Insights and Stories on Pulses

May. 25, 2022 at 4:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A return to yields closer to long-range averages will result in greater production for most pulse crops in 2022-23, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s monthly outlook for principal field crops released last Friday. Many of the projections are based on the assumption that normal weather conditions will […]

By Adam Peleshaty

May. 19, 2022 at 7:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Overall spring planting across Saskatchewan reached 33 per cent complete as of Monday, according to the latest weekly crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Despite the good progress over the week, that’s still 20 points behind the five-year average. When compared to the excellent progress this time last year, […]

By MarketsFarm

May. 17, 2022 at 5:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With dry conditions dominating western and southwestern Saskatchewan and wet conditions prominent in the province’s east and northeast, at mid-May it remained early to consider switching pulse crops to something else, according to Carl Potts, executive director of Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. Overall, he said, spring planting throughout the […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

May. 11, 2022 at 1:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Tightening worldwide chickpea supplies could bode well for prices later this year, although Canadian acres will likely be down and there’s still a long growing season ahead. Canadian farmers intend to seed 175,200 acres of chickpeas in 2022, which would be down 5.5 per cent from the previous […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

May. 10, 2022 at 7:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Excessive moisture in the eastern Canadian Prairies this spring may cut into pea acres in the region, as producers like to get the crop in the ground early. Canadian farmers intended to plant 3.55 million acres of peas for the 2022-23 crop year, according to a report from […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin