Product Recall	9 Months Ended
Oct. 01, 2016
Other Income And Expenses [Abstract]
Other Operating Income And Expense [Text Block]	4. Product Recall During the second quarter of 2016, the Company announced a voluntary recall of certain roasted sunflower kernel products produced at its Crookston, Minnesota facility due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. The affected sunflower products originated from the Crookston facility between May 31, 2015 and April 21, 2016. For the quarter and three quarters ended October 1, 2016, the Company recognized estimated losses of $12.0 million and $28.0 million, respectively, related to this recall, reflecting the estimated cost of the affected sunflower kernel products expected to be returned to or replaced by the Company and the estimated cost to reimburse customers for costs incurred by them related to the recall of their retail products that contain the affected sunflower kernels as an ingredient or component. However, these losses do not reflect costs associated with the interruption of production at the Crookston facility for the period from April 21, 2016 to the time regular production resumed on or about May 15, 2016, subject to a positive release protocol, or the costs to put into place corrective and preventive actions at the Company’s roasting facilities. The Company’s remediation efforts are ongoing, and it expects to continue to incur related costs, which may be material. The Company’s estimates of the losses related to the recall are provisional and were determined based on an assessment of the information available up to the date of filing of this report, including a review of customer claims received as of that date and consideration of the extent of potential additional claims that have yet to be received. The Company’s estimates reflect the amount of losses that it determined, as of the date of this report, to be both probable and reasonably estimable. The Company may need to revise its estimates in subsequent periods as the Company continues to work with its customers and insurance providers to substantiate the claims received to date and any additional claims that may be received. These revisions may occur at any time and may be material. The Company is currently unable to estimate the impact that this recall may have on our future sales of sunflower products or on its ongoing relationships with its customers, which may have an adverse impact on the recoverability of the customer relationships intangible asset associated with the Company’s sunflower operations and on the fair value of the reporting unit to which the sunflower operations relate that could result in an impairment of the associated goodwill. As at October 1, 2016, the customer relationships intangible asset and goodwill associated with the sunflower operations had carrying values of $6.6 million and $17.5 million, respectively. The Company carries general liability and product recall insurance and is expecting to recover the recall-related costs through its insurance policies, less applicable deductibles under these policies. The Company recognizes expected insurance recoveries in the period in which the recoveries are determined to be probable of realization. Accordingly, for the quarter and three quarters ended October 1, 2016, the Company recorded estimated insurance recoveries of $12.0 million and $27.4 million for the losses recognized to-date related to the recall. However, the Company may not recover amounts equal to the amount of the losses recognized if those losses exceed the coverage available or are excluded under its insurance policies. Subsequent to the third quarter of 2016, the Company received $2.0 million from an insurance provider in relation to the recall. As at October 1, 2016, $27.8 million of the estimated recall-related costs were unsettled and were recorded in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. These costs were offset by the corresponding estimated insurance recoveries of $27.4 million included in accounts receivable on the consolidated balance sheet as at October 1, 2016.

During the second quarter of 2016, the Company announced a voluntary recall of certain roasted sunflower kernel products produced at its Crookston, Minnesota facility due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. The affected sunflower products originated from the Crookston facility between May 31, 2015 and April 21, 2016. For the quarter and three quarters ended October 1, 2016, the Company recognized estimated losses of $12.0 million and $28.0 million, respectively, related to this recall, reflecting the estimated cost of the affected sunflower kernel products expected to be returned to or replaced by the Company and the estimated cost to reimburse customers for costs incurred by them related to the recall of their retail products that contain the affected sunflower kernels as an ingredient or component. However, these losses do not reflect costs associated with the interruption of production at the Crookston facility for the period from April 21, 2016 to the time regular production resumed on or about May 15, 2016, subject to a positive release protocol, or the costs to put into place corrective and preventive actions at the Company’s roasting facilities. The Company’s remediation efforts are ongoing, and it expects to continue to incur related costs, which may be material.

The Company’s estimates of the losses related to the recall are provisional and were determined based on an assessment of the information available up to the date of filing of this report, including a review of customer claims received as of that date and consideration of the extent of potential additional claims that have yet to be received. The Company’s estimates reflect the amount of losses that it determined, as of the date of this report, to be both probable and reasonably estimable. The Company may need to revise its estimates in subsequent periods as the Company continues to work with its customers and insurance providers to substantiate the claims received to date and any additional claims that may be received. These revisions may occur at any time and may be material.

The Company is currently unable to estimate the impact that this recall may have on our future sales of sunflower products or on its ongoing relationships with its customers, which may have an adverse impact on the recoverability of the customer relationships intangible asset associated with the Company’s sunflower operations and on the fair value of the reporting unit to which the sunflower operations relate that could result in an impairment of the associated goodwill. As at October 1, 2016, the customer relationships intangible asset and goodwill associated with the sunflower operations had carrying values of $6.6 million and $17.5 million, respectively.

The Company carries general liability and product recall insurance and is expecting to recover the recall-related costs through its insurance policies, less applicable deductibles under these policies. The Company recognizes expected insurance recoveries in the period in which the recoveries are determined to be probable of realization. Accordingly, for the quarter and three quarters ended October 1, 2016, the Company recorded estimated insurance recoveries of $12.0 million and $27.4 million for the losses recognized to-date related to the recall. However, the Company may not recover amounts equal to the amount of the losses recognized if those losses exceed the coverage available or are excluded under its insurance policies. Subsequent to the third quarter of 2016, the Company received $2.0 million from an insurance provider in relation to the recall.

As at October 1, 2016, $27.8 million of the estimated recall-related costs were unsettled and were recorded in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. These costs were offset by the corresponding estimated insurance recoveries of $27.4 million included in accounts receivable on the consolidated balance sheet as at October 1, 2016.