Bulk Pea Export Gap Widens

WINNIPEG - Apr 4/12 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) reports 39,000 metric tons (MT) field pea were exported through licensed terminal facilities which are required to report to it all grain movement in February -- widening the gap between this and last season's export movement. The CGC data does not include exports in containers or from non-reporting terminals.

The CGC reports exports are down from the 257,700 MT shipped the same month last year and up from the 33,500 MT shipped the previous month.

So far during the 2011-12 marketing year, 1,100,200 MT of peas have been exported through terminals reporting to the CGC, versus 1,578,400 MT the previous season. So far this calendar year, pea exports total 72,500 MT, versus 406,400 last year. Field pea exports during the full 2011 calendar year were 2,317,000 MT, compared to 2,112,100 in 2010 and 1,726,800 in 2009.

Of field peas exported in February, 37,900 MT moved through terminal elevators in Vancouver; none through other ports; and 1,100 MT direct from Prairie elevators. The CGC does not report on exports through cleaning plants or in containers.