Pulse markets

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 22 (CNS Canada) – A Reuters survey of 16 traders and analysts suggests prairie farmers may have seeded an average of 4 million acres to peas this spring. That compares to 3.989 million acres estimated by Statistics Canada in April. The trade survey places the average lentil estimate […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 21 (CNS Canada) – India’s pulse production has reached new highs for 2016-17, according to the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers’ Pulse Market Report. India has produced 22.4 million tonnes, which has caused export prices to fall. At the same time, India has imported record amounts of pulses at 6.4 […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada June 20 (CNS Canada) – Beans have received a boost from climate change researchers with a new study that suggests if American consumers shifted entirely to edible beans away from beef, the United States could meet its emissions target by 2020. A study published in the journal Climate Change stated […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 19 (CNS Canada) – Canada exported only 600 tonnes of peas during the week ended June 11, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission weekly report. However, total exports-to-date are still about a million tonnes ahead of the year-ago pace, with 3.235 million tonnes exported during the 2016/17 […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 16 – High pulse prices in Australia have cut into the country’s grain production by 33 percent as farmers shift acreage to the better-returning chickpea and lentil crops, according to The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics and Sciences. The bureau noted that chickpea sowings in New South […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 15 (CNS Canada) – The Saskatchewan government reported in its latest crop report Thursday that 70 percent of pulse crops are at normal development for this time year, although moisture is needed in many central and southern regions. Grain traders in India went on strike Thursday, protesting the […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada June 14 (CNS Canada) – Murad Al-Katib, the businessman who turned a prairie pulse processor into a worldwide corporation, has been selected as the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year for 2017. Al-Katib, President and Chief Executive Officer of Saskatchewan-based AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. was chosen from 59 country […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 13 (CNS Canada) – Pinto bean counts in central Manitoba are reported on the low side from 45,000 to 50,000 plants per acre, according to Manitoba Agriculture, which attributed the issue to seeding depth and seed quality. In Australia, the first official estimate of the country’s winter crop […] Read more

By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 12 – Lentil acreage in the US is on the rise. According to the USDA, 1,055,000 acres of lentils will be planted in 2017. That compares to 933,000 acres in 2016. The Northarvest Bean Growers Association in Minnesota is raising a warning about proposed changes to […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, June 9 (CNS Canada) – Canada exported 32,900 tonnes of peas and 21,700 tonnes of lentils during the week ended June 4, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission report. Exports of both pulse crops continue to run well ahead of the previous year-to-date level. Roughly 3.2 million tonnes […] Read more