New Canola Plant to Be Built in Oklahoma Traditionally, canola is not a crop that has been grown in Oklahoma. However, producers have been experimenting with growing winter canola in recent years and have had some success. The greatest limiting factor has been the lack of a local market for its production. That will now change in 2015 as a result of a decision by Northstar Agri Industries, a subsidiary of PICO Holdings, Inc., to build a canola processing plant in Enid, Oklahoma. The plant will have a daily capacity of 2,200 MT per day (about 690,000 MT per year) and plans call for it to be opened by June 2015. A refinery capable of producing 580 million pounds (263,086 MT) of food-grade refined canola also will be built adjacent to the p...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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