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The Big Three. Corn Feed Grain Export Processing Wet Milling Dry Milling Wheat Export Flour Soybeans Export Processing. Corn Wet Milling. Clean and Inspected Corn. 100 %. Steep Tanks. Steepwater. Steepwater Evaporation. Condensed Fermented Extractives. 3 %. Germ.
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The Big Three • Corn • Feed Grain • Export • Processing • Wet Milling • Dry Milling • Wheat • Export • Flour • Soybeans • Export • Processing
Corn Wet Milling Clean and Inspected Corn 100 % Steep Tanks Steepwater Steepwater Evaporation Condensed Fermented Extractives 3 % Germ Germ Separation Germ Germ Extraction Crude Corn Oil Corn Germ Meal Grinding Mills 26 % Corn Gluten Feed Washing Screens 5% Centrifugal Separators Corn Gluten Meal Starch washing and Hydro clones Starch and Sweeteners 2% Refining Loss 64%
Corn Wet Milling Raw Material Inputs Production Outputs #2 Yellow Corn Corn Starch Corn Syrup HFCS Corn Sweetener Crude Corn Oil Dextrose Corn Gluten Meal Corn Gluten Feed
Wet and Dry Cleaning Corn Corn Dry Milling 100 % 3% Germ Degerming Corn Oil Extraction Crude Corn Oil Reducing Rolls Reduce particle size Flaking Grits Throughstock Drying and Cooling 66% Sifter Brewers Grits Aspirator Air currents and sieves classify particles Grinding Sifter Corn Meal Corn Flour 29% Hominy Feed 2% Refining Loss
Corn Dry Milling Raw Material Inputs Production Outputs #2 Corn Masa Flour Hominy Feed Corn Meal Crude Corn Oil Corn Grits
Clean and Inspected Wheat 100 % Wheat Milling Separator Sticks & stones removed Bulk Magnet and Air Currents Iron, steel & Impurities removed Sifter Flour Bagged Tempering Water added to aid milling process 83% Purifier Air currents and sieves classify particles Entoleter Removes unsound wheat Middlings Reducing Rolls Reduce particle size further Grinding 15% First Break Passes corrugated rollers 2% Refining Loss
Wheat Milling Raw Material Inputs Production Outputs Wheat Flour Wheat Millfeed (Middlings) Bags (historically)
Soy Millfeed Soybean Oil Clean and Inspected Soybeans Soybean Processing 100 % 7%or 0% Drying Hulls ground into Millfeed Dehull Solvent Hexane Dehulled Soybeans Extraction 18% Cracking Flaking Solvent/Oil/Wet Soybean Meal Mixture Distillation Bulk Desolventizing/ Toasting/ Drying/ Cooling Soybean Meal Bagged 73% or 80% 2% Refining Loss
Soybean Processing Raw Material Inputs Production Outputs Soybean Meal #2 Soybeans Soybean Millfeed Hexane Crude Soybean Oil Kaolin