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Learning to love the musical fruit

FOOD | In this economy, beans had everything to offer except taste – or so I thought

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Who among us, as a child, wasn’t forced to eat food they didn’t like? One of my aunts, young and newly married into the family, tried to force five-year-old me to eat my breakfast cereal – with milk. Big mistake! Fits were thrown. When my parents got home, they were told in no uncertain terms
Yellow peas. (Victoria Popova/iStock/Getty Images)
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Pulse weekly outlook: New Year’s pressure drags on North Dakota peas

Pea prices relatively higher north of border

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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
“Having more selective insecticide options is welcome, as a fundamental component of integrated pest management is preserving natural enemies of crop feeding pests.” – John Gavloski, Manitoba Agriculture.
Crops, News

New weapon launched against aphids

Group 29 insecticide Carbine was registered at the end of November

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Pulse and alfalfa growers will have another arrow in their quiver to battle aphids this summer. Ag-chemical company FMC has announced that its flonicamid-based insecticide, Carbine, has the stamp of approval from Canadian regulators and will reach the market in 2023. The Group 29 product “disrupts the potassium channels in the pests’ nervous system,” interfering
Cattle receive supplemented feed at the Myhre farm near Crane River, Man.
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2022 a series of unanticipated swings

YEAR IN REVIEW: From famine-to-flood moisture and derailed supply chains, there was plenty of volatility to go around

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If last year was the bomb dropping, this year saw the aftermath. Farmers started the year by coming off one of the worst and widespread droughts in decades. For younger producers who weren’t farming in the 1980s, it was probably the worst drought they’ve ever seen. There were heartbreaking stories of herd dispersals, feed shortages
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Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Tightening Canadian lentil stocks expected

Pea ending stocks more comfortable

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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
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Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Pea prices hold steady in weak market

Values expected to soften in new year

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MarketsFarm — Prices for green and yellow peas in Western Canada have remained quite steady over the last week, largely due to the lack of demand, according to Darwin Hamilton of Kalshea Commodities in Winnipeg. “North American peas are more expensive than the peas coming out of Eastern Europe. A lot of that product is
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Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Smaller-than-expected lentil crop may limit exports

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MarketsFarm — Smaller-than-expected Canadian lentil production in 2022-23 could limit the country’s export potential going forward, according to an official with Pulse Canada reacting to the latest production estimates. The report from Statistics Canada (StatCan) released Friday contains the first survey-based production estimates of the 2022-23 marketing year, while previous ones used satellite imagery. Most
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Crops, Markets, Weather

StatCan data show smaller Canadian canola, durum production

Report also logs more barley, oats than previous estimates

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MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers grew less canola and durum than originally thought in 2022, but more barley and oats, according to updated production estimates from Statistics Canada released Friday. “There were both bullish and bearish surprises,” MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville said. While canola production of 18.174 million tonnes was still up considerably from the

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