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Pea, lentil buyers digest lower values, weather

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus June 13, 2017

CNS Canada — Buyers, sellers and processors in Canada’s pulse sector are holding steady as an act of safeguarding themselves during a precarious time in the growing season. “People are just kind of buying what they need,” said David Newman of Commodious Trading, a Victoria-area company dealing with international trade and processing of lentils, peas,

Crops, Markets

India keeps Canadian lentil market at standstill

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus May 9, 2017

CNS Canada — Lentil prices are largely stagnant, one market participant says, as key buyer India sits on the sidelines. And from the outside, stocks appear ample, but new-crop production could shift the dynamic of Canada’s lentil market. Statistics Canada stocks data as of March 31, 2017 pegged lentil supplies at about 1.1 million tonnes,

Crops, Pulses

Pulse firm AGT sees resolution of India-Canada trade snag

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel March 28, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s AGT Food and Ingredients, one of the world’s biggest exporters of peas and lentils, expects India to extend an exemption for Canada within days from a crop fumigation policy that threatened to jeopardize $1.1 billion in annual trade of the food staples, CEO Murad Al-Katib said Tuesday. India’s current exemption

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Tight chickpea supplies to limit Canadian acres

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 21, 2017

CNS Canada — Tight chickpea supplies will keep Canada from taking advantage of fresh demand out of Turkey, while any acreage increases will also be hampered by poor seed supply. Due to its own domestic chickpea shortage, Turkey recently announced it was temporarily lifting import tariffs on chickpeas. Turkey has bought Canadian chickpeas in the

Crops, Pulses

Pulse crop sales to India dry up over pest-control plan

By GFM Network News, Rajendra Jadhav, Rod Nickel February 23, 2017

Winnipeg/Mumbai | Reuters –– Canadian exporters are slowing sales of peas and lentils to India, threatening $1.1 billion in annual trade of the food staples, over risk that New Delhi may reject shipments under its tougher approach to pest control. India requires shippers to fumigate crops with methyl bromide, an insect-killing gas, in the country

Red lentils. (Photo courtesy U.S. Dry Pea and Lentil Council)

Crops, Markets

Lack of buyer interest leaves lentil market without pulse

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus February 8, 2017

CNS Canada — Lentil buyers are keeping to the sidelines as mixed weather reports from India bring an element of turbulence into the market. Crop conditions in India are generally favourable, keeping Canada’s old- and new-crop lentil markets quiet, said Bobby Leavins of Rayglen Commodities in Saskatoon. New-crop buyers are showing little interest until India’s

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

Crops, Markets

StatsCan lentil numbers confirm trade suspicions

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus December 6, 2016

CNS Canada — New Statistics Canada data has confirmed what traders already assumed: Lentil supplies aren’t lacking, despite excess moisture this year. Prices for the pulse had been trending lower with those suspicions, and buyers are looking to India for indications on where to move in the New Year. StatsCan estimates released Tuesday say farmers

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

Crops, Markets

Unpredictable lentil crops could unsettle market

By Erin Debooy, GFM Network News September 8, 2016

CNS Canada — Lentil producers have been stuck on a roller coaster this season, and the ride isn’t slowing down going into harvest. “It’s been a very hard year to predict because we have record amounts of acres planted, an incredible start to the season, and then of course the well-publicized weather problems leading to

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Tag Archives Lentils

Pea, lentil buyers digest lower values, weather

India keeps Canadian lentil market at standstill

Pulse firm AGT sees resolution of India-Canada trade snag

Tight chickpea supplies to limit Canadian acres

Pulse crop sales to India dry up over pest-control plan

Lack of buyer interest leaves lentil market without pulse

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

StatsCan lentil numbers confirm trade suspicions

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

Unpredictable lentil crops could unsettle market

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