Pulses & Production Tips

Chocolate chip cookie dough made with chickpea flour. Pulse starches are being explored for use in batters, breading, pastas and various snack foods.

Starch market search yields results for pulses

Food scientists look to improve pulse crops’ value proposition beyond their proteins

By Janelle Rudolph February 9, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — Protein is normally the focus of pulse production, but research shows value can also be gained from the starch byproduct. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are seeking new uses for pulse starches in the food and biomaterial sectors. Byproduct market research aims to reduce food waste, increase efficiency and add more […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Research lights up pulse flours’ specific properties

A project uses Saskatoon’s synchrotron to dissect the best flours for given food uses

By Janelle Rudolph February 9, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — Pulses have a niche in the plant protein space, but the industry hopes new markets and new end-uses will help those crops expand their footprint. Chitra Sivakumar, a doctoral researcher at the University of Manitoba, is one of the people trying to make that happen. In a recent project, she and her […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Canola stocks shrink, wheat nudges up

StatCan issues stock report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 7, 2025

With a decline of 19.2 per cent, total canola stocks in Canada dropped from a year ago, while all wheat stocks bumped up 0.9 per cent, Statistics Canada reported on Feb. 7.

Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Pulse Canada asks for ‘predictable, fair and equitable’ trade

Cherewyk gives reminder of Canada-U.S. relationship

By Adam Peleshaty February 4, 2025

Pulse Canada president Greg Cherewyk said his organization will promote fair trade with its U.S. counterparts despite lingering tariffs.

Lentils, Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Supply and demand ‘sideways’ says broker

‘If prices move up, they move up big time, but they won’t drop overnight’

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 28, 2025

Lentil prices on the Canadian Prairies were steady in late-January, which a broker noted is typical for this time of year. Marcos Mosnaim of Prairie IX said the forces of supply and demand are standing pat, leading to no price fluctuations.

Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly: Slight Canadian acreage shifts expected in 2025

More peas and lentils, less chickpeas and beans

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 21, 2025

Total Canadian pulse plantings are expected to hold relatively steady in 2025, with Canadian farmers seeding more peas and lentils while cutting area to chickpeas and edible beans, according to early estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released Jan. 20.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, News, Oats, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat

AAFC forecasts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2025

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 20, 2025

Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and coarse grains in 2025 at the expense of oilseeds, according to the first supply/demand projections for the 2025/26 marketing year from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Jan. 20.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Feds’ conditions not near enough to alleviate concerns

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2025

The National Farmers Union denounced the approval of the Bunge-Viterra merger in a statement released on Jan. 17. The NFU said the multi-billion dollar deal “effectively ends competition in Canada’s agricultural commodity sector,” as it creates the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader, and it will control 40 per cent of the Canadian grain market.

Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Edible bean prices firming up

By Adam Peleshaty January 14, 2025

Edible bean prices in Manitoba are on the rise despite the threat of tariffs on Canadian imports from United States president-elect Donald Trump as soon as he takes office later this month.

Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: India extends duty-free period

But two months not enough to spur price increases

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 7, 2025

Canadian yellow pea producers may have received something of a Christmas present from the Indian government late last month, as the duty-free period for India’s yellow pea imports was extended from Dec. 31 to Feb. 28.

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Sigurdson applauds Alberta farmers

U.S. grains: Soy, corn dip on farmer selling; U.S.-China trade talks in focus

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures plunge daily limits on beef price fears

Pulses

Starch market search yields results for pulses

Research lights up pulse flours’ specific properties

Canola stocks shrink, wheat nudges up

Pulse Weekly: Pulse Canada asks for ‘predictable, fair and equitable’ trade

Pulse Weekly: Supply and demand ‘sideways’ says broker

Pulse weekly: Slight Canadian acreage shifts expected in 2025

AAFC forecasts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2025

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Pulse Weekly: Edible bean prices firming up

Pulse Weekly: India extends duty-free period

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