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highlighting 50 years of involvement 290 tonnes.
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Today the business is managed by his story mill were "way too high,"
brother, Shri Milapchand R. Shah.
Brennan said.
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lead the French exporting ports in
terms of cereal throughput in 1986
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decreased from 1985 when cereals
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Dunkirk exported 1.1 million tonnes
in 1986, an increase from 1985 due
mainly to the operation of a new facility with a storage capacity of 70,000
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tonnes in 1986, up from 600,000
tonnes in 1985.

The government of Turkmenistan
has contracted to buy U.S. milling
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designed to have a total milling capacity of 750 tonnes per day.
Turkmenistan also has contracted
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two new mills with a combined capacity of 300 tonnes per day.
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day, but sources indicate that several
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actual working capacity is closer to
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The Canadian government announced in late March that it plans
Monte White has joined Mc- to end the monopoly marketing of
Shares, Inc., parent company of Re- barley by the Canadian Wheat Board
VHDUFK3URGXFWV&R6DOLQD.DQVDV (CWB) by Aug. 1, 2007, based on reU.S. and Viobin sults of a vote by barley producers.
USA, MonticelResults of the vote showed that
lo, Illinois, U.S.
38% of the voters preferred to retain
White will be the CWB as the single marketing
responsible for desk, 48% wanted the option to sell to
all aspects of the CWB or a buyer of their choice,
customer service and 14% wanted the CWB to have no
and new market role in marketing barley.
White
development. He
is a graduate of Kansas State UniverH. Harry Bresky, who transformed
sity, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S., with a 6HDERDUG&RUSIURPDGRPHVWLFÀRXU
degree in agricultural business.
milling company to an international
McShares is a major supplier of milling company and then into the
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pounds and enrichment concentrates. pork processing company in the U.S.,
died March 11 in Boston. He was 81.
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Bresky retired as president and
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in July 2006 and was succeeded by
his son, Steven J. Bresky. He held the
title of president of Seaboard from
1967 through February 2001, and
then assumed the added title of CEO.
A native of Boston, Bresky was
an undergraduate at Yale University
when his studies were interrupted by
service in World War II. When the
war ended, Bresky joined the milling business established by his father, Otto Bresky, and two partners in
1921.
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Milling Corp. became the most promLQHQWÀRXUPLOOLQJ
company to shift
its
production
capacity to population centers -
destination mills.
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Bresky
the U.S. over a 14year period ended in 1976, which was
more than any other milling company
at that time.
In addition to this ambitious capital
investment initiative, Bresky began a
quieter shift for the company, beginning in 1966 with the acquisition of a
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Co. Two years later, Seaboard built a
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Mills were constructed by SeaERDUG LQ /LEHULD DQG 1LJHULD LQ
1973, and in 1982 the company sold
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changed the company name to Seaboard Corp.
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operated food and feed businesses
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