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ConAgra Inc. announced it has
formed a 50-50 joint venture with
W. Jordan Millers Ltd. of Biggleswade, England, to process
and distribute oat products for human consumption throughout the
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joint venture, called Cereal Millers
Europe Ltd., includes a W. Jordan
Millers state-of-the-art oat processing mill and grain storage facility in
Bedford, England.
Cereal Millers Europe will operate the mill, which currently produces 18,140 tonnes of oat products annually. It plans to triple the
mill's annual production by adding
other processing equipment immediately. The mill processes and disWULEXWHVRDWEUDQÀRXUDQGÀDNHVWR
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manufacture cereals, snack foods
and bread.
Central Soya Co. Inc., a member of
the Ferruzzi Agro-Industrial Group,
Ravenna, Italy, has broken ground
for a $20 million expansion at its
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will be completed in early 1990, will
nearly double the plant's capacity to
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"While Chinese wheat import demand has declined from overall
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years ago, the market has become
more quality oriented. High-quality,
high-grade wheat is becoming a
major part of our exports, bringing
up the overall sales revenue."
Winston Wilson, a former president
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died May 11 of an apparent heart attack. He was 55. Wilson retired in
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the world and conducting activities
in 130 countries. Since then, he had
been involved in consulting work
for various grain companies and associations.
John Howard, program administrator of the International Grains
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0DQKDWWDQ.DQVDV86VDLG:LOson was "probably the most capable, productive and successful individual in the entire wheat industry."
Cargill S.A. and Molinos Rio de
la Plata S.A. have agreed to create
a new company by merging their
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Cargill will own 65% of the new
company, and Molinos 35%. The
joint venture will have a total daily
milling capacity of 5,500 tonnes of
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milling industry in 1995 by acquiring Minetti y Cia S.A., the nation's
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largest pasta maker.
Molinos Rio de la Plata, founded
in 1902, operates in four divisions:
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and refrigerated.

Representatives of the Canadian
Wheat Board (CWB) and the China
National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs
Import and Export Corp., recently
signed a memorandum of agreement
calling for the sale of Canadian wheat
to China valued at approximately
C$100 million. The agreement called
for the milling wheat sale to be negotiated under normal commercial practices at a market value.
"The CWB has supplied more
than 100 million tonnes of wheat
to China since the early 1960s," 2009
said Greg Aarson, president and
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ment to acquire all the issued and
outstanding shares in Adelaide,
Australia-based ABB Grain Ltd. for
a combination of cash and shares
valued at approximately $1.2 billion, the two companies announced
on May 19.
The companies said the combined
business will result in several benH¿WV LQFOXGLQJ JUHDWHU H[SRVXUH WR
the higher-growth Asian market, the
largest export origination capability for core commodities business
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increase scale. The Australian, New
Zealand and Southeast Asian operations of the new company will be
based in Adelaide, which will be the
worldwide headquarters of the company's malt business.
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM)
announced on May 18 that it will
increase its North American wheat
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Spokane, Washington, by a combined 7,500 cwts per day, and has
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at its Buffalo, New York, facility to
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capacity of 279,400 cwts (a total
that will grow to 286,900 cwts with
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and ConAgra Foods Inc., which
have milling capacities of 275,000
and 251,100 cwts, respectively.

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