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Alberta Pool, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, has begun implementing a
long-term plan to lower overall operating costs and increase efficiency.
The “Strategic Facilities Plan” will
reduce the company’s country system
from 257 operating units to about
102 over the next 10 to 20 years.
Approximately 70 of these locations
will also provide agro product sales
to customers. Ray Schmitt, president,
Alberta Pool, said the company has
targeted several locations where new,
high-throughput facilities will be constructed and sites where upgrades and
expansions will take place.
“We have recently concluded
from a process of reviewing factors such as farm income, marketing patterns, transportation changes,
customer preferences and the opportunity to reduce system costs,”
Schmitt said. “The result is a strategic facilities plan and new style of
operating for the future.”
Burnaby Machine & Mill has returned to the grain screening business after winning a $1 million contract with Prince Rupert Grain for
14 rotary grain screeners.
Prince Rupert originally installed
27 BM&M rotary screeners in 1980
when its terminal was constructed. The
recent purchase of additional screeners
is part of PRG’s effort to upgrade and
expand its cleaning capacity.
For 25 years, Burnaby Machine
& Mill has designed and manufactured screening machines. In 1983,
BM&M licensed the right to manufacture its grain screeners to Carter
Day of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
U.S. That agreement concluded last
year, enabling BM&M to re-enter
the grain business directly.

2003
Dover Industries Limited purchased for cash the assets and all

unfulfilled orders of Canada’s largest independently owned flour mill,
Halton Flour Milling, Inc. of Acton,
Ontario, Canada on May 1, 2003.
Halton Flour Milling Inc. has
operated in Acton since the early
1800s. In 1998, capacity was doubled with the construction of a new
dedicated soft wheat flour with a capacity of 120 tonnes per day.
Dover has retained Halton’s key
management and operational staff.
Cimbria East Africa Ltd., a subsidiary of Cimbria Holding in Denmark, recently designed, delivered
and installed a 30,000-tonne-capacity silo plant for Lesiolo Grain Handlers Ltd., in Lanet, Nakuru, Kenya.
The equipment delivered included a
weighbridge truck scale, an automatic
sampler, lab equipment, one small dryer with two 20-tonne silos, enabling
them to dry one truck at a time and either deliver product back into the truck
or divert it into the main plant.
The main plant is equipped with
two intake lines and two loading
lines, each at 100-tph capacity (in
wheat), as well as screen cleaners
and two high-capacity dryers. All
horizontal transport is by belt conveyors. Bulk loading is carried out
via two elevated silos, and one loadout line has the capability for high-

speed bagging on the first floor,
from which bags are loaded into a
truck via a direct slide.
The storage silos, supplied by
Chore Time Brock, consist of eight
hopper silos for pre-storage before
drying and 16 main silos. Cimbria
Manufacturing supplied the drying,
cleaning and conveying equipment.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister

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and Minister of Agriculture Alexei
Gordeyev and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman have signed
a memorandum of understanding on
cooperation in agriculture.
Veneman said the agreement
would lay the groundwork for
mutually beneficial, cooperative
activities in a number of areas, including investment in agriculture;
veterinary and phytosanitary activities; animal and plant genetics
and biotechnology; joint agricultural policy and development of
rural areas; and sustainable agriculture development.
Last year, two-way trade in agriculture, fish and forestry products
between the United States and Russia totaled $1 billion, primarily in
meat and seafood.
U.S. Wheat Associates has announced that Henry Stevens, the
group’s technical services director,
will leave the organization later
this year.
Stevens, who received special
recognition for his advancement
of milling technology from the
Association of Operative Millers
in 2000, has traveled the world
for 20 years on behalf of the U.S.
wheat industry, providing customers with milling expertise and
technical analysis in diverse milling processes.
The Australian Stock Exchange
Ltd., through its futures exchange
subsidiary, has begun trading in
feed wheat and barley futures contracts and will launch feed barley
futures trading in late May.
The two contract starts followed
the launch of the exchange’s milling
wheat contract.
The feed wheat contract, like the
milling wheat contract, represents
20 tonnes. The feed wheat contract
grade is Australia wheat with AWB
Bin GradeFED1 or better.

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