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Some optimism for peas, lentils not invited for the ride

By Terry Fries October 30, 2018

CNS Canada — Lentil growers hoping to see a light at the end of the current tunnel of low prices and restricted markets will likely be disappointed for some time. However, farmers with peas might see better market conditions over the course of the shipping year because of the United States-China trade war. “For our […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse prices feel pressure from rising ending stocks

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm July 31, 2018

CNS Canada – Increasing pulse ending stocks are going to continue to play into pulse crop prices in Canada, according to the latest update from Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) ag economics team. “We’re still expected to see ending stocks increasing. So as we continue to see that ending stocks increase, that stock-to-use-ratio that we’d see […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Reuters

India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

By Reuters June 29, 2018

Paris/Mumbai | Reuters — India has extended by six months to the end of 2018 an exemption to its policy for crop cargoes to be fumigated with methyl bromide, a move that should facilitate continued imports of pulses and wheat. The Indian government has issued a letter announcing the exemption would be extended to Dec. […] Read more

News, Pulses

Canadian pulses granted three-month extension to India’s fumigation exemption

Canadian pulse officials have less than three months to reach a long-term agreement with India over fumigation in pulse shipments

By MarketsFarm Team, Staff July 17, 2017

Canadian pulse exports to India have been given the green light, at least for the short term, temporarily heading off fears of higher fumigation charges or being shut out of the country completely. The federal government announced July 5 that India has granted another exemption to allow Canadian pulse exporters to access that market. Exports […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Pulse exporters get India exemption, no penalties attached

By Terry Fries July 5, 2017

CNS Canada — Canadian pulse exports to India have been given the green light, at least for the short term, temporarily heading off fears of higher fumigation charges or being shut out of the country completely. The federal government announced Wednesday that India has granted another exemption to allow Canadian pulse exporters to access that […] Read more

News, Pulses

Pulse sector still on tenterhooks

India’s insistence on fumigation of pulse imports throws up major barrier to Canadian pulse shipments 

By Jennifer Blair March 23, 2017

Canada’s pulse industry is still waiting to hear whether India will reverse a decision that could seriously hamper Prairie exports to its largest market. For more than a decade, India has required most pulse shipments be fumigated with methyl bromide in the country of origin. But Canada and some other countries were granted an exemption, […] Read more

Lentils on display at a grocery store in Mumbai. India is the largest buyer of pulses in the world and Prairie producers supply half of those imports, generating $1.5 billion in sales for farmers here.

News, Pulses

Pulse sector roiled by India’s fumigation edict

Science says our pulses are safe — but industry officials are preparing a Plan B if India won’t back down

By Jennifer Blair March 13, 2017

The clock is ticking on whether Indian officials will reverse an edict requiring Canadian pulse shipments to be fumigated at the port of origin rather than at their destination. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and a delegation from Pulse Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency were in India at the beginning of March to […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Reuters

Pulse crop sales to India dry up over pest-control plan

By Rajendra Jadhav, Rod Nickel February 23, 2017

Winnipeg/Mumbai | Reuters –– Canadian exporters are slowing sales of peas and lentils to India, threatening $1.1 billion in annual trade of the food staples, over risk that New Delhi may reject shipments under its tougher approach to pest control. India requires shippers to fumigate crops with methyl bromide, an insect-killing gas, in the country […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

By Staff January 22, 2017

A new market development goal for Canada’s pulse crop industry hopes to create demand in use categories where pulses aren’t yet a major player. Pulse Canada’s board on Wednesday released a new target dubbed “25 by 2025,” under which the Canadian pulse crop grower/processor industry “will marshal its resources to create new demand in new […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

More pulse acres expected to affect handling dynamics

By Jade Markus June 14, 2016

CNS Canada –– Canadian grain handlers are curious how dynamics and timing in the rail freight sector will be managed in the upcoming season, given an expected boost in pulse crop production . For the moment, however, Prairie grain movement has dropped to seasonal lows. This year’s pulse area will likely be the largest on record, according to early estimates […] Read more

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Some optimism for peas, lentils not invited for the ride

Pulse prices feel pressure from rising ending stocks

India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

Canadian pulses granted three-month extension to India’s fumigation exemption

Pulse exporters get India exemption, no penalties attached

Pulse sector still on tenterhooks

Pulse sector roiled by India’s fumigation edict

Pulse crop sales to India dry up over pest-control plan

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

More pulse acres expected to affect handling dynamics

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