Insights and Stories on Pulses

May. 29, 2020 at 9:39 am CDT

By Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm  Glacier FarmMedia staff After more than two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the consensus among several people in the organic grain industry is that prices haven’t changed a great deal. Scott Shiels of Grain Millers in Yorkton, Sask. said demand did increase with the onset of […]

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May. 26, 2020 at 4:43 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Chickpea prices have recovered slightly from lows hit around the end of 2019, but they’re still a long way off historic highs from years past. Ahead of the 2018 growing season, chickpea prices were around 50 to 60 cents/lb. for growers, according to Darwin Hamilton of Kalshea Commodities […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

May. 14, 2020 at 9:49 am CDT

By Karen Briere Glacier FarmMedia staff Organic grain premiums are holding up so far in the COVID-19 world, according to Mercaris. The data service and trading platform for organic grains is an American company that focuses on corn, soybeans and wheat in both food and feed markets but has recently […]

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May. 6, 2020 at 6:00 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Opinions are wide-ranging on what Canadian farmers plan to plant in 2020, ahead of Statistics Canada’s first round of acreage estimates, due out Thursday. Prior to lockdown measures put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, StatsCan was scheduled to release its first principal field crops area report […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

May. 1, 2020 at 1:49 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin Glacier FarmMedia staff Markets for North American organic grains held reasonably steady in April, despite the COVID-19 pandemic roiling the conventional grains and oilseeds. “There’s really no volatility at all, month over month,” said Jason Charles, of Minneapolis-based Pipeline Foods. “Demand in the environment we’re in has […]

By OrganicBiz