Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — The earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday last week, taking the lives of more than 40,000 people, may not have a major effect on pulse markets, according to one analyst. Jon Driedger from Leftfield Commodity Research in Winnipeg said that while natural disasters like an earthquake can take on […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets
Such disasters don't often blow back on agrifood commodity costs
Finding the sweet spot for lupin
The pulse crop has agronomic merits but more production depends on increased product development and marketing
Reading Time: 4 minutes No, it’s not the wild lupin, the blue-flowered plant that’s a common sight in roadside ditches, particularly in the Maritimes — it’s inedible to livestock and humans. Rather, it’s the sweet white lupin and the blue lupin, and they have impressive credentials — high protein (35 to 38 per cent), 30 per cent dietary fibre, […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea stocks down; lentils, dry peas up
Chickpea prices unchanged before report
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada on Tuesday tallied up increases in commercial and on-farm stocks of both lentils and dry peas, in its report on grain stocks as of Dec. 31, 2022. Unlike those two pulses, however, StatCan reported total stocks of chickpeas decreased, at 185,000 tonnes in December 2022 compared to 311,000 in December 2021. […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: India looking for lentils, large Australian crop in play
India extends zero-rate tariff
Reading Time: 1 minute MarketsFarm — An extension of zero-rate tariffs on lentils moving into India for another year should be a clear sign that the country is in the market for imports. However, Canadian lentil sales to India face stiff competition, with a large Australian crop likely to limit movement going forward. India announced at the end of […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices up ahead of India harvest
Early outlook calls for more Canadian acres in 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Western Canadian chickpea prices are still on the rise while prices for other pulse crops are coming down as supply increases. High-delivered bids for Kabuli and B-90 types of chickpeas rose four cents per pound over the past week, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire on Jan. 23. As a result, the nine- and […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: New Year’s pressure drags on North Dakota peas
Pea prices relatively higher north of border
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Pea prices in North Dakota have been feeling pressure from the New Year, according to Landon Lechler of Beach Co-operative at Beach, N.D., about 360 km south of Weyburn, Sask. Besides the turning of the calendar New Year, Lechler said the upcoming Chinese New Year has slowed export demand for yellow and green […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: New-crop green lentil bids in line with year ago
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — New-crop lentil bids are starting to become available in Western Canada, with early pricing indications for green lentils not that far off the levels seen at the same time a year ago. New-crop pricing for large green lentils delivered to the elevator in the fall of 2023 can currently be found in the […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: 2022 a ‘good year’ for Manitoba pulses, soy
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Despite a rough start to southern Manitoba’s growing season, Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers executive director Daryl Domitruk was content with how 2022 came to pass. “For pulses and soybeans, it was generally a good year as a result of some very good yields in soybeans and some quite good yields in dry […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: Tightening Canadian lentil stocks expected
Pea ending stocks more comfortable
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Carryout stocks of Canadian lentils could tighten to their smallest level in seven years by the end of the current 2022-23 marketing year, according to updated supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. While lentil production of 2.3 million tonnes was up by 44 per cent from the drought-stricken 2021-22 crop, expectations for […] Read more
PHOTOS: Anthracnose fungicides for dry beans, 2014-18
#CropPatrol: Results of small-plot experiments at Huron Research Station examined
Reading Time: < 1 minute Anthracnose can cause severe yield and seed quality issues in dry beans. Anthracnose is managed in part with genetic resistance, clean seed and chemical seed treatments. Locally grown seed increases the risk of a disease outbreak and growers are encouraged to use fungicides to manage this risk. The purpose of the study was to measure […] Read more
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