Insights and Stories on Chickpeas

Pulse weekly outlook: StatCan report likely won’t affect prices

May. 9, 2023 at 7:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada (StatCan) on Tuesday released its report on grain stocks at March 31, with MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville suggesting there’s not much to the report. “It’s one of those [reports] where people look at it and move on,” he said. StatCan’s report pegged total farm and […]

Pulse weekly outlook: Seeding to start in Manitoba, Saskatchewan

May. 2, 2023 at 1:35 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Larger pea, chickpea exports expected

Apr. 25, 2023 at 3:49 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Slow start to Saskatchewan spring

Apr. 11, 2023 at 8:11 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Steady world trade expected in 2023

Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:29 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC report makes minor changes

Feb. 21, 2023 at 3:41 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Following the latest supply and demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville said their numbers “all seem reasonable enough.” There were only a handful of small tweaks to pulses in the AAFC report released Friday. For the most part, the revisions came […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea stocks down; lentils, dry peas up

Feb. 7, 2023 at 7:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada on Tuesday tallied up increases in commercial and on-farm stocks of both lentils and dry peas, in its report on grain stocks as of Dec. 31, 2022. Unlike those two pulses, however, StatCan reported total stocks of chickpeas decreased, at 185,000 tonnes in December 2022 compared […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices up ahead of India harvest

Jan. 24, 2023 at 2:37 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Western Canadian chickpea prices are still on the rise while prices for other pulse crops are coming down as supply increases. High-delivered bids for Kabuli and B-90 types of chickpeas rose four cents per pound over the past week, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire on Jan. 23. As […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: Smaller-than-expected lentil crop may limit exports

Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:00 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Smaller-than-expected Canadian lentil production in 2022-23 could limit the country’s export potential going forward, according to an official with Pulse Canada reacting to the latest production estimates. The report from Statistics Canada (StatCan) released Friday contains the first survey-based production estimates of the 2022-23 marketing year, while previous […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC revises dry pea projections

Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:49 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Among the changes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) made in its November supply and demand report, issued Friday, the most notable were among the dry peas. The revisions that stood out the most were 2022-23 dry pea exports being cut by 200,000 tonnes at 2.5 million, while domestic […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm