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Viterra’s oilseed crush plant at Becancour, Que. (Viterra.com)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Bunge deal for Viterra to boost oilseed dominance, renewable diesel potential

Canada's Competition Bureau pledges to review deal

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Chicago | Reuters — Bunge’s planned acquisition of Viterra would make the world’s biggest oilseed crusher even more dominant and secure a larger role in the expanding renewable diesel industry, although it may face competition hurdles. Under the deal to create an agricultural giant worth about $34 billion including debt, Bunge’s crushing capacity will increase […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

U.K. to increase rapeseed, product output in 2023-24

Input costs seen down so far this year

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MarketsFarm — With the rapeseed crop in the United Kingdom estimated at 66 per cent good to excellent, the U.S. Department of Agriculture attaché in London, forecast production for 2023-24 to be 1.38 million tonnes. That would make for a 1.4 per cent increase over the 2022-23 crop. While the attaché pegged planted and harvest […] Read more
(Richardson International video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops, Markets

Canola crush of 2022 smallest in five years

Meanwhile, soybean crush rose on the year

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MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada (StatCan) reported that 2022 had the smallest domestic canola crush for a calendar year since 2017. As well, 2022 marked the smallest canola oil production in five years and the least amount of canola meal produced in four years. The sharp reduction of canola being crushed was due to the 2021 […] Read more
(Richardson International video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops

Richardson crush plant staff ward off strike vote

Unionized staff at Lethbridge vote to ratify new contract

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Unionized staff at Richardson International’s canola crush plant at Lethbridge have voted for six years’ labour peace rather than proceeding toward a strike vote. The 140-odd workers, represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401, voted Feb. 1-2 on a new proposal from the company after voting 79 per cent in December to […] Read more
(Richardson International video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops

Richardson crush plant workers to vote on new offer

UFCW team endorses latest offer

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Unionized workers at Richardson International’s oilseed crush plant at Lethbridge, Alta. will vote Tuesday and Wednesday on a new offer from the company after rejecting a previous proposal. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 announced Tuesday (Jan. 25) its negotiating committee “fully endorses” the new offer after the company’s Richardson Oilseed division “enhanced […] Read more
CGB’s soybean processing plant at Mt. Vernon, Ind. (CGB video screengrab)
Crops

CGB, soy grower co-op to build North Dakota crushing plant

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Reuters — U.S. grain handler CGB Enterprises and farmer co-operative Minnesota Soybean Processors are building a soy processing plant in North Dakota, the second new crushing facility announced in the state this year. The plant — which will be built near Casselton, about 25 km west of Fargo — is expected to crush 42.5 million […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Dreyfus, others shut soy crushers in China on power curbs

'Cash is on fire'

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Beijing | Reuters — Soymeal prices in China, the world’s top consumer of the animal feed ingredient, are rising after at least 20 soybean crushing plants shuttered to comply with curbs on industrial power consumption, industry participants said on Friday. Five crushing plants in the northern city of Tianjin closed this week, said Tianfeng Futures […] Read more
MGEX September 2021 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and green lines) and CBOT September 2021 wheat (black line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on stressful northern Plains weather

Chicago soybean futures sag

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose on Thursday, led by Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) spring wheat futures, which hit an 8-1/2-year high near US$9 a bushel as drought threatened crops in the northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Soybean futures fell on disappointing domestic soy crush data and corn eased after a three-session climb. […] Read more
Kyle Jeworski, Viterra’s CEO for North America, speaks in a December 2020 promotional video announcing the company’s worldwide rebranding. (Viterra video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops, Markets

Viterra plans major canola crusher for Regina

Expected capacity would make facility largest in world

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Grain handler and processor Viterra is taking its plans to build the world’s biggest canola crusher to its Prairie home town. The North American arm of Rotterdam-based Viterra said Monday it’s in the “feasibility” stage of designing and finalizing plans for what it bills as the “world’s largest integrated canola crush facility” in the northeast […] Read more

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