April 19, 2010
Canadian grain company plans major feedmill
MacEwen Grain, an eastern Ontario grain handling and agricultural supply firm has plans to spend CAD10 million (US$9.98 million) building the region's biggest feedmill operation.
MacEwen Grain said it will build its new mill next to its grain elevator and rail siding at Maxville, about 70 km east of Ottawa.
The all-new plant will reduce costs, improve quality, and capture significant synergies by integrating it with the company's existing grain elevator complex.
Furthermore, in order to meet, and exceed, today's increasingly stringent food safety and environmental regulations, the mill will be among the most modern and technologically advanced in Canada. The state-of-the-art, HACCP-certified facility will rely on computerised precision handling of ingredients throughout the entire process.
Not only will this result in even greater food safety, it will provide livestock producers of the region with feed rations that match their farms’ needs more precisely than was ever possible before.
MacEwen Grain and its sister company MacEwen Agricentre form one of the largest and most dynamic farm supply operations in Eastern Ontario and West Québec. Together, they operate out of three locations, which include a feedmill in St. Isidore, customised fertiliser blending facilities in both Maxville and Vars, and a high-capacity grain elevator in Maxville.