Archive for July 24th, 2015

Cargill opens canola refinery in Canada

WINNIPEG, CANADA — Cargill Limited announced on July 23 that the company’s footprint in Canada’s canola industry now spans the entire food value chain – from the creation of specialty seed breeding to seed crushing to oil refining with the opening of a new canola refinery located in Clavet, Saskatchewan, Canada.

“This is a very exciting time for Cargill,” said Scott Portnoy, corporate vice-president and platform leader for Cargill Food Ingredients & Systems. “This new refinery means everything from the canola ...

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CWB lifts crop hopes after tour

MANITOBA, CANADA — Drought has badly damaged canola and wheat crops on Canada’s prairies, but not as negatively as expected, despite its crop tour foreseeing the lowest wheat yields in eight years, said Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) on July 23.

CWB pegged the wheat harvest in Canada’s prairies at 23.1million tonnes, well below the production of 27.2 million tonnes the region achieved last year according to official data.

For canola the group, the former grain export monopoly for Western Canada, estimated output ...

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