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February 27, 2013

27/02/13: Is India's growing grain mountain set to topple?; flour recall affects big US brands; new members on GEAPS board

India's growing grain mountain could be set to topple. The country has enough space to store
47 mt of wheat and rice but stockpiles are forecast to reach 100 mt in June 2013. A sixth consecutive bumper wheat harvest is due to get underway in March pushing the reserves up. However, the country runs the risk of wasting the crops due to its inefficient food distribution and storage system

The recall of several speciality flour lines by Dakota Specialty Milling has had a knock on effect on major producers in the USA. Frito-Lay and Mondelez have both been forced to recall some of their snacks, cereal and biscuit products as a precautionary measure.
Dakota Specialty Milling company voluntarily recalled some of its speciality flours on February 14, 2013 due to the possible presence of fragments of thin metal wire from a defective screen on one of its manufacturing lines at a milling facility. The recall was initiated as a precaution to ensure consumer product safety.
 
GEAPS International board of directors has three new members. GEAPS members nominated and voted on directors in an election that ended in January. The new board members were announced at GEAPS Annual Meeting at Exchange 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Elected to terms as 2013-2016 International directors were:
  • Eric Kelley, Attebury Grain, Tri-State Chapter
  • David Marr, Michigan Agricultural Commodities, Michigan/Southern Ontario
  • Tom Winkel, MaxYield Cooperative, North Iowa
To the office of International 2013-2014 second vice president, GEAPS members elected Matthew Kerrigan, Bunge North America, from the Gateway Chapter.  Succeeding to the office of first vice president is Jim Jundt, Pacific Ethanol Columbia, from the Inland Empire Chapter.
International 2012-2013 First Vice President Slav Waplak, Viterra, Inc., from the Canadian Prairies Chapter, assumed the office of  2013-2014 International president. Bill Lyster, Ag Partners LLC, Greater Iowa, International 2012-2013 president succeeded to the office of 2013-2014 International Board chair.

English: Two kinds of rice flour
English: Two kinds of rice flour (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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