REGINA — Canola growers finally have some good news to celebrate.
Cargill’s brand-new Regina crush facility is coming online just as farmers are reeling from the loss of their top export market.
The company will start commissioning the plant in the next couple of months, so it will be up and running before the end of the calendar year.
Once fully operational, it will purchase and process one million tonnes of canola seed per year.
That is the same amount of canola that Japan bought in 2024, making it Canada’s second-largest export market that year behind China.
China announced on Aug. 12 that it is implementing a 75.8 per cent anti-dumping duty on Canadian canola imports.
That effectively shutters the Chinese market, which consumed 5.86 million tonnes of Canadian canola seed in 2024.
