County of Grande Prairie
Imported Purchases 2022: Pesticide, fertilizer and other agricultural chemical manufacturing
Imported Purchases 2022: Animal food manufacturing
Imported Purchases 2022: Plastic product manufacturing
Imported Purchases 2022: Electric Power Generation
Imported Purchases 2022: Grain and oilseed million
In region Farm purchases 2022
Beef
Canola Seed
Wheat
Sources: Agriculture and Agrifood Canada
Sources: Cityofgp.com | Agriculture.canada.ca | Lightcast | NBDC | Investalberta.ca
With 5% of Canada’s agricultural land our region has built a reputation for high-quality products for over 100 years.
We are part of Canada’s Protein Industry Supercluster: A federal initiative with up to $173 million in direct investment.
The global plant-based food market is expected to reach an approximate $250 billion CDN in sales by 2035.
Workers employed regionally in agri-business.
Three major local highways connect the City to the rest of Alberta and Canada, offering direct connections to Edmonton, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Rocky Mountains. On an international level, Grande Prairie is located on the CANAMEX trade route, which connects Canada with both the United States and Mexico
Our region is served by Canadian National Railway. High load capacity lines connect with the CN mainline at Hinton, linking Grande Prairie to the port of Vancouver, Prince Rupert and the rest of North America.
We are the closest municipality in Alberta to western shipping ports, offering a competitive advantage in getting bulk product to Asian markets faster than from anywhere else in Alberta.
Side Group Rail provides rail reload and transportation services with seven facilities in the Peace Country. Managing broad inventories, Side Group Rail directs the movement of $500 million dollars of goods annually from their Grande Prairie operations.
Richardson Pioneer Limited has completed and implemented its new high-throughput grain elevator in Huallen, Alberta. With a storage capacity of 45,000 metric tonnes and the ability to load 150 cars using a loop track design, the facility is now fully functional, enhancing grain-handling efficiency in the region.
"The County of Grande Prairie is one of the most productive regions in Western Canada,” says Tom Hamilton, Senior Vice-President, Agribusiness Operations. “We look forward to building strong partnerships with producers in the area, providing grain marketing expertise and efficient delivery options. The addition of the crop inputs site will enable us to provide a full-service option for both grain and agronomics. This will include offering our customers leading seed, fertilizer, and crop protection technologies in addition to year-round support with CropWatchTM agronomic services and CropMatrixTM digital services."
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Helping build value-added processing capacity and supporting industry as it pursues new opportunities. FPDC is a modern, 65,000 square foot pilot plant and product development laboratory. The centre, located in Leduc, AB, is equipped with more than $20,000,000 in equipment that supports food product innovation along the full development and commercialization continuum
Source: alberta.ca
Source: nwpolytech.ca
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Companies that invest in (R&D) in Canada can take advantage of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) up to 50% tax incentive program.
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Accelerated Investment Incentive provides an enhanced capital cost allowance (CCA) on equipment purchases. Full expensing in the first year for manufacturing and processing (M&P) and clean energy equipment purchases.
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The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) supports Canada as a top destination for businesses to invest through five Streams:
Stream 1: Encourage R&D that will accelerate technology transfer and commercialization of innovative products, processes and services;
Stream 2: Facilitate the growth and expansion of firms in Canada;
Stream 3: Attract and retain large scale investments to Canada;
Stream 4: Advance industrial research, development and technology demonstration through collaboration between the private sector, researchers and non-profit organizations; and
Stream 5: Support large-scale, national innovation ecosystems through high impact collaborations across Canada.
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Our region provides accessibility to reliable and cheap inputs necessary in the food processing industry complemented by competitive energy prices and a sustainable water supply. In addition, Grande Prairie has a strong reputation in its agricultural sector concentrated in canola, wheat, barley, alfalfa, dry field peas, oats, cattle, pig, and poultry.
In addition to the above benefits, greenhouse agriculture benefits from Grande Prairie’s substantial amount of sunlight per year. Since Grande Prairie has a strong reputation in its agricultural sector, a vertical expansion of its agriculture industry can benefit from the strong reputation.
Alberta’s food processing sector has seen rapid growth. In 2020, it was the province’s largest manufacturing sector with $15.5 billion in food manufacturing sales.
Alberta’s arable lands, abundance of sunshine and extensive irrigation network makes it an ideal place to produce primary agricultural products.
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