Kansas State University (KSU) and Bühler are offering a milling course for industry managerial staff on grain processing and mill operations. The IGP will host the course on May 20-24.

The course objectives are:

• Understanding the underlying principle of the milling process and the parameters that can be influenced by either the raw material or the milling system.
• Understanding the challenges of the operating staff.
• Learning which critical control points to check in order to judge whether an operation is running well.

Course topics are raw material (kernel structure, influence of wheat characteristics on yield and mill performance, usage of various types of wheat for different finished products); cleaning system (special systems for Mycotoxin reduction and top quality flour production, machine and flow sheet technology, system design and various tempering philosophies, practical in the Hal Ross mill); milling system (description and function of milling machines, basic flow sheet technology, basics in starch damage, practical in Hal Ross mill); break release, (adjustment of purifiers and roll stands, sample analysis); finished product handling and storage (batch mixing versus continuous mixing systems, basics in flow quality, product safety and quality control); performance evaluation in a flour mill, factors that influence an investment decision and basics in aspiration.

Apply by April 21 here.