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Grain Science and Industry at Kansas
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died in August at the age of 87.
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the university - 21 years as the head
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Feed Milling Industries. He played
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legislative support for the program
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corporate group vice-president of
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an extension of our U.S. operations,
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Buhler Brothers Ltd. will design,
supply and supervise the erection of
the mechanical works of a new terminal in Kaosiung, Taiwan. The order came from the general contractor
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The port facility will include an
80,000-tonne silo with road and rail 2007
loading stations, and two mechanical Portalink ship unloaders with a
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capacity of 750 tph of grain each. elected Gregory Page chairman,
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Warren Staley,
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manufacturing plant and several
Staley was elected president of
other operations.
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tors in August 1995. Staley joined
Cargill as a trainee in 1969 and held
merchandising, management and
leadership positions in the United
States, Europe and South America.
Page praised Staley for his many
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The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (ABARE) forecast
2007-08 Australian wheat production at 15,475,00, down 7,014,000
tonnes, or 31%, from its June forecast and 6,092,000 tonnes, or 28%,
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production of 21,567,000 tonnes.
However, the 2007-08 projection is up 5,656,000 tonnes, or 58%,
from the drought-reduced 2006-07
outturn of 9,819,000 tonnes. The
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planted area of 12,257,000 hectares,
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The death toll from a July 26
explosion that occurred at Molino
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and semolina mill in Fossano, Italy,
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Italian Association of Milling Technicians (ANTIM).
ANTIM's Paolo Panzavolta said
the explosion initially killed one
worker and hospitalized four othHUVZLWKVHYHUHEXUQV$OOIRXUEXUQ
victims later died from their injuries. He said the explosion damaged
the milling section of the plant as
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warehouse. Panzavolta noted that
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Italy since the new ATEX (antiexplosion) European directive was
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