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Pulse weekly outlook: Little excitement in market

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 19, 2019

The pulse market has been largely quiet for the last couple of months, according to Adam Krieser of CanPulse Foods in Saskatoon, although rail shipments were curtailed due to weather and other issues including a fatal crash. Three Canadian Pacific Railway crew members were killed Feb. 4 when a grain train derailed on CP’s mainline

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

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Canada, U.S. to challenge India’s pulse price supports

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 18, 2019

Canada and the U.S. are set to challenge India’s market price supports for certain pulses including chickpeas and lentils. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Friday announced that “together with Canada” they’ve submitted a “counter notification” on the matter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Agriculture (COA).

File photo of snowmelt on a gravel road. (PBouman/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Values steady ahead of road bans, seeding

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 12, 2019

For pulses so far midwinter there hasn’t been a great deal of movement pricewise, though two factors are seen on the horizon could generate some change: road restrictions and spring seeding. Large green lentils are around 22 cents/lb. picked up at the farm, said Dale McManus of Johnston Grains at Welwyn, Sask., about 145 km

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AGT privatization gets shareholders’ approval

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 8, 2019

The privatization of Canadian pulse processor AGT Food and Ingredients is set to move another step forward as company officials take their plan to Ontario’s Superior Court on Monday. The Feb. 11 court date in Toronto comes after AGT shareholders voted Tuesday at a special shareholders’ meeting in favour of privatization, according to a company

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Pulse weekly outlook: Nothing new in India

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 6, 2019

Very little has changed for Canadian pulses in terms of exports to India, according to an analyst. Meanwhile, Canadian stocks of dry field peas and lentils are still relatively large, according to Statistics Canada. India in 2017 imposed import duties to protect its domestic pulse industry and is rumoured to be solidifying those duties, according

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea area to drop back to ‘normal’

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 29, 2019

Canadian chickpea acres are expected to return to more normal levels in 2019, after a sizeable jump in 2018. However, while prices are off the highs that drove 2018 seeding intentions, they still could have some room to the upside over the next few months. After seeding 442,900 acres of chickpeas in 2018, Canadian farmers

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Pulse weekly outlook: Lentils, peas get new profile as protein source

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News January 22, 2019

Health Canada has unveiled its new food guide, which switches the focus from portion sizes to a balanced diet and includes protein from sources like peas and lentils. For the Canadian pulse crop industry, it’s a narrative they’ve been sharing for years. The new Canada’s Food Guide is “also sort of a realization that there

A file photo of a field of chickpeas in the Palouse in southeastern Washington state. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Fewer U.S. acres likely due to surplus

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 16, 2019

CNS Canada — Large crops followed by poor export demand have led to burdensome supplies and cut into pulse prices in the U.S., which should cut into acreage ideas for peas, lentils and chickpeas in 2019, an industry official says. “With the trade issues we’re facing right now, we have quite a surplus,” said Shannon

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U.S. firm partners with James Cameron’s Prairie pulse processor

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News January 8, 2019

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan pulse processing company Verdient Foods has entered into a joint venture agreement with U.S. company Ingredion to expand operations. The organic pea protein fractionation facility at Vanscoy, about 20 km southwest of Saskatoon, has been running since last year and the new agreement will see it expand operations to include more

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Pulse weekly outlook: Eyes on India as North America’s prices firm

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 4, 2019

CNS Canada — From where Prairie pulse market analysts sit, India’s politics and current weather situation remain important to watch. India’s national election will be called in the next three to five months. “There’s so many hundreds of thousands of farmers in India and they have political clout,” said Allan Johnston of Johnston Grains at

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Pulse weekly outlook: Little excitement in market

Canada, U.S. to challenge India’s pulse price supports

Pulse weekly outlook: Values steady ahead of road bans, seeding

AGT privatization gets shareholders’ approval

Pulse weekly outlook: Nothing new in India

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea area to drop back to ‘normal’

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentils, peas get new profile as protein source

Pulse weekly outlook: Fewer U.S. acres likely due to surplus

U.S. firm partners with James Cameron’s Prairie pulse processor

Pulse weekly outlook: Eyes on India as North America’s prices firm

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