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The project will help farmers become more efficient and achieve higher returns while improving traceability along the value chain

Ottawa has provided $30 million to date for five superclusters in the $950-million flagship innovation program with an ambitious goal of adding tens of thousands of new jobs and growing the economy by tens of billions of dollars by 2028.

Protein Industries Canada is called the federal government’s first step in expanding the industry in Western Canada

Pitura Seeds of Domain will soon begin supplying western Canadian growers with peas and canola seed to grow crops that could eventually end up in meat and dairy alternative products made by Nestlé, the world’s largest food manufacturer.

To the average person it was not clear just what to make of the announcement a couple of years ago that a French company called Roquette would spend $400 million building a pea protein plant in Portage la Prairie.

Nestlé today announced a collaboration with Burcon and Merit, two key players in the development and production of high-quality plant proteins.

A Merit Functional Foods canola and pea protein-processing facility near Winnipeg is slated to be up and running by the end of the year with the help of financial investment from Protein Industries Canada, the company announced at a news conference January 10.

The federally-backed research and development “supercluster” set up to boost Canada’s protein industries is funding work to wring more and better proteins out of canola seed.

Protein Industries Canada, Corteva Agriscience Canada and their industry partners making a key announcement for the Canola sector.

On Wednesday, Protein Industries Canada, along with industry partners, announced an investment of more than $27 million into a canola breeding project focused on making canola hybrids that produce high protein meal for downstream use.