Canada has far fewer green peas than the government is reporting, says an analyst. “Purely from a price perspective, markets believe the Canadian harvest was smaller than estimated by Statistics Canada,” Stat Publishing noted in a recent article.
Lentil prices on the Canadian Prairies eased back during the week ended July 28, said Levon Sargsyan, broker with Johnston’s Grain. Sargsyan noted that’s due to the recent rains that brought relief to some of the dry areas of the region.
Seeding progress in Manitoba is running ahead of average, with 32 per cent of intended acres in the ground as of May 13, reported Manitoba Agriculture in its weekly crop report.