Dairyworld Foods, the western dairy co-op, has joined forces with two small Quebec co-ops to sell fluid milk throughout Quebec.
The agreement brings together Nutrinor, a co-operative located in the Saguenay Lac-St. Jean region, and Agrodor, a co-operative from the Outaouais-Laurentides region, and Agrifoods International Co-operative Ltd., which operates under the name Dairyworld Foods.
The partnership will allow the dairy businesses of Nutrinor and Agrodor to operate more effectively in the competitive Quebec marketplace, which has become the domain of national and international dairy suppliers, said a Dairyworld news release.
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For Dairyworld Foods, the partnership provides a beachhead into the Quebec fluid milk market. Dairyworld already operates fluid businesses across Western Canada and Ontario and markets cheese products from coast to coast.
Terminal beginnings
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The sod turning and naming ceremony for the new Saskatchewan Wheat Pool terminal at Gull Lake, Sask., was scheduled June 20 at the building site three kilometres west of the town.
The facility will have a one-time capacity of 20,000 tonnes, plus 10,000 tonnes of condominium storage.
The pool held a name-the-terminal contest and a student from Tompkins School provided the winning entry. It will be called Pronghorn terminal.
UGG buys fertilizer firm
Saskatoon newsroom
United Grain Growers has purchased Flagstaff Fertilizers Ltd., the company confirmed on June 17.
UGG announced its intentions to buy the fertilizer company in April 1998.
Flagstaff Fertilizers is a dry and anhydrous ammonia fertilizer retailer with locations in the Alberta communities of Killam, Alliance, Forestburg and Strome. Flagstaff provides various crop protection chemicals and certified seed.
The purchase will extend UGG’s services into new geographic areas, said a company news release. The outlets will work with the recently announced Camrose terminal and with its upgraded Killam grain facility.
