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Roquette’s pea plant has promised to be a boon for the sector, but are growers ready to sign on the dotted line?

Farmers weighing the balance on Roquette pea contracts

The upcoming pea protein plant has gained a lot of attention, now farmers are wondering if the premium will be worth the trouble

By Alexis Stockford March 18, 2020

Farmers now see what Roquette wants in its first yellow pea contracts — and some are questioning whether there is enough bang for the buck to make the crop worthwhile. The company will be contracting yellow peas for its long-awaited plant in Portage la Prairie this year, ahead of the plant’s planned opening this fall.

Pinto beans. (Vergani_Fotografia/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Bids underpin Manitoba edible bean area

Province's soybean acres expected to fall

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 11, 2020

MarketsFarm — Solid prices should keep Manitoba farmers growing edible beans in 2020, although soybean area will likely drop, according to a provincial specialist. Disappointing harvest weather in 2019 hurt yields and cut into harvested area for edible beans in both Manitoba and across the border in the United States. As a result, prices heading

Wendy’s Canada said its new pea-based Plantiful “ensures flexitarians have a protein alternative that is full of taste.” (CNW Group/Wendy’s Restaurants of Canada photo)

Crops, Pulses

Wendy’s launches Canadian-made plant-based burger

Pea protein patty developed 'in-house,' company says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 1, 2020

Burger chain Wendy’s has set out to meet what it says is now an “expectation” in the Canadian quick-service dining sector, with a new pulse crop-based burger. The U.S. chain’s Canadian arm on Thursday announced it has launched a plant-based burger it calls the Plantiful at its 380-plus Canadian stores, using a patty it described

Crops, Pulses

Five tips to help get your best pulse crop yields

By Leeann Minogue February 25, 2020

At this year’s CropSphere in Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Pulse Grower’s agronomy manager, Sherrilyn Phelps, talked to growers about optimizing pea and lentil yields.The biggest factor that determines yield, weather, is out of our control. However, there are some factors we can manage. Phelps’s presentation focused on factors that we can control.For Saskatchewan, the SPG has

News, Pulse markets

New opportunities not enough for pulse exports

While it works to diversify, Canada shouldn’t neglect its old standbys, says one expert

By Geralyn Wichers February 18, 2020

Canada must address barriers to major export markets while finding new opportunities for its pulse crops, one expert told producers at a Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers meeting on Jan. 29. “We’re still in a transition phase before a full realization of these new opportunities for pulses,” said Mac Ross, director of market access and trade policy with

File photo of canola under snow in October 2016. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Unharvested crops skew StatsCan stocks data

By GFM Network News February 5, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian canola stocks were slightly tighter at the end of the 2019 calendar year compared to the previous year, according to updated Statistics Canada data. However, adverse harvest conditions left a large amount of the crop unaccounted for in the survey, which skews the overall supply/demand outlook. “Because of poor weather conditions during

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: More acres sought for 2020

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 5, 2020

MarketsFarm — Planting intentions for red and green lentils and other pulses have been looking good for 2020 — but that might change somewhat because prices have slipped a little, said Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. Discussing pulse crops at a farm show last month in Saskatoon, Mosnaim said he got the strong

Crops

Pulse Canada looking to build data inventory for industry

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 31, 2020

MarketsFarm — Pulse Canada has undertaken a survey of pea and lentil growers to gauge the sector’s environmental footprint and to provide data for a public repository. The survey is a joint project with Alberta Pulse Growers, SaskPulse and Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers. The survey is a life cycle assessment of pea and lentil

File photo of a grain terminal on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. (Konoplytska/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Ukraine’s pulse production waning

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team January 30, 2020

MarketsFarm — There has been a marked decline in the amount of pulses grown by farmers in Ukraine over the last couple of years, highlighted in an article written for the Global Pulse Confederation by Sergey Feofilov, director general of UkrAgroConsult. Feofilov noted total pulse production in Ukraine dropped almost 25.9 per cent from 2018

Markets

Rising protein demand expected in 2020

Canada able to serve both plant- and animal-based protein markets

By GFM Network News January 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — Demand for plant- and animal-based proteins alike is likely to increase in the coming year. Since 2017, pea protein demand increased by about 13 per cent, Craig Klemmer, chief agriculture economist at Farm Credit Canada, said at Ag Days in Brandon, Man. Over the same time period, demand for canola protein increased by

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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