Insights and Stories on Pulses

Aug. 1, 2017 at 4:05 pm CDT

CNS Canada – Hot and dry conditions cut into the yield potential and physical size of Canada’s chickpea crop, but the quality should be excellent while prices remain relatively strong. “It’s anybody’s guess,” said Colin Young, of Midwest Grain Ltd. in Saskatchewan on the overall state of the chickpea crop. […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 30, 2017 at 11:51 am CDT

Read more: Eyes on crops in Western Canada’s organic market 

By OrganicBiz

Jun. 30, 2017 at 11:51 am CDT

By Jade Markus OrganicBiz staff Western Canada’s organic crops are reaching a critical phase in the growing cycle, and despite trouble in areas of the Prairies, carryover from last year is keeping a lid on certain markets. “Alberta seems to be doing fairly well, they seem to be seeing timely […]

By OrganicBiz

Jun. 29, 2017 at 4:03 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– India has extended its Friday deadline on a requirement that all pulse shipments to that country be fumigated with methyl bromide — but it wasn’t quite the good news the Canadian pulse industry had hoped to hear. “India has basically extended the ability for exporters around the […]

By Terry Fries

Jun. 13, 2017 at 8:03 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Buyers, sellers and processors in Canada’s pulse sector are holding steady as an act of safeguarding themselves during a precarious time in the growing season. “People are just kind of buying what they need,” said David Newman of Commodious Trading, a Victoria-area company dealing with international trade […]

By Jade Markus