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1982
A $16.2 million ﬂoating graintransfer facility capable of loading export vessels at about 1,500 tonnes an hour, and said to be the largest of its type in the world, has been put into operation on the Louisiana Gulf in the U.S.

Corp. has made a successful $9 million bid for a ﬂour mill in Haiti, consortium ofﬁcials announced in mid-October. The purchase of the mill, La Minoterie d’Haiti, represents the ﬁrst privatization in Haiti of a government-owned enterprise. Because the mill has sustained considerable damage since it was closed in the early 1990s, the consortium will spend up to $6 million in repair work, according to Steve Bresky, vice-president at Seaboard Corp. Before ceasing operations, the mill had daily milling capacity of about 500 tonnes of ﬂour. The work will restore capacity to this level. Grain storage capacity includes about 27,200 tonnes of upright storage and 9,500 tonnes of ﬂat storage. Molinera de Mexico, a joint venture between Gruma, S.A. de CV of Mexico and Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), Decatur, Illinois, U.S., has acquired two wheat ﬂour mills — Harinera Monclova S.A. and Harinera de Saltillo S.A., which are afﬁliated with each other — in Saltillo and Monclova, Coahuila, according to a Gruma S.A. press release. The mills have a combined annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes. ConAgra Flour Milling Co. announced in early October plans to build a new ﬂour mill in Southern California. “We believe the growth in population and consumption of wheat-based products presents a substantial opportunity for our ﬂour business, and we want to meet the increasing demand with a modern, technologically advanced mill,” said Darek Nowakowski, president ConAgra Flour Milling Co. Vietnam in August made its ﬁrst purchase of U.S. wheat since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975,

according to the U.S. Wheat Associates. Ofﬁcials representing Vietnam’s Binh Dong Flour Mill purchased 10,000 tonnes of U.S. wheat, comprising 5,000 tonnes of hard red spring and 5,000 tonnes of hard red winter, for October delivery, according to Dan Gerdes, U.S. Wheat chairman.

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In a new initiative, AWB Ltd. has announced it is directly targeting international, end product consumers through an unprecedented agreement with Indonesia’s Bogasari Flour Mills. AWB Managing Director Andrew Lindberg said the consumer campaign was part of its marketing strategy to further strengthen end user demand for Australian wheat. The agreement establishes minimum percentages of AWB wheat to be used in Bogasari’s grist, thereby securing demand for Australia wheat. European Union nations have failed to agree on rules to allow genetically modiﬁed crops in the farming and food industry, but a top E.U. ofﬁcial said an end to the ban on such products is inevitable. E.U. agriculture ministers disagreed on whether to allow an unintentional presence of up to 1% GM material in food before a warning label would be mandatory. The ministers also split on the threshold for accidental presence of GM seed for planting. Morocco will soon have its ﬁrst modern feedlot, according to the U.S. Grains Council (USGC), which is providing technical support for the project. COPGAG, a Moroccan integrated dairy and feed milling operation, will work with the USGC to build the facility, which will raise both dairy and feed cattle.

Clinton Odell, president of Rogers Terminal & Shipping Corporation, the stevedoring subsidiary of Cargill Inc., said the loader, which is 110 meters long and 25 meters wide, “is the largest, most sophisticated barge-transfer facility in the industry.” A £56 million (about $100 million) contract has been awarded to Henry Simon of Stockport, England, by the Benue state government of Nigeria for food manufacturing complexes at Taraku and Ihugh. The sites will be used to make maize and rice products and crude vegetable oil. The work is expected to be completed within three years. Simon is the main contractor for site development and is responsible for the design, engineering, installation, commissioning and associated civil engineering work.

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A consortium that includes Continental Grain Co. and Seaboard

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