Encourage Traditional Diets, Symposium Urged

It’s good to promote health benefits and create new food products with pulses, but don’t forget the traditional ways beans and other pulses have been eaten in culture, an American professor of nutrition told the second annual Pulse Health and Food Symposium. Donna Winham, a professor in the department of nutrition at Arizona State University,

Industry Leader Looks Back On 30 Years Of Bean Industry Growth

“It’s a great feeling.” – JACK FROESE, MPGA It’s the colour that keeps Jack Froese in the business of growing pulse crops. Just as golden kernels give delight to a corn grower, so the sight of bright-red, white, brown and black beans flowing into a combine hopper inspires Froese. “It’s a great feeling,” he says.


Bean Contracts In 2009 Slow To Come

“No one wants to take a long position.” – HARVEY FENSKE, VITERRA Everything is in place for the 2009 edible bean crop except one thing: production contracts. They’re unusually late this year. Typically, bean buyers begin issuing contracts around mid-January. But as of last week, contracts for the 2009 edible bean crop were only rumours.