Leading Flaxseed Suppliers: Part IV

Here we continue our analysis of the leading flaxseed suppliers at the base of the flaxseed industry pyramid.


InfraReady Products Limited

InfraReady is a private company operating from Saskatoon Saskatchewan. They have 23 employees. They specialize in processing plant-derived products using infrared heating technology. Their product lines are based on the staple foods of peas, rice, specialty grains, oilseed, lentils and beans. I take it they process flax seeds using the infrared heating technology and then sell this to food manufacturers as ingredients toward an end-product such as pizza dough or bread. In this sense they compete with other flaxseed ingredient suppliers such as Acatris, American Health and Nutrition, Bioriginal Food & Science, Buckton Scott, Flanquart, Golden Seed Farms, Pizzey's Milling, Prairie Flax Products and Statfold Seed Oil Development. See more info about these applications at the Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals website.

Johnson Seeds

Johnson Seeds is a small company based in Arborg, Manitoba. They employ 23 people and specialize in forage seeds, turf grasses, canary seed, flax, peas and canola.

Keystone Grain Ltd.

Keystone Grain is a private company based in Winkler Manitoba. They were founded in 1993 and specialize in sunflowers and sunflower products. They are the largest exporter and processor of sunflower products in Canada. As sunflowers are their specialty, we'll leave them out of our short-list for now.


Klagenberg Farms Ltd.

Klagenberg Farms is located in St. Andrews, Manitoba. They export bagged, bulk and cargo lots of brown and yellow flaxseed. The company doesn't appear to have a website. It's hard to tell if they are a very small company or how long they have been around. We'll leave them off the short list for now.


Larsen Seeds

Larsen Seeds is based in Aylsham, Saskatchewan. I wasn't able to find much online info about them.

Loyns Seed Farm

Loyns Seed Farm is based in Naicam Saskatchewan. I wasn't able to find online info about them either.