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Pulse weekly outlook: No worries about delayed planting in Manitoba

'Farmers can get stuff in pretty quick'

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 19, 2022

MarketsFarm — Despite an influx of snow across southern Manitoba, with more precipitation in the forecast for this week, a provincial pulse specialist isn’t too concerned about the potential for late planting of pulse crops. “The moisture is welcome, but it’s not the weather we would like to see at this time of the year.

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Larger U.S. pea, lentil areas expected

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 13, 2022

MarketsFarm — Farmers in the United States will grow more lentils and peas in 2022, although chickpea area may be down, according to early estimates ahead of spring seeding. Total pea area in the country is forecast at 1.088 million acres, which would be up 11 per cent from 2021, according to the U.S. Department

File photo of a lentil crop before harvest in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan growers wait for rain

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News April 5, 2022

MarketsFarm — As the snow melts on the Prairies, pulse growers are making their final preparations before seeding, while at the same time hoping not to see a repeat of last year’s historic drought. In Saskatchewan, snow cover has varied in pulse-growing areas, making some growers nervous. “There’s still a lot of concern about dryness

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Pulse weekly outlook: Market uncertainty all around

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News March 29, 2022

MarketsFarm — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to swing markets up and down, typical issues and other external factors have amplified volatility in the pulse markets, according to one trader. David Newman, owner of Commodius Trading at North Saanich, B.C., explained that while the conflict in Eastern Europe is affecting markets everywhere, the usual

Screenshot from an Alberta Agriculture video profiling Innisfail-based pulse and grain handler W.A. Grain and Pulse Solutions. (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry via YouTube)

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W.A. Grain’s farmer suppliers to get 80 cents on dollar

CGC program to provide $5.6 million of $7.1 million owed

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News March 10, 2022

Farmers owed $7.1 million by W.A. Grain and Pulse Solutions, which had facilities in Alberta and Saskatchewan, will get $5.6 million, or about 80 per cent of the money owed to them, via the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program. “While we regret producers didn’t get 100 per cent (of what they

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Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba growers hope timely rains follow snows

High N prices may favour pulse acres

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News March 9, 2022

MarketsFarm — As March 1 marked the start of meteorological spring, it feels like anything but that in southern Manitoba. One of the snowiest and coldest winters in years has been a mixed blessing for pulse growers, providing much-needed moisture for fields while also raising flood fears in some areas. Dennis Lange, a pulse specialist

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices lower but still very good

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 15, 2022

MarketsFarm — Although prices for chickpeas have pulled back somewhat over the last month, Colin Young of Midwest Grain at Moose Jaw, Sask. emphasized the market has not turned bad in any manner. “It’s just the level of expectation we had, given the rise in prices of other commodities. Given that we were out there

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Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse stocks drop due to drought

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News February 9, 2022

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s latest report on stocks of principal field crops clearly demonstrated how much of an effect last summer’s historic drought in Western Canada had on pulse crops. According to the report released Tuesday, last December’s total domestic stocks for dry peas, chickpeas, lentils and soybeans all declined from the year earlier. Those

File photo of lentils being moved into bins in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Early signs point to larger Canadian crops

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Early signs point to a sizeable increase in Canadian pulse production in 2022-23, but co-operative weather will be needed to meet those expectations. Strong returns over the past year relative to other crops should encourage farmers to seed more peas and lentils in 2022, according to the first outlook for the new crop

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Pulse weekly outlook: Slow demand pulls down pea prices

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 18, 2022

MarketsFarm — Slow demand has been behind the declines in green and yellow peas, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Mercais Commodities in Toronto. Over the last week, prices for western Canadian green peas have lost 30 cents per bushel at $14.50-$16.20 per bushel delivered, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire. Those for yellow peas have dropped

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Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: No worries about delayed planting in Manitoba

Pulse weekly outlook: Larger U.S. pea, lentil areas expected

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan growers wait for rain

Pulse weekly outlook: Market uncertainty all around

W.A. Grain’s farmer suppliers to get 80 cents on dollar

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba growers hope timely rains follow snows

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices lower but still very good

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse stocks drop due to drought

Pulse weekly outlook: Early signs point to larger Canadian crops

Pulse weekly outlook: Slow demand pulls down pea prices

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