Canadian pulse exports were down in June, but remain solid with one month left in the 2024-25 marketing year, according to Statistics Canada.
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Pulse Weekly: Exports down month-to-month
Exports for 2024-25 remain solid
Why crops lodge: a crop-by-crop discussion
Practical Research: Stormy summer weather is one thing, but lodging in a moist, calm growing season is something else
Why would we have lodging of seemingly well-growing crops during grain formation in good moist growing seasons, in the absence of significant winds, but little or no lodging in dry or drought conditions?
Pulse Weekly: AAFC revises data for largest pulse crops
Prairie cash prices stand pat
As pulse crops across the country continue to develop, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada updated its estimates for dry peas and lentils. AAFC issued its July supply and demand report on July 21.
Canada’s foreign affairs minister spoke with Chinese counterpart, federal government says
Canada's minister of foreign affairs spoke with her Chinese counterpart while in Malaysia last week, the federal government said.
Pulse Weekly: Conditions vary across Saskatchewan
Weather, lack of moisture affecting crops
Pulse conditions in Saskatchewan are varied across the province with the worst-faring crops located in the western half.
Timing a fungicide for mycosphaerella blight in peas
It pays to know whether and when to spray
Knowing what kind of blight is in your pea field — before firing up the sprayer — can help you avoid an expensive mistake, as just one of the two common blights affecting peas can be treated with a fungicide.
Pulse weekly: U.S. pulse area up in 2025
Stocks also higher
Farmers in the United States expect to grow more pulses in 2025, with areas planted to peas, lentils, chickpeas and edible beans all up on the year in the latest acreage data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released June 30.
Pulse Weekly: Manitoba beans, peas in good shape
Keeping on crop development over next few weeks
Dry beans and field peas are in good shape so far in 2025, said Daryl Domitruk, executive director for Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers.
AAFC makes more adjustments to canola numbers
Also changes dry pea data
With exports of Canadian canola still going strong in 2024/25, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada readjusted its estimates in its June supply and demand report.
Could trap crops help fend off lygus in faba beans?
A study explores how bracketing crops such as safflower or sunflower could help manage lygus in faba fields
The idea under study here is simple: plant something even more attractive than faba beans along the field edge, draw lygus in and hit them with an insecticide before they move on.
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