Seedtec

The necessity of finding a handling system to move the production of the new feed pea crops in the early eighties resulted in the step by step development of the Seedtec elevator and marketing system.

Seedtec's focus is on providing cost efficient local service through a low cost, high throughput elevator system.

Seedtec is a licensed grain dealer through the Canadian Grain Commission and maintains a newly constructed elevator on the CPR railway mainline at Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. The Qu'Appelle facility is a licensed elevator handling Wheat Board grains and specialty crops. The facility has a 100,000 bushel storage capacity and is configured to handle 20 to 30 cars on two tracks.

Seedtec has an extensive background in organizing producer car loading and moving shipload lots to market.

Terramax

The introduction of new varieties and new crop kinds to enhance the economic and sustainability of agriculture is the primary focus of the Terramax Research & Development Program.

Commodity Marketing, a major element for Terramax, evolved out of the necessity to gather production into marketable quantities, to provide specialized processing, to identify buyers, and to sustain their awareness of our new products and their excellent quality. The primary goal of the Terramax marketing program is to maximize economic returns to the producers participating in specialty crop farming.

Private and Public Plant Breeding organizations from many countries participate in the Terramax program. Terramax conducts a broad spectrum trial and evaluation of new varieties and crops at several locations throughout the prairie region of Canada. Successful candidates are put forward for licensing, seed increase, and introduced for commercial on-farm production.

Distribution and Seed Maintenance is achieved through a network of professional pedigreed seed growers. The required seed conditioning, cleaning, and scaling equipment assures quality seed production and good service to local communities.

Terramax' Ongoing Programs have achieved the licensing of several varieties and the introduction of new crops. In the mid-eighties, the Sirius pea was licensed and introduced to the southern prairies of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. This was a time when the characteristics of early maturity, drought tolerance, and adaptability to regions other than the northern growing regions of Saskatchewan were considered improbable. The transition period to 3 million acres of peas in the 1998 crop year carries a strong positive message.

Olivin green pea - licensed in 1996 - successfully closed the 10 - 15 bushel yield gap between yellow and green peas by yielding with the very best peas in the drought struck fields of the central and southern prairies.

Terramax' ongoing research program has had many successes. Current projects hold the hope of major opportunity and benefits. Several new pea varieties, like the Millenium green pea, have been licensed with higher yields and better regional adaptation. Early maturing sweet white lupins have been identified to match our short growing season. New flax varieties are proving to have good yield and maturity characteristics. High yielding, ascochyta resistant kabuli chickpeas were identified. The B-90 kabuli chickpea, well adapted to early planting into cold soil, has bought us sufficient growing time to greatly expand the growing area for this valuable crop.

Soybeans, historically unsuitable for most of the prairie region, have shown immense potential over the past few years and are well past the early development stages. Terramax is maintaining an ongoing program evaluating several new crops and many new varieties, with the belief that many new opportunities are yet to be discovered and developed.

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