Complimentary GEAPS Member Courses Announced

This course provides an accessible, interactive introduction to the grain industry, emphasizing its significance and the vital contributions of new employees. Seven lessons include videos, interactive activities, and expert insights to keep learners engaged. A short quiz at the end reinforces learning and highlights key takeaways.

COURSE GOALS

• Provide Foundational Knowledge: Equip participants with an understanding of grain handling and processing, including key concepts, terminology, and workflows.
• Highlight Industry Importance: Emphasize the significance of the grain industry in global food security, economic impact, and energy sustainability.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• New employees: Simplifies complex concepts and building confidence as they start their careers
• Hiring managers and supervisors: Offers resources to enhance onboarding and team development

This revamped, interactive course provides basic, yet comprehensive, information about operations and handling procedures at grain facilities. It focuses on how grain moves through a facility. It covers main elevator types; components and equipment; grain receiving procedures; sampling, testing, and grading; binning; housekeeping and maintenance; fumigation; outbound procedures; and other fundamental grain facility functions. The course also is intended to cover the most common hazards at grain facilities and to emphasize safety at all facility levels and operations.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is for new hires or recently employed operations staff, non-operations staff who need to learn more about storage and handling procedures, frontline supervisors with responsibilities for training, students, interns and other people considering jobs or careers in grain operations.

Using a realistic, task-based journey, learners in this course follow the experience of a new employee during a typical workday. Along the way, they encounter common situations such as cleaning pits, working around equipment, entering work areas, and responding to unexpected events. Each scenario introduces real hazards and reinforces the actions that prevent incidents and reduce risk. Three hours is the recommended time to complete this course. This does not replace site-specific training. Rather, it builds the awareness, judgment, and safety mindset that entry-level workers need before and during hands-on training at their facility.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is for new hires or recently employed operations staff, non-operations staffers who need to learn more about storage and handling procedures, frontline supervisors with responsibilities for training, students, interns and other people considering jobs or careers in grain operations. English and Spanish versions are available.

This course introduces the basics of grain inspection. Specially developed by the USDA's Federal Grain Inspection Service, it provides participants with a history of grain inspection and an overview of general inspection techniques. The lectures will cover grain marketing and production, the U.S. Grain Standards Act and other legislation, an outline of grain inspection including a video inspection lab tour, grain quality factors and sampling and a look at the official weighing program.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course was designed for merchandisers, facility managers, exporters and anyone who needs to learn more about the U.S. grain inspection and marketing system. It will be especially helpful to those just beginning their careers, but students of all experience levels will find this knowledge useful in almost any grain-industry endeavor.