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Alan Tracy, president of U.S. Wheat
Associates, an export market develChina harvested a record 409 million opment organization.
tonnes of grain in 1989, an increase
"We hope this is just the beginof nearly 4% from the previous year's ning of a new relationship with
production of 394 million tonnes and this potentially multi-million-tonne
slightly above the previous record of wheat market," Tracy said.
407 million tonnes set in 1984, ac7KH SXUFKDVH LV &KLQD¶V ¿UVW
cording to the China Daily R൶FLDO VKLSPHQW RI ZKHDW IURP WKH 3DFL¿F
English language newspaper. A har- Northwest region in nearly 20 years.
vest of 405 million tonnes had been The wheat purchase, made by the
estimated earlier by Xinhua, China's National Cereals, Oils and FoodR൶FLDOSUHVVDJHQF\
VWX൵V &RUSRUDWLRQ &2)&2 &KLChina also said its government QD¶V R൶FLDO JRYHUQPHQW EX\HU LV D
planned to send hundreds of sci- "trial shipment" that will let Chinese
entists, teachers and researchers to millers judge the characteristics and
agricultural areas to boost farm pro- qualities of the three classes of U.S.
duction but gave no further details of wheat, Tracy said.
the plan.
Molinera de Mexico, a wheat
Central Soya Co., Inc., has formed ÀRXUPLOOLQJMRLQWYHQWXUHEHWZHHQ
a joint venture with Agard, a Hun- Gruma S.A. de C.V. and ADM Millgarian-based feed manufacturer, ing Co., in January completed the
to produce animal feed products acquisition of Industrial Harinera
in Hungary. The agreement, with la Asuncion S.A. de C.V. in Puebla,
Agard and other Hungarian partners, Mexico. The purchase price was apcalls for the establishment of a joint proximately $48 million.
According to the 2000 Grain &
venture company called Agrokomplex-Central Soy Feed Producer and Milling Annual, published by SoDistributor Corp. The venture would sland Publishing Co., the mill has
be an outgrowth of a business rela- GDLO\ZKHDWÀRXUSURGXFWLRQFDSDFtionship that was initiated in 1969.
ity of 1,050 tonnes.
"With this acquisition, Molinera
The Grain and Feed Trade Asso- de Mexico strengthens its leaderFLDWLRQ *$)7$ FXUUHQWO\ LQ WKH VKLSSRVLWLRQLQWKHZKHDWÀRXULQprocess of negotiating a merger with dustry, reaching a nationwide marthe United Kingdom Agricultural ket share of approximately 23%,"
6XSSO\ 7UDGH$VVRFLDWLRQ 8.$6- Gruma said.
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Baltic Exchange in London. An 2010
830-square-meter freehold has been
acquired at Barbican House on Old
The Novorossiysk Commercial
Street for the new headquarters.
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*$)7$ VDLG WKH PRYH ZLOO ³¿- on Feb. 24 that the company has
nally free the organization from the started an expansion project at
recurring problems of rent reviews PJSC Novorossiysk Grain Terminal
and leases."
1*7 DLPHG WR LQFUHDVH LWV KDQdling capacity by 2 million tonnes
per year.
2000
NGT's grain storage will be inThe recent purchase by China of creased to 160,000 tonnes, while
50,000 tonnes of U.S. wheat from the railcars discharge capacity will
WKH 3DFL¿F 1RUWKZHVW ZDV VHHQ DV be expanded to 4 million tonnes
D ³VLJQL¿FDQW EUHDNWKURXJK IRU WKH from 2.9 million tonnes per year
U.S. wheat industry," according to and trucks discharge capacity will
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be raised to 1.8 million tonnes from
700,000 tonnes per year. All of these
improvements will allow NGT to
increase total throughput capacity by 2 million tonnes of grain per
year, NCSP Group said.
NGT is the newest, the largest and
the fastest operating grain terminal
in the Black Sea, capable of storing
up to 120,000 tonnes of grain and
loading vessels up to 60,000 deadweight within 72 hours.
The opening ceremony for a new
grain terminal with the annual capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of grain
on Russia's Black Sea Coast was
hosted by the Tuapse Commercial
Sea Port on Feb. 8. Viktor Zubkov,
5XVVLD¶V ¿UVW YLFHSULPH PLQLVWHU
attended the opening ceremony.
"The Russian government would
welcome the construction of such
large grain terminals," Zubkov said.
"We have a steady growth in grain
production volumes. Just last year
we produced 97 million tonnes of
grain. In the coming years, production will be increased."
Everett Allen Abercrombie, the retired Eastern region operations manager for Horizon Milling, LLC, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., died on
Feb. 2 at the age of
70. Abercrombie retired from Horizon
Milling in 2006. He
received the 2005
Milling Operative of
Abercrombie
the Year award at the
109th technical conference of the International Association of Operative
Millers in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
He graduated from Kansas State
University with a degree in milling technology in 1962 and worked
for several milling companies during his 44-year career, including
International Multifoods, Seaboard
Corp., and Cargill Flour Milling,
which later became Horizon Milling. Abercrombie had been Eastern
region operations manager for Horizon Milling since 1992.

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