We've made a number of investments in the last while through a number of different sectors within the portfolio. We're all very firm believers in science and technology, innovation, and moving forward, and what we've done is work with industry to highlight what they need in order to move forward into the next segment or next sector.
As you know, canola is a tremendous Canadian success story. It started with rapeseed years ago, and then there was genetic engineering, and so on. We're into canola varieties now that are giving us 40% oil, which is twice what rapeseed did, and are giving us a higher-protein meal that is starting to rival soy in the use beyond.
We made a small announcement in Saskatoon a short time ago about a canola crusher who is extracting the protein from the meal, after he's gotten the oil out, and making a canola tofu. There's a tremendous demand for that type of product around the world.
We've made one of the largest investments into our crushing industry. Canola, flax, mustards, and so on will all benefit from that $19 million investment over the next five years. They have a program extending to 2015 that will see the acreage that's sown expand exponentially because of the demand around the world for that great-quality product. We've identified it in conjunction with industry, and we're helping them fund it and build a strong road map forward.
It's tremendously exciting. We saw some situations earlier with flax going into Europe. A lot of that flax now has been rerouted through China. We're seeing the same situation with mustard; they're taking that oil and putting it into jet fuel. The American air force is actually starting to use a cross-mustard oil in their jet fuel. They're finding that it's working extremely well, and it has a lighter environmental footprint.