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Pulse weekly outlook: Large U.S. crop possible, despite reduced acres

By GFM Network News May 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Farmers in the U.S. may have planted fewer pulse acres in 2018 compared to the previous year — but the reduction was likely not as large as forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A return to average yields would also still result in big supplies overall, after poor crops in 2017, […] Read more

A Flipkart office in Bangalore in 2014. The e-commerce company, founded in 2007, began by selling books and has now branched out into a wide range of products. (VasukiRao/iStock/Getty Images)

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Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

By GFM Network News May 10, 2018

New Delhi | Reuters — A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped. Walmart said on Wednesday it would […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan acreage ideas hold firm

By GFM Network News May 2, 2018

CNS Canada — Disruptions in marketing to India may have cut into prices for peas and lentils over the past year, but farmers in Saskatchewan did not shift their pulse acreage intentions for 2018 all that much according to the results of Statistics Canada’s latest survey, released Friday. Saskatchewan farmers intend to seed 2.171 million […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas

Confusion surrounds India’s latest pea import curb

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News April 27, 2018

The fine detail in the announcement of a new cap on pea imports into India has led to new uncertainty over whether the cap applies to yellow peas, or all peas. India’s commerce and industry ministry announced Wednesday that pea imports between April 1 and June 30 this year are now restricted to a total […] Read more

Crops, Peas

India further restricts yellow pea imports

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News April 25, 2018

India has restricted yellow pea imports until the end of June, according to an official statement from the Indian government. In a release to be published Wednesday in the Gazette of India, the Indian government restricted yellow pea imports from April 1 to June 30. In that time only one lakh tonne (100,000 tonnes) of […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Prairie lentils look for spark

By GFM Network News April 24, 2018

CNS Canada — It’s not exactly a banner time for the lentil market. Prices have been steady to slightly lower over the past month as lacklustre interest and Indian tariffs on peas and chickpeas have largely dissuaded farmers from planting pulses in general. “I think the impact and extension of the impact of the Indian […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Monsoon outlook bearish for Canadian crop

By GFM Network News April 18, 2018

CNS Canada — India is forecasting an average monsoon rainfall this year, making the chance of India importing Canadian pulse crops slim. “Given the tariff scheme and the protectionist attitudes India has displayed this year, I think it will take a major weather influence to hurry up the correction to (imports),” said Marlene Boersch, managing […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: India not a guaranteed market

By GFM Network News March 13, 2018

CNS Canada — Despite positive developments between Canada and India in regards to pulse crops, the CEO of Pulse Canada is warning producers not to rely on India as market for pulses. “India is not the market that it was eight months ago and it emphasizes the need to find alternate markets,” Gordon Bacon said. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Alberta pea area tries to hang on

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — Despite a drop in spot prices due to tariffs imposed by India on peas, one industry expert says she isn’t convinced that means acreage will drastically be reduced in Alberta this spring. “I think we’ll see a little bit of a drop, but I don’t think it will be as impactful as […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

India hikes chickpea duty again

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News March 1, 2018

CNS Canada — The Indian government has raised its import tariff for chickpeas for a second time, this time from 40 per cent to 60 per cent. The government said Thursday in the Gazette of India its tariff is to be imposed immediately, due to circumstances which make it necessary to take immediate action. Reuters […] Read more

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Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

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