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CGC Reports Slower May Pea Export

WINNIPEG - Jun 28/12 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) reports 123,900 metric tons (MT) field pea were exported through licensed terminal facilities which are required to report to it all grain movement in May. The CGC data does not include exports in containers or from non-reporting terminals.

The CGC reports exports are down from the 200,200 MT shipped the same month last year but up from the 99,900 MT shipped the previous month.

So far during the 2011-12 marketing year, 1,438,500 MT of peas have been exported through terminals reporting to the CGC, versus 2,234,400 MT the previous season. So far this calendar year, pea exports total 410,700 MT, versus 1,062,400 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.

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