Two area groups join efforts to attract soy processing facility

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Published on Friday, August 18, 2017

photo by John Dietz
This spring, Orville Berg planted soybeans on his land on the east side of Highway 5, between Erickson and Onanole. Berg is one of a growing number of farmers seeding soybeans. Statistics Canada reported that  Manitoba farmers continued their trend of planting more soybean acres, seeding 2.3 million acres in 2017, up 40.1 per cent compared with 2016. Westman Leadership Opportunities Group is hoping to make the industry even more beneficial to Manitoba farmers by attracting a world-class soy processing facility to the province.

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner

The race to attract a world-class soybean facility to Manitoba gained some momentum last month. NADCO, along with two other municipalities, have stepped forward to help attract a soybean facility to Manitoba. NADCO (Neepawa Area Development Corporation), which is made up of representatives from the Town of Neepawa and municipalities of North Cypress-Langford, Rosedale and Glenella-Lansdowne, formally joined the Westman Opportunities Leadership Group (WOLG) last month. 

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