Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has raised its production estimate for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 specialty and pulse crops in its latest supply-and-demand report, released on Sept. 18.
Total production of the special and pulse crops is now pegged at 5.538 million tonnes for 2013/14, up from 5.145 million tonnes in the August report, but below the 5.676 million tonnes produced in 2012/13.
The report pegged 2013/14 ending stocks at 750,000 tonnes, up from the August estimate of 570,000 tonnes. For 2012/13, ending stocks were estimated at 632,000 tonnes, up from 505,000 in the August report.
Total exports of the seven major specialty and pulse crops are now forecast at 4.455 million tonnes for 2013/14 (versus 4.225 million tonnes in the August estimate). The 2012/13 total export estimate was also revised to 4.952 million tonnes (from 4.660 million previously).
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Total domestic usage in 2013/14 is estimated at 1.088 million tonnes (up from August’s estimate of 973,000 tonnes). For 2012/13, total domestic usage was estimated at 1.501 million tonnes (above August’s report of 0.654 million tonnes). However, the lower total in August was due to dry pea domestic usage numbers being unavailable.
The seven major specialty and pulse crops are dry peas, lentils, dry beans, chickpeas, mustard seed, canary seed and sunflower seed.
