Updated September 26, 2011

1. Introducing LAC ”Your supplier of choice for food grade soybeans”

2. Similar Growing Conditions

6. Plant Breeding

7. Syngenta Research Farm

8. LAC President and soybean breeder

9. Selecting new varieties from research plots

11. LAC’s Private Variety

12. Growers’ Information Meetings

16. Contract growers of our IP beans

17. One of the 1,200 growers/shareholders of Agris Coop

18. S18R6 production contract with Agris Coop

19. Why is Quality Important?

20. Briefing by our tour guide

21. Lint and hair check before entry

23. Decontamination chamber

24. Soaking tank

25. Close up

26. Tofu production line

27. Tofu packing machine

28. Crates of tofu ready for delivery

29. Aburaage (fried tofu) line

30. Aburaage packing line

31. Testing of new varieties

32. New Varieties are tested on product quality of soymilk and tofu

33. Product quality in terms of yield, protein solids, color, hardness & firmness of tofu using two different coagulants

34. Soymilk is separated from the slurry in a centrifugal extractor and tested for viscosity, sugars, and mouthfeel

35. Soymilk is heated, coagulant added and tofu is cooled in a waterbath

36. Testing of quality traits for color of soymilk and tofu

37. Tofu texture measurement

38. Instron texture system tests for firmness and hardness that relates to bite and mouthfeel

39. Maximum value reached before the tofu gel breaks measures the hardness of the tofu

40. Determine protein quality by calculating 11s/7s ratios with digitized gel image

41. Selections from LAC

45. Cleaning Plant with Japanese Equipment

47. LAC Soybean Processing Plant

48. Farm deliveries to our facilities

49. QA staff taking samples

50. Protein, oil, moisture and GMO tests

51. Check protein and oil

53. Silo locations of IP soybeans

54. Silos for IP soybeans

55. Segregated dumping pits

59. “ Oliver” de-stoner

60. Japanese equipment

61. Japanese-made “Harada” roller belt

65. Japanese-made “Satake” color sorter

66. “ Satake” electric-eye sorter

67. “ PacePacker” automatic bagger

71. Loading bulk containers

72. Close-up of bulk loading

73. Bulk containers enroute to Japan

74. Container QA Sample

75. Containers enroute to customers

76. Trucks are probed And soybeans are tested Trucks QA Sample Self cleaning Receiving Conveyor Designated Variety Silo Self Cleaning Conveyor Leg Cleaner Surge Bin Cleaner QA Sample Gravity QA Sample Destoner Surge Bin Destoner QA Sample Plate Magnet Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Satake Colour Sorter QA Sample Satake Colour Sorter Surge Bin Harada Belts QA Sample Harada Surge Bin Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Automatic QA Sampler Self Cleaning Processing Belt Grate Magnet Rare Earth Processing Bin Pace Packer Bagger And Gate Magnet Tote Bag Loading Bulk Load Out QA Sample LAC Thamesville Quality Control Flow Chart Container QA Sample