Hodges: “A commitment to canola as a future business.”

Bayer CropScience has recently opened a new canola seed processing facility in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. This C$8 million project is on budget and on schedule for completion. During the ceremony Garth Hodges, Canola General Manager of Bayer CropScience, underlined the importance of this investment: “This facility is further and substantial evidence of our commitment to canola as a business for our future.”

The new operation is a seed cleaning facility. Over 150 tons seed can be cleaned in this facility each day. In addition, it allows the company to treat every seed with the new generation Prosper® seed treatment.

“Our new seed treatment plant represents the progressiveness of our company and our future successes in agriculture in Canada, and in particular Canola,” says Hartmut van Lengerich, President and CEO of Bayer CropScience Canada. “The new plant is designed to ensure optimum quality and identity preservation of each seed lot that will pass through its doors.”

Bayer CropScience believes the canola market will continue to evolve, will include new specific end use products, and can play a role in the new biodiesel and biolubricant markets.