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Inventories

12 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2019

Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]

Inventories [Text Block]

8.  Inventories

		December 28, 2019			December 29, 2018
		$			$
Raw materials and work-in-process		259,658			278,038
Finished goods		75,112			83,225
Company-owned grain(1)		—			10,155
Inventory reserve		(11,224	)		(9,461	)
		323,546			361,957

(1) Company-owned grain inventories as at December 29, 2018 were included in the sale of the soy and corn business.

The change in the inventory reserve for the years ended December 28, 2019 and December 29, 2018 is comprised as follows:

		December 28, 2019			December 29, 2018
		$			$
Balance, beginning of year		9,461			9,975
Additions to reserve during the year		12,487			12,169
Reserves applied and inventories written off during the year		(10,697	)		(12,612	)
Effect of foreign exchange rate differences		(27	)		(71	)
Balance, end of year		11,224			9,461

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The entire disclosure for inventory. Includes, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 330
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2126998

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