Insights and Stories on Lentils

Aug. 3, 2021 at 2:29 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty Glacier FarmMedia staff The historic hot and dry summer in the Prairies has left many crops, conventional and organic, stunted and damaged, in turn raising prices and hastening harvests. “Some of the farmers have already started combining peas and lentils…yields are going to be down,” said Jason […]

By OrganicBiz

Jul. 28, 2021 at 9:02 am CDT

MarketsFarm – If Manitoba’s pea harvest is any indication, the province’s pulse crops will be largely deteriorated by the hot and dry weather affecting all of Western Canada, according to Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers executive director Daryl Domitruk. “It has affected (pulses) like it has affected most of the […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Jul. 20, 2021 at 7:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Prices for pulses, such as lentils for example, have been approaching the point where they are good for growers but getting too expensive for the destination markets, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Mercaris Commodities. “It’s a kind of an interesting scenario, where you see farmers not selling and […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Jul. 14, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As hot and dry weather, especially in Western Canada, have wrought havoc on Canadian pulse crops and raised prices, it’s also becoming more difficult to export pulses overseas. Shipping containers, in which 30 per cent of Canada’s peas and more than 50 per cent of Canada’s lentils are […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Jul. 6, 2021 at 8:16 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The “heat dome” which enveloped Western Canada last week delivered a blow to Saskatchewan’s pulse crops. Thirty-four temperature records were shattered on Friday, including those at Regina, Prince Albert, Swift Current, Weyburn and Yorkton. Saskatoon and Lucky Lake, northeast of Swift Current, were the province’s hot spots that […]

By Adam Peleshaty