LAC is a supplier of food grade soybeans for products like tofu and soymilk. They provide varieties suited for different applications that have desirable traits like high protein, uniform size, and beany flavor. LAC works with contract growers and research organizations to breed and test new varieties. They operate a processing plant with Japanese equipment that cleans, sorts, bags, and ships identity preserved soybeans to ensure customers receive consistent, high quality products.

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. Contract Growers of IP soybeans

10. Agris Coops Research Plots

14. Growers’ Information Meetings

18. Why is Quality Important?

19. Briefing by our tour guide

20. Lint and hair check before entry

22. Decontamination chamber

23. Soaking tank

24. Close up

25. Tofu production line

26. Tofu packing machine

27. Crates of tofu ready for delivery

28. Aburaage (fried tofu) line

29. Aburaage packing line

30. Testing of new varieties

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

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

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

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

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

36. Tofu texture measurement

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

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

39. Screening for protein Subunits and 11s/7s ratio

40. Selections from LAC

44. Cleaning Plant with Japanese Equipment

46. LAC Soybean Processing Plant

47. Farm deliveries to our facilities

48. QA staff taking samples

49. Protein, oil, moisture and GMO tests

50. Check protein and oil

52. Silo locations of IP soybeans

53. Silos for IP soybeans

54. Segregated dumping pits

58. “ Oliver” de-stoner

59. Japanese equipment

60. Japanese-made “Harada” roller belt

64. Japanese-made “Satake” color sorter

65. “ Satake” electric-eye sorter

66. “ PacePacker” automatic bagger

70. Loading bulk containers

71. Close-up of bulk loading

72. Bulk containers enroute to Japan

73. Container QA Sample

74. Containers enroute to customers

75. 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