David McKee

Photos from my trip to China.

China produces over 190 million tonnes of paddy rice per year, most of which is traditionally processed at the township level by up to 100,000 mills. It is the largest staple food crop grown and consumed in any country. Now urbanization, rising incomes, rural policy changes and unrelenting modernization and corporatization of grain milling are [...]

This year’s IAOM Eurasia District Conference was held in October at the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania. More  than 300 people  from 27 countries attended  the third  annual  International Association  of Operative Millers  (IAOM)  Eurasia  District  Conference,  Oct. 9-21,  in Bucharest, Romania. The  IAOM  event  included  a trade  show and  technical conference and was  [...]

IAOM Mideast & Africa Conference The  19th Annual  International Association  of Operative Millers (IAOM) Mideast and Africa District Conference and Expo, held for the first time in a sub-Saharan country, drew nearly 500 participants and 60 exhibitors to the city of Arusha in northern Tanzania Nov. 14-17. With Mount Kilimanjaro looming just to the east [...]

Compound feed production, on a per capita basis, ranks among the highest in the world. Two things distinguish the Netherlands demographically. It is the most densely populated country in Europe (among those with over 500,000 inhabitants), and somewhat counter-intuitively for such a crowded land, its people are the tallest in the world. From these facts [...]