VIDEO: 2025 pulse and special crops convention kicks off in Whistler

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Western Producer reporter Sean Pratt is in Whistler, B.C., covering the 2025 annual Pulse & Special Crops Convention.

Follow along at producer.com in the coming days and weeks as Sean’s coverage of the event is posted. Links to all coverage can be found below the video.

Other coverage from the 2025 Pulse and Special Crops Convention:

Chickpea harvest forecasts see big disparity
Traders forecast record lentil yields for Canada
High pea yields shock farmers
Working groups established to address challenges in the containerized and bulk movement of commodities
Geopolitics can change trade routes
U.S. market can’t easily be replaced

About the author

Sean Pratt has been working at The Western Producer since 1993 after graduating from the University of Regina’s School of Journalism. Sean also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and worked in a bank for a few years before switching careers. Sean primarily writes markets and policy stories about the grain industry and has attended more than 100 conferences over the past three decades. He has received awards from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation, North American Agricultural Journalists and the American Agricultural Editors Association.