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Events & Visitors: 2004
 Bionanotechnology
Hands-on Workshop |
| December 12,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organizations |
National Soybean
Research Laboratory and Center for Nanoscale Science
and Technology |
| Participants |
College of ACES and College
of Engineering researchers |
| Purpose |
To promote active learning,
to facilitate ideas and collaborations, and to pave
the way for biotechnology scientists to respond to future
bionanotech research funding opportunities. |
Second Annual Soy Tasting |
| December 8, 2004 |
| Sponsoring Organization |
Illinois Center for Soy Foods |
| Participants |
Over 50 University of Illinois, soy growers, and soy foods industry members. |
| Purpose |
To showcase and sample the wide variety of commercially available soy based foods available for purchase or home preparation. |
Japanese
and Vietnamese Feed Industry Visitors
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| October 27,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
American Soybean
Association |
| Participants |
Terry English, Illinois
Department of Agriculture
Hiroyuki Tanake, Grain & Feedstuff Dept., Sumitomo
Corp., Japan
Vo Viet Dung, Director Dia Cau Feed Mill, Vietnam
Shohei Harada, Sojitz Corp., Japan
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| Purpose |
To gather information about
NSRL, global soybean market trends, WISHH, and feed
utilization programs. |
| Product
Development of Soy Foods in 2004 |
| October 20-28,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
INTSOY |
| Participants |
This short course brought
together individuals who were small business entrepreneurs
from various countries interested in marketing soy and
soy processing, nutrition, and utilization. |
| Purpose |
To teach participants how to incorporate soy products
into different food products. Participants included
soybean processing, soy food product development,
composition of soy foods, nutrition, and food safety.
Participants worked with soy flour, textured soy protein,
soymilk, soy concentrate and soy isolate. in a hands-on
setting, along with lectures.
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| ASA
Taiwan Preferred Customer Team Visit |
| October 14,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
American Soybean
Association |
| Participants |
Anthony Thang, ASA Taiwan
and Alan Poock, ASA Asian Marketing Manager with seven
Taiwanese feed and food industry representatives |
| Purpose |
To present information about
NSRL programs in production, feed utilization, and WISHH. |
| Brazil
Soybean Group Research Seminar |
| September 3,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
Agri-Tours Canada
Inc. |
| Participants |
Over 40 soybean producers
from Brazil |
| Purpose |
To hear presentations
on Strategic thinking and tomorrow's global agriculture
(Dr. Steve Sonka), Plant respnses to both rising atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentration and tropospheric ozone,
soyFACE (Dr. Stephen Long), and Current USDA research
on sybean rust (Dr. Monte Miles) |
| ASA
International Staff |
| July 30, 2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
American Soybean
Association |
| Participants |
Ignace Debruyne, ASA
5 ASA representatives from Japan and Taiwan |
| Purpose |
Learn about NSRL and UIUC
activities in international outreach, agro-ecology and
sustainable agriculture, and soybean varieties (VIPS)
and germplasm, and biotechnology research |
| Taiwanese
and Milliken University Visitors |
| July 23, 2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
Milliken University
and the National Soybean Research Laboratory |
| Participants |
Dr. Larry Stapleton, Assistant
Professor, Milliken University
13 Milliken College Students
2 Taiwanese professors |
| Purpose |
To present information about
the soybean marketing channel including soybean production,
utilization and nutrition. |
| Vietnamese
Visitors |
| July 15, 2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
Advance Genetic
Exports, Inc. and the National Soybean Research Laboratory |
| Participants |
Stan Heitz, Advance Genetic
Exports, Inc.
4 Executives and managers of agriculture processing
and trading companies in Vietnam |
| Purpose |
To present information about
NSRL, WISHH, and ICSF |
| Illinois
Soybean Checkoff Board Summer Tour for 2004 |
| July 7, 2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
Illinois Soybean
Checkoff Board and the National Soybean Research Laboratory |
| Participants |
Illinois soybean producers,
USB and ISCB associates, faculty and staff of major
Illinois universities, soybean industry representatives. |
| Purpose |
This meeting served as a
platform to share the latest ISCB-funded soybean research
conducted at University of Illinois research farms with
many soybean industry folks. |
| Soy/Swine
Nutrition Reseach Meeting |
| June 24, 2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
National Soybean
Research Laboratory |
| Participants |
Team leaders and producer
representatives for the Soy/Swine project |
| Purpose |
To review soy in swine nutrition
research done within the Soy/Swine program and solicit
input on future research directions in the soy in feed
utilization area. |
| VII
World Soybean Research Conference |
| March 1-6,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
Embrapa of Brazil. |
| Participants |
People from around the world
that are interested or involved in the soybean industry. |
| Purpose |
To share the most recent
developments and technologies related to soybean research
including production, processing, utilization, and marketing.
The World Soybean Research Conference and the International
Soybean Processing and Utilization Conference meet every
5 years and will now meet again in 2009. |
| Exploring
Market Structure Alternatives Conference |
| February 12,
2004 |
| Sponsoring
Organization |
The College
of ACES. |
| Participants |
University of Illinois faculty,
Illinois commodity association representatives, government
representatives and industry. |
| Purpose |
To provide a framework which
participants can use to better understand the dynamics
of alternative producer roles within the evolving food
system. In addition to identifying the set of roles
that bracket the range of alternatives, the framework
identified the key skills and intangible assets needed
for producers to be effective in those roles. Finally
the workshop described action steps needed to explore
alternative market channel roles at the producer level. |
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