I'm not familiar with this black box, but the important thing with the black box is that you have to start measuring the quality components, the things the customer actually wants, not the things that are completely unrelated. If you start measuring the quality as it comes in, then the effect of environment is eliminated. If you get a year in which you have sprouting and you're measuring falling number, that will tell you right away whether you have a grain that has high alpha amylase content and is going to give you problems in the bakery. It doesn't matter what shape the kernel is.
Concerning protein concentration, we went through that in western Canada; it was a battle for years and years before protein concentration was brought in as a measurement of quality. The same thing is going on with KVD. The resistance from the people who are in the position of authority right now is exactly the same. They won't even talk about it.