$400 M pea plant in MB

[MBgrower]

[URL="https://www.realagriculture.com/2017/01/french-company-roquette-building-400-million-pea-processing-plant-in-manitoba/"]https://www.realagriculture.com/2017/01/french-company-roquette-building-400-million-pea-processing-plant-in-manitoba/[/URL]



Im surprised this isnt getting built in SK.

Things looking up in a now non-NDP provinvce.

[bucket]

A German firm was suppose to build one in moose jaw....must still be waiting for the incentives.

[SASKFARMER]

Why not in sask, oh us stupid farmers will pay to ship them to manitoba

[ajl]

Manitoba's "business incentives"-ahem subsidies were higher than Sask. Will see if anything other than photo ops are produced. Nothing happens in Canuckistan without the participation of government. Why else would the announcement be at the leg? Really makes no sense in MB as all pulse land in MB will be producing soy in 17.

[mbdog]

Great news for Portage...good news for Western Canada!

[sumdumguy]

Manitoba's "business incentives"-ahem subsidies were higher than Sask. Will see if anything other than photo ops are produced. Nothing happens in Canuckistan without the participation of government. Why else would the announcement be at the leg? Really makes no sense in MB as all pulse land in MB will be producing soy in 17.

Not enough peas in Manitoba, but maybe that will change.

[farmaholic]

Weber's chart in a previous thread only has Manitoba averaging 81500 acres of dry peas in the last ten years. Maybe that's enough for what this plant will need. But why wouldn't they come to were the bulk of the peas are grown?

I thought I saw somewhere there was 1.4 million acres of dry peas grown in Western Canada, you would hardly think Manitoba would be the place to build a pea plant with about 6% of the dry pea acres.
Larry can you verify?

[farmaholic]

....at 100,000 tonnes of feed stock required, that will require well over half of the average acreage production.

Go West Roquette!!!!

[sumdumguy]

Feasibility study likely done by some "scholar" for several hundred thousand is probably worth more than a hill of beans, if you know what I mean.

[farming101]