On November 15th, 2018, The Northern Crops Institute (NCI) welcomed 15 participants for the Wheat to Bread course.
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The Northern Crops Institute (NCI) recently hired Brian Sorenson for program manager. In his new role, Brian will use his background in cereal chemistry, grain milling and grain quality to provide organization and leadership in the development of educational programs to promote northern grown crops to global grain buyers and food processors.
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The Northern Crops Institute (NCI) and Northern Food Grade Soybean Association (NFGSA) hosted eight participants from China, India, Myanmar, South Korea and Thailand for the Food Grade Soybean Procurement Management For Importers course.
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The Northern Crops Institute (NCI) welcomed 18 participants from 11 countries for the Grain Procurement Management for Importers course, which ran from September 10th - 19th, 2018.
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NCI recently published a video on a project involving the "dry" extrusion of two cultivars of soybeans for the production of Full-fat soybean meals.
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Northern Crops Institute's staff, Northern Crops Council and Northern Crops Institute Advisory Board would like to offer its condolences to former Governor George Sinner's family due to his recent passing. George Sinner was instrumental in creating the Northern Crops Institute and fully believed and promoted its mission, "to support regional agriculture and value added processing by conducting educational and technical programs that expand and maintain domestic and international markets for northern grown crops." During the 20th Anniversary of Northern Crops Institute (2003), George Sinner, who was also the first chairperson, wrote an article for the 20th anniversary celebration book.
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To continue our communications efforts in supporting the promotion and market development of crops grown in the four-state region (Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota), we have developed a bi-monthly newsletter that will be sent exclusively by email. In this issue there is information about the INT-SOY course that will be held at NCI in June 2017, an update on the new soymilk and tofu machine, an article about our milling technical services and also a reminder to register for the Utilization of Pulses in Extruded Snack Course. To view the latest issue and to sign up for the next issue go to http://conta.cc/29ytQVg.
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