Milling & Baking News - September 7, 2010 - 4

Contents 

September 7, 2010 Vol. 89, No. 14

 NEWS FEATURE

 NEWS Comment

Story on Page 24

Questions about
wheat DNA point
to huge importance

Keep equipment
humming
Use water, enzymes wisely to keep abrasive
ingredients from abusing bakery equipment

9

Monsanto, InterGrain enter
wheat breeding pact

Monsanto Co. acquires a 19.9% interest in
Australian cereal breeder InterGrain Pty Ltd.
Collaboration between the two companies
may advance yield performance and disease
resistance.

Powell sees General Mills
portfolio positioned for
growth
Story on Page 18

Editorial
Business
Industry Activities
Financial Results
Export and Trade Issues
People
Education and Research
Milling Technology
Data
International
Supplier Innovations
Ingredient Week Trends
Archive

Hostess to close bun
baking facility in Illinois

Hostess Brands, Inc. plans to close a single
line bakery in Decatur, Ill., that makes hot dog
and hamburger buns under the Butternut and
Wonder brands.

12

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50

10

Quaker adds hot cereal lines,
reformulates oatmeal

The Quaker Oats Co. launches two hot cereal
varieties, one a multigrain and the other for
children. The company also cuts sugar content
in three instant oatmeal varieties.

22

U.S.D.A. projects 2011 ag
exports at $113 billion

The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the
value of U.S. agricultural exports in fiscal year
2011 at $113 billion, up from a forecast of $107.5
billion for this fiscal year.

33

MGP Ingredients returns
to profitability

MGP Ingredients achieves fiscal-year net
income of $8,738,000, which compares with a
loss of $69,123,000 in the previous year. Sales of
resistant wheat starch increase.

COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE
AB Enzymes ..................................... 26
Ada Grain Co.................................... 12
ADM Milling Co................................ 14
American Italian Pasta Co. ................. 9
Bunge Ltd......................................... 22
Campbell Soup Co. ....................... 8, 29
Caravan Ingredients ............. 22, 24, 36
CJ America, Inc. ................................ 36
Columbia Grain Inc. ......................... 13
ConAgra Foods, Inc. ......................... 20
ConAgra Mills ............................ 14, 24
Crete Grain Company, Inc................. 13
Elan Nutrition................................... 20

Fill-More Seeds, Inc. ......................... 31
Gavilon Grain, L.L.C. ........................ 13
General Mills, Inc. ................ 14, 18, 35
George Weston Ltd............................. 9
Granny's Kitchens .............................. 9
Heartland Baking USA ....................... 9
Heartland Plant Innovations USA ..... 30
Hostess Brands, Inc. ......................... 10
The Ingredients Co. .......................... 26
InterGrain Pty Ltd. .............................. 9
Jessica's Brick Oven, Inc. .................. 13
Kellogg Co. ............................. 1, 10, 14
Keystone Bakeries L.L.C...................... 9

4 / September 7, 2010 Milling & Baking News

Great enthusiasm in Britain over progress
in breaking the genetic code of wheat was
countered by a much less confident, if not
cautious, response in the United States.
Claims by British scientists at two major
universities that their findings about the
wheat genome will revolutionize breeding
of wheat was greeted in America and other
parts of the world with praise for what the
U.K. researchers had done, while saying it
was only a modest first step. Many more
years of work are needed before wheat's
genetic makeup is fully understood.
At stake in this sort of scientific dispute
is making sure that the foundations that
fund genetic research do not believe the
wheat solution is known. It is widely
understood that this would be the wrong
response, doing damage to essential
research that must be carried out to
grasp the wheat plant's DNA. These steps
must precede hopes of major advances
in plant breeding. An apt description of
what was found in the U.K. is that it is
like having to use a globe of the world
to locate a street corner in a large city.
Detailed maps are needed.
While the great enthusiasm of the
U.K. scientists may be understood, one
of them went a bit over-the-top in saying
that in five years time "a loaf of bread
will be cheaper because of this." Much
needs to be done not just with mapping
the wheat genome but with figuring out
just how this outcome will best be utilized
- in conventional breeding or in genetic
modification of wheat. Hardly any research
is more important to grain-based foods. MBN

Kraft Foods Inc. ................................ 29
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Corp. .......... 8
The Lady and Sons ........................... 15
Maplehurst Bakeries, L.L.C. ................ 9
Mascoma Corp. ................................ 32
MGP Ingredients, Inc. ....................... 33
Monsanto Co................................ 9, 36
Mrs. Millers' Homemade Noodles Ltd. .. 27
Muhlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG ....... 26
Nestle S.A......................................... 18
Novozymes ...................................... 26
Peanut Corporation of America ........ 10
Pepperidge Farm Inc................... 13, 29

Pioneer Hi-Bred ................................ 32
Quaker Oats Co. ............................... 12
Ribus ................................................ 27
Royal Ahold n.v. ............................... 35
Sara Lee Corp. .................................. 24
Schebler Food Equipment................. 28
Scoular Co. ....................................... 12
Seaboard Corp.................................. 31
SunOpta Inc. .................................... 32
Tate & Lyle, P.L.C............................... 36
Tentissimo Group ............................. 35
Vac-U-Max ....................................... 28
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc......................... 29

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