Corn The Big Three Feed Grain Export Processing

• Corn The Big Three – Feed Grain – Export – Processing • Wet Milling • Dry Milling • Wheat – Export – Flour • Soybeans – Export – Processing

Clean and Inspected Corn Wet Milling 100 % Steepwater Evaporation Steep Tanks 3% Germ Separation 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% Condensed Fermented Extractives

Corn Wet Milling Raw Material Inputs #2 Yellow Corn Production Outputs Corn Starch Corn Syrup HFCS Corn Sweetener Crude Corn Oil Dextrose Corn Gluten Meal Corn Gluten Feed

Wet and Dry Cleaning Corn Dry Milling 100 % Degerming Germ 3% Corn Oil Extraction Crude Corn Oil Reducing Rolls Reduce particle size Flaking Grits Throughstock Drying and Cooling Sifter Aspirator Air currents and sieves classify particles Grinding 66% Brewers Grits Corn Meal Sifter Corn Flour 29% Hominy Feed 2% Refining Loss

Corn Dry Milling Raw Material Inputs #2 Corn Production Outputs Masa Flour Hominy Feed Corn Meal Crude Corn Oil Corn Grits

Clean and Inspected Wheat Milling 100 % Separator Sticks & stones removed Magnet and Air Currents Iron, steel & Impurities removed Tempering Water added to aid milling process Entoleter Removes unsound wheat Grinding First Break Passes corrugated rollers Bulk Sifter Flour Bagged Purifier Air currents and sieves classify particles Reducing Rolls Reduce particle size further 83% Middlings 15% 2% Refining Loss

Wheat Milling Raw Material Inputs Production Outputs Wheat Flour Bags (historically) Wheat Millfeed (Middlings)

Clean and Inspected Soybeans Soybean Processing 100 % 7%or 0% Drying Soy Millfeed Hulls ground into Millfeed Dehulled Soybeans Extraction Solvent Hexane 18% Soybean Oil Cracking Flaking Solvent/Oil/Wet Soybean Meal Mixture Desolventizing/ Toasting/ Drying/ Cooling Distillation Bulk Soybean Meal Bagged 2% Refining Loss 73% or 80%

Soybean Processing Raw Material Inputs #2 Soybeans Production Outputs Soybean Meal Hexane Soybean Millfeed Kaolin Crude Soybean Oil