Happy New Year to you all from us at the International Milling Directory!
We want to mention how much we are looking forward to events at IPPE 2014. With Roger at VIV's International Nigeria Summit in Abuja, Tom and Darren in The Netherlands visiting key clients, we are visiting our subscribers' feed and flour mills in the UK and Ivan Marquetti our team member from Latin America is joining our UK team in IPPE , it seems that all of us are busy - and this is just January alone!
We also want to remind all that the International Milling Directory is still being distributed by mail and at many industry events. Please get in touch for more information or to get your copy.
Sincerely
Tom Blacker & Tuti Tan
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Part of the International Milling Directory family, The Global Miller is a news service dedicated to professionals - including nutritionists - in the transportation, storage and milling of grains, feedstuffs, rice and cereals, globally. Visit The Global Miller here.
Fingerprinting technology to detect mycotoxins in foods and liquid foodstuffs
Back in November, the EU-research project MYCOSPEC was launched with the participation of SMEs of the cereal industry and research centers. The MYCOSPEC project, coordinated by research and technology firm IRIS, Spain aims to develop an innovative system to detect mycotoxins, toxins produced by fungi that infest food crops and processed foods. Read more...
China's new pig farming project; US farmers face historic freeze; Europe urged to embrace GM
The project - partly funded by the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) - consists of a commercial pig base with a 2 million pig capacity, a slaughtering plant with a capacity feed mills with annual output of 650,000 tonnes and a meat processing plant capable of processing 50,000 tonnes. Read more...
Despite the harshest winter weather the country has faced in 80 years, grain markets in the USA remain firm, reported Farmers Weekly yesterday. Commenting on the current conditions, Brian Hind, a beef and arable farmer based in Greenwood county, Kansas has anticipated that the biggest danger for livestock farmers will come when the ice starts to melt on ponds.
Later this month, a vote on whether to allow the EU cultivation of a variety of insect-resistant maize achieved through genetic engineering will take place. Although facing stiff opposition, if approved, the maize will be the first GM food crop authorised for planting by the EU in 15 years, reported British daily newspaper the Guardian on Tuesday.
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Our sister publication, Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine is proud to be co-organiser of the annual GRAPAS award for innovation.
You may think we have, over the past 150 years achieved all the progress we can towards creating an efficient milling industry the provides safe food at affordable prices and delivered to consumers on a timely basis. Not so.
There is still significant progress being made towards those objectives on an annual basis and the GRAPAS Award is designed to recognise the advances being made by industry in an area that has largely disappeared from view.
That recognition is made in the form of an award called GRAPAS, and is made at the milling industry's most dedicated event - a three sector co-located exhibition held in Asia every two years and in Europe every fourth year.
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INDUSTRY EVENT NEWS
GRAPAS Conference 2014
The GRAPAS Conference (and Exhibition) program has been developed and it's time to put the date - April 8, 2014 - in your diary. There are not many milling conferences that are both international and targeted at the flour, rice and grain milling industries. However GRAPAS is one of them. It offers a unique opportunity where key food industry milling companies and leaders in the sector come together to pass on their knowledge in a factual and timely manner. The Conference is free to attend and pre-registration is required to receive the 'Certificate of Attendance' and a complimentary one year's subscription to GFMT magazine. All attendees will receive a copy of the 2013-14 International Milling Directory on the day.
Perendale Publishers to present at VIV Nigeria Summit
On 15 January 2014, VIV and local partner Nate Farms Int. will present the International Nigeria Summit - a one-day programme that will focus on the country's animal protein production.
Roger Gilbert, International Milling Directory publisher will present a talk entitled "The role of a robust compound feed industry to meet the needs of a growing world population." This will take place in room A from 15:00 - 15:3
Kicking off a brand new year in the feed and technology sector, the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) takes place in just over 3 weeks in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The event - which spans two days from 28 - 30 January - will bring together more than 1,100 exhibitors and over 25,000 attendees.
Three of the Perendale Publisher's team - Roger Gilbert, proprietor, Tuti Tan, circulation and subscriptions manager, Darren Parris, international marketing manager and Lee Bastin, marketing communications manager- will be at the expo so do come and say hello if you're around!
Campden BRI branches out with new feed seminar
UK food and drink research centre Campden BRI have made a foray into animal nutrition with the announcement of its 'Safety and quality of livestock feed' seminar, to be held at their Chipping Campden base on 6 March, 2014.
Perendale Publisher's Roger Gilbert will chair the introduction to the seminar, which will explore animal feed issues from a number of different perspectives.
Join us at the UK's largest agricultural services show
What started as a humble local show with 50 exhibitors and 2,500 visitors, LAMMA has quickly grown in to one of the UK's most reputable agricultural services shows. In 2013 the show boasted nearly 800 exhibitors and attracted in excess of 40,000 visitors from the UK and overseas. 2014 is set to be an even bigger turn over.
Three of the team - Tuti Tan, circulation and subscriptions manager, Tom blacker, sales and directory co-ordinator and Marnie Snell, online content co-ordinator - will be at the show. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Myanmar Agribusiness Investment Summit 2014 is designed to provide updated on the market potential and development plans of the agribusiness sector in Myanmar.
While oil, gas and coal mining, hydropower projects and logging have featured most prominently to date in terms of investments in Myanmar, agribusiness has emerged at the forefront of recent government development policies.The Summit takes place from 21-22 January 2014 at the Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar.
19th cereals, mixed feed and veterinary international trade fair
From the 4-7 of February 2014, the 19th international cereals, mixed feed and veterinary industrial trade fair will take place at the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow, Russia.
Organised by Russian marketing centre Expokhleb, the fair was established in 1996 and has since become an undisputed authority. As one of the largest professional international forums on feed, the fair is a place where experts can gather to share and exchange new ideas and knowledge and build long-term relationships.
Pnuematic conveying is one of the most commonly used means of transporting bulk solids. Applications range from large scale ship bulk cargo unloaders through to small in-plant systems.
At the end of January, the Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology will present a course which will cover operational design issues associated with such systems.
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