Alliance Grain Traders’ new $22 million fractionation plant in Minot, North Dakota, should be converting pulses into proteins, fibres, starches and flours early next year.
A big market for those products will be the pet food industry. AGT president Murad Al-Katib said American dogs eat five million tonnes of meat a year. Half of Canada’s pea crop would be needed to capture 10 percent of that protein market.
