Cargill Unveils Plans for New Canola Processing Facility in Regina

[Sheepwheat]

i thought everyone said it was viterra ?
is there two?

I believe so. Vitera biodiesel, cargill food oil. That’s my understanding at this point.

[macdon02]

This is for fuel, not food. Not biodiesel either. It has to be located beside a conventional refinery because it needs hydrogen for the cracking of veg oil into molecularly identical diesel fuel as what comes from crude. See last federal budget for the tax credits coming. Nobody wants to let the cat out of the bag, especially the crushers.

[Sodbuster]

More canola being processed on the prairies is a great thing, I welcome the extra crushing that will come on line in the next couple of years. Regina, Clavet and Yorkton are adding production, how many other crushers are expanding or coming on line? Importers will have to bid more aggressively for canola in the future.

[SASKFARMER]

I think it's a great project and will help as we are 88 km away. Easy haul and we deal with Cargill and Richardson in Yorkton who are also expanding.

[jazz]

This is for fuel, not food. Not biodiesel either. It has to be located beside a conventional refinery because it needs hydrogen for the cracking of veg oil into molecularly identical diesel fuel as what comes from crude. See last federal budget for the tax credits coming. Nobody wants to let the cat out of the bag, especially the crushers.

Remember the food vs fuel climate fools a few yrs ago when ethanol was growing? So much for that argument. A facility like this could have been running a decade ago. Climate change (and federal cash) trump everything.

I guess this will blended with existing diesel? or its own product?

But now we have to find a way to supply this market with 30% less N according to fnuts.

Canola seeds should not be exported. It should only leave ever this province as food, fuel or meal. Maybe pulses will be exported as protein powder and durum as pasta in the future.

There is a small processer south of Regina that is getting big time into oat milk.

[agstar77]

Does this portend a coming battle for food?

[farming101]

It certainly should portend more elevator space for 100 miles around Regina

[sumdumguy]

We always wondered why we shipped everything out to be processed elsewhere, making the railways rich but what are railways gonna carry, no Canola, no oil, no potash, no urea? It’s all bad for “earth”. Foodstuffs may become precious, sooner than we think.

[SASKFARMER]

The oil might be refined in Regina but also some will be shipped south.

[jazz]

The oil might be refined in Regina but also some will be shipped south.

I would much rather have most of our canola going as hydro cracked oil to the US than canola seeds to china.

[TOM4CWB]

It certainly should portend more elevator space for 100 miles around Regina

China 'shot themselves in the foot' when they blocked imports of perfectly good Canola from Canada to extract $Billions out of Canadian Farmers... Lowered Soybeans and Pulses too...

Result... extra profits from domestic processing of raw grain drives new domestic value added processors!

What a tangled web we weave... when we practice to deceive[China]!!! The Pandemic will eventually bite them back as well..

Cheers

[walterm]

The oil might be refined in Regina but also some will be shipped south.

Would Keystone go ahead if it was filled with canola oil? Maybe Kenney's up to 7.5 billion investment won't be lost yet!

[jazz]

Would Keystone go ahead if it was filled with canola oil? Maybe Kenney's up to 7.5 billion investment won't be lost yet!

If its converted to diesel through whatever means, it can be batched in our pipelines with regular crudes. This has been possible for a long time, but blocked by big oil. They will need to blend up regular diesel to canola based diesel as well to get out from Trudeaus carbon tax. Now they need us.

Biodiesel can only be blended to 10% because of gelling concerns, but this cracked variety, I assume that problem is no longer a concern.

Still shocked this was proposed for Sask instead of Quebec.

[SASKFARMER]

It's exciting we might get to Canola snow canola snow canola. No, but it could be 1/3 peas, and 1/3 Canola, and 1/3 wheat. That way we drop fertilizer use. Or just 1/3 wheat and 2/3 Canola Were thinking outside of the box.

[tweety]

Because they are too busy running their own farm business and possibly additional off farm jobs.

That’s as dumb as asking why farmers don’t own and run railways and international cargo ships and mine fertilizer and own tractor manufacturers.

Do you commies even think, why aren’t you running a crush plant, it is so easy right.

Buy the stock if you want a piece of it (Cargill, tractor manufacturers, fertilizer companies, railways, etc).

Does every investor run what they invest in?

You think like a farmer - "I gotta do everything because no one else is as good and smart as me".

You complain Cargill is making all the money, but all you want to do about it is complain. So maybe don't be a whiney little beotch if you're not going to do anything about it.

So what you going to do about them "taking all your profits" ? Besides being a whiner that is.