THE GLOBAL MILLER | March 2014
Strongly supported maintaining current “legacy” speculative position limits for enumerated agricultural commodities in the spot month and establishing limits in the deferred months that will facilitate an orderly transition to spot-month limits. Urged the CFTC not to proceed with its proposal to establish different speculative position limits for the three wheat futures contracts - CBOT soft red winter, KCBT hard red winter and MGEX hard red spring. “Varying limits could have unintended and undesirable effects in terms of competition among the contracts for growth and liquidity,” NGFA said. Opposed additional reporting requirements for bona fide hedgers. For instance, NGFA said the CFTC’s proposal to require users of commodities to submit a written form 10 days prior to the date when potential market positions would need to be taken under anticipatory hedges would be burdensome and unworkable. “The CFTC must recognize that risk-management decisions need to be market- and business-driven, not centered on satisfying a government filing requirement that may not be timely or appropriate,” NGFA said.
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For further information, see NGFA’s 20-page statement, which also includes numerous examples of bona fide hedging transactions. The NGFA, established in 1896, consists of more than 1,050 grain, feed, processing, exporting and other grain-related companies that operate more than 7,000 facilities and handle more than 70 percent of all U.S. grains and oilseeds. Its membership includes grain elevators; feed and feed ingredient manufacturers; biofuels companies; grain and oilseed processors and millers; exporters; livestock and poultry integrators; and associated firms that provide goods and services to the nation’s grain, feed and processing industry. The NGFA also consists of 32 affiliated State and Regional Grain and Feed Associations, and has strategic alliances with Pet Food Institute and North American Export Grain Association.
11/03/2014: Roller flour mill - A revolution in the UK from 1820s to the present day
Almost 50 members of the London and South East Millers Association gathered in London at Nabim’s Arlington Street headquarters this evening to hear a joint presentation by Bryan McGee and Rob Sorland-Ball on the ‘Roller four mill - A revolution in the UK from 1820s to the present day.’ Henry Gustav Simon introduced the first roller mill into the UK in 1878 from Hungary and Austria, where the technology was first developed, to challenge the dominance of stone milling. While he sold some hundreds of the new mills in the first few years both in the UK and throughout the Empire, it was not until the 1881 great London International Exhibition ‘ Flour Mill Machinery’ organised by Nabim that roller mills became established in the industry following practical demonstrations throughout the three-day show, Mr Sorland-Ball, who is researching the history of the roller mill for an English-Heritage funded project, told his audience.
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Through his research he believes there is a great untold story about milling in the UK and the impact it had on society and human health and asked millers to support the Mills Archive Trust work on compiling historic records on roller flour mills.
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The audience were fascinated with the pictures of bygone mills, many of which were extremely large facilities housing all types of milling operations from flour to feed to pet and even bakeries. Today many of the old building have gone, however some remain and have been converted into other uses, the most popular of which are apartments, flats and offices. livestock