Twenty-one soybean buyers from seven Southeast Asian nations are at Northern Crops Institute (NCI) this week to attend the Soybean Procurement Management for Importers short course.
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A ten-member trade team from India is at NCI to learn more about the quality and utilization of northern-grown pulses and to see the 2012 pulse crop.
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The Japanese Mid-level Management Millers Team is at NCI this week to learn more about the region's 2012 wheat crop from wheat breeders and university researchers.
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The benefits of soy protein were in the spotlight at the NCI Baking with Soy short course, hosted September 24-28 for an eight-person team from Senegal and Rwanda.
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A nine-person team of bean buyers from Colombia and France visited NCI September 20 to learn more about NCI and its bean activities. NCI Director Mark Weber and Thunyaporn (Naggie) Jeradechachai, NCI Crop Quality Specialist, hosted the team.
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Thirty-five grain buyers from 17 nations are learning how to make more effective purchases while decreasing their risk as they attend the 2012 Grain Procurement Management for Importers short course at NCI.
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John Crabtree, NCI Assistant Director, explains the grain shipping system in the United States to a food-grade soybean trade team that visited NCI Wednesday.
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A team of six quality control and purchasing personnel from Indonesia and the Philippines attended the South Asia Contracting for Wheat Value Workshop at NCI from September 10-12.
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NCI’s Thunyaporn (Naggie) Jeradechachai, Crop Quality Specialist, was a featured speaker at the "New Look at U.S. Pulses as Healthy and Versatile Ingredients” Seminars at the Malaysian Institute of Baking, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in early September.
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Kim Koch, Ph.D., (fourth from left), NCI Feed Center Manager, is part of a team working with the American Soybean Association International Marketing (ASAIM), presenting seminars in Poultry Nutrition and Feed Technology in Vietnam.
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Kim Koch, Ph.D., NCI Feed Center Manager, attended the U.S. Grains Council’s 52nd Annual Board of Delegates Meeting in Vancouver, Wash., in early August.
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Rachel Carlson (left), NCI Food Technologist, and Thunyaporn (Naggie) Jeradechachai (right), NCI Crop Quality Specialist, taught at a pulse promotion course at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in St. Helena, Calif., in August.
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Kim Koch, Ph.D., NCI Feed Center Manager, found this “little” shrimp at the largest aqua farm in Hawaii, which he toured while attending the U.S. Soybean Export Council’s (USSEC) Aqua Stakeholders Meeting in Kauai, Hawaii last week.
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Nine maltsters and brewers from Canada and U.S. are attending the Barley Malt Quality Evaluation Short Course at Northern Crops Institute (NCI) August 14-17. Paul Schwarz, Ph.D., NDSU professor of plant sciences, is coordinating and lecturing in the course.
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A Philippines Wheat Trade Team is at NCI to learn about new crop hard red spring wheat (HRS) prospects and activities and programs that promote wheat consumption in the U.S.
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The Wheat Quality Council’s (WQC) annual inspection tour of wheat fields in North Dakota, western Minnesota and northern South Dakota ended Thursday with its wrap-up discussion at NCI.
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Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted barley food products to carry a health claim recognizing the positive effects of β-glucan soluble fiber, the use of barley has increased.
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