The chief executive officer of a major Canadian pulse buyer and exporter said Sept. 21 he is closely watching political developments between Canada and India. Murad Al-Katib from AGT Foods told reporters in Regina that waiting and watching is about all the agriculture sector can do right now. He said geopolitical risks are a major […] Read more
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Wild varieties may hold disease resistance key
Wild cousins of domesticated crops may hold the key to new genetic traits that could help crops thrive in various conditions or stave off diseases and insect pests.Sabine Banniza is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan where she holds the Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program (SRP) Chair in Pulse Crop Pathology. She has […] Read more
India’s food inflation battle brightens pea, lentil outlook
Mike Jubinville is bullish peas and lentils despite what he believes is an underestimated Canadian crop. “I don’t feel farmers need to be in an aggressive stance of doing sales right now,” said the MarketsFarm analyst. India has had a disappointing monsoon season. The government has placed export restrictions on rice and wheat, and pulse […] Read more
Average pulse yields expected to fall this year
The first Canadian pea and lentil yield estimates are out, and they are not encouraging. Chuck Penner, analyst with LeftField Commodity Research, provided his initial forecast in a July 31 article he wrote for Alberta Pulse Growers’ Pulse Market Insight publication. He based his estimates on crop ratings provided by Alberta Agriculture and Saskatchewan Agriculture […] Read more
Pulse sector lowers targets on new-use demand
Industry had originally wanted to create two million tonnes of North American demand for whole split pulses by 2025
Pulse Canada is revamping its market development targets after falling short of its previous goals. In 2018, the organization announced its 25 by 2025 program, a crop-specific strategy for creating demand in new use categories for 25 percent of Canada’s pulses. The goal was to create two million tonnes of new North American demand for […] Read more
AIM23: Come see the science that’s continuing to transform farming
Today’s cutting edge crop science could seem an intimidating matter, involving chemistry, biology and physics well beyond the elementary stuff most of us struggled with in high school. But it’s very, very easy to see and feel the excitement and enthusiasm of the folks who dedicate their careers and lives to developing new solutions and […] Read more
India lifts additional duty, re-opens pulse market to U.S.
American exporters are not expected to offer much competition in the lentil market this year because of supply shortages
India is removing the additional duties it has been charging on U.S. peas and lentils since 2018. The 10 percent additional duty on U.S. chickpeas and 20 percent on U.S. lentils were part of a retaliatory package of tariffs in response to the U.S. increasing duties on certain steel and aluminum products from India. “After […] Read more
India lifts duty on U.S. peas and lentils
The U.S. was shipping 300,000 to 350,000 tonnes of pulses to India annually prior to the tariffs. That trade has completely evaporated.
Lentil shipments to Turkey expected to shrink
Soaring interest rates and a bigger crop will likely dampen the country’s appetite for imported lentils this year
Turkey’s big lentil crop and growing financial woes are going to hurt shipments to Canada’s top market, says a Turkish processor of the crop. Growers in that country planted more acres than last year, and yields appear to be about 25 percent higher, said Tuba Memis, general manager of Memisoglu Tarim-TAT, one of the largest […] Read more
Lentil shipments to Turkey expected to shrink
Soaring interest rates and a bigger crop will likely dampen the country’s appetite for imported lentils this year.
