
Announcements
Job offersmore »
- Supply Chain and Inventory Manager - Bologna, Italy
- Associate Director Global Procurement - Berlin, Germany
- FRUIT Buyer / Procurement / Purchase Manager 採購/買手 - Hong Kong
- Plant Specialist Horticulture Nordics - Finland
- International Account Manager City Farming - Netherlands
- CEO - Prague
- Plant Specialist - Melbourne, Australia
- General Manager European Region - Bologna, Italy
- Einkaufsverantwortlicher / Kundenbetreuer - Die Schweiz
- Continuous Improvement Specialist - Berkel en Rodenrijs, Nederland

Specialsmore »
Top 5 - yesterday
Top 5 - last week
Top 5 - last month
Exchange ratesmore »
- USD: 1.2185
- JPY: 133.03
- GBP: 0.87380
- AUD: 1.6118
- BRL: 4.2705
- CAD: 1.5704
- CNY: 7.7048
- NZD: 1.7232
- ZAR: 15.2415
Euro foreign exchange reference rates
Source: ECB

US farm co-op Land O' Lakes merges with United Suppliers Canada

The move ties Land O’Lakes, which is ranked third in the National Cooperative Bank’s list of top revenue-earning co-ops, in with a powerful player in the Canadian market, which has more than over 100 locations.
On its website, Land O’Lakes said: “Adding United Suppliers Canada to our portfolio means we’ll have access to the country’s largest crop production market—the western Canadian provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba).
“This geography accounts for 80% of Canada’s crop production—more than 65 million acres.”
As Winfield United, it will be moving base to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Farmer-owned Land O’Lakes, based in St Paul, Minnesota, has about 4,500 members and last year earned $13.2bn in revenue.
Mr McDonald says the deal means services are available that would have been out of reach of smaller organisations.
It includes crop input, white-labelled pesticides, including technologies such as Interlock, a spray drift control product, and Winfield’s R7 agronomy software, which provides satellite imagery combined with the field, crop and soil data. These services would not have been available to smaller organisations, said McDonald.
Source: thenews.coop
Publication date: 10/12/2017

Receive the daily newsletter in your email for free | Click here
Other news in this sector: