By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Thursday April 1, 2021

Apr 1, 2021 | 10:00 AM

MELFORT, Sask. — Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) has rebranded its ethanol-production facility in Belle Plaine, Sask.

The Co-op Ethanol Complex (CEC), formerly known as Terra Grain Fuels, will continue to source feedstock from western Canadian farmers and manufacture ethanol.

The ethanol is added as renewable content to gasoline produced at CEC for distribution across the Co-op’s retail system.

The CEC facility produces up to 150 million litres of ethanol every year from 350,000 tonnes of wheat, corn, rye and triticale sourced from roughly 400 farmers.

In addition to ethanol, CEC also produces about 130,000 tonnes of dried distillers’ grain every year, which can be incorporated as a high protein additive into livestock feed rations.

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FCL acquired the 185,000-square-foot plant in June 2019.

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Fertilizer Canada’s board of directors have selected the next president and chief executive officer.

Karen Proud has extensive senior-level management and leadership experience in the development, implementation and enforcement of regulatory and legislative policy.

Prior to joining Fertilizer Canada, Proud was the Chief Operating Officer of Food Health and Consumer Products of Canada.

Proud assumes leadership from Garth Whyte, who has served as president since 2015. Whyte announced his retirement last summer.

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The shipping season has begun at the Port of Thunder Bay.

Two bulk vessels that arrived last weekend were to be loaded with grain.

Grain loading operations at the port were expected to increase quickly.

Two wintering vessels departed Thunder Bay earlier this week.

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alice.mcfarlane@jpbg.ca

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