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FEATURE: 'UNIQUE' MILLING FACILITY OPENS

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With the opening of the Hal Ross Flour Mill on Oct. 20, Kansas
State University (KSU) took another major step toward completing its Grain Science Complex, which will have five facilities when
completed.
The International Grains Program (IGP) building, the Bio-Processing and Industrial Value-Added Program (BIVAP) building
and the flour mill are already operational. A feed mill and a large
classroom/laboratory building are yet to come, though fundraising efforts are already under way.
The idea for the complex was conceived 10 years ago as a
U.S.$45 million project, but the price tag has now climbed to
U.S.$70 million. Virgil Smail, head of KSU's Department of Grain
Science and Industry, said about U.S.$4 million needs to be raised
to construct the feed mill, primarily through private funding.
"The feed mill is now our priority," he said.
The final building will require about U.S.$40 million that Smail
said would be sought through federal and state government
funding, Smail said.
That building will include classrooms, laboratories and perhaps
much more if a joint proposal by the Department of Grain Science and Industry, the American Institute of Baking (AIB) and the
USDA/ARS Grain Marketing Production Center comes to fruition.
The Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.-based organizations are proposing
the creation Center of Excellence for Grain Research, Industry,
Analysis, Nutrition and Security (Kansas GRAINS Center).
"Our strategy is to create a national initiative for major new
funding for grain industrial research that will include focusing on
healthy grains for food and feed, new industrial uses for materials
and energy, biosecurity, preservation and marketing," Smail said.
The organizations will be asking the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) to designate the combined resources and activity of KSU, AIB and USDA as "a Center of Excellence
for Grain Industry Research." Smail said such a designation
would help in the effort to raise significant federal funds for
the programs.
He said the initiative could provide an additional U.S.$75 million per year in federal research support and is designed to "address crucial research and educational needs for the U.S. grain
industry to defend and ensure the competitiveness of our industry
into the future.
"Part of the reason we are losing wheat acreage in the Great
Plains region is because funding for wheat research is so much
lower than corn and other crops," Smail said.
The proposed center would include a grant program to other
states of about U.S.$40 million per year to match commission,
USDA and other grant funds. Smail said the federal funds would
come from offsets in the farm program, as farm supports are being cut in half in the next five years.

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