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1989
Members of the Grain and Feed
rade ssociation G F
council
elected . . Lake, a director with .
Bibby griculture Ltd., resident,
succeeding Clifford . illey. Brian
R utherford, president of the European
Feed Manufacturing Federation F F C , was elected vice- resident.
G F is currently investigating
the potential of merging with the
nited ingdom gricultural Su ly rade ssociation
S
.
eter and Ltd. has begun manufacturing animal health roducts at
a factory in Nanning, China, in a
oint venture with Guang i nternational rade and nvestment Cor .,
with s onsorshi from the Guang i
nimal usbandry Bureau.
he business o eration will use
medications from . .-based eter
and as well as other uality medication from ma or animal health
com anies., which will offer a
roduct range that ensures livestock
health while providing residue-free
meat, eggs, milk and fish.

1999
ussia needs to harvest
million
to
million tonnes of grain this
year to avoid buying it abroad or reuesting food aid again, said iktor
Semyonov, a senior agriculture and
food ministry official.
e said ussia s annual carryover
stock of grain was e ected to be ust
one tonne by ugust, com ared to
20 million to 25 million tonnes at the
same time in
. e warned that
the nation would be threatened by
serious food shortages if this year s
harvest is below last year s . million tonnes, the worst in years.
he abysmal
harvest forced
R ussia to sign agreements for food
aid worth more than
billion with
the uro ean nion and the nited States.

Indonesia's parliament has adopted a law that will in effect re uire
the breaku of the ndofood domination over both domestic cu noodle manufacturing and our milling. he new law gives ndonesian
com anies
months to come into
com liance with a rovision setting
a
market share as the ma imum a single grou could have.
n addition, the law bans vertical
integration when an independent
Commission for Supervision of
Competition holds that a relationship
would interfere with com etition.
hrough its . . Bogasari subsidiary,
ndofood has had a near mono oly
on our milling in ndonesia, and the
arent com any has a nearly
share of the cu noodle business.
Midstate Mills, nc. has reached
an agreement with Bü h l er nc.,
Minnea olis, Minnesota, .S., to
construct a fully automated mill
in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina,
.S., with daily our milling ca acity of about
tonnes.
he com le also will include
about ,
tonnes of wheat storage ca acity and a batch ty e blending lant. ll finished roduct will
be shi ed in bulk from the mill,
Midstate said. he mill is e ected to be com leted before the end
of
.
Boyd rum, resident of Midstate
Mills, said the greenfield ro ect on
acres will entail building an access road off nterstate as well as
adding a s ur off the Norfolk Southern ailway main rail line.

2009
he CB Grou Board announced on
Feb. that r. ndy Crane has been
a ointed the ne t chief e ecutive officer for the CB Grou . Crane will
re lace current C O mre Mencshelyi following his retirement ril .
Crane is currently the general manager for strategy and business devel-

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opment at CBH Group, where he is
responsible for overseeing the identification and ursuit of strategies, o portunities, and
ac uisitions
to
further strengthen
the CBH Group's
position for the
future. Prior to
this role, Crane
was general manCrane
ager of Grain Pool
for five years following its merger
with the CBH Group in 2003 .
Four ma or ussian milling comanies from the ltay region of
estern Siberia, ussia
lysk erno roduct, Grana, luchevskoy
levator and Melnik are forming
a oint com any aimed at the wheat
our and cereals e ort market. he
new com any
ltay Flour Mills
said it would become the e ort
marketing tool for those four companies and address growing R ussian
wheat our e ort o ortunities.
he com any noted that the ltay
region is ussia s to -ranked domestic our manufacturer with a volume
market share at about
of official
domestic our out ut. ltay Flour
Mills will re resent four com anies
with a combined
,
tonnes of
annual our out ut, or
of the
market share in ussia.
Cargill announced on Feb. that
it will build a new
,
-tonneer-year manufacturing lant in
Casa Grande, ri ona, .S., that
will roduce feed for dairy, beef,
farm-store, birdseed and show-animal customers.
n late
, Cargill ac uired
Eagle Milling's Casa Grande-based
feed mill, pet and animal wholesale
roducts business and committed to
constructing a new mill as the enter rise grew. Construction of the
new mill began last fall, with feed
roduction scheduled to begin in
early
.

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