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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas recover from previous lows

By GFM Network News May 26, 2020

MarketsFarm — Chickpea prices have recovered slightly from lows hit around the end of 2019, but they’re still a long way off historic highs from years past. Ahead of the 2018 growing season, chickpea prices were around 50 to 60 cents/lb. for growers, according to Darwin Hamilton of Kalshea Commodities in Winnipeg. Currently, large chickpea

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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea acreage expected lower

By GFM Network News May 1, 2020

MarketsFarm — High global prices in the 2017-18 marketing year caused a global spike in chickpea production in 2018. It’s since taken a while for consumers to “chew through supplies,” which has put pressure on prices, according to Chuck Penner of LeftField Commodities. In a kabuli chickpea global outlook webinar hosted by the Global Pulse

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Demand may encourage more red lentil acres: AGT

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team April 29, 2020

MarketsFarm — Improving lentil prices over the past month may encourage more acres of the pulse crop in Western Canada this spring, according to an industry official, as seeding is set to start within the next few weeks. “With the recent March demand surge, mostly due to COVID-19, pulse prices have increased sending a signal

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Logistics, lack of containers hamper pulse crop movement

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 17, 2020

MarketsFarm — Logistics disruptions due to COVID-19 are hampering nearby movement of pulses, according to a number of industry participants speaking Thursday on a webinar organized by the Global Pulse Consortium. However, the longer-term impact of the pandemic remains to be seen. “The shipping industry has been hugely impacted by COVID-19,” Chris Oliver, nautical director

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Pulse weekly outlook: Turkey may see larger red lentil crop

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team April 14, 2020

MarketsFarm — Turkey is expecting to see an increase in lentil production in 2020, according to a processor in the country. White bean production is also expected to rise, although chickpea production could be down slightly on the year. Fethi Sonmez, CEO of Turkey-based Armada Foods, expects to see red lentil production in the country

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Pulse weekly outlook: Prices mostly steady ahead of seeding

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 7, 2020

MarketsFarm — As farmers decide what to plant in 2020, Dale McManus of Johnston’s Grain at Welwyn, Sask. hasn’t seen any significant deviation from what producers normally buy for pulse seed. “Red lentils, green lentils, green and yellow peas,” McManus cited among the pulses being purchased. Also, he noted, prices have remained quite steady in

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Pulse weekly outlook: U.S. bean acres to increase, other pulses down

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team March 31, 2020

MarketsFarm — Farmers in the U.S. intend to plant more edible bean acres in 2020, but will seed less area to peas, lentils and chickpeas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prospective plantings report. Edible bean area in the country is forecast at 1.372 million acres, which would be up roughly seven per cent

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Pulse weekly outlook: Increased demand seen, but problems loom

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 17, 2020

MarketsFarm — Unlike other commodities, pulses aren’t yet feeling ill effects from an economic downturn due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. With consumers panic-buying, there has been increased demand for pulses, as many are non-perishable, Mosnaim said. “These products will be there for ages,” he said,

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Pulse weekly outlook: Bids underpin Manitoba edible bean area

Province's soybean acres expected to fall

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 11, 2020

MarketsFarm — Solid prices should keep Manitoba farmers growing edible beans in 2020, although soybean area will likely drop, according to a provincial specialist. Disappointing harvest weather in 2019 hurt yields and cut into harvested area for edible beans in both Manitoba and across the border in the United States. As a result, prices heading

Chickpeas in India. (Nikhil Patil/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Conditions optimal for India’s winter crops

By GFM Network News March 3, 2020

MarketsFarm — Cold weather in key growing regions of India could indicate high production levels for winter pulse crops. Heavy showers and colder temperatures in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh created “ideal conditions” for winter-sown pulses, according to India’s agriculture commissioner SK Malhotra. Malhotra explained that the output of the winter-grown pulse crops will likely

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Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas recover from previous lows

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea acreage expected lower

Demand may encourage more red lentil acres: AGT

Logistics, lack of containers hamper pulse crop movement

Pulse weekly outlook: Turkey may see larger red lentil crop

Pulse weekly outlook: Prices mostly steady ahead of seeding

Pulse weekly outlook: U.S. bean acres to increase, other pulses down

Pulse weekly outlook: Increased demand seen, but problems loom

Pulse weekly outlook: Bids underpin Manitoba edible bean area

Pulse weekly outlook: Conditions optimal for India’s winter crops

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