WINNIPEG — Agriculture Canada released its latest supply and demand report for Canadian pulse crops yesterday, leaving the outlook for 2015-16 pulse and specialty crops relatively unchanged.
The seven major specialty and pulse crops are dry peas, lentils, dry beans, chickpeas, mustardseed, canary seed and sunflower seed.
Ag Canada pegged 2015-16 total Canadian pulse production at 6.567 million tonnes, unchanged from its May report. In 2014-15, pulse and specialty crop production was pegged at 6.19 million tonnes.
Total exports of the seven major specialty and pulse crops for 2015-16 were at 5.365 million tonnes, unchanged from the previous estimate. Exports in 2014-15 were pegged at 5.515 million tonnes, up slightly from 5.465 million tonnes in May.
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Domestic usage is expected to be 1.230 million tonnes for 2015-16, which was the same as last month’s estimate. For 2014-15, domestic usage was pegged at 1.170 million tonnes, which was down from 1.215 million in May.
Ag Canada made some slight adjustments to individual crop ending stocks figures for 2015-16, but the total remained unchanged from the last report at 490,000 tonnes. Ending stocks for 2014-15 were estimated at 365,000 tonnes.
These are June estimates for Canadian 2015-16 (Aug.-July) and 2014-15 pulse and special crop supply and demand. The numbers are in million tonnes.
