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A $400-million pea-processing plant was announced during an event at the Manitoba legislature.

$400-million pea plant announced

Manitoba producers to benefit from the global demand for vegetable protein ingredients

By Shannon VanRaes January 27, 2017

Pea acres in the province could see a growth spurt following the announcement global ingredient and pharmaceutical giant Roquette will build its next processing plant in Manitoba. The $400-million pea-processing plant will be located just outside Portage la Prairie and is expected to employ 150 people once complete. “I expect there will be more pea

News, Pulses

Pulse industry sets growth target

The goal is to find new uses for 25 per cent of the industry’s productive capacity

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 24, 2017

Pulse Canada is aiming to find new uses for up to 25 per cent of the industry’s production by the year 2025. The recently approved “25 by 2025” target was set as part of the organization’s long-term planning process and will give the whole industry a target to strive for. The industry will marshal its

Indiana-based Enjoy Life Foods in 2012 launched Plentils, a high-protein snack product made with lentil powder and billed as “chips with benefits.” (EnjoyLifeFoods.com)

Crops, Pulses

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 22, 2017

A new market development goal for Canada’s pulse crop industry hopes to create demand in use categories where pulses aren’t yet a major player. Pulse Canada’s board on Wednesday released a new target dubbed “25 by 2025,” under which the Canadian pulse crop grower/processor industry “will marshal its resources to create new demand in new

Cereals, Markets, Pulses

Top three marketing resolutions for 2017

By Jennifer Blair January 17, 2017

This year, instead of making a New Year’s resolution to lose some weight or save some money, consider resolving to improve your marketing plan. PI Financial’s David Derwin has three simple marketing resolutions to get you started.

Pinto beans. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Pulses

Pinto prices strong, farmers weigh new-crop options

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus January 13, 2017

CNS Canada –– Manitoba pinto bean spot prices are holding steady near yearly highs, as adverse weather during the growing season scaled back production. “It was a pretty wet year, compared to the previous year,” said Dennis Lange, Manitoba Agriculture’s industry development specialist for pulse crops in Altona. Areas of southern Manitoba saw heavy rainfall

Cereals, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Proposed Vancouver grain terminal has great rail connections

The Fraser River Terminal will be served by four railways and there are no bottlenecks, a company official says

By Allan Dawson December 19, 2016

A spokesman for one of the companies behind the proposed Fraser Grain Terminal says the facility will be efficient and state of the art. Casey McCawley, Parrish & Heimbecker’s (P&H) director of West Coast operations and a director of the terminal to be co-owned by P&H and Paterson GlobalFoods (PGF), says that’s good news for

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

By Alex Whiting, GFM Network News December 5, 2016

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Planting more lentils, chickpeas and other pulses will improve the health of the world’s soils that have reached critical levels, threatening to worsen hunger and poverty levels, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. About a third of the world’s soils are degraded because of soil

Heather Hill explains the use of yellow pea flour at Cigi.

Crops, Pulses

VIDEO: High-protein yellow peas pump up products

Adding yellow pea flour to recognized products like instant noodles can help improve nutritional value

By Shannon VanRaes December 2, 2016

The phrase “eat your peas” is about to take on a whole new meaning. Researchers in Winnipeg are finding ways to add yellow pea flour to food products consumers are starting to view as unhealthy — such as breads, instant noodles, pasta and breakfast cereal — to give them a healthy kick. With funding from

News, Pulses

Growing Forward 3 a chance to think big

Pulse Canada’s COO calls for an ambitious agenda  as the next agriculture policy framework looms

By Alex Binkley November 29, 2016

Canada needs to quit fiddling around the edges of its agri-food policies and start thinking big. That’s the message Greg Cherewyk, Pulse Canada’s chief operating officer, brought to a recent meeting of the Commons agriculture committee. He used the occasion to call for a new focus on continuous improvement and transformational innovation in the upcoming

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Most Canadian chickpeas headed for feed market

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 23, 2016

CNS Canada — Low yields and poor quality have caused Canadian chickpea price quotes to shoot higher. Very little of the crop actually falls under the top grades, however, leaving the bulk of the marketing to take place in the feed sector. “The chickpea harvest has been an unmitigated disaster,” said Colin Young of Midwest

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

Pulses

$400-million pea plant announced

Pulse industry sets growth target

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

Top three marketing resolutions for 2017

Pinto prices strong, farmers weigh new-crop options

Proposed Vancouver grain terminal has great rail connections

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

VIDEO: High-protein yellow peas pump up products

Growing Forward 3 a chance to think big

Most Canadian chickpeas headed for feed market

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