Insights and Stories on Lentils

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC forecasts larger dry pea, lentil crops

Jan. 23, 2024 at 3:22 pm CST

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada forecasted increases in the production of dry peas and lentils for the 2024/25 crop year compared to those in 2023/24. AAFC issued its first supply and demand report for the calendar year on Jan. 22, which included the department’s preliminary estimates for the coming crop year. The data was not based on farmer surveys or satellite models.

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse Canada looking for success in 2024

Jan. 9, 2024 at 4:19 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm

Most lentil prices at year highs as 2023 closes

Jan. 2, 2024 at 3:07 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Organic price quotes: Late December

Jan. 2, 2024 at 9:26 am CST

By OrganicBiz

Tight Canadian lentil carryout expected

Dec. 19, 2023 at 10:58 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

AAFC raises canola, wheat ending stocks forecasts

Dec. 15, 2023 at 4:35 pm CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian canola and wheat carryout for the 2023/24 marketing year will likely end up above earlier projections, according to the latest Outlook for Principal Field Crops from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released Dec. 15.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Organic price quotes: Late November

Dec. 1, 2023 at 12:14 pm CST

READ MORE: ‘Long winter’ ahead for organic growers

By OrganicBiz

Pulse weekly outlook: Pea exports solid so far, lentils down on year

Nov. 7, 2023 at 6:25 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian pea exports are running at a solid pace through the first two months of the 2023-24 marketing year, despite smaller production, as exports of newly-harvested supplies in September nearly quadrupled what moved the previous month. Canada exported 440,085 tonnes of peas in September, up from only 99,645 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Little change in AAFC’s October supply/demand outlook

Oct. 24, 2023 at 5:55 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Supply/demand estimates for Canadian grains and oilseeds saw little change in the latest outlook for principal field crops from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released Monday. Canola ending stocks for 2023-24 were left unchanged at one million tonnes, which compares with the 2022-23 level of 1.506 million tonnes. […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pulse weekly outlook: Smaller yields than last year in Saskatchewan

Oct. 11, 2023 at 7:40 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Yields and crop conditions from this year’s pulse harvest in Saskatchewan largely varied by location, according to SaskPulse executive director Carl Potts. “Generally on the east side of the province and some areas of the south, some pretty good yields. And then in the west-central, southwest regions, some […]

By Adam Peleshaty