Insights and Stories on Pulses

Jan. 31, 2020 at 6:38 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Pulse Canada has undertaken a survey of pea and lentil growers to gauge the sector’s environmental footprint and to provide data for a public repository. The survey is a joint project with Alberta Pulse Growers, SaskPulse and Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers. The survey is a life cycle […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Jan. 31, 2020 at 12:56 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin MarketsFarm/Glacier FarmMedia staff  The demand for organic grains and other crops continues to grow in Canada, but production increases have outpaced that demand and burdensome stocks may limit prices for some crops until more balance returns to the market. The middle of winter is always a slower […]

By OrganicBiz

Jan. 29, 2020 at 6:18 pm CST

MarketsFarm — There has been a marked decline in the amount of pulses grown by farmers in Ukraine over the last couple of years, highlighted in an article written for the Global Pulse Confederation by Sergey Feofilov, director general of UkrAgroConsult. Feofilov noted total pulse production in Ukraine dropped almost […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Jan. 24, 2020 at 4:22 pm CST

Winnipeg/Zurich | Reuters — Food company Nestle SA said on Friday it has teamed up with small Canadian plant-based food ingredient makers Burcon and Merit Functional Foods, the second such supply agreement this month that targets Canadian crops. Meat substitutes from plants in burgers, nuggets and many other foods are […]

By Rod Nickel, Silke Koltrowitz

Jan. 24, 2020 at 1:41 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin