processing

 The Saskatchewan Stock Growers is assembling a directory of members offering direct sales of beef to consumers. General manager Chad MacPherson says COVID-19 is disrupting beef processing in Canada and the U.S. He says consumers are increasingly turning to local producers for meat supplies. He says the directory is to link producers with consumers looking for beef. […]

Yellow pea farmers in eastern Saskatchewan are well positioned to sell into a soon-to-open Manitoba processing plant owned by French company Roquette. Roquette agronomist Bruce Brolley says the Portage processing facility will turn peas into products for cosmetics, human nutrition and pet food. He says the company specifications has no tolerance for soybean residue, which […]