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Originally Posted by homealone
When you process maize into glucose syrup the maize kernels have to be soaked in water, first, so you can later remove the 'husk', separate the germ & then further separate the starch & protein in what is left.
That smell was the water the grain was soaked in, being evaporated & combined with the husk to make animal feed 
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aha - not sure I could have lived with a smell like that every day though...