MANHATTAN, Kan. — With the goal of educating mill industry executives, Kansas State University’s IGP Institute will be hosting the Buhler-KSU Executive milling training course in Spanish, August 26-30, 2019. Course participants can expect to engage in topics such as raw materials, cleaning systems, milling systems, product handling and storage.
Along with classroom discussions and instruction, participants will tour the Hal Ross Flour Mill and will be able to gain a hands-on experience working with mill machinery, as well as processing and material handling systems.
“The training is designed to benefit current mill owners, directors and managers in the milling industry,” says Jason Watt, Kansas State University Buhler Instructor of Milling.
Watt also shares that there have been past participants from several different backgrounds such as human resource, wheat buyers and financial officers.
Previous course participant, Betsy Horton, chief financial officer of Miller Milling Company found the course to be very beneficial to her, even though she doesn’t actively run the mill.
“I understand more about what our milling teams are talking about, and everything will seem more relevant to me from a financial standpoint,” says Betsy Horton, chief financial officer of Miller Milling Company. “There’s a few things I plan to take back to our company about how we can make more money off the mills we already have.”
For more details, please visit https://www.grains.k-state.edu/igp/on-site-training/flour-milling/executive-milling/.
This is one example of a course offering in the flour milling and grain processing curriculum, the IGP Institute also leads trainings in the areas of feed manufacturing and grain quality management, and grain marketing and risk management. To learn more, please visit the IGP website at www.grains.ksu.edu/igp.
— Katlin Allton, communications intern, IGP Institute, Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University
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