CGC Details January Pea Exports

WINNIPEG - Feb 28/07 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) reports field exports in January totalled 96,400 metric tons (MT) through licensed terminal facilities, which are required to report to it all grain movement.

This is up from the 80,300 MT shipped the same month last year and down from the 120,600 MT shipped the previous month. The CGC reports field pea exports so far during the 2006-07 marketing total 940,900 MT, down from 1,161,600 MT the first six months of the previous season.

Of total peas shipped in January, all moved through terminal elevators in Vancouver. So far this marketing year, exporters have shipped 728,500 MT from Vancouver; 65,600 MT via Churchill; 97,400 MT through facilities in Thunder Bay; 24,500 MT from Quebec; 24,800 MT out of Sorel; and 100 MT directly from western Canadian primary elevators.

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