Escalating production costs and risks, uncertain premiums, growing workload pressures and attractive feed prices are all serving to undermine the confidence of even the most historically committed of UK milling wheat growers. To such an extent that a fresh industry-wide approach to quality wheat will be essential if sufficient domestic production is to be maintained.
The Agri-food supply chain is not only one of the most crucial and ancient of all; it is also instrumental in maintaining the nation’s economic, as well as physical, health. Although Britain imports around 40 percent of the food it consumes, the food and drink supply chain is the UK’s single largest manufacturing sector, accounting for 15 percent of total manufacturing turnover and seven percent of GDP. The supply chain employs 3.7 million people and is worth UK£80 billion (US$ 126.5 billion) per year. Farming alone is worth UK£20 billion (US$ 31.6 billion) to the UK economy and looks set to become ever more crucial, given the government’s ambition to restructure our economy towards manufacturing.
WITH most of 2012’s adverse supply developments now factored into prices, world grain and feed markets are now starting to fix their sights more firmly on 2013/14 crop prospects. A recovery is certainly needed in 2013 cereal output. Latest estimates show world production this season is dropping by about 75m tonnes or just over 4% but consumption by only 37m tonnes or 2%, the balance coming off stocks.
Agricultural trade has been an important contributor in Bangladesh to improved food security and price stability. For example, private sector imports have assured a price ceiling at import parity levels in the aftermath of major floods in 1998 and 2004. As the global price crisis has shown, however, the positive experiences with private trade might not completely eliminate the role of public food stocks. While Bangladesh is a net agricultural importer, it has also been successful in exporting cereals and high-value products such as shrimp and fish. This success has partly been due to preferential trade agreements. However, further investments are needed to assure that Bangladesh can adhere to increasing quality and safety standards and to prepare for a more liberalized international trade environment, once the Doha trade negotiations are finalized.
World prices of cereals, as measured on the benchmark Chicago futures market – were getting incredibly cheap during June – maize edging towards three and wheat to four-year lows under pressure from excessive stocks, uncertain forward demand for feed and expected large world crops. But the picture has changed radically in the last few weeks as those optimistic world wheat crop estimates have started to slide on unexpected weather problems – first in Canada, then Europe itself and latterly in the former Soviet Union, where coarse grain output could take an even bigger hit from droughts and heat-waves.
Presentation of Gerd Spavorek for the "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Apresentação de Gerd Spavorek realizada no "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Date / Data : Novr 11th - 12th 2009/
11 e 12 de novembro de 2009
Place / Local: CTBE, Campinas, Brazil
Event Website / Website do evento: http://www.bioetanol.org.br/workshop5
The Agri-food supply chain is not only one of the most crucial and ancient of all; it is also instrumental in maintaining the nation’s economic, as well as physical, health. Although Britain imports around 40 percent of the food it consumes, the food and drink supply chain is the UK’s single largest manufacturing sector, accounting for 15 percent of total manufacturing turnover and seven percent of GDP. The supply chain employs 3.7 million people and is worth UK£80 billion (US$ 126.5 billion) per year. Farming alone is worth UK£20 billion (US$ 31.6 billion) to the UK economy and looks set to become ever more crucial, given the government’s ambition to restructure our economy towards manufacturing.
WITH most of 2012’s adverse supply developments now factored into prices, world grain and feed markets are now starting to fix their sights more firmly on 2013/14 crop prospects. A recovery is certainly needed in 2013 cereal output. Latest estimates show world production this season is dropping by about 75m tonnes or just over 4% but consumption by only 37m tonnes or 2%, the balance coming off stocks.
Agricultural trade has been an important contributor in Bangladesh to improved food security and price stability. For example, private sector imports have assured a price ceiling at import parity levels in the aftermath of major floods in 1998 and 2004. As the global price crisis has shown, however, the positive experiences with private trade might not completely eliminate the role of public food stocks. While Bangladesh is a net agricultural importer, it has also been successful in exporting cereals and high-value products such as shrimp and fish. This success has partly been due to preferential trade agreements. However, further investments are needed to assure that Bangladesh can adhere to increasing quality and safety standards and to prepare for a more liberalized international trade environment, once the Doha trade negotiations are finalized.
World prices of cereals, as measured on the benchmark Chicago futures market – were getting incredibly cheap during June – maize edging towards three and wheat to four-year lows under pressure from excessive stocks, uncertain forward demand for feed and expected large world crops. But the picture has changed radically in the last few weeks as those optimistic world wheat crop estimates have started to slide on unexpected weather problems – first in Canada, then Europe itself and latterly in the former Soviet Union, where coarse grain output could take an even bigger hit from droughts and heat-waves.
Presentation of Gerd Spavorek for the "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Apresentação de Gerd Spavorek realizada no "2nd Workshop on the Impact of New Technologies on the Sustainability of the Sugarcane/Bioethanol Production Cycle"
Date / Data : Novr 11th - 12th 2009/
11 e 12 de novembro de 2009
Place / Local: CTBE, Campinas, Brazil
Event Website / Website do evento: http://www.bioetanol.org.br/workshop5
Assessment SNV- KMDP forage interventions in North Rift, KenyaProDairy E.A. Ltd
The experience in North Rift Region (Kenya) since 2016 with the “Maize Train”, a concept promoted and supported by the Kenya Market-led Dairy Programme (KMDP) of SNV Kenya, has shown that maize silage making is viable in Kenya on-farm, as well as in bales for trading purposes.
Contractors and commercial forage producers successfully turned around the existing poor practices of silage making, where use is made of forage harvesters with a capacity too small for the acreage planted, harvested too early, with too long chopping length, no kernel crushers and long interval between start of making the silage pit and final sealing. These existing practices result in enormous losses during ensiling and feed-out and greatly reduce nutritional value (MJ ME/kg DM) of the silage and dry matter (DM) intake of the cows. Added to this is the risk of poor anaerobic fermentation giving yeast, moulds and Bacillus chances to spoil the silage.
For 2016/17 (July to June), Post/New total Mexican wheat production is forecast to increase to 3.9 million metric tons (MMT). This increase of approximately 3.7 percent assumes favourable weather conditions and normal yields in the key wheat areas of Northwest Mexico (Baja California and Sonora) for the 2015/16 autumn/winter crop cycle.
The long-awaited Panama Canal expansion opened earlier this Summer with a ceremonial ship passing through the waterway. Based on extensive research including more than 100 studies on the economic feasibility, market demand, environmental impact and other technical engineering aspects, the Panama Canal expansion involved the construction of a ‘Third Set of Locks’ that will now allow larger ships to pass through the famous canal.
Family-owned Catalyst, formerly Pharm-Tech, custom formulates and manufactures feed and nutritional supplements for customers in the livestock, poultry, pet, wildlife and aquaculture industries. It operates five production plants, three in Idaho and two in Iowa. Its range of over 100 products includes digestive aids, mineral supplements and most recently Certified Organic blends and finished feeds.
Wholegrain Ingredient Producers EDME, based in England, has pioneered an innovative new category of ingredients. Michael Carr, Sales and Marketing Director of natural ingredient producer at EDME says, “We’ve identified a growing interest in sprouted foods and have developed a brand new product category to help bakers and food manufacturers meet that interest and demand.” Sprouted grains meet the demand for new wholegrain ingredients that are nutritious, soft and tender, as well as being more palatable and digestible.
Last month, we outlined the new regulations that grain processors needed to be aware of. This included the new NFPA 652 and OSHA initiatives. This month we delve into the array of options available to control combustible dust. Grain processors need to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each before choosing the smartest approach.
Operating in 140 countries and boasting 90 service stations worldwide, Bühler has been at the vanguard of industrial process technologies and solutions for over 150 years. Contributing significantly to feeding the world’s ever-growing population, Bühler manufactures equipment for processing of maize, wheat, chocolate, rice, pasta and breakfast cereals globally. In fact, 65 percent of wheat milled around the globe is processed on Bühler grain mills and around 30 percent of global rice production is processed using Bühler equipment.
A consolidation of highly respected British brands E R & F Turner, Christy & Norris and Miracle Mills, Christy Turner Ltd is renowned for quality British engineering and innovation in the milling industry. With flaking mills operational around the globe, the leading UK engineering firm talks us through their top tips for increasing the longevity and performance of your flaking rolls.
On the 26 October this year, Milling and Grain magazine attended OCRIM’s 6th technical conference “Wheat, Flour and…” at its headquarters located in Cremona, home to violin extraordinaire Antonio Stradivari and arguably one of Northern Italy’s most picturesque historical cities. The annual event was aimed at clients, local residents, and friends in the worlds of industry, academia and politics.
CROP farmers anxiously watching prices fall to ever less remunerative levels have had further unwelcome news over the past couple of months from yet higher cereal and oilseed crop estimates across the Northern Hemisphere.
Joordens Zaden in Kessel, The Netherlands is an international specialist in the development and production of seed for green manure crops, forage crops and forage grasses. The seeds comply with the high quality requirements of ISTA and are strictly checked every week by external quality controllers from the Dutch General Inspection Service (NAK).
A leading miller since the company was founded in 1919, over the years Grand Moulins in Paris has been able to diversify its activities and innovate to maximize customer satisfaction.
With over a century of experience in the design, quality and installation of grain storage systems, Bentall Rowlands Storage Systems Limited is a leading UK manufacturer in complete storage and processing equipment for the agricultural and industrial markets.
Many in the milling and grain sector may be unaware that there is a significant new revenue stream available to progressive and forward-thinking mills. It focuses on the use of energy, and how by turning the power down for a relatively short period each year in line with National Grid’s and EirGrid’s requirements, companies can enjoy considerable and long-term financial rewards.
Calysta, the company developing and introducing a new protein source based on single-cell organisms - a bacterium called methylococcus – and destined for inclusion in fishfeeds, has built a ‘market introduction facility’ in Teesside, England, with production beginning in this last quarter of 2016.
Changes in flour quality are and will continue to be a problem for the bakery industry. Large amounts of grain are processed by the milling industry and many resources used to secure the flour produced have a consistent quality.
The Bakery Innovation Center (BIC) at the Bühler headquarters is now five years old. As a center for vocational training and further education for bakers and millers, it is very popular.
As “enlightened” as such statement by what Stanford University calls “the most influential English speaking philosopher of the 19th century” is, one could easily make an argument that when it comes to commodity market analysis the statement seems to be as useful as a bicycle to a fish.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. FEATURE
A fresh perspective
on UK milling wheat
by David Neale, Business Development Manager, Agrii, United Kingdom
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scalating production costs and Overall, quality is likely to be far closer At a very modest £155/tonne, for
risks, uncertain premiums, growing to the 10-year average than last year. And instance, a 10t/ha 2011/12 Group 4 wheat is
workload pressures and attractive it might even be nearer to 2007 and 2008, set to deliver a gross margin of £894/ha. This
feed prices are all serving to undermine when just 11 percent and six percent respec- compares with £723/ha for a 9t/ha Group
the confidence of even the most histori- tively of Group 1 wheat samples made the 1 at the same price. Assuming it is paid on
cally committed of UK milling wheat full specification (Figure 2). So domestic sup- the entire tonnage, this means a premium of
growers. To such an extent that a fresh plies are set to be tight. £20/t is required for margin parity.
industry-wide approach to quality wheat The current season’s difficulties and con- However, if only 30 percent of samples
will be essential if sufficient domestic cerns are also making farmers less inclined to make the full specification – in line with the
production is to be maintained. grow milling wheat; especially so in the face 10-year average – our calculations suggest
of increasingly attractive world feed wheat this premium will compensate for less than
Annual HGCA surveying shows a reduc- prices and expanding domestic feed grain half the feed wheat yield difference at the
tion of just under 20 percent in the area of markets for bioethanol. base price of £155/tonne, making milling
Group 1 & 2 wheats grown in the UK over The indicative margins our farm manage- wheat a seriously unattractive proposition.
the past four years – from 650,000 ha in ment specialists calculate on a regular basis Under these circumstances and with such
2009/10 to less than 530, 000 ha in the most for our agronomists to work with their grow- pressures on margins and workloads, it is
recent season (Figure 1). ers, indeed, show milling wheat stacking-up hardly surprising so many growers are losing
HGCA quality records further show 2011 relatively poorly against feed wheat produc- confidence in milling wheat. All the more
was the best year for wheat quality since tion – even before the latest steep rises in so with the premium variations and intake
2006 with 40 percent of Group 1 samples world markets. deductions they encounter, not to mention
making the full 13 percent pro- increasing economic and environ-
tein, 250 Hagberg, 76 kg/hl spe- mental pressures on nitrogen and
cific weight milling specification. other essential input use.
This meant quality wheats were
in reasonable supply despite the Meeting milling
substantial shift away from milling specifications
wheat growing. In addition, of course, there
is an urgent need to respond to
2012 outlook the serious black-grass challenge
This year, however, things look facing up to 20 percent of the
set to be very different. Protein lev- present wheat area and the legacy
els and specific weights, in particular, of the most substantial take-all
are widely expected to be disap- and foliar disease season in recent
pointing. Fusarium infections have memory; challenges which may
heightened mycotoxin concerns. Figure 1: Group 1 & 2 Wheat Area well necessitate alternative crop-
And the atrociously wet summer Source: AHDB HGCA Variety Survey Results ping strategies in some cases, with
meant a challenging, delayed harvest. particular consequences for the
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3. FEATURE
Added to data from Experience, after all, teaches growers
breeders and official that however attractive premiums may
testing, this allows us appear for the immediate season, they
to pick varieties that cannot be relied upon for the period
will best meet our over which they are having to budget
customers’ require- (2013/14 sales for crops planted this
ments and provide the autumn).
best possible advice In recent years we have been involved in
on their suitability for the development of a number of dynamic
different rotational market-led examples for encouraging suf-
slots and conditions. ficient supplies of crops for value-added
It also means we can markets that could provide a model for the
offer the most timely new, more productive industry relationship
agronomic support to we believe is vital for the health of UK milling
Figure 2: Proportion of Group 1 Wheat Samples
help improve produc- wheat production.
Achieving Full Milling Specification Source: AHDB
HGCA Quality Survey Results tion efficiency and reli- Particularly attractive in this context are
ability in the face of the arrangements that have been developed
the increasing seasonal to encourage the reliable supply of specialist
second wheat slot in which so many milling variability associated with climate change. rapeseed and oats.
wheats are currently grown. This detailed variety understanding fur- Closed-loop contracts have been devel-
Our industry-leading Co-ordinated ther means we can plan seed production, oped between growers and OSR crushers
Growing Systems (COGS) research into and work with buyers through our partners, for High Oleic, Low Linolenic (HOLL) rape
varietal capabilities and agronomy across Glencore and Scotgrain to secure ready to serve the healthy cooking oil market,
different soil types is enabling us to develop markets ahead of a variety’s commercial and between growers and millers for
very much more reliable recipes for milling availability. That way we’re able to ensure naked oats for human food and high value
wheat production for growers across the both sufficient seed supply and sufficient animal feeds.
country; particularly so as far as meeting the end-market demand. These offer fixed premia over standard
protein specification – by far the most com- In parallel, close working with wheat rapeseed and feed wheat respectively for
mon reason for Group 1 sample failures – is breeders through leading UK authority, Bill supplies meeting agreed specifications grown
concerned. Angus is giving us a valuable edge in making on specific contract; arrangements which
We have, for instance, established indi- the most of the much more rapid vari- provide growers with the assurance they will
vidual response curves for grain protein ety progress possible through exciting new receive a set premium for a specific crop if it
accumulation from applied nitrogen for key genetic technologies like genome mapping, makes the required specification before they
varieties on heavy and light soils over a marker-assisted selection, double haploidy commit to growing it. And equally, from the
number of seasons as the basis for far more and single seed descent. processors’ stand-point that they can secure
precise agronomy. the supplies they need to serve their custom-
Equally, extensive long-term black-grass Encouraging sustainable crop ers at a fixed premium over the commodity
and second wheat management studies are valuation market.
allowing us to support producers with the Even so, all this work alone won’t be suf- In the face of the serious production,
best possible guidance on maintaining winter ficient to prevent the decline in milling wheat market and environmental pressures fac-
wheat viability in face of the most important growing reaching a level at which it causes ing milling wheat producers, we no doubt
agronomic challenges. serious future supply shortages. It needs that such a thoroughly joined-up industry
Through our work we’re able to estab- to be accompanied by an altogether more approach to marketing as well agronomy will
lish early in an emerging variety’s life how sustainable and predictable approach to crop be essential to the very future of UK milling
good it really is and where it best fits. valuation and premium-setting. wheat production.
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