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Pulse weekly outlook: Canada’s sales a day-to-day business

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News October 10, 2018

CNS Canada — Canada’s pulse crop trade hasn’t stopped, even though its biggest customer, India, isn’t taking large amounts anymore. Instead, buyers are finding themselves having to take business one day at a time and become a bit more creative. “I think everyone is in the same boat; it’s not that the market has stopped.

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Pulse weekly outlook: India extends pea, lentil tariffs

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 2, 2018

CNS Canada — The Indian government has again extended its import restrictions on peas, this time until Dec. 31. India late last year initiated duties of 50 per cent on imported peas and 30 per cent on lentils and desi chickpeas. It has since raised the lentil tariff to 60 per cent. In effect, the

Harvested Saskatchewan lentils. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

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Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil yields look good, worries grow over peas

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 25, 2018

CNS Canada — It’s a mixed bag in many ways for Saskatchewan’s pulse crops this year, as a dry summer and late rains have meant different things for various crops. According to one industry expert, though, the overall picture doesn’t look bad. “I think overall, if you assess the entire province, it will come in

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Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba bean yields unlikely to top 2017’s

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 18, 2018

CNS Canada — A lack of rain at key times during the summer of 2018 has left Manitoba’s edible bean crop unlikely to match last year’s yields. Last year’s yield was about 2,000 lbs./acre on average, but according to provincial pulse specialist Dennis Lange, that won’t be the case this year. “I think for this

Terry Buss displays a photograph showing a side-by-side comparison of field peas infected with ascochyta blight isolates resistant to Frac 11 fungicides. From left to right: untreated, treated with Headline (Frac 11) fungicide and treated with a Proline fungicide.

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Field peas a strong alternative to soybeans

But you’ll need to remember the rulebook is different

By Julienne Isaacs September 12, 2018

Field pea markets might still be depressed following last year’s trade disputes with India, but the crop represents an opportunity for Manitoba producers in the long term. That’s according to Terry Buss, farm production extension specialist for Manitoba Agriculture. “As you go west and south in Manitoba, the soils are lighter and better drained, and

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Ontario bean production seen well above StatsCan estimate

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries September 6, 2018

CNS Canada — Ontario bean growers are voicing skepticism of Statistics Canada’s Aug. 31 bean production estimates. Estimates by the Ontario Bean Growers organization suggest farmers are poised to harvest about 101,495 tonnes this year — 28.5 per cent above the Statistics Canada number of 79,000 tonnes. OBG chair Jim Gowland said his organization reaches

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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas buck pulse trend

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries September 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan farmers are expected to turn in a smaller pulse harvest this fall, although chickpea production is bucking the overall downward trend. Chickpeas are the only Saskatchewan pulse crop to post a production increase, in Statistics Canada’s latest estimate of 2018 production. The estimates show Saskatchewan growers are expected to harvest about

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Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba bean quality looks good

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries August 21, 2018

CNS Canada — The quality of Manitoba’s edible bean crop appears decent, but yields will remain a mystery for a week or two. Dennis Lange, pulse specialist for Manitoba Agriculture at Altona, Man., said most edible beans are maturing about two weeks ahead of normal, but yield estimates will have to wait for more harvest

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Pulse weekly outlook: Heat blast threatens chickpea yields

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News August 14, 2018

CNS Canada — Temperatures as high as 38 C were recorded in the western Prairies over the weekend — and with that heat comes questions about crop impact. Lentils and peas are far enough along that the recent heat wave is unlikely to affect them from a yield perspective, according to Carl Potts of Saskatchewan

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Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team August 14, 2018

CNS Canada — A few producers who did not receive payment from Canadian Exotic Grains Ltd. have been compensated through the Canadian Grain Commission’s Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program, the commission said Tuesday. Canadian Exotic Grain’s grain dealer license was revoked April 26 after the company was unable to pay producers. On June 4, Saskatchewan

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Pulse weekly outlook: Canada’s sales a day-to-day business

Pulse weekly outlook: India extends pea, lentil tariffs

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil yields look good, worries grow over peas

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba bean yields unlikely to top 2017’s

Field peas a strong alternative to soybeans

Ontario bean production seen well above StatsCan estimate

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas buck pulse trend

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba bean quality looks good

Pulse weekly outlook: Heat blast threatens chickpea yields

Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

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