By Commodity News Service Canada
Sept 22 (CNS Canada) – An Oregon grain company is looking at the possibility of building a pulse processing plant near Plentywood, Montana, just across the border from Saskatchewan.
Columbia Grain said it plans to build a new facility to process peas and lentils, which would require double the supply it now buys. It currently contracts with 150 farmers in the area to feed its existing plant, which it opened in 2005. The new plant would operate next to Columbia’s train loading facilities and is scheduled to open in July 2018. The existing processing plant would stay open, said Columbia.
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The following is a random sample of grower bids for selected pulse crops grown in Western Canada, according to Stat Publishing at www.statpub.com. Prices are for farmers dressed, delivered to cleaning plant:
– No. 1 large green lentils: 37–48 c/lb.
– No. 1 medium green lentils: 37-38 c/lb.
– No. 2 large green lentils: 35–46 c/lb.
– No. 2 medium green lentils: 32–35 c/lb.
– No. 1 Kabuli chickpeas, 10 mm: 69-70 c/lb.
– No. 1 Kabuli chickpeas, 8 mm: 63-64 c/lb.
– No. 1 green field peas: 8-8.75 $/bu.
– No. 2 green field peas: 7.25-8.75 $/bu.
– No. 1 medium yellow peas: 7.30-7.80 $/bu.
About 80 per cent of India’s kharif crops, those harvested next spring, are seeded. About 4.7 million acres of crop land in flood-affected areas are likely to be seeded later, once waters recede. Despite floods in some areas and drought in others, total seeded area for the kharif crop had increased by about three per cent so far. The overall acreage for all pulses is also higher, except tur.
