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Green peas. (PulseCanada.com)
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulses: Sask. harvest wraps, El Nino hits Australia

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world pulse markets on Friday morning, Oct. 9. • Peas and lentils are both 99 per cent combined in Saskatchewan, according to the latest provincial report. Lentil yields are averaging 1,279 lbs./ac., which compares with 1,371 in 2014. Peas averaged 32 bu./ac., also […] Read more
Green peas. (PulseCanada.com)
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulses: India needs more pulses

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — A few highlights in the Canadian and world pulse markets on Wednesday, Oct. 7. • Average protein levels for peas in Western Canada are coming in below the year-ago level, according to early sample data from the Canadian Grain Commission as of Oct. 1. Of the samples collected to date, the mean […] Read more
Chickpea pita.
Crops, Pulses

Laying a foundation for Canada’s pulse industry

Today we know more about how to make the pulse industry grow, thanks to a decade of Cigi research

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Reading Time: 3 minutes It was 10 years ago that the Canadian International Grains Institute launched its pulse-processing and specialty milling facility, and since then, Cigi’s pulse activity on behalf of the Canadian industry has leapt ahead. “There was a need in Canada to add value to pulses by processing domestically,” says Peter Frohlich, project manager for pulses and […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Cereals, Crops, Markets, Pulses

Canada may have already passed peak gluten-free

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Increased demand by Canadians for gluten-free products had an impact on the wheat industry, leading reduced sales and experiments with new ways to feed the market. Now, industry specialists have mixed opinions on the future of gluten-free. Almost a third of Canadians, 10 million people, are seeking out gluten-free products, according to […] Read more
rows of young wheat field in sunny day
Cereals, Oilseeds

Crop outlook 2015

Country Guide attended Wild Oats GrainWorld to hear what the industry said about grain and oilseed crops

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Reading Time: 11 minutes With all the day-by-day and minute-by-minute noise that rocks today’s grain and oilseed trading, it can seem impossible to pick out the vital messages that the market is actually sending. Country Guide sent veteran ag reporter Richard Kamchen to Wild Oats GrainWorld in Winnipeg this winter to listen for the home truths about 2015’s grain […] Read more
Root rot in pea plants
Pulses

Root rot disease could become the clubroot of pulse crops

For pulse growers, aphanomyces has all too much in common with canola’s clubroot

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Nervous eyes are watching it, and voices are already whispering that it may become the clubroot of pulse crops. Aphanomyces is a virulent root rot, technically classified as a water mould, and it appears to be slowly spreading throughout the Prairie region, affecting annual and perennial legumes including legume forages. First confirmed in Saskatchewan in […] Read more
Gluten-free tortilla rounds, from left: control, Yellow Pea, Chick Pea, Pinto Bean, Navy Bean, Green Lentil.
Crops, Pulses

A gluten-free market for pulses

A new Cigi project may help western pulses tap into growing nutritional demand

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The use of pulses as ingredients to improve nutritional levels in gluten-free commercial food products is the focus of a four-year project that began last April at Cigi (Canadian International Grains Institute). Gluten-free products have been on the radar for the pulse industry for some time, says Heather Maskus, project manager for pulse flour milling […] Read more
chickpeas in a testing lab
Crops, Pulses

VIDEO: Putting more ‘superfood’ in the North American diet

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Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s hardly an exaggeration to call pulses a ‘superfood’ — they’re high in protein and other nutrients, they’ve been proven to reduce bad cholesterol and they provide free nitrogen for the farmers who grow them. But while they’re a staple in diets in the Middle East, consumption is low in North America. In this video, […] Read more

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