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Canada’s Pulse Exports To China Set To Rise

By Ron Friesen March 17, 2011

Canada’s pulse exports to China could take a big jump, following that country’s recent elimination of a major trade barrier to peas and other legume crops. China announced last week it had removed the maximum limit for selenium in imported food, a restriction that hampered sales of Canadian dry field peas to the Asian country.

Livestock, Pulses

Pea Outlook Good

March 10, 2011

Cool conditions, and in some cases frost, has affected India’s dry pea crop, and that is expected to improve the export outlook for Canadian producers in the 2011-12 crop year, Fred Oleson, deputy director of the Market Analysis Group with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, told the annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg Feb. 28. “The frost

News, Pulses

Made In Manitoba Energy Bar Boosted By Lentil Ingredient

By Lorraine Stevenson February 24, 2011

Theresa Le Sliworsky needed lots of energy to sustain her through busy days of raising a young family, working full time and training as an endurance triathlete. To keep her energy up, she’d eat sport performance bars, but she was often aghast by how much sugar, fat and preservatives were in them. Many didn’t taste

Crops, Oilseeds

High Grain Prices Won’t Last Forever

By Allan Dawson February 17, 2011

High grain prices make farmers happy, but they make market analyst Chuck Penner nervous. It’s not that Penner, with LeftField Commodity Research, doesn’t like high prices. His apprehension comes from knowing sometime those prices will fall. When prices last spiked in 2007-08 at close to these levels, they went a bit higher and then fell

Crops, Oilseeds

World’s Worst Soybean Disease Hasn’t Arrived Here Yet

By Gord Gilmour February 17, 2011

Soybean cyst nematode is the worst of the lot when it comes to crop diseases that thrive in soybean crops. It infects the roots of soybean and eventually becomes a cyst. It can cause a variety of symptoms including chlorosis of the laves and stems, root necrosis, loss in seed yield and general suppression of

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Pulses

Recipe Swap – for Feb. 17, 2011

By Lorraine Stevenson February 17, 2011

If dried peas don’t strike you as something to use when you’re baking, you probably haven’t heard about the flour made from them. Green split pea flour, whole yellow flour and chickpea flour are a line of Manitobamade flours now passing taste tests in kitchens around the country as home bakers hear about their health

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Feb. 10, 2011

By Reuters February 10, 2011

Demand exceeds production:Global soyoil consumption is likely to rise above production in the current season with Chinese and European demand remaining strong, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil Worldforecast Feb. 2.Oil World forecasts global Oct. 2010-Sept. 2011 soyoil production at 41.91 million tonnes, below estimated consumption of 41.98 million tonnes. “World consumption of soyoil continues to grow

Livestock, Oilseeds

China-U. S. Soybean Deal Largest Ever

January 27, 2011

China wrapped up its biggest ever one-off U.S. soybean purchase on Jan. 21 in a $6.7-billion deal equivalent to nearly half of last year’s total trade, surprising dealers who had expected a more symbolic volume. With a second tranche of deals to buy 8.45 million tonnes, Chinese firms travelling as part of President Hu Jintao’s

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Soybean Acres Poised To Jump In 2011

By Ron Friesen January 13, 2011

Brace yourself for a possible big leap in Manitoba soybean acres in 2011. Soybean plantings could jump by 40 per cent or more this year, following a record crop in 2010 despite adverse growing conditions, producers at St. Jean Farm Days were told. Strong prices and the arrival of new varieties are fuelling the potential

Crops, Pulses

Special Crops Estimates Increased

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 6, 2011

Ending stocks of the seven major pulse and special crops in Canada at the close of the 2010-11 crop year are expected to be higher than earlier expectations, according to updated supply-demand tables from Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada Market Analysis Division released mid-December. Ending stocks of the seven major special and pulse crops for

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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