Cargill opens new canola research centre

Cargill is expanding its capabilities in canola with the opening of a new specialty canola research and production centre in Aberdeen.

The research and production centre opened in late 2008 and will allow Cargill to centralise its hybrid breeding programme in the heart of the commercial production region, while giving growers and customers a state of the art facility for furthering knowledge in canola production.

The Cargill Specialty Canola Oils Research and Production Centre will be part of Cargill's research farm, located about 50 kilometers from Cargill's canola crush facility in Clavet, Saskatchewan. The research farm supports Cargill's specialised hybrid breeding and production trials located across Western Canada, with a focus on developing high-yielding agronomic traits and the next generation of output traits.

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.