Pulse market report
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers has launched a 16-month initiative to provide lentil producers with monthly market information.
The first edition of SPG’s Green Lentil Market Report was mailed last month to Saskatchewan lentil producers who have sold lentils in the past two years.
Subsequent editions will also be available on the group’s website.
The report offers technical data and market commentary aimed at assisting growers with production and marketing decisions.
Brian Clancey of STAT Publishing will provide technical data for the report, which includes supply and demand information, stock and use ratios and prices by market class.
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Market commentaries will be solicited from key Canadian green lentil traders, brokers and Pulse Canada.
Joins canola council
Arvel Lawson has been named the Canola Council of Canada’s crop production program manager.
In her new position, Lawson will work on canola council and canola industry programs that focus on achieving the industry’s production target of 15 million tonnes by 2015.
She will also lead the council’s export ready program and co-ordinate information transfer of canola agronomic research results and other projects such as the anti-clubroot initiative.
Lawson grew up on a farm in south-central Manitoba and received a bachelor of science degree in agriculture from the University of Manitoba in 2002.
She completed a master of science program at the University of Manitoba in May 2005. The primary focus of her research was an on-farm study investigating the emergence, timing and management of volunteer canola in spring wheat fields.
Before joining the canola council, Lawson worked with Manitoba Agriculture as a farm production adviser and more recently as the business development specialist for oilseeds with the Crops Knowledge Centre in Carman, Man.ÂÂ
Her new position will be based out of Winnipeg.
KAP elections
Keystone Agricultural Producers has a new president.
Ian Wishart was elected as KAP president last month following the organization’s annual general meeting.
Wishart, who had previously served four years as KAP vice-president, runs a mixed farm operation near Portage la Prairie, Man.
His areas of interest and expertise include environmental issues, education finance and business risk management.
Also last month, Robert McLean, a grain and livestock farmer from Manitou, Man., was elected to serve his third one-year term as KAP vice-president.
He continues to be involved in rail and highway transportation issues and sits on KAP’s livestock committee.
Rob Brunel, a grain and oilseeds farmer from Ste. Rose du Lac, Man., was elected to his first term as vice-president.
He chairs KAP’s young farmers committee and is the Manitoba-Saskatchewan representative on the Canadian Young Farmers Forum.
