By Commodity News Service Canada
WINNIPEG, July 18 (CNS Canada) – Manitoba Agriculture reports in its latest crop report, for the week ending July 17 that most peas in the central region are flowering, and pod forming is well underway. Aphids have been reported, although at levels below the economic threshold for spraying.
In the northwest, peas are flowering and starting to pod.
In the central region, peas are starting to flower and edible beans are flowering with fungicide applications about to get underway.
The dry bean crop in the United States northern great plains is variable, depending on moisture conditions. Here are the latest crop progress reports from the United States Department of Agriculture for the top five traditional dry bean growing states.
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– In Michigan, 32 per cent of dry beans are rated good to excellent, while 35 per cent of the crop is rated poor to very poor.
– In Nebraska, the crop is ahead of schedule with 35 per cent blooming compared to an average of 21 per cent for this time of year. The crop condition is 53 per cent good to excellent and 23 per cent poor to very poor.
– In Minnesota, the crop is rated as 78 per cent good to excellent, with one-third blooming, behind the five-year average of 52 per cent blooming.
– In Idaho, the dry bean condition fell to 47 per cent good to excellent, from 70 per cent a week ago. Fifty-three per cent is rated fair, with 93 per cent of the crop emerged.
Australia’s chickpea harvest is coming up short compared to last year’s record production total, but how it might affect global prices remains uncertain, until weather patterns have had their say over crop development.
Pulse Australia predicted total chickpea production in that country would be about 1.5 million tonnes. That’s well short of last year’s 2.1 million tonnes.
With important growing areas of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales dry, prices could remain high if conditions persist. But if rain falls where it’s needed, then prices could slide, Pulse Australia reported.
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued tenders for its National School Lunch Program and other food assistance programs. Tenders announced include:
– 72,705 cwt of dry beans, including 43,276 cwt of pinto beans.
The United States Dry Bean Council has reported that important bean-growing areas in Mexico have not started seeding due to dry conditions. Zacatecas, the largest bean-growing state is driest and growers there have not started seeding at all. Chihuahua has received small amounts of rain and seeding has begun. In Durango, some light showers have fallen, but growers there are holding off for more moisture before they start seeding.
A survey of the Argentine bean crop predicts production will increase this year, said the U.S. Dry Bean Council. Growers have seeded more following strong demand from Brazil last year, especially for black, cranberry and dark red kidney beans. However, white mould may limit yields in some regions following heavy rain in late May in the northern growing region where most white, cranberry, dark and light kidney beans are grown. Still, overall yields are expected to be higher than 2016. In the key black bean growing region in the south, the U.S. Bean Council survey projected a 14 per cent increase in production compared to a year ago. That should help fill demand from Brazil, where the year’s second black bean harvest was damaged by rain.
