1. Introducing LAC ”Your supplier of choice for food grade soybeans”

2. Similar Growing Conditions

6. Plant Breeding

7. Syngenta Research Farm

8. LAC President and soybean breeder

9. Contract Growers of IP soybeans

10. Agris Coops Research Plots

14. Growers’ Information Meetings

18. Why is Quality Important?

19. Briefing by our tour guide

20. Lint and hair check before entry

22. Decontamination chamber

23. Soaking tank

24. Close up

25. Tofu production line

26. Tofu packing machine

27. Crates of tofu ready for delivery

28. Aburaage (fried tofu) line

29. Aburaage packing line

30. Testing of new varieties

31. New Varieties are tested on product quality of soymilk and tofu

32. Product quality in terms of yield, protein solids, color, hardness & firmness of tofu using two different coagulants

33. Soymilk is separated from the slurry in a centrifugal extractor and tested for viscosity, sugars, and mouthfeel

34. Soymilk is heated, coagulant added and tofu is cooled in a waterbath

35. Testing of quality traits for color of soymilk and tofu

36. Tofu texture measurement

37. Instron texture system tests for firmness and hardness that relates to bite and mouthfeel

38. Maximum value reached before the tofu gel breaks measures the hardness of the tofu

39. Screening for protein Subunits and 11s/7s ratio

40. Selections from LAC

44. Cleaning Plant with Japanese Equipment

46. Farm deliveries to our facilities

47. QA staff taking samples

48. Protein, oil, moisture and GMO tests

49. Check protein and oil

51. Silo locations of IP soybeans

52. Silos for IP soybeans

53. Segregated dumping pits

56. “ Oliver” de-stoner

57. Japanese equipment

58. Japanese-made “Harada” roller belt

62. Japanese-made “Satake” color sorter

63. “ Satake” electric-eye sorter

64. “ PacePacker” automatic bagger

68. Loading bulk containers

69. Close-up of bulk loading

70. Bulk containers enroute to Japan

71. Container QA Sample

72. Containers enroute to customers

73. Trucks are probed And soybeans are tested Trucks QA Sample Self cleaning Receiving Conveyor Designated Variety Silo Self Cleaning Conveyor Leg Cleaner Surge Bin Cleaner QA Sample Gravity QA Sample Destoner Surge Bin Destoner QA Sample Plate Magnet Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Satake Colour Sorter QA Sample Satake Colour Sorter Surge Bin Harada Belts QA Sample Harada Surge Bin Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Automatic QA Sampler Self Cleaning Processing Belt Grate Magnet Rare Earth Processing Bin Pace Packer Bagger And Gate Magnet Tote Bag Loading Bulk Load Out QA Sample LAC Thamesville Quality Control Flow Chart Container QA Sample