By Commodity News Service Canada
July 11 (CNS Canada) – Pulse crops through most of Manitoba are developing well, according the Manitoba Agriculture crop report.
Peas in the southwest region are flowering with early-seeded peas forming pods. Aphids have not been a major concern.
In the northwest, fababeans are in the vegetative stage of growth, while peas are flowering
Edible bean fields in central Manitoba appear to have grown out of iron deficiency chlorosis symptoms. Buds are now forming and flowers should soon be visible.
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Stat Publishing (www.statpub.com) reports the following range of bids for Western Canadian special crops, based on farmers dressed quality, delivered to cleaning plants in Saskatchewan (Canadian cents per pound):
– Large No. 1 green lentils: 38 – 48
– Medium No. 1 green lentils: 36.10 – 38
– Small No. 1 green lentis: 32 – 55
– Small No. 1 red lentils: 19 – 26
– Extra small No. 1 red lentils: 19 – 24
– No. 1 kabuli chickpeas (10 mm) : 69 – 70
– No. 1 navy beans: 35
– No. 1 black beans: 38.40
– No. 1 dark red kidney beans: 44
Feed peas (C$ per bushel)
– Feed pea (Sask) 6 – 6.10
– Feed pea (rail) 6 – 6.10
In North Dakota, crop conditions declined this week to 67 per cent rated good to excellent, compared to 71 per cent last week, according to a United States Department of Agriculture report issued July 11. As well, 14 per cent of North Dakota beans are rated poor to very poor.
Dry beans in Nebraska are rated 57 per cent good to excellent, a gain of three per cent from last week’s 54 percent. However, 22 per cent of the state’s dry beans are rated poor to very poor.
For Minnesota, 72 per cent of dry edible beans are rated as good to excellent, compared to 73 per cent last week. Eight per cent of the crop is blooming, behind the five-year average of 27 per cent for this time of year.
In Michigan, edible bean replanting is ongoing in central and eastern parts of the state, says the crop report from the U.S. National Ag Statistics Service released July 10. About 90 per cent of edible beans have emerged compared to the five-year average of 97 per cent. Condition is rated as 31 per cent good to excellent, compared to 41 per cent last week. Thirty-eight per cent of the crop is rated poor to very poor.
