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Process it where the feed is grown.

04.1.2

The pattern

HyLife exports premium pork to Japan from Southeast Manitoba.

That is what this region means when it says specialized companies become world-class. You do not need a port city or a head office tower to sell into one of the most demanding food markets on earth. You need the feedstock, the freight, the inspection culture and people who will stay.

A processor moving here inherits all four on day one, plus a supplier base that has already passed the audits yours will face.

04.1.3

The investment case

47 percent of Canada's live-pig exports leave from Manitoba.

They leave as animals, and the margin gets added somewhere else. Every step taken here is value that stays in the province.

Today, for much of the volume Feed Barn Primary Further leaves as animals The investment case Feed Barn Primary Further

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA. FURTHER PROCESSING, RENDERING AND PACKAGING ARE THE STEPS MOST OFTEN MISSING INSIDE THE CLUSTER.

04.1.4

The category

Hogs, pork exports and live-pig share.

  • 29%

    of Canada's hog production

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA, 2024

  • $1.7B

    Manitoba pork exports

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA, 2024

  • 47%

    of Canada's live-pig exports

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

04.1.5

Share of the country

Manitoba raises 29 of every 100 hogs in Canada.

The feed, the barns and the primary producers sit inside your delivery radius. That is why a processor looks here first.

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA HOG SECTOR DATA, 2024. ONE SQUARE IS ONE PERCENT OF NATIONAL PRODUCTION.

04.1.6

Already here

Who you would be operating beside.

  • 01

    HyLife

    Fully integrated premium pork, from its own feed mill through to finished product shipped worldwide including Japan. Head office in La Broquerie.

  • 02

    Bothwell Cheese

    New Bothwell, with a national reputation built out of a village.

  • 03

    Exceldor

    Poultry processing inside the same cluster.

  • 04

    The suppliers

    Feed, barns, equipment dealers, specialised livestock transport, packaging and industrial construction that has already built to food grade.

04.1.7

The gaps

Six capabilities companies here currently buy elsewhere.

Ask us which companies buy each of these outside the region today and we will put you in the room with them.

  1. 01

    Further processing

    Value-added product made here instead of shipped raw.

  2. 02

    Plant-protein fractionation

    The category Protein Industries Canada exists to grow.

  3. 03

    Byproduct and rendering capacity

    Raised repeatedly by processors here.

  4. 04

    Cold and controlled storage

    Thin relative to the processing volume nearby.

  5. 05

    Food-grade packaging

    Largely trucked in.

  6. 06

    Applied food science

    No facility inside the cluster itself.

04.1.8

The constraint

Water and wastewater decide wet processing.

For a water-intensive process in this region these two lines decide your project. Take the file, and take it early.

  • Water

    Natural spring water from the regional water table. It has supplied this region's processors for generations. Ask for the current assay, quality profile and available volumes.

  • Wastewater

    Capacity is constrained and it is the region's active infrastructure project. Ask for this month's status.

Raise a water-intensive process in the first conversation. It will either work here or it will not, and we would both rather know in week one.

04.1.9

Next

Bring us the flow numbers.

Throughput, water draw, effluent load, power, headcount. That is the first email. Everything else follows it.

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