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FEATURE: ROLLING WITH THE CHANGES

Limited; Prairie West Terminal Ltd.;
Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd.; Great
Sandhills Terminal Marketing Centre
Ltd.; and North West Terminal Ltd.

An employee unloads a Truck-Freight International super-B grain trailer at a Paterson facility.

achieve worldwide arbitrage. We know
all of the customers and have known
them for many years. We centralize
most of what we do out of Canada.”
Included among these agents is Xcan
Australia Pty Ltd. that was purchased
by Paterson GlobalFoods, Canada, in
early 2002 and changed its name to
Global Grain Australia Pty Ltd., focusing primarily on exporting organic and
conventional Australian grains, oilseeds
and specialty crops worldwide.
Some of the products sold by the company include: wheat, durum, canola,
malting barley, feed barley, peas, chickpeas, beans, lupins, safﬂower (birdseed
& oil), and vetch.
ANIMAL FEED
Included in the Paterson group of
companies is an animal feed production
facility, FeedMax, located in Killarney,
Manitoba, that produces both conventional feed and organic feed.
Among its range of products for feeding hogs, cattle and poultry, geese, ducks
and bison, the mill offers FlaxPure, a
product that provides a high concentration of Omega-3 fatty acids.
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When included in the feed ration nutritionally, rich ﬂaxseed increases the
Omega-3 levels in eggs and pork and
provides animals, such as horses, with
a shiny coat and improved health. The
higher level of Omega-3 is also a marketable added beneﬁt for health-conscious consumers.
VANCOUVER TERMINAL
In 2007, Paterson Grain led a consortium of two independent grain companies and four producer-owned grain
terminals in the acquisition of what
is now known as the Alliance Grain
Terminal on the south shore of Port
Metro Vancouver. The 102,000-tonnecapacity export terminal was formerly known as AUV and was owned
by Agricore United (a farmer coop that resulted from the merger of
United Grain Growers and Agricore
Cooperative) and was the result of
a divestiture ordered by Canada’s
competition bureau following the acquisition of Agricore Cooperative by
United Grain Growers.
The terminal is owned by Paterson
GlobalFoods Inc.; Parrish & Heimbecker,

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT
Now a Paterson GlobalFoods’ subsidiary, PGF Biofuels was one of a
small group of Western Canadian companies given the right to distribute a
new Ethiopian mustard variety developed by Agrisoma Biosciences named
Resonance, a carinata crop targeted at the
biofuels industry and, particularly, the
aviation sector.
At the time of the announcement early last year, Steven Fabijanski, CEO of
Agrisoma, said: “The commercial introduction of Resonance to the marketplace is the ﬁnal link in the biojet fuel
value chain that connects Canadian
growers to airline passengers, with
many others performing critical roles
in between.”
The company also said Resonance
represents “an excellent new crop opportunity for growers by giving them a
viable alternative for their rotation and
enhancing their incomes, but also allows growers to participate in the ﬂourishing bio-energy sector.”
Paterson described the fuel manufactured from the new variety as having an expanded carbon chain suitable for producing a biojet fuel that,
unlike other biofuels, remains ﬂuid at
the cold temperatures experienced at
high altitudes.
He said the potential for the fuel encouraged the company to “expand its
footprint” into the biofuels market.
“But it’s all a function of price,” he
said. “(At present) it’s not competitive
with conventional fuels so that hurdle
will have to be overcome.”
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
Leo Quigley writes for a variety of national
and international publications specializing
in agriculture and transportation. He can be
reached at Quigley@dccnet.com.
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