Reading Time: 2minutes Western Canada produced a greater proportion of 8-mm Kabuli chickpeas in its 2024-25 chickpea crop than in other years, which may lead to a price gap between eight mm and nine mm chickpeas on the market.
Reading Time: < 1minute The demand for lentils has backed off lately due to high prices, said trader Marcos Mosnaim of Prairie IX in Toronto. He said the direction lentils take will largely depends on India.
Reading Time: 2minutes An expected increase in Canadian lentil and pea exports in 2024/25 is unlikely to result in higher prices, as increased production should cause the stocks-to-use ratios to widen.
Reading Time: 2minutes An ongoing dispute between Canada and India involving the assassination of a Sikh man on Canadian soil has Canada's lentil market fearing that one of its largest trading partners may shut its doors to the pulse.
Reading Time: < 1minute Prices for green lentils were steady to higher for the week ending Sept. 27, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire. A broker credited increased foreign demand.
Reading Time: 2minutes Yields for Manitoba dry beans and peas vary depending on where you are in the province, according to the Manitoba government's pulse specialist.
Reading Time: < 1minute Canadian chickpea production hit its largest level in over two decades in 2024, although the increased supplies have cut into prices.
Reading Time: 2minutes Dry peas saw sharp reductions in Statistics Canada's report on grain stocks as of July 31. Released on Sept. 9, the StatCan report showed on-farm and commercial dry pea stocks at a combined 348,000 tonnes, down from 550,000 the previous July. The current stocks also came in below the five-year average of 398,600 tonnes.
Reading Time: 2minutes Canada’s pulse industry has been battening down the hatches as the country’s major railways prepare for a work stoppage on Aug. 22.
Reading Time: < 1minute Lentil combining in southeast and southwest Saskatchewan were 10 per cent complete as of Aug. 5, according to that province’s crop report. Harvesting of the pulse was six per cent done in the west-central region, while most of Saskatchewan’s lentil crop was still standing. Over in Alberta, the combining of pulses was expected to get underway this week.
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