Ground broken for Warden canola plant
Washington Ag Today September 22, 2011 Pacific Coast Canola, a subsidiary of Legumex Walker Inc., held a groundbreaking ceremony in Warden, Washington yesterday to mark the construction of a new canola oilseed processing plant. In a phone interview from the site Pacific Coast Canola president and CEO Joel Horn told us; Horn: “At a time when we need more economic development we are bringing a large construction project that in turn is going to create an opportunity for a new cash crop. And at 200 million dollars a year that we could potentially be purchasing, that is a lot of revenue in to Washington state and the Pacific Northwest.” The plant could be operational in 2013. Now this from Stockland. This is Jack McQuinness here at Stockland Livestock here at Davenport. 500 cattle on the market this past week. Cows and bulls trended lower again, maybe two to three lower. However, most of the cows still in the 60 dollar money. And this time of the year we have certainly seen these prices a lot less so if you want to look on the upside that is a plus. Most of the bull trade in the 70 to 80-dollar range with a top of 85. Light weight calves came back a little bit. We were strong on those. Some of those 450 pound steers up as high as a $1.60. The five-weights up in the 40s with heifers trading ten to 12 back. Yearlings; load of 980 pound steers topping out at 119.50 and most of that trade fully steady. Again a horse sale this weekend. A special feeder sale in conjunction with the cattle sale on Monday and a small animal sale on Tuesday the 27th. Thanks Jack. I’m Bob Hoff on Northwest Aginfo Net. ? ?
