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Bringing together staff at our annual FOM meetings

Our annual FOM meetings took place • Human Resource Management: West Brandon, Grenfell, Star, Weyburn
February 6 and 7 where Facility Territory • Top Facilities - Turn Rates: Balgonie,
Operations Managers (FOMs) and facility • Safety: West Territory Fort St. John, Grenfell, Grimshaw,
staff from across Canada gathered • Station Controlled Expenses (expense Kamsack, White Star
in Regina. The meetings featured to budget variance): Central Territory • Special Crops Business Excellence:
presentations on topics ranging from • Best Overall: East Territory Tempest
EH&S, food safety, operations, and global Facility Performance
chartering.
• Top Facilities Record Handles:
These meetings were a great opportunity Balgonie, Binscarth, Brandon,
for the group to learn, connect with one Carnduff, White Star
another, and exchange ideas on how we • Top Facilities Salary Cost per Tonne &
can continue to provide safe and efficient Tonnes/Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
service to producers at our facilities. • Top facility 100 car load sites:
As part of the meetings, recognition was Balgonie, Brandon, Carnduff,
provided for territories and individual Grenfell, White Star. Honourable
facilities that saw strong performances mentions: Biggar, Falher,
in key business areas. The following were Humboldt, Weyburn, Winkler.
recognized for their 2023 performance: • Top facility 50 car load sites:
Territory Recognition Fannystelle, Luseland Jeff Wakker, COO of Viterra Chartering
• Top 5 EBITDA Facilities: Balgonie,
• Business Excellence: East Territory
Tradeshow round up

Teams across our asset network have Crop Conference which took place experience at Manitoba Ag Days. The team
kicked off 2024 planning and attending January 29 to 31 in Calgary, AB. spent time both in advance and during
a number of tradeshows across Western These opportunities to connect and the week of the show strategizing how to
Canada and the Northern US including: build relationships with producers are an maximize our visibility through targeted
• January 9-11 – Western Canadian integral part of our business. offers and promotions. They worked with
Crop Production Show, Saskatoon, SK the wheat and canola desks to purchase
• January 10 & 11 – St. Jean Farm Days, grain through target agreements and
St. Jean, MB create programs to provide strong pricing
• January 16-18 – Manitoba Ag Days, offers at the show. Through this work,
Brandon, MB they were able to purchase large volumes
• January 24-26 – KMOT Ag Expo, not only the week of the show, but into
Minot, ND the week following the show. In the
• February 6 & 7 – Brokenhead River Ag 2-week period they purchased 126kMT
Conference, Beausejour, MB and signed another 173kMT in target
• February 14 & 15 – Agri Visions, agreements.
Lloydminster, SK Huge shout out to everyone involved in Ag
• February 27-29 – Lethbridge Ag Expo, Tradeshow booth at Manitoba Ag Days Days and all of the tradeshows we’ve been
Lethbridge, AB One example of the success that part of so far this year. Your hard work is
Viterra also sponsored the CrossRoads comes from these events is the group’s central to our success!
Hosting producers across our asset network

Teams from across our asset network Cereals Canada for a hands-on learning
have been hosting meetings with event with Hutterite colonies from across
producers over the past few months. We Manitoba. The event, held at Cereals
value these opportunities to connect Canada’s Viterra Knowledge Centre in
with producers to exchange information Winnipeg, focused on the work Cereals
and ideas. In 2023 our teams hosted 87 Canada does to promote Canadian wheat
in person producer meetings across our varieties to countries around the world.
network. Thank you to everyone involved Thanks to this event, we have seen a
for providing a warm welcome and being significant uptick in activity with colonies
part of the dialogue with producers. that attended.
Grower meeting in Luseland, SK
In December we also partnered with
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