Yorkton's Canola Future

Cavin Daniels
December 2, 2024

Key points from this story:

• Richardson builds world's largest canola crusher
• Louis Dreyfus doubles processing capacity
• Yorkton replaces declining implement manufacturing
• Highways, rail, water support agricultural growth
• Two major canola plants announced simultaneously
• Pea processing facility also under development

There is no doubt the future of farming in Saskatchewan will be closely tied to the future of canola - now clearly the province's number one crop in many ways. And that Yorkton will play a very important role in that future. As a long-time journalist in the city - some 35 years on the beat as they say - I would suggest outside the two flood disasters which impacted so many here so directly, the day the announcement of two canola crushing facilities coming to the city was the biggest local news story of all those years.