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Indiana-based Enjoy Life Foods in 2012 launched Plentils, a high-protein snack product made with lentil powder and billed as “chips with benefits.” (EnjoyLifeFoods.com)

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 22, 2017

A new market development goal for Canada’s pulse crop industry hopes to create demand in use categories where pulses aren’t yet a major player. Pulse Canada’s board on Wednesday released a new target dubbed “25 by 2025,” under which the Canadian pulse crop grower/processor industry “will marshal its resources to create new demand in new […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Reuters, Weather

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

By GFM Network News December 5, 2016

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Planting more lentils, chickpeas and other pulses will improve the health of the world’s soils that have reached critical levels, threatening to worsen hunger and poverty levels, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. About a third of the world’s soils are degraded because of soil […] Read more

Crop Diagnostic School organizers seeded plots to demonstrate the impact of different treatment on plant growth. Plots were planted with or without inoculant, with or without nitrogen, and one plot had inoculant, nitrogen, and phosphorus. This photo of peas is with no inoculant, no nitrogen. (see more photos at bottom of page)

Crops, Features, Pulses

The basics of pulse nodulation

Nodulation 101: how pulse crops work with bacteria to fix their own nitrogen

By Leeann Minogue October 25, 2016

At Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Crop Diagnostic School at Swift Current in July, a lot of the in-field real estate was devoted to plots of lentils and peas. Organizers had seeded plots of both crops with and without nitrogen, and with and without inoculant. These plots gave Garry Hnatowich, research director at Saskatchewan’s Irrigation Crop Diversification Corporation […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Pulse desiccant dos and don’ts

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Carolyn Ruzicka August 5, 2016

The devil’s in the details when it comes time to desiccate your pea, lentils and chickpeas. And with pulses worth more than they’ve ever been, it pays to have as smooth a harvest as possible. Here are a few fundamentals to keep in mind: The first step is to determine the natural maturity of the […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Chickpeas see good start to a long season

By GFM Network News June 28, 2016

CNS Canada –– Canadian chickpeas have a long season to go, but so far the crops look like they’re in it for the long haul. “We have a fair amount of chickpeas in and they look phenomenal, they’re in full flower and looking as healthy and as good as a chickpea crop can at this […] Read more

Richardson Pioneer agronomist Jeneen Ewen shared this photo with us last summer showing what turned out to be stemphylium blight in a southwestern Saskatchewan lentil crop.

Crops, Pulses

Guenther: Farmers aim to keep pulse diseases in check

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News June 27, 2016

Rain makes grain, the saying goes — but too much spring rain and farmers are likely to see disease in pulses. That’s certainly been the case in Saskatchewan, where farmers in most regions are actively scouting for, or in some cases spraying for, crop diseases, according to the provincial crop report. So which leaf diseases […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

More pulse acres expected to affect handling dynamics

By GFM Network News June 14, 2016

CNS Canada –– Canadian grain handlers are curious how dynamics and timing in the rail freight sector will be managed in the upcoming season, given an expected boost in pulse crop production . For the moment, however, Prairie grain movement has dropped to seasonal lows. This year’s pulse area will likely be the largest on record, according to early estimates […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canada’s pulse acres set to rise, wheat likely lower

By GFM Network News April 19, 2016

CNS Canada –– Early seeding operations are already underway in parts of Western Canada, and the general sentiment is that farmers are planting more peas and lentils at the expense of most everything else. Statistics Canada releases its first survey-based acreage estimates of the year on Thursday. “I think we’ll see a surge in pulse […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Other Manitoba pulses may eat edible beans’ lunch

By GFM Network News March 24, 2016

CNS Canada –– As insatiable demand for lentils, peas and other major pulses grows louder, so do expectations for more pulses to be planted in Manitoba. When it comes to edible beans, however, acreage is expected to go down slightly, not up. “We’re probably going to be around the 110,000-acre range — a bit down […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Growers plan to plant pulses, but seeds scarce

By GFM Network News March 11, 2016

CNS Canada — Farmers are eager to grow peas and lentils this year, but sourcing those seeds could prove difficult, according an industry group official. “We have heard that given the expected increase in area for both peas and lentils this year, the availability of good-quality seed could be a challenge,” said Carl Potts of […] Read more

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Tag Archives pulse crops

Pulse crop strategy aims to broaden pulse demand

Lentils, chickpeas can help reverse soil erosion trend, U.N. says

The basics of pulse nodulation

Pulse desiccant dos and don’ts

Chickpeas see good start to a long season

Guenther: Farmers aim to keep pulse diseases in check

More pulse acres expected to affect handling dynamics

Canada’s pulse acres set to rise, wheat likely lower

Other Manitoba pulses may eat edible beans’ lunch

Growers plan to plant pulses, but seeds scarce

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