FAMSUN, with the support of Milling and Grain magazine, is hosting THE FINAL in a series of four, 2-hour Webinars
Feed Production - Management and Efficiency
It is timely that the feed industry consider some of the implications COVID-19 has had on the feed production processes and how output may have been impacted and what up-to-date technologies can do to improve process management and efficiencies
Next week will see the final is a four-part series of weekly Webinars making up one on-line conference. Each week, for the past three weeks, we have presented two speakers to address the following areas of interest and Wednesday November 11, 2020 at 15:00 Beijing time we will present 'Challenges and Opportunities.'
Timetable
October 21 - Technology and Production Processes
October 28 - Formulations and Future Protein Sources
November 4 - Drying Technology & Bio-security in the Feed Mill
November 11 - Challenges and Opportunities
Webinar start time
Beijing time 15:00 on Wednesday October 29, 2020
(That is 07:00 London and 08:00 Western Europe)
Please plan to login 15 minutes early. Registrations are limited.
Topic 1: Providing a Backdrop to the Meaning and Purpose of Investing in a Digital Factory
by Robert Strathman, President, Famsun-USA Design and Engineering Division
Rob Strathman graduated from Kansas State University in 1995 with a BSc degree in Feed Science and Management. He joined Famsun-USA Design and Engineering, an R&D Division of the Famsun Group, in 2016 where he currently serves as President.
Mr Strathman has focused much of his energy modeling and optimising critical factory performance functions and advancing extruded food and feed processing technology during his 25-year career. He developed an industry-first digital factory in a collaborative effort, leading critical functions that delivered world-class manufacturing performances within five petfood production facilities.
Topic 2: Optimising the Feed Manufacturing Process
by Dr Charles Stark. The Jim & Carol Brown Professor in Feed Technology, Kansas State University, USA
Dr Charles Stark is the Jim and Carol Brown Professor in Feed Technology at Kansas State University. Dr Stark received his degrees in animal sciences (BS) and grain science (MS PhDat Kansas State University.
Before joining K-State he was an assistant professor in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science at North Carolina State University for seven years. Dr Stark also spent 12 years in the animal feed industry with responsibilities in feed manufacturing, quality assurance and plant operations. Over the course of his career he has published 45 journal articles, seven extension bulletins, four book chapters and 102 abstracts. He has also been an invited speaker at 29 conferences in 16 different countries.
Dr Stark has a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Grain Science & Industry (75%) and Animal Sciences & Industry (25%). He serves as the faculty coordinator of the new O.H. Kruse Feed Technology Innovation Center and Cargill Feed Safety Research Center. A primary focus of the O.H. Kruse Feed Technology Innovation Center is the training of the next generation of feed industry leaders through student internships and extension workshops.
His extension program provides outreach in the areas of feed safety, quality assurance and feed processing technology to the citizens of Kansas, the United States and people around the world. The emphasis of his current research is the testing of new products and feed manufacturing processes that allow animal agriculture to efficiently produce a safe food supply of meat, milk and eggs.
Why join us
There are many Webinars taking place across our industry and across the globe right now. They are proving to be an ideal means of imparting information from the experts who have it, to those in industry who need to understand and apply it.
Milling and Grain is at the forefront of this technology transfer and is proud to have bee asked to partner FAMSUN - as its Webinar's Partner and Moderator - in its goal to share technical knowledge and information as widely as possible.
We look forward to welcoming you onto the platform this coming Wednesday - November 11, 2020 - for the last in four weekly webinars. I hope you enjoy the third in our four-part Conference series.
You can register for our last remaining Webinar now. Four Webinars make up a complete one-day conference with some eight speakers on a range of vital topics confronting the feed industry globally.
We are offering all those who have registered an opportunity to catch up with webinars they have missed using our on-demand service from November 12-29, 2020. You can revisit those you have missed using your Zoom registration link
You've met last two speakers now hear from them directly by registering, HERE.
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