has been sown regionally this year, the crop now starting harvest should be around 94m for Brazil and Argentina combined. That’s down 13.5m from last year but still larger than the long-term average for the third year in a row. Russia and Ukraine should again produce larger than normal crops to maintain a wider choice of suppliers on the world market, keeping US exporters on their mettle. In the US itself,

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RICE UPDATE PRODUCTION In terms of expanding cultivation, rice has been one of the success stories of the past few years. World rough rice production growth has accelerated in the last decade, expanding by 21% compared with an 11% gain in the 10-years to 2003/14. This reflected a rise in the harvested area of 7.6% in the last ten years (previous decade 2.7%) but, eve more so, yields rising by 13% (8.3%). By 2013/14 world area had reached an all-time record 160.6m ha and while this season’s yields stabilised at last year’s peak level of 4.4 tonnes/ha, the resultant rough rice crop still grew to 708m tonnes - in milled terms about 475m tonnes.

Stabilising yields will see world rice production grow more slowly this season – by 3.3m tonnes or 0.7% compared with just over 1% last season, 3.7% in 2011/12 and 2% in 2010/11. Flattening trends are most evident among the big producers, China, India and Vietnam with most of this season’s output gains spread among moderate-sized players like Brazil, Burma, Egypt and Pakistan.

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World rice consumption on the other hand, has grown at a similar pace during the last decade to the previous ten years, by about 14-15%.

Although growth in demand actually exceeded crop expansion in the last two years (a reverse of the previous two) overall consumption continued to lag production.

This year’s global consumption growth of 7m tonnes (about 1.5%) has been mainly down to China and India (+2m each), with smaller gains spread across countries including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Burma, Cambodia and Egypt. Although still lagging production, consumption will grow faster than supply this season, moderating the rise in world carryover stocks somewhat.

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This has led to regular global surpluses and constant (seven successive years) of increases in the global rice stock carried from one season to the next.

At the start of the current 2013/14 season, the total had reached an 11-year high of 111m tonnes and is currently seen edging up yet again, albeit more slowly than in recent years, as the market enters 2014/15.

The largest stockholder has long been China (46m tonnes this season or about 41% of the world total). But as these are considered ‘off-market’ in

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strategic reserves, the more important bellwether followed by the market is the combined stock in India, Thailand, and Vietnam – the world’s top three suppliers. This figure will hit a record 41m tonnes in 2013/14, almost doubling over the last ten years. Most of this year’s increase will be down to Thailand (about 2m tonnes), driven by the country’s farmer support programme.

A recent USDA report indicated these high exporter stocks could point to further downward pressure on forward prices. In fact, the popular rice benchmark price - for Thai 100% B grade (fob Bangkok) – has already dropped to around $420 per tonne, 27.5% below prices ruling in March 2013.

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World rice trade continues to reach new record levels too, expanding from 38.7m tonnes last season to a forecast 41m for 2013/14. Trade has grown almost fourfold over the last 30 years and by over 50% in the last decade.

The largest importing bloc is subSaharan Africa which takes about 12.5m tonnes a year or almost one third of the world total followed by the Middle East (6.5m) with East and southeast Asian regions in joint third place at about 5.1m tonnes each.

Most of the import trade growth in recent years has also been in SubSaharan Africa (about 4m tonnes) and in China.

Despite being the world’s largest rice producing country – and usually managing some sort of annual increment to its own crop base, China’s deficit has increased roughly ten-fold in the last four years to about 3.4m tonnes, making it the largest single country importer.

African import growth is led by Nigeria, now importing 3m tonnes a year - a third more than four years ago and putting it in second place behind China among the leading importers. Other key import players include Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran and Iraq.

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A possible El Nino year could bring unwelcome dryness to Southeast & East Asia, possibly impacting yields in 2014/15 although at this stage, it is too early to make any firm predictions.

Even if production does slow, carryover stocks are large enough to supplement a lean season or two. Along with ongoing competition among wellstocked leading suppliers, this suggests limited leeway for a revival in rice prices in the near future.

the first planting estimates for 2014 are just being released, ranging around 91-92m acres which, with normal harvest ratios and yields close to last year’s would imply a crop of around 330/335m tonnes, maybe a bit more. That could imply modest stock drawdown if demand stayed at this season’s level but the impact is cushioned by this season’s huge crop leaving carryover stocks about 16m tonnes higher.

For Europe, Strategie Grains is forecasting a possible corn crop of 65.2m tonnes which would be very close to last year’s. If the EU wants to go on using larger quantities of corn in feeds (up 4m this season at a record 73.5m tonnes, it will need to continue making large imports from Ukraine and other suppliers.

The first world crop estimates are also starting to appear with AgResource estimating an 11m tonne increase from this season’s 967.5m. Based on another year of big supplies and big demand, CBOT maize prices are pointing to similar levels in early 2015 to those ruling now (around $4.90/bu, $193/t). FAPRI is againmore bearish looking for a seasonal average of $4.17 ex-farm for 2014/15 and a round $4 ($157/t) for 2015/16.

Oilmeal price rises should deflate SOYA and other oilmeal costs have risen since our last review despite the overall outlook for abundant supplies and global buildip of oil-bearing raw materials. Several factors lay behind the price increases, including smaller than expected Brazilian soyabean output, strong Chinese demand for soyabeans, a drought threat to palm oil supplies and fears that the Ukrainian crisis might disrupt sunflower and rapeseed product exports from these two important sources. However, cheaper prices are indicated on the forward futures markets as well as by the FAPRI report mentioned above.

The latest USDA forecasts suggest soyabean output alone will still rise this season by 15m to 18m tonnes, depending whether Brazil gets 85m or 88m (versus last year’s previous record 82m). Although Brazil and Paraguay endured some drought/heat damage at the tail end of the growing season, Argentina has escaped largely uscathed, leaving regional output huge. Regional stocks carried in from last year will also be unusually large after Argentine farmers hoarded crops as a hedge against their declining currency while Brazilian shipping problems kept a big chunk of supply moving to export.

Even without the forecast record US soyabean area this spring, raw material supplies are huge and the increase in crush foreseen by the USDA (+10m to 239m) looks a bit conservative. It assumes 13m tonnes of beans will be added to world stocks, pushing them up to a near record 70.6m tonnes – a surplus that can be drawn on the moment product prices/crush margins start to rise.

US soyabean plantings are meanwhile expected to jump this year to around 81.5m acres which with a normal 99% harvest ratio and a repeat of last year’s average yields, could produce 95/97m tonnes, allowing substantial recovery in US carryover stocks from their unusually low levels of the last year or two. If top user China’s demand for soyabeans/ meal is slowing down with their economy, as many analysts think, and/or Latam crops keep increasing, the soya market could be looking slack in a few months’ time. The USDA’s recent Outlook Forum recently took this potential on board, projecting an average US ex-farm price forecast for soyabeans in 2014/15 of $9.65/bu versus this season’s $12.45 (CBOT futures are still predicting January 2015 in the $11.50’s).

World rapeseed supply has turned out about 5m tonnes bigger than expected this season, thanks to big crops in Europe, the FSU and, above all Canada where a record 18m tonnes has been prevented from moving quickly to crush and export by rail transport snarl-ups. As well as the large

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stocks this will leave for carry into next season, some analysts are still looking for another large Canadian sown area this spring, setting the stage for another huge crop. European and CIS rapeseed crop weather has been large favourable, winterkill low, also pointing to adequate supplies for 2014/15.

Sunflowerseed output jumped almost 19% this season on large European and CIS crops, reaching 43.3m tonnes against 36.4m the previous year, raising sunmeal output potential at competitive prices.

Although the Ukrainian issue has made customers nervous, shipments so far seem not to have been interrupted, Both the CIS countries might also sow more this spring on land that went unplanted to winter cereals because of bad weather.

Overall, both stocks and prospective supplies of oilseeds remain large and promising for price-restraint, if not cheaper supplies of oilmeal in the season ahead.

KEY FACTORS AHEAD • Will the US crop emerge from drought and ‘winterkill’ threats with a respectable result - probably greater than last year’s, if offset by lower carry-in stocks?

• What impact will the Ukrainian crisis have on its 2014/15 crops of wheat and maize, on its ability to trade freely (trade finance, currency issues and, not least, shipping through sea lanes, some of

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which are now controlled by Russia)?

• How much will Canada sow?

• Will those parts of Central/Eeastern Europe, CIS and Australia that have been too dry get adequate spring and summer rains?

• Will India step up its exports?

• Will wheat consumption hold up in the feed and global import sectors in the face of higher prices?

• Will 2014 maize crops expand as some think, keeping downward pressure on wheat prices in the feed sector?

• Can speculators continue to find enough justification in this basket of factors for investing in wheat futures?

COARSE GRAINS • How much will the US sow/grow this year?

• Will US feed, ethanol and exports hold up in latter half 2014?

• How will CIS plantings, crop development proceed?

• … and CIS export trade amid political turmoil?

• How will LatAm crop competition shape up?

• Will the EU see a third season of massive maize imports to feed record wheat exports?

• Ukraine and Russia have unplanted winter wheat land that will go to spring planted crops – oilseeds and maize. They are expected to remain key players in the global maize export market with huge influence on European feed values.

• China may release more of its huge stocks, cutting its import needs.

• World barley & sorghum output

OILMEALS/PROTEINS • Big LatAm & prospective US crops signal huge soya supplies, stock buildup • China may use/import less soyabeans as its economy slows • How much rapeseed (Canada/EU/CIS) and sunflowers (EU/CIS) will be grown this year?

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PRODUCT SHOWCASE BRABENDER GLUTOPEAK The GlutoPeak® process by Brabender® offers a quick, but precise technical solution to describe the functionality of flours, bruised grains, baking mixes or vital gluten measuring the aggregation behaviour of the gluten component in a sample. The device first separates the gluten, and then aggregates it into a characteristic network before destroying it with the rotation of its mechanical measuring paddle. Time and torque curve of the physics of the gluten is recorded and displayed as a graph. The time to reach the maximum point on the curve, the peak, its height, and the following decline of the curve provide essential information on gluten quality.

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CONSERFRÍO® GRAIN CHILLER Consergra, S.L. is a specialist in grain conservation, and manufactures the CONSERFRÍO® grain chiller. It’s a modern, highly energy-efficiency cooler which helps to conserve a wide variety of grains, seeds, oily and granulated perishable items stored in silos and warehouses. Its use, independently of climatic conditions, prevents shrinkages of weight, rotting, insects damage and toxin build up.

The conservation with the CONSERFRÍO® is natural and highly costeffective, the pay-back on the investment is extremely fast. Our units, installed all over the world preserve millions of tons of grain every season.

Our product range covers from 40 up to 500 ton per day, per machine. Consergra, S.L. puts their 50 years experience at your service!

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CLOUD-BASED HAZARD MONITORING Hazardmon.com is a secure cloud based industrial monitoring solution that allows any registered user to login and see all their facilities in real-time from anywhere in the world. This product offers seamless integration with 4B’s communication BUS system – the T500 Elite “Hotbus”.

The T500 multifunctional hazard monitoring system for bucket elevators and conveyors can monitor up to 256 sensors for combined belt alignment, belt speed, continuous bearing temperature, pulley alignment, level indication (bin / silo) and plug conditions.”

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VEGA HIGH PERFORMANCE GRAIN CLASSIFIER Efficient cleaning, high throughput rate, and low energy consumption.

With its new solution for cleaning and classifying of wheat, rye, oat, rice, maize, and barley Bühler combines several advantages in a single machine: a high throughput rate, a compact and robust design as well as an easy exchange of sieves. Furthermore, the machine has a considerably lower energy consumption than comparable solutions on the market.

www.buhlergroup.com XTREME DUTY (CC-XD) ELEVATOR BUCKET Tapco Inc.’s 508mm x 254mm (20" x 10") Xtreme Duty (CC-XD) elevator bucket — with 26,837.64mm (1,056.6 cubic inches (rated at industry standard of 110% of water level) of actual capacity — runs at speeds up to 940 fpm.

The 508mm x 254mm (20" x 10") CC-XD features a 15.875mm (5/8") thick rounded front.

The buckets are made with 35%50% more resin throughout, and are available in nylon, urethane and polyethylene. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-compliant resins are standard in polyethylene and urethane.

FDA-compliant nylon resin is available by special request. For more information, contact Yassine Abbad at +1 314 739 9191 or +1 800 288 2726 or visit www.tapcoinc.com.

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The main trends in the grain storage industry are: Increase in demand for grain storage, increase in demand for silos of bigger capacities, flexibility in design, growing importance of safe storage, government-becked silos and competitive prices.

Therefore, Silos Cordoba use a new coating, Z-600, and has developed a new model of silo, the model 41.25. These are the biggest silos that has ever been assembled by Silos Cordoba and the biggest silos assembled in Europe.

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GD HAMMER MILL RANGE The GD Hammer Mill range covers capacities ranging from 10 - 100 tons per hour, dependent on type of raw material, formula and required grinding structure. The Hammer Mill can be incorporated in a pre-grinding as well as a post-grinding system as a complete grinding solution including pre-bin, feeder, magnet cleaner, hammer mill, discharge hopper, aspiration filter, fan and control system.

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VIGAN manufactures dry agribulk materials handling systems: • Portable Pneumatic Conveyors or Grain Pumps (150 - 250 tph);

CROCODILE + When designing its new Crocodile+ roller mill, Genç Değirmen said it took into consideration energy savings, technological developments and changes, labor and production costs and product quality. The Crocodile+ roller mill features rolls that are independent and can be removed in pack in a short time and can be changed within 20 minutes. The feeding cylinders are independent and can be removed in short time. It has machine front covers that can be opened and are made of aluminium fibreglass material.

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• Pneumatic Continuous Barge & Ship Unloaders (160 - 800 tph); • Mechanical Continuous Ship Unloaders (up to 1,500 tph); • Mechanical Loaders (up to 1,200 tph). as well as complete storage systems in ports and the agricultural industries.

From project design to complete turnkey bulk handling solutions and port terminals with mechanical and/or pneumatic reliable and cost effective equipment.

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STEEL SILOS Symaga, a Spanish company specializing in the design, manufacture and supply of steel silos for storing seeds, cereals, malts, oilseeds, grains and pellets, rice and, in general, for the agriculture, agro-industry, biofuels and biomass, and with more than 30 years’ experience and over 15 million m³ of storage space worldwide, ensuring our capacity to tackle any project.

Symaga supplies a wide range of silos, flat bottom up to 25.000 m³ and hopper silos, reaching 12 m. diameter with 45° hopper and 2.649 m³ capacity, completely galvanized and the double welded compression ring. We provide Z600 gr/m² galvanization ensuring the highest service life of the market, we continue investing in research and development, allowing us to develop new products as ventilated cones and fully perforated floor, to reach customer needs.

DV Hydraulic Grain Sampling Spear Cropmech Ltd have successfully installed the first DV hydraulic grain sampling spear in the UK, using the double suction Stork 440 Compact sampler at their grain storage site situated at Risdon Mill, near Okehampton, Devon.

The DV grain sampler is the fastest, easiest & safest way to sample grain from an open trailer, essential for large farms, grain stores and Mills.

The sampler allows safety & ease of testing all cereals, flours, rice, seeds & straights with extreme rapidity without altering the quality of the product during sampling. With an option of two different probes, double suction & spiral, you can install the type of sampler suitable for your business needs.

CropMech Ltd, now the UK agents for the DV Grain Spear, can supply, install & maintain your spear anywhere in the UK.

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‘At an unbeatable price, with fast & easy installation, the DV grain sampler has already proven to be a brilliant asset to established & developing sites.’

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GRAPAS Conference (held in conjunction with Victam Asia) Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Andy West Tel: +44 0173 776 3501 Email: Andrew.west733@ntlworld.com http://www.victam.com

8 – 10 April 14

Victam Asia Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Andy West Tel: +44 0173 776 3501 Email: Andrew.west733@ntlworld.com http://www.victam.com

8-10 April 14

FIAAP Asia Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Andy West Tel: +44 0173 776 3501 Email: Andrew.west733@ntlworld.com http://www.victam.com

8-10 April

GRAPAS Asia Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Andy West Tel: +44 0173 776 3501 Email: Andrew.west733@ntlworld.com http://www.victam.com

23 – 25 April 14

18th - 19th June 14

15th - 16th October 14

CropTech-FeedTech (in conjunction with VIV Europe) Jaarbeurs Utrecht complex Utrecht, the Netherlands Contact: Zhenja Antochin Tel: +31 030 295 2201 Email: zhenja.antochin@vnuexhibitions.com http://bit.ly/P3dQjn

18th - 20th June 14

21st - 23rd October 14

20th - 22nd May 14

VIV Europe Jaarbeurs Utrecht complex Utrecht, The Netherlands Contact: Ruwan Berculo +31 3029 52879 viv.europe@vnuexhibitions.com

2014 Asian Starch Conference No.2345 Longyang Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 201204, China Contact: Ashley Lin Tel: +86 021 33392322 Email: ashley.lin@ubmsinoexpo.com http://bit.ly/1hFFC1i

22 May 14

15 - 16 July 14

20 – 22 May 14

VIV Europe 2014, Jaarbeurs Utrecht complex, Utrecht, the Netherlands Contact: Ruwan Berculo Tel: +31 3029 52879 Email: viv.europe@vnuexhibitions.com http://www.viv.net

20th May 14

Undesired de-blending and separation in processes and equipment The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Contact: Caroline Chapman Tel: +44 20 8331 8646 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk http://www.bulksolids.com

Risks in Agri Trading: Emerging Markets Summit 2014 Geneva, Switzerland Contact: Jessica Jonah Tel: +44 207 490 4332 Email: jessicaj@irn-international.com http://www.agritradingrisks.com

Indo Livestock Jakarta, Indonesia Contact: Ms. Devi Ardiatne Tel: +62 21 864 4756 ext. 85 Email: info@indolivestock.com http://bit.ly/17OZgBj

26th - 27th June 14

Focus on Solid Waste: Handling, Feeding and Storage of Solid Waste Materials The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Contact: Caroline Chapman Tel: +44 20 8331 8646 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk http://www.bulksolids.com

VIV India 2014 Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) Bangalore, India Contact: Manuel Madani Tel: +31 30 295 2608 Email: Manuel.madani@vnuexhibitions.com http://www.viv.net/en

25th - 27th May 14

11th - 13th September 14

6 – 8 May 14

25th - 27th May 14

nabim and European Flour Millers Congress http://bit.ly/Jr8jRv

23rd - 25th September 14

Nation Branding & Investment Expo (NBI) 2014, Beursgebouw Eindhoven, The Netherlands Contact: NBI Tel: +31 0 40 246 3626 Email info@nbiexpo.com http://www.nbiexpo.com

14 – 16 May 14

13th European Young Cereal Scientists and Technologists Workshop, German Research Institute for Food Chemistry, Freising, Germany Contact: Rhonda Wilkie Tel: +1 651 454 7250 Email: rwilkie@scisoc.org http://www.aaccnet.org

19 – 23 May 14

118th Annual International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Conference and Expo, Omaha Hilton Hotel and Qwest Center, Nebraska, USA Contact: IAOM Tel: +1 913 338 3377 Email: info@iaom.info http://www.iaom.info/annualmeeting

Australasian Milling conference 14 Broadbeach, Australia Contact: Len Thomson Tel: +61 7 5571 5829 Email: contact@sfmcq.com.au http://bit.ly/16kN9YY

3 June 14

Dust Explosions - How to demonstrate DSEAR/ATEX Compliance The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Contact: Caroline Chapman +44 20 8331 8646 Wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk http://www.bulksolids.com

3 - 6 June 14

XV International Grain Round "Grain market - yesterday, today, tomorrow" Kempinski Grand Hotel Gelendzhik, Gelendzhik, 353461 Russia Contact: Anna Gerasimova Tel: +7 (495)607 82 85 ext. 124 Email: gaa@grun.ru. http://www.grun.ru/en

10 June 14

23rd Annual IGC Grains Conference The Tower Hotel, Tower Bridge, London, UK Contact: International Grains Council Tel: +44 20 7513 1122 Email: conf@igc.int or igc@igc.int http://www.igc.int/en/conference/confhome.aspx

Ildex Myanmar Yangon, Myanmar Contact: Ms. Nathaporn Vasinyont Tel: +662 670 0900 ext. 109 Email: nathaporn.vas@vnuexhibitionsap.com http://www.ildex.com

VIV China New China International Exhibition Center (NCIEC), Hall West 1 and 2, 88 Yu Xiang Road, Tianzhu Area, Shunyi district, Beijing, China Contact: Ms Ma Jing (Suzy) Tel: +86 10 649 80 454 Email: ma.jing@vip.163.com http://bit.ly/18fJmPi

5th - 8th October 14

2014 AACC International Annual Meeting Providence, Rhode Island, USA Contact: Rhonda Willkie Tel: +1 651 454 7250 Email: rwilkie@scisoc.org http://bit.ly/130zc1N

7th - 9th October 14

Oilseed & Grain Trade Summit Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113, USA Contact: Michelle Marshall Tel: +1 978 887 8800 Email: mmarshall@highquestpartners.com http://www.oilseedgrain.com

15th - 17th October 14

Vietstock 2014 Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Contact: Ms.Duangcheewan Jaikla Tel: +6626426911 Email: Duangcheewan.j@ubm.com o http://www.vietstock.org

65th JTIC International - The Milling and Cereal Industry Meeting, Reims, France Contact: Nelly Duprat Tel: +33 01 4707 2069 Email: aemic@wanadoo.fr http://www.jtic.eu

Overview of Particulate Handling Technology The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Contact: Caroline Chapman Tel: +44 20 8331 8646 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk http://www.bulksolids.com

27th - 29th October 14

GLOBALG.A.P. SUMMIT 2014 Abu Dhabi, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers Contact: Nina Kretschmer Tel: +49 221 579 93 693 Email: summit@globalgap.org http://www.summit2014.org

28th - 30th October 14

AgroExpoSiberia Novosibirsk Expo Centre Stantsionnaya Street , 104 630071, Novosibirsk, Russia Contact: Nadja Mazko Tel: +49622113 57 15 Email: n.mazko@ifw-expo.com http://www.ifw-expo.com

4th - 5th November 14

Biomass Handling, Feeding and Storage The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Contact: Caroline Chapman Tel: +44 20 8331 8646 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk http://www.bulksolids.com

11th - 14th November 14 Eurotier Messegelände Hannover, Germany Contact: Heinzbert Mies Tel: +49 69 24788 204 Email: h.mies@DLG.org http://www.eurotier.com

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Campden BRI - Safety and Quality of Livestock Feed Seminar

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n 6th March 2014, the Perendale Publishers team attended Campden BRI’s “Safety and Quality of Livestock Feed Seminar”, where our editor Roger Gilbert acted as chairman. Campden BRI successfully brought forward a delegation of approximately 50 individuals from various parts of the feed industry and speakers presenting on a wide variety of topics, ranging from feed legislation to feed nutrition. The seminar’s primary focus was on exploring the important role that feed procurement plays within the food supply chain - highlighting how important a fundamental understanding of sourcing is to the safety and quality of end product foods. It also brought to the forefront the necessity of future perspectives - acknowledging the growing demand for feed and working to identify solutions that would allow the industry to maintain both safety and quality in livestock production.

Interaction

The seminar provided industry professionals with the oppor tunity to interact and network with people at different levels of the supply chain - from ingredient manufacturers to proce ssor s , ac ade mic s and distributors.

Attendees had the opportunity to develop a diverse dialogue on issues facing health and safety within the feed sector. Fine catering was enjoyed during the periodic refreshment breaks between speakers - providing everyone with the chance to stretch their legs; net work further and discuss the seminar as it continued to evolve.

Sustainability

One of the key subjects discussed during the seminar was the dichotomy of increased feed demand verses the concern of long-term sustainability – the industry as a whole has to ask itself how high levels of safety, sustainability and production can be maint ained wit hout compromising one or the other.

This led into concerns over the environmental impact of waste produced during livestock

production – one highlighted solution to this was providing farmers with the tools necessary to implement and use consultant progr ams such a s F ar m a x .

Through t he use of t he se programs it would be possible for f armers to compile an archive of past activities and use them to establish computerized performance metrics, allowing them to analyze trends and maintain cost efficiency – thereby improving forage production and conversion in the process.

Another point of interest was the fact that 2-15% of ruminant diet is typically lost in the expulsion of methane, which reduces the efficiency of feed conversion and releases greenhouse gasses into the environment.

In order to help mitigate these factors it was suggested that the industry should attempt to improve upon the use of greenhouse gas analytics.

Implementing an analytics system would allow people to develop a far greater understanding of how the industry as a whole can reduce methane emissions and energy loss – improving feed efficiency and reducing the environmental burden of ruminants.

Another important discussion point was the way in which legislation impacts upon the dayto-day operations of farmers and feed producers. It was intriguing to learn about how small differences in daily operations could vastly affect the legal restrictions, entitlements and responsibilities held by organizations.

Because of this it was necessary to clearly define exactly what was considered to be “feed producers” in the eyes of legislative bodies – then further defining what constituted different types of feed and how that affected the legal framework.

For example, simply by mixing different compositions of feed, a farmer would be considered to be a feed producer – and subsequently placed under higher levels of scrutiny and feed hygiene laws.

Outside of the official legislation enacted by the government, it is important to note that private industry has taken it upon itself to establish its own legislation, developing internal guidelines

within which to operate – making other businesses in the industry accountable against the same standards. It is important that the industry takes a proactive approach and establishes its own expectations before any potential problems arise.

If we look at history and analyze events such as the BSE epidemic, w hich huge ly d am aged t he industry’s reputation – not to mention £5 billion in revenue – it quickly becomes apparent that those in the food industry are guilty until proven innocent.

There are risks across the entire food chain and as such, everyone involved has a responsibility for t he c h ain a s a w hole .

Unfortunately, it is not quite that simple, however, as the global market utilizes complex international supply chains with diverse feed chains – importing ingredients from third world countries which do not have the same controls or regulations.

Problems within the supply chain

It was determined that the majority of the problems within the supply chain fell into one of the following four categories – ignorance, incompetence, illegal actions and irresponsibility. In order to reduce the likelihood of these issues manifesting, it is necessary for the industry to educate and police itself – i d e n t i f y i n g t h o se a c t i n g irresponsibly or illegally and working to ensure that all staff are fully educated about the ramifications of their actions.

At the same time it is necessary for the feed industry to fight ag ainst pointless dr aconian legislation. For example, when implementing the principles of HACCP, controls must be implemented at the top of the supply chain pyramid – lowering the total cost to those at lower levels of the chain while ensuring that the received product is of high quality.

One of the major points of contention was the volatility of public opinion and the constant feelings of unease instilled by an irresponsible media constantly looking for the next scandal.

Credibility

The need to alter consumer perspective and bring credibility back to the industry at large was discussed as a matter of the

upmost importance. The primary solution provided was simply that transparency was maintained, documenting every step of the supply chain and ensuring that there was always a degree of traceability for the end product.

It was also deemed very important to ensure that criminality within the food chain was pursued and dealt with in a constructive manner – as opposed to the sorts of highly damaging ‘knee jerk’ reactions that have been prominent in the last few decades.

Animal feed was not the only discussion point, however, as the feed industry also crosses into aquaculture – the farming and procurement of fish.

There was much talk regarding the role that aquaculture can play in feeding the world in coming years, and it was agreed that it would provide us with an excellent and sustainable form of food production.

Aq u acul t ure b e ne f i t s from a far higher feed conversion ratio, requires only a limited utilization of terrestrial land, and the end product contains high levels of protein, as well as omega 3 oils, phosphorus, and other nutrients vital to the human diet. Furthermore, with the advancement of genetic breeding, aquaculture farms have successfully lowered the energy needs of different species while reducing the time needed for the maturation of brood stock.

With the possibility of utilization of new generation ingredients such as bacteria, algae and insect meal, this industry also has a lot of opportunity for future expansion and development.

As the event neared its end, attendees had the opportunity to conceptualize and discuss the various hot topics that were brought up during the seminar – providing a more interactive experience and allowing everyone to network further.

Key issues from the seminar were discussed in this new context and everyone seemed to be working as a group to find potential solutions.

It was clear to everyone who attended that the experience as a whole was highly worthwhile.

It provided the opportunity not just to learn, but to meet new people and from connections that may help the industr y grow stronger over the vitally important years that lie ahead.

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Indo Livestock 2014 expo & forum

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ndo Livestock Expo & Forum is known as Indonesia’s biggest Livestock , Feed, Dair y & Fisheries industry show. Formed in 2002, Indo Livestock Expo & Forum will for the 9th time achieve this accomplishment.

It will bring together trade buyers representing integrators, farmers, feed millers, meat and egg processors, veterinarians, impor ters, distributors and retailers to view the latest technology, update on the latest issues, network and do business.

Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum will attract 12,000 trade visitors and delegates. More importantly, over 500 exhibitors from 40 countries are expected to once again participate in this years Indo Livestock Expo & Forum. The five country pavilions confirmed to attend this threeday show are Indonesia, Europe/ USA, Taiwan, Korea and China.

Indo Livestock Expo & Forum will be once again held in Jakarta

every two years. It will continue the success story of its last accomplishment in 2012. Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum will be held on 18 – 20 June 2014 in Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta – Indonesia.

Hosted by t he Direc tor ate Gener al of Livestock and Animal Health, The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture, Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum incorporates with Indo Feed, Indo Dairy and Indo Fisheries 2013 E xpo & Forum. It is a 'must attend' event for decision makers and buyers across Asia.

This Indo Livestock Series is planned to be opened officially

by Mr. Ir. H. Suswono, MMA Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia.

The Minister of Agriculture once again gives appreciation and support for this years Indo Livestock Expo & Forum, “I have the great pleasure to support the Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum in conjunction with Indo Feed, Indo Dairy and Indo Fisheries 2014 Expo & Forum.

This event will assuredly provide an excellent opportunity for the

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industry to look at the latest technology and products; which includes sharing information on the latest issues of the livestock sectors and its solutions“.

Various activities have been prepared for this years Indo Livestock, such as ten Technical Product Presentations which are made free for exhibitors at Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum.

A s a v alue added ser vice , exhibitors will be provided with a free 45 minute use of the rooms and will have seating for up to 50 participants. Presentation rooms are allocated on a first-come-firstserved basis. Some seminars that complement Indo Livestock 2014 would be the National Seminar by MKTI (Indonesia Animal Welfare S ocie t y) on Pe nge mb ang an Sistem Reproduksi Ternak Sapi di Indonesia (Cattle Reproductive System Development in Indonesia), Seminar by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and many more.

The SDTI (Milk, Meat, Egg & Fish) programme focuses on the campaign of increasing animal protein and the consumption

of Indonesian farming products.

The campaign aims to educate and increase the awareness of animal proteins and their importance; particularly for people who lack the understanding of animal protein consumption.

Indo Livestock Expo & Forum is also formed as the No. 1 marketing platform in South East Asia. Indo Livestock 2014 is expected to be the only focused event covering the complete spectrum of the livestock, feed, dairy and fishery sectors. It is also perfectly timed to coincide with the improving economic and political climate in Indonesia. Indo Livestock 2014 Expo & Forum will feature the biggest livestock, feed, dairy and fishery industry exhibition of the year in Indonesia.

Without a doubt, Indo Livestock Expo & Forum will become a top priority for those looking to get updated on the livestock industry and technology development in the Asia Pacific region, as well as a platform to enhance business cooperation, though the development of animal husbandry technolog y and ser vices in Indonesia.

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EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS

TUSAF congress and expo

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ith the season of spring approaching, we returned to Turkey for the 10th TUSAF congress and expo in Antalya on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Roger Gilbert and Tom Blacker had high hopes for experiencing and hearing the latest in the flour industry, seeing new machinery on show and covering all sides of this 3-day event. With our hundreds of Turkish language edition Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazines and International Milling Directory distributed to every delegate, we were hoping for a good impact…what we received when we arrived was nothing short of fantastic.

As we arrived and joined 780 other delegates from 21 countries at this event and using our time to best effect, we met with great contacts in the industry and heard about the latest news and developments from this exciting country for milling. The opening speaker, Erhan Özmen, Chairman of the Executive Board, Turkish Flour Industrialist’s Federation, Vural Kural General Secretary of the Turkish Flour Industrialist’s Federation, Melinda Farris, Vice President of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) and many participating companies, both exhibiting and attending this conference and exhibition.

Turkey’s flour and wheat industries have come a long way from being a stereotypical small-time player and is now a country successfully proceeding with an average of 2 million ton of wheat production per year, and standing out among the numbered countries deemed as leaders in wheat exportation with further room for growth.

According to data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute

(TÜİK), Turkey ended 2 013 w i t h w h e at expor ts exceeding 2.1 million tons and a p p rox i m at e l y a n income of $950 million - an all time record.

With this value Turkey has doubled its wheat exportation from levels of $425 million 5 years ago and proves that it is further increasing its success by each year.

Targets for 2014, even with the resolution of current problems, aim to reach a higher level and wish to obtain another record year.

Turkey is a country g e t t i n g a h e ad o f its competitors by transforming its fortunate geographical positioning int o oppor tunit ie s . Turkey currently exports to more than a hundred countries and its export market is expanding, ranging from Africa to Asia.

The conference speakers were of a wide variety from across academia and business. Translation services were provided continually so English, Turkish and Russian linguists could understand each other. There was a very large Turkish majority compared to international speakers. The dif fering levels of audience attendance were disappointing because there could have been a better level of debate and questions and answers accompanying the arguments. Markets, training, nutrition, science, regulation and logistics were all covered.

Highlights include Alapala’s Bora Gökdeniz’s assessment of rising populations and rising quantities of milling feed to match the needs, showing a clear link and challenge

to keep chasing the market demands, we enjoyed Dimitri Rylko, General Director of The Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), answer a tricky question on the future of wheat exports from Crimea, Russia and the Black Sea region.

The sponsors this year’s event should all be mentioned and they were: Turkish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock; Turkish Ministr y of Health; Turkish Grain Board, The Union of Chambers and Commodities, Exchanges of Turkey which have all supported us and to all our sponsors - Uğur Makina, Meko, Altınbilek, BBCA Storex, Alapala, Mysilo, Gaziantep Commodity Exchange , Kı zıler/Çukurova , Genç Değirmen, Aybakar, Yükseliş, Alt unta ş Obial , Buhler, Ana Değirmen, Alp Reyal, CNBC and the Doğuş Group.

With a finale geared around the gala dinner, sponsored by Alapala, there was an enjoyable focal point

to end a very interesting and entertaining few days. We look forward to the next occasion and hope to see this event branch out into the regional flour milling industry even further.As the only international media present, we set about covering the entire spectrum of ‘wheat, flour and bread: past, present and future’.

Long-term views about the capacity, size and future of milling, importing and exporting of raw materials and how to sustain best practices as European standards are gradually entering into every part of business life.

There was a special local focus from the conference however it did include the region across the Black Sea and Mediterranean sea with great growth and progress being made were discussed and brought to the fore. We wish to return again and hope for a bigger and better event for all.

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GRAIN

The GFMT interview The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) is an international organization comprised of flour millers, cereal grain and seed processors and allied trades representatives and companies devoted to the advancement of technology in the flour milling, cereal grain and seed processing industries.

Melinda Farris is IAOM's Executive Vice President and the International Milling Education Foundation's (IMEF) Secretary/Treasurer and is based in Kansas, USA. Melinda Farris, executive vice president, IAOM So how long have you been at IAOM? I just celebrated my nine year anniversary! I have started my seventh year in this position. I was originally hired as a communications director - my background is in journalism, I have a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and Journalism and my Masters is in Russian and Eastern European studies.

What have you taken from IAOM MEA 2013? Anything you wish to do differently for that next event?

Well, this is a district meeting. America is the international conference for everybody, although our international event attendance has dropped because our district conferences have become more and more popular. Usually when we have it based in the mid-west of the USA it has pretty good turnouts. There are lots of mills there where people can just drive up - so a lot of day passes where people just come in and that increases the number of millers that we have. Day passes are cheaper than full registration and for the host district, we offer a discounted rate for day passes too.

Sometimes, for district meetings, the number of millers has to be controlled - in Turkey and Iran recently that was done because they do not want it all to be overrun. In 2005 in Morocco there were over 1000 millers and it was just too big.

How many different regions are there with IAOM? There are 16 districts. We are actually looking to re-organise our districts and probably combine several of them so we will end up with something closer to 8 in number. They are: Latin America, South-East Asia, Eurasia, Mid-East and Africa, and then 12 in North America: Western Canadia, Niagara, and the rest throughout the USA. Most of these districts have volunteer leaders who spend their time doing it.

At the head level of IAOM, what are the top topics at the moment?

Food safety is a huge issue. Anything as well to do with safety, employee safety but the NFPA in the USA are changing a lot. They are making changes that are going to affect everyone in the industry, primarily in the USA but anyone who will be sending anything to the USA. It will affect business in many ways. Those are some of the big topics. We then try to have some technical presentations too. We are taking our recently-revised Correspondents Course and using the lessons to create technical presentations. We are going to have some of the volunteer leaders from the districts deliver those presentations.

We have heard that education, knowledge and experience don't always match in North Africa and some regions in Africa...

Sure, some presentations will be at a basic level but that is really key, even for the ones who have been in the industry a while, as they can even be good refreshers and realise why that is important.

Those education and training programmes, are they run in the USA or elsewhere?

We are offering The Fundamentals of Milling Programmes in Italy at OCRIM. The education committee is going to offer the same courses in Saudi Arabia and Iran next year. We are trying to do some more regional-based education and training rather than [it only being accessible] at Kansas State University. In the USA, we are starting a Regional Education Programme where we know there will be holes to fill. We will try to get people who want a good vocation, job and the possibility of a stable future career.

There will be six classes of those and six milling courses, so at the end they can be hired as a shift miller, or start off in the mill and do maintenance. They will then undergo an internship and come out with a certificate in flour milling. So, if that goes well we will start to have a pilot programme which may be replicated across the USA so that everyone in the milling industry is not just from Kansas! Have you noticed that?

Who will pay for that programme of education?

I think there are community college funds and government scholarships for vocational training programmes. Obama is really keen on that and getting people in jobs and this is one way to do it.

Is it tough getting people into milling in the USA? Well of course it is. It is not a glamorous job. Nobody knows about it either! We are working on awareness.

What about organising visits to mills?

It is really hard getting mills to open up to the public these days because of security issues. There used to be that possibility but not really at the moment.

In the UK, a new initiative for mills to interact with primary schools started as part of the curriculum last year. Bakers come in and teach the processes and baking of it to food. It is really back-to-basic...

That's terrific! When I was a kid we would do things like that and go on tours but I grew up in the country - we would go to farms occasionally. There has been a big change to nowadays with healthier food. 'Whole wheat' demand is causing a switch to production. Consumption has already increased.

We see a lot of transitions...

Absolutely. The craze in the USA of the Atkins diet and South Beach diet where nobody ate any carbs really had an impact. I came into the association [IAOM] at about the tail end of that time. The recession helped right? People went back to more basic foods!

An extended version of this interview is on the Global Miller blog at http://gfmt.blogspot.co.uk

"Food safety is a huge issue.

Anything as well to do with safety, employee safety but the NFPA in the USA are changing a lot"

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INDUSTRY FACES Cargill appoints new chief executive officer David MacLennan, currently serving as Cargill's President and Chief Operating Officer, has been promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Gregory Page who will continue on in the position of Executive Chairman within Cargill.

Mr MacLennan, 54, started at Cargill in 1991 and has since gone on to hold a multitude of roles within the organisation.

With a thorough understanding of the inner workings of the industry, he was elected to the Board of Directors in 2008 and promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer in 2011.

Mr MacLennan originally received a Bachelors Degree from Amherst College and then a Masters in business David MacLennan administration from the University of Chicago. Prior to his contributions at Cargill he was the Vice President of LIT America and President of Fixed Income Capital Markets at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray.

Former UK NFU president takes over World Farmers Peter Kendall, the former president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), has recently been promoted as President of the World Farmers Organisation (WFO) – succeeding the previous president Robert Carlson.

The appointment was made during an election at the final session of the WFO General Assembly in Buenos Aries recently.

The World Farmers Organisation consists of more the 50 national farmer’s organisations and agricultural co-operatives across the world; focusing on the development of a multitude of different activities ranging from trade, environmentalism, aquaculture, research, education and much more.

Peter Kendall Mr Kendall farms with his brother Richard in Eyeworth, East Bedfordshire. He received a degree in Agricultural Economics from Nottingham University.

He has been a speaker at multiple conferences, focusing on topics such as commercial agriculture, horticulture as well as food security and climate change.

Chris Barnes joins Anitox Chris Barnes joins Anitox from his recent position at AB Agri where he fulfilled the role related to logistics and supply chain stability.

Originally graduating from Exeter University and following a brief career as a lawyer, he found his true calling when he joined Unigate’s graduate program. He joined Wincanton, a company that hired more then 3663 employees, developing experience that would set the foundation for his future.

With a wealth of experience, Chris is planning to double the size of Anitox within the next three years in his role as global head of supply chain and procurement manager.

Chris Barnes "Unforeseen circumstances can always interfere with supply chains, but forward thinking and the correct contingency plans can minimise the impact,” which reaffirms his commitment to a well-maintained supply chain.

Mr Barnes will be seeking to expand into new markets, launch new projects and consolidate the company’s leading position. That he says will involve capitalising on new opportunities, building supply chains that are not just resilient but perform at a high level of quality.

Right company at the right time for Cuban animal nutritionist With a PhD in Animal Nutrition from the University of Rostock, Germany, and a MSc in Industrial Engineering provided by Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba, Yunior Acosta Aragon brings 25 years of extensive experience as a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine - and a further nine years as a technical and product manager of multiple companies specialising in animal nutrition – to Biorgin.

Capitalising on Yunior's experience and education, Biorgin is counting on him to maximise his role as a Sales - Technical Manager for all animal species addressed by the group.

He will be managing multiple European countries from Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republish, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Yunior Acosta Belgium, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg to The Netherlands.

Aragon According to Roberto Vituzzo, Global Feed Business Manager, "Hiring Yunior will help us to establish our position in Europe and provide better services to both customers and distributors. Yunior is an important addition to the team, providing technical services to all animal species, as we still need to expand our businesses in that region.”

Yunior is also the author of "The Use of Probiotic Strains as Silage Inoculants", which will make him feel perfectly at home with Biorgin as it holds multiple patents, such as Nutricell, Brewcell, HiCell, Primecell, Selemax and far more.

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