13/09/2013: Vitol new face in grain world; Canadian crop science; Sahel food security situation

Vitol, a Dutch-owned energy and commodity trading company and the world's largest independent oil trader, recently took part in a port capacity shipping auction held by CBH. As a result of the auction,

Vitol has secured about 400,000 tonnes of capacity, emerging as a new player in the grain world.

Vitol announced plans to begin trading in global grain markets this year. 

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The Canadian Government is supporting new research in crop science that will be of great benefit to farmers. 

Working closely with Gerry Ritz, Canadian agriculture minister, Pierre Lemieux, Canadian parliamentary secretary and Dave Mackenzie MP, Oxford, Ontario announced that an investment of CAD$7 million for the Canadian Field Crop Research Alliance to lead a research project that will  help producers better compete in global markets.

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The FAO has recently warned that about 11 million people in the Sahel, Africa are still severely food insecure. Poor families have used up their food stocks and are now facing high food prices.

Despite an appeal to raise US$113.1 million this year to support almost 6 million vulnerable people in the Sahel, only US$19.4 million has been received.  

The FAO is now appealing to the international community in the hope of increasing funding to aid the most vulnerable farmers and herders in the region south of the Sahara.
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yellow: Sahara; orange: Sahel; green: Sub-Saharan Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

05/09/2013: Grain loss in China; Alltech Global 500 held in Ireland; Japan imports feed wheat

A report compiled by the American Chemical Society (ACS) that looked at food waste in the People's Republic of China has concluded that approximately 19 out of every 100 pounds of grain produced in the country goes to waste. 

The report, which was published in Environmental Science & Technology identifies the problem of food waste with an estimated one-third to one-half of food produced worldwide lost or wasted from farm to fork. Estimates suggest that the United States wastes about 40 percent of food crops. According to estimates, China needs to feed 21 percent of the world's population, harvesting just 6 percent of the worlds water resources and 9 percent of arable land.

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For the fist time ever, Alltech’s Global 500 conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland. Taking place from 2nd - 3rd October 2013, dairy and beef producers from around the world will gather at the event to network, share experiences and discuss a profitability plan for 2014.

The conference offers a unique opportunity to get answers to questions and generate creative thinking with farmers from all over the world.

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According to Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, the country will import 59,350 tonnes of feed-quality wheat, and 3,000 tonnes of barley for livestock use. These figures are the result of a simultaneous buy and sell (SBS) auction that closed earlier this week.

The ministry had sought 120,000 tonnes of feed wheat and 200,000 tonnes of feed barley in the tender. It is seeking the same amounts for each grain in a similar tender that will be held on September 11, 2013.
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English: A field of ripening barley, the Palouse, USA Deutsch: Gerstenfeld während der Abreifephase in der Palouse, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sanderson Weatherall to stage online auction of feed and flour milling machinery

Following a successful collective auction of feed and flour milling machinery and equipment in 2012, industrial auctioneers and valuers, Sanderson Weatherall is currently staging this year’s online auction via www.bidspotter.co.uk closing from 12 noon on Wednesday September 18, 2013.  

Major lots include a number of pelleting presses, grinders and hammer mills, flour milling equipment, screeners, mixers up to 4000 litre capacity, conveyors and elevators, various weighing equipment, an expander, silos and bins, two micronizers and ancillary equipment. 

The equipment can be viewed by appointment at various locations throughout the UK and Ireland and in many cases it is removed and can be loaded onto customers transport on site.

Roy Tubman, Partner, Machinery and Business Assets at Sanderson Weatherall is staging the auction and said, “Sanderson Weatherall, incorporating Singletons, held an average of seven or eight auction sale disposals of milling machinery throughout the UK per annum for over 20 years up to around 2010 due to sector rationalisation within the UK. There have been very few auctions recently and we have had many enquiries for used plant therefore this year’s collective auction will give prospective purchasers an unrivalled opportunity to acquire good used machinery at reasonable  prices".

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          EQUIPMENT FOR SALE            

Grinders & Hammermills:  
Buhler DFZH-2 Twin Vertica; Robinson Multimill 2; Christy & Norris X Mill Extra 3, X26, B11 & B7/2; AB Ditto; Apex 114S SS; Micropul 1H; Entecon Pre Breaker; Christy & Norris 24 x 16 & 24 x 12 Pulverisers; 



Pelleting Presses:
Van Aarsen C750; CPM 7800, 7800-2 & 7722-6; Buhler DPAS; Paladin 600-150; Milltech C95/185; Orbit Sizer 225/175; Sizer 175; CPM Hygenizer & Conditioner; Stainless Steel Press Conditioners


Hebei Pingle 6F Flour Roll Mill; Hebei Pingle FSFS Double Bin Plan Sifter; Hebei Pingle TQLM63 Flat Deck Sieve Screen; Hebei Pingle FPDW4 Rotary Screen; Hebei Pingle QXS Destoner; Carter Disc Separator; Two Robinson 11 x 6 PGM Minisifters;  Booth Roller Mill; Locker Rotex 42 Twin Deck Screen; Locker Rotex 1850 x 750 Screen; Argentum Single Deck Vibratory Screen; Milltech MT100 Twin Deck Rotary Screen; PTN SR60 Twin Deck Rotary Vibrating Screen; Turner 6ft x 4ft Two Deck Screen; Simon Barron Le Coq Screens; Simon Barron Siscan & Kek Rotary Screens; 1800mm dia. Rotary Screen c/w stainless steel contact parts; Brice Baker BB20/60 Rubble Separator; Automatic Bag Splitter c/w trommel screen


Two Micronizing Company UK Gas-fired Micronizing Machines


Four Collinson 10t Galvanised Silos/Bins; Three x 20t Steel Square Sided Raw Material/ Finished Product Bins; 20t Product Bin on weigh cells c/w bulk bag discharge / frame; Six x Panel Construction Bins c/w vibratory feeders & screw dischargers;  32m³ Skirted Silo; Molasses Tanks


Kahl OE301 Expander; Robinson 4000 litre Series 3 3-tier Ribbon Mixer; Buhler 2000litre Paddle Mixer; Ottevanger 1 tonne Horizontal Mixer c/w loadcells; Stainless Steel Twin Paddle Blade Mixer (approx. 1110mm x 970mm x 880mm high); Adelphi Horizontal Mixer (10ft x 4ft dia.); Airmaster RJC Filter; Belt & Bucket Elevators, Chain & Flight Conveyors & Screw Conveyors by Carier, Bartridge, Redler & Guttridge; Elevator Belting; Hopper Discharge Conveyors; Belt Conveyors & Radius Sections; E/P Slides; Andritz Sprout DS250WP Stainless Steel Twin Feed Screw Conveyor; Wallace & Tiernen Screw Type Volumetric Feeder; Dust Filters; Chronos Richardson UK 7128 0001/95 35kg-7kg Auto Loadcell Packing Weigher; AT Sackfillers Simplafil Type 100 Sack Filler; Accrafil Twin Head Valve Sack Filler; Richard Simon Belt Fed Auto Packing Weigher; Two Howe Richardson H17 Packing Weighers; Minipak 3kg Semi Auto Batch / Packing Weigher;  Union Special Stitching Heads; Rotoplex 3 Sack Heatsealer & Conveyor; Gericke Stainless Steel Sack Tip Unit; Vebe Teknik Ditto; Walthambury Mechanical Weigher; Guttridge Stainless Steel Intake Hopper c/w discharge screw; Four Ajax Stainless Steel Screw Feeders; Rotoval Blowline Diverter 

 

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Bidding closes: from 12 noon Wednesday 18 September 2013

View: Strictly by appointment at all sites

At: Various locations throughout the UK

More information:
Tel: +44 161 259 7000
Email: auctions@sw.co.uk
Website: sandersonweatherall.co.uk

Online auction of dried pet food manufacturing plant

GoIndustry Dovebid are conducting an online auction of a dried pet food manufacturing plant
on behalf of a major pet food manufacturer due to the closure of their UK manufacturing site in Peterborough.

The sale will close on August 1, 2013 at 1pm UK time, with inspections available by appointment.
The sale will include a great variety of assets, many having been installed only within the last few years.

The prime process area includes Tietjen hammer mills and Guttridge hoppers and conveyors. There is a tank farm with 18 stainless steel tanks with capacities up to 30 tonnes. Flomat Bagfilla Taybag flavouring hoppers feed the soak screw platform. There are three Wenger extruders, as well as Aeroglide and Mitchells dryers.

In the product distribution and pack to order section are two Storeveyors as well as numerous stainless steel storage bins.

The four finished product packing lines include Ishida weigh feeders, as well as cartoners, bagging machines, labellers and palletisers. The site services are modern, and of high standard befitting a site of this scale.

Further details of the auction can be seen at www.go-dove.com or by contacting Robert Pendal, project manager email Robert.pendal@go-dove.com

Online auction of dried pet food manufacturing plant

06/06/2013: US$475,000 to buy old grain elevator site; nutrition 'must be a global priority'; feeding waste to pigs

The former Cargill Pool Elevator on Fuhrman Boulevard looks like it will soon have a new owner.

During a morning auction conducted by Cash Realty & Auction, a winning bid of $475,000 was submitted by an anonymous investor.

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"The Pig Idea" campaign, launched today as part of world environment day, hopes to re-introduce the practice of feeding waste to pigs.

Campaigners hope to share the benefits of feeding pigs surplus food and are  calling for a change in European law so farmers can return to feeding pigs waste in the long term.

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According to an article published in the Lancet medical journal, malnutrition is responsible for 45% of the global deaths of children under the age of five.

Researchers warn that countries will not break out of poverty unless nutrition becomes a global priority.

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English: Pigs ready for feeding. Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Flour mill contents go under the hammer

Sanderson Weatherall to stage online auction of contents of Healings Flour Mill

The contents of Healings Flour Mill in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire are being auctioned online by property consultants Sanderson Weatherall.

The mill - which produced flour on this site until its closure in November 2006 - was acquired by a Midlands-based property developer for an undisclosed sum in 2012 after ADM Milling put the freehold of the site up for sale.

The new owners of the building in Quay Street have instructed property consultants Sanderson Weatherall - which has a local office in Bristol - to auction the contents of flour milling, grain cleaning and pelleting plant and equipment including weighers, roller mills, sifters, packing equipment, hoppers and conveyors.

Major lots include a grain storage complex and eight 250-tonne corrugated steel grain storage silos, 10 70-tonne flour storage silos and two concrete platform loadcell weighbridges.
The online auction is being staged via www.bidspotter.co.uk from 12 noon on Thursday, March 21, 2013.

Viewing of the contents of Healings Flour Mill is strictly by appointment with Sanderson Weatherall.
Also available for sale by private treaty for dismantling and removal are a 2,315 sq metre steel framed warehouse and a 720 sq metre steel framed vehicle service building.

Roy Tubman, partner asset advisory and recovery - machinery and business assets at Sanderson Weatherall, is staging the auction and said: “The sale represents a rare opportunity for millers to acquire essential plant and equipment because an entire full flour mill such as Healings very rarely comes on the market in the UK.

“We expect a lot of demand from overseas purchasers and have already received enquiries from India, Pakistan and Africa.”

For more information please contact:
Justin Strong, director, SKV Communications
0161 838 7770
justin.strong@skvcommunications.co.uk

Equipment at Healings Flour Mill