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Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 28, 2013
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventory, Current [Table Text Block] |
|  |  |  | December 28, 2013 | December 29, 2012
|  |  |  | $ | $
Raw materials and work-in-process | 177,407 | 169,269
Finished goods | 77,984 | 63,621
Company-owned grain | 23,773 | 27,335
Inventory reserve | (4,878) | (4,487)
|  |  |  | 274,286 | 255,738
|  |  |  | December 28, 2013 | December 29, 2012
|  |  |  | $ | $
Balance, beginning of year | 4,487 | 6,305
Additions to reserve during the year | 3,030 | 3,458
Reserves applied and inventories written off during the year | (2,645) | (5,268)
Effect of foreign exchange rate differences | 6 | (8)
Balance, end of year | 4,878 | 4,487

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