Bunge sells 4 Manitoba grain elevators to local firms as part of Viterra merger

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A handful of Manitoba grain elevators have changed hands following a major acquisition in Canadian agriculture.

Bunge, which owns the most oilseed-crushing facilities in Western Canada, made a divestiture commitment with the federal government in order to buy Viterra Ltd., another mammoth agribusiness.

Bunge announced last week it’s sold four Manitoba grain elevators and one in Saskatchewan to local businesses.

BP & Sons Grain and Storage bought grain elevators in Beausejour, Tucker and Coulter. Linear Grain acquired the elevator in Fannystelle.

In Saskatchewan, Direct Grain Ltd. purchased the Dixon elevator.

Bunge declined to disclose the purchase amounts on Monday.

“It’s great,” said Ryan McKnight, president of Carman-based Linear Grain. “It’s good to have smaller companies like us be able to compete in this grain industry which is dominated by large corporations.”

The Competition Bureau flagged “substantial anti-competitive effects” as a result of the Viterra and Bunge merger. Bunge has a tentative agreement in place to sell another elevator in Saskatchewan (at Valparaiso), as per the divestiture commitment.

Linear Grain took interest in Bunge’s Fannystelle operation because it’s on a different rail line than its Carman grain elevator. Linear Grain is now connected to both CN (Carman’s line) and CPKC (Fannystelle’s).

Linear Grain ships wheat, canola and other crops to Eastern Canada and the United States. The Fannystelle facility can hold roughly 10,000 tonnes of wheat, McKnight said.

Staffing at the site won’t change — if anything, another person will be added to the two-staff crew, he said.

“There is room for us to expand,” McKnight said, adding he’d expand if “we can make that facility successful.”

Extra storage is a possibility, he stated.

BP & Sons Grain and Storage, which is based in Morden, didn’t respond to an interview request by end of day Monday.

gabrielle.piche@winnipegfreepress.com