Insights and Stories on Peas

Pulse Weekly: Looking at price shifts in 2024

Dec. 17, 2024 at 3:54 pm CST

Pulses in Canada had quite the year in 2024 with prices closing out the calendar year in the middle of their trading ranges. Production was higher on the year for most pulses. Dry pea output in Canada rose to just short of three million tonnes, up from the 2.61 million harvested in 2023, according to the Statistics Canada principal field crop report issued Dec. 5.

More wheat, less canola in 2024/25 says Statistics Canada

Dec. 5, 2024 at 1:23 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Only small changes in latest AAFC estimates

Nov. 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse Weekly: Growing interest in pulse crops from Manitoba farmers

Nov. 18, 2024 at 3:40 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Alberta harvest wraps up

Oct. 28, 2024 at 11:28 am CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Canadian Grain Commission releases August export report

Oct. 8, 2024 at 3:11 pm CDT

The Canadian Grain Commission's monthly report on grain exports for August 2024 - the first month of the 2024/25 marketing year.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse Weekly: Yellow peas slip as India pauses levy cut

Oct. 8, 2024 at 3:02 pm CDT

Yellow pea bids in Western Canada are coming under pressure, while green pea prices hold steady.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Combine harvester working on a wheat crop at sunset

Alberta harvest well ahead of five-year average

Oct. 4, 2024 at 4:13 pm CDT

Harvest progress in Alberta reached 85 per cent complete as of Oct. 1, progressing 11 points on the week, according to the latest provincial crop report.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Combining in Saskatchewan ahead of five-year average

Oct. 3, 2024 at 3:25 pm CDT

Harvesting in Saskatchewan is in the home stretch as warm and dry conditions for the week ended Sept. 30 saw a 12-point gain to 91 per cent complete, the provincial agriculture department reported.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Merit Foods pays off operating lender, no deal yet for plant

Dec. 4, 2023 at 9:38 am CST

A Winnipeg pea and canola protein processor in receivership since this spring remains mothballed for now with no firm buyer — but has paid off one of its three secured creditors. Merit Functional Foods, which entered receivership March 1 after just two years’ operation, has sold all its remaining finished […]

By Dave Bedard