Facilities
The Department of Grain and Food Science utilizes multiple state-of-the-art facilities to ensure our students have access to industry-standard equipment.
Western Star Global Grain and Food Center
The facility houses the world’s only collegiate Department of Grain and Food Science, preparing highly trained students to drive innovation across the milling, baking, food, feed and pet food industries.
Carbohydrate Polymers – Technology and Product Innovation
Wheat Quality Lab
The Wheat Quality lab functions as a service lab, providing an unbiased assessment of hard winter wheat and flour quality and end-use value to all sectors of the wheat industry through wheat and flour testing services.
BIVAP
The BIVAP Innovation Center is a state-of-the-art research facility that houses the Bio-Materials and Technology Laboratory, the Extrusion Pilot Facility and Laboratory, and the Bioprocessing and Renewable Energy Laboratory within the Department of Grain and Food Science.
Hal Ross Flour Mill
The Hal Ross Flour Mill is a state-of-the-art pilot scale flour mill is used for teaching, research, and industry training and contains the same full-scale equipment and control systems found in the commercial flour milling industry today.
O.H. Kruse Feed Mill
The $13 million world-class facility is used for teaching the sciences of feed processing, pet food development, and grain handling to serve the needs of our students. The principle goal of the facility is to address the urgent needs of the livestock feed industry (particularly related to feed safety and profitability) while providing the vision, flexibility, and capacity in looking to the future to realize the next generation of opportunities.
IGP Institute
The IGP Institute provides innovative and relevant education and technical programs to enhance the market preference, consumption, and utilization of U.S. cereal grains, oilseeds, and their value-added products for the global grain industry.