Pulse markets

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 27 (CNS Canada) – Up to two million acres of land in Western Canada is still sitting with unharvested crops from 2016, raising concerns over the timing of spring seeding for 2017, according to reports. While pulse crops were mostly harvested before the winter, adjustments to current seeding

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 26 (CNS Canada) – Since the start of the 2016/17 marketing year, Ukraine supplied 333.8 thousand tonnes of peas to foreign markets, well above the previous year’s 181.6 thousand tonnes,according to data from APK-Inform. Top end large green lentil bids are holding relatively firm in Western Canada, with

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 25 (CNS Canada) – India’s food ministry is considering raising import duties on tur dal (pigeon peas) from 10 per cent to 25 per cent in an effort to protect domestic prices for farmers, according to reports out of the country. Canadian lentil seedings could end up above

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 24 (CNS Canada) – Canadian pea exports remain strong, with 134,000 tonnes moving out of the country during the week ended April 16, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission data. That brings the year-to-date total to 2.82 million tonnes, which is about 800,000 tonnes ahead of the

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 21 (CNS Canada) – Canadian farmers intend to seed fewer pea and lentil acres in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to Statistics Canada’s first acreage report of the year, but the area devoted to the two pulse crops should still be the second largest on record.

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 19 (CNS Canada) – Trade opinions are divided over whether Canadian pulse acres will be up or down in 2017 after the record-large pea and lentil seedings recorded the previous year. Statistics Canada releases its first survey-based estimates for the 2017/18 crop year on Friday, April 21. Pre-report

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 18 (CNS Canada) – India’s South-West Monsoon is expected to be ‘normal’ in 2017, according to the first official long-range forecast from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on April 18. The South-West monsoon typically accounts for more than 70 per cent of the country’s annual precipitation, according to

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, April 17 (CNS Canada) – Pulse prices in India have dropped sharply over the past year, with many commodities now trading below the Minimum Support Price (MSP) levels following a good monsoon season in 2016, according to reports out of the country. As a result, India’s Prime Minister Narendra