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Message From Kyle







       It’s my pleasure to introduce you to   central Saskatchewan.  Further, we
       the holiday edition of our employee   acquired full ownership of our oilseed
       magazine.  As 2018 draws to a close this   processing plant at Warden, WA.  We
       is an ideal time to reflect on what we’ve   look forward to achieving our full
       achieved as a team over the past year,   potential there by further developing
       and look ahead to our priorities for the   marketing opportunities for farmers in
       coming year.                         the Pacific Northwest and expanding the
                                            local canola market.  I’d like to take the
       Over the last several months, we’ve   opportunity to officially welcome staff
       moved ahead with several targeted    at both of these locations to the Viterra
       investments within our asset network   team.                               a variety of worthwhile causes and
       to support our ongoing focus on                                            initiatives in the communities where we
       operational excellence.  You’ll recall that   Operationally, we achieved a few   live and work.  Check out our community
       we opened two new high throughput    noteworthy milestones.  I’m pleased to   investment section in this issue for more
       terminals at Wadena, SK and Vegreville,   say that in October, we broke several   details on the positive impact we’ve
       AB.  Both projects have been met with   shipping and receiving records at our   made through these projects.
       great enthusiasm in these communities,   Cascadia and Pacific port terminals.   This
       and we look forward to providing     strong performance is the result of many
       customers in those areas with excellent   members of our team working closely   As we look ahead to next year, our focus
       service for many years to come.  In   together, and I’d like to commend those   will remain on investing in our value
       addition, we announced significant   involved for their focus and execution.    chain and working closely with our
       expansions of our Stettler, AB and                                         supply chain partners to ensure we’re
       Binscarth, MB grain elevators that will   We also continued investing in our   well positioned to support the efficient
       increase rail capacity, expand storage   tools and processes to enhance our   movement of Canada’s agricultural
       capacity, and support faster throughput,   customer service.  We launched a   commodities today and well into the
       creating further value for local     delivery scheduler to help reduce line-  future.  It’s up to all of us to ensure
       customers.                           ups and wait times at our facilities, as   that we continue to innovate, execute
                                            well as online GPA contracting through   and stay focused on providing the best
                                            myViterra so that customers can create   customer service in our industry.
       I encourage you to bring your        contracts anywhere, anytime.  These
       ideas forward on ways we             are great examples of the way we’re   I want to sincerely thank all of you for
                                                                                  your efforts in 2018.  As a team we’ve
       can continue being creative          innovating in our business to ensure   demonstrated our dedication, resilience,
                                            we’re aligned with our customers and
       and adding value for our             their needs.  I encourage you to bring   and leadership which will continue
       customers.                           your ideas forward on ways we can     to determine our success in 2019 and
                                            continue being creative and adding value   beyond.
                                            for our customers.
       And just this week, we successfully                                        Happy holidays and please remember to
       closed our purchase of Gardiner Dam   As has been the case for the last several   stay safe,
       Terminal, making us the sole owners   years, we’ve also been very active on the
       of the grain terminal at Strongfield   community investment front.  Throughout
       and strengthening our presence in    the year we continued to support      Kyle



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