The announcement was made on Wednesday afternoon during Ag in Motion, near Langham.
The money comes from three programs under Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan). On hand for the announcement were the Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu and Saskatchewan Liberal MP Buckley Belanger, who is the Secretary of State for Rural Development.
“These new investments are about making sure the next generation of producers, processors, and agri-food businesses can keep growing and keep good jobs right here at home,” according to Belanger. Saskatchewan’s agricultural and agri-food sector expanded over seven per cent in 2024 and more than 15 per cent in 2025.
The recipients include:
–Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan. Funding of $1,625,649 will help expand genomics research capacity that will advance breeding capabilities to companies and breeding organization, bringing higher-yielding and higher-quality livestock, pulses, and other crops to market quicker.
–Global Agri-Food Advancement Partnership (GAAP) It is expanding market reach and enhancing Saskatchewan’s agri-food and biotech commercialization infrastructure. The $900,000 investment will allow GAAP to purchase key biomanufacturing and processing equipment required for product development and commercialization activities.
-Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Humboldt. PAMI will use $200,000 towards the purchase of advanced agricultural processing equipment and technologies.
–POS Biosciences Corp. The $1,335,000 will allow POS Biosciences to modernize their processing infrastructure to scale-up specialty oil extraction from plant, marine and algal biomass in Saskatchewan.
–Bioriginal Food and Science Corp. Two separate programs totaling $3,270,000 will see an expansion and automation of liquid oilseed processing and packaging, as well as expanding and modernizing the food ingredient facility.
–North 49 Foods Ltd. The Moose Jaw pork processor will use $990,000 to expand the cut floor to accommodate metal detector, as well as new processing and packaging equipment. This will lead to increased production capacity and more jobs.
–Prairie Meats Saskatoon Prairie Meats will use $700,00 to complete all building and production facility upgrades to obtain Safe Food for Canadians Regulations licenses from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for both their Millar Avenue and Dudley Street locations in Saskatchewan.
