Pulse markets

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, October 3 (CNS) – Australia recorded a record year for chickpeas and lentils, according to the recently released Rural Bank 2016-17 Australian Agriculture Trade Performance report. Legume volumes were up 85 per cent over the past year. However the current crop is facing some weather related challenges and industry […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, October 2 (CNS) – The USDA has purchased US$13.4 million in pinto beans, US$9.4 million in small red beans, and US$5.9 million in red kidney beans for use in children’s nutrition programs and related domestic food assistance programs, according to the Northwest Bean Growers Association. Lentils markets for the […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, September 29 (CNS) – A delegation of chickpea millers met this week with India’s commerce minister in a bid to open up more foreign markets to them. The millers want India to allow exports of all of its chickpeas because prices are currently lower than official support levels due […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Sept 28 (CNS Canada) – Virtually all pulses in Saskatchewan have been harvested, according to the latest provincial crop report released Sept. 28. About 99 per cent of lentils, 99 per cent of peas and 88 per cent of chickpeas have been harvested. Lentils and chickpeas were experiencing yield […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Sept 27 (CNS Canada) – The dry, edible bean harvest in North Dakota is about 60 per cent done, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. That’s on pace with the five-year average of 61 per cent for this time of year. Sixty-one per cent were rated good to […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Sept. 26 (CNS Canada) – Lentils exports have been slow moving so far this crop year, but farmers should expect more demand from India early in January, according to Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc. However, the sluggish market, which is expected to last until the end of December, will likely leave […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, September 25 (CNS) – According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), the country’s farm production gross value is expected to drop by nearly nine percent to AU$58 billion in 2017-18. The agency says mixed seasonal conditions took their toll on Australia’s major crops, […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Sept 22 (CNS Canada) – An Oregon grain company is looking at the possibility of building a pulse processing plant near Plentywood, Montana, just across the border from Saskatchewan. Columbia Grain said it plans to build a new facility to process peas and lentils, which would require double the supply […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Sept. 21 (CNS Canada) – Most of the Saskatchewan pulse crop is in the bin, according to the latest report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Lentils are 99 per cent combined and peas are 97 per cent complete, according to the crop report issued Sept. 21. Lentils saw lower yields in moisture-depleted […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Sept. 20 (CNS Canada) – The United States Department of Agriculture light trading with moderate demand in its weekly bean, pea and lentil market news, for the week ending Sept. 19. Progress reports dated from Sept. 17, show the dry, edible bean harvest is 97 per cent done in […] Read more