By Commodity News Service Canada
WINNIPEG, Sept. 20 (CNS Canada) – Pipeline Foods, a Minneapolis-based food and feed company that deals exclusively in non-genetically modified and organic crops, has bought two Saskatchewan grain elevators.
The facilities at Wapella with a capacity of 3,500 tonnes and at Gull Lake (4,000 tonnes) are expected to serve as collection points from which Pipeline will source organic grain in southwest and southeast Saskatchewan.
Pipeline plans to handle organic barley, corn, rye, flax, lentils, oats, peas, soybeans and wheat at the two elevators. Both facilities are certified through Pro-Cert, a firm that offers organic certification programs in Canada and the U.S. Pipeline expects to move 25,000 tonnes of material after expansions are made this year.
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