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Pulse weekly outlook: Planted green, yellow peas lower prices

By Marlo Glass, GFM Network News 5 days ago

MarketsFarm — Green and yellow pea seeding is well underway across the Prairies, causing new-crop prices to slide marginally while spot prices hold firm. As Dale McManus, a broker with Johnston Grain at Welwyn, Sask., explained, seeded acres and new crop prices have an inverse relationship: as seeded acres rise, new crop prices fall. Producers […] Read more

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Pulse weekly outlook: Benchmark report out for fababeans, feed peas

By GFM Network News April 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — Alberta Pulse Growers on Monday released Feed Benchmark Bi-Weekly Reports, providing “a consistent and unbiased estimate of the feeding value of low-tannin fababeans and feed peas” in central Alberta, central Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Comparing fababean and feed pea prices to other feed grains, the report stated, “Grains are softening further on the […] Read more

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Pulse weekly outlook: Yellow, green pea prices vary ahead of seeding

By Marlo Glass, GFM Network News April 9, 2019

MarketsFarm — India’s tariffs on Canadian pulses hit green and yellow peas particularly hard over the past year — and the market is still hurting as producers plan acres for 2019. Since yellow pea exports dropped significantly in the middle of the year, “there’s going to be a lot of carryover in yellow peas for […] Read more

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Pulse weekly outlook: Green pea premium to erode with acreage increase

By Phil Franz-warkentin, GFM Network News March 12, 2019

MarketsFarm — Green peas continue to command a sizeable premium over their yellow counterparts in Western Canada, which should see acreage shift this spring and an eventual rebalancing of the price spread. Green peas usually trade at a premium to yellow peas due to higher quality specs and concerns over bleaching, but the current price […] Read more

The first efforts to introduce field peas in northeast Alberta was a make-do effort, Kirsty Ross (Piquette)  said in accepting the Alberta Pulse Industry Innovator Award.

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Field pea pioneer wins innovator award

By Alberta Pulse Growers February 20, 2019

A pioneer who helped build the field pea industry in the St. Paul area is this year’s winner of the Alberta Pulse Industry Innovator Award. Kirsty Ross (Piquette) was a provincial district agriculturist in the mid-1980s when she started to look for another option to add to the area’s crops and generate more cash flow […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Peas

Unregistered peas, lentils to be demoted

By GFM Staff, GFM Network News January 31, 2019

Any unregistered varieties of lentils or peas harvested in Canada this fall or later will be graded No. 3 Canada at best. The Canadian Grain Commission on Wednesday announced only registered varieties of peas and lentils will be eligible for the No. 1 Canada grade effective Aug. 1 this year. Deliveries of registered and unregistered […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Peas

Pulse weekly outlook: Market depends on India’s fortunes

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News December 12, 2018

CNS Canada — When it comes to Canadian pulse crops, David Newman of Commodious Trading says producers, speculators and processors are long — and that has been of great concern to him. “You have everybody wanting to sell and you better hope that there’s someone there to take all of it,” he said. The wildcard […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Peas

Pulse weekly outlook: India seen becoming a pulse buyer again

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News November 14, 2018

CNS Canada — After a year that saw India drop off the map as a pulse importer, some industry officials expect we could soon see India re-enter the market. “Seeding is going down, the monsoons are weak. So definitely they will need to import. I see that in the next few months we will start […] Read more

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Construction resumes at Portage pea plant

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News November 7, 2018

CNS Canada – More than a year after the ground breaking ceremony was held for Roquette’s pea-processing plant at Portage la Prairie, Man., construction resumed on it at the end of October. According to a company spokesperson construction was halted last spring “to adjust and fine tune the project.” ”We took the opportunity to include […] Read more

Pulses continue to have a bright future but in the short term, lentil and pea acreages look like they will continue to decline.

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Producers may not give peas a chance next year

Lentil acreage may also decline as India’s tariffs and tough growing conditions take a toll

By Jennifer Blair October 9, 2018

Some Alberta producers could become former pulse growers next year if the markets don’t turn around soon. “It’s the third year in a row that they’ve been at the bottom of the net income,” said Josh Fankhauser, who farms near Claresholm. “The math just doesn’t work.” Yellow peas have been part of Fankhauser’s rotation for […] Read more

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Pulse weekly outlook: Planted green, yellow peas lower prices

Pulse weekly outlook: Benchmark report out for fababeans, feed peas

Pulse weekly outlook: Yellow, green pea prices vary ahead of seeding

Pulse weekly outlook: Green pea premium to erode with acreage increase

Field pea pioneer wins innovator award

Unregistered peas, lentils to be demoted

Pulse weekly outlook: Market depends on India’s fortunes

Pulse weekly outlook: India seen becoming a pulse buyer again

Construction resumes at Portage pea plant

Producers may not give peas a chance next year

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