A table about Strong Start to Calendar 2007 Pea Exports . . . Subscribers Only

WINNIPEG - Mar 2/07 - STAT -- Visible supplies of field peas in Canada's licensed elevator system totalled 186,600 metric tons (MT) during the latest week under review by the Canadian Grain Commission for the 2006-07 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- International dry edible bean markets maintained their firm tone through the past week, helped by gains in some classes of North American beans. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- Lentil markets finished the week little changed in seasonally light trading conditions, but with a firmer undertone. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- International feed pea markets held their value during the past week despite general weakness in the feed ingredient complex. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- Chickpea markets were mainly unchanged in light trade during the past week across all shipping positions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- North American birdseed ingredients finished the week on a mixed note under relatively light trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 2/07 - SNS -- Field pea markets continued to strengthen during the past week against steady world demand and increasingly reluctant grower participation in markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 3/07 - SNS -- Asserting that Canada's two major railways were fined for handling too much grain in 2006 turned out to be a mildly controversial statement. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Mar 7/07 - SNS -- The Indian government removed all restrictions on the export of kabuli chickpeas, known in India as kabuli chana or dollar gram, under Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Notification No.52. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 7/07 - SNS -- Australian lentil growers will have two new ascochyta blight and botrytis grey mould lentil varieties available to them in 2008. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 7/07 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 9,580 metric tons (MT) of pulses for shipment as food aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 7/07 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here is seeking offers of 230 metric tons (MT) of dry edible beans for shipment as food aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about United Kingdom Feed Pulse Usage - Jan 2007 . . . Subscribers Only

WINNIPEG - Mar 9/07 - STAT -- Visible supplies of field peas in Canada's licensed elevator system totalled 200,000 metric tons (MT) during the latest week under review by the Canadian Grain Commission for the 2006-07 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 720 metric tons (MT) of dry edible beans for shipment as food aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- Dry edible bean markets remain firm on world markets, helped by rising prices in North America and limited new crop trading interest among Argentine exporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- International chickpeas markets finished the week little changed against relatively strong demand for kabuli types. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- Birdseed ingredient markets maintained their firm tone through the past week, with new crop markets for most product categories holding premiums to spot. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- International lentil markets finished the week on a firmer note against improved end-user demand for both red and green lentils. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- Feed pea markets experienced a mixed week in Europe, while firming in Canada as demand remains slightly ahead of available supplies from growers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 9/07 - SNS -- Field pea markets finished the week little changed, but with a firm undertone in both current and new crop markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Mar 12/07 - SNS -- The Indian government extended its ban on exports of all classes of pulses except kabuli chickpeas another year until March 31, 2008. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 14/07 - SNS -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States has set tolerances for combined residues of prothioconazole, prothioconazole-desthio and conjugates in a wide range of field crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 15/07 - SNS -- Field pea export activity from France picked up during January, rising above month earlier levels, but falling below year earlier levels, according data assembled by the Union Nationale Interprofessionnelle des Plantes Riches en Proteines (UNIP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 16/07 - STAT -- Visible supplies of field peas in Canada's licensed elevator system totalled 221,500 metric tons (MT) during the latest week under review by the Canadian Grain Commission for the 2006-07 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- North American field pea markets maintained their firm tone across the past week against ongoing export demand and reluctant grower selling. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- In its latest monthly review of Canadian chickpeas Agriculture Canada's market analysis branch in Winnipeg predicted production in Canada in 2007 will rise from 182,000 metric tons (MT) to 190,000. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- Lentil markets maintained their firm tone throughout the past week against relatively export buying interest and worries about North African crop conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- International dry edible bean markets continue to strengthen in the face of good demand and expectations of small harvests in Argentina and the United States this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- European feed pea markets finished the week on a stronger note in both spot and new crop shipping positions in both U.S. and local currency terms. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- Agriculture Canada expects total specialty crop seeded area in Canada in 2007 to be larger than first thought because of surging interest in growing field peas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 16/07 - SNS -- North American birdseed ingredient markets were generally unchanged to slightly weaker in sympathy with the major grains and oilseeds. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Mar 21/07 - SNS -- The Indian government will allow duty free pulse imports until March 31, 2008. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 21/07 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here is seeking offers of 27,480 metric tons (MT) of pulses for shipment as food aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 21/07 - STAT -- The total quantity of dry edible beans covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tenders this season now totals 15,470 MT, compared to 30,360 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 21/07 - STAT -- The quantity of peas and lentils covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tenders this season now totals 140,360 MT, compared to 153,820 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Mar 21/07 - STAT -- The latest USDA PL-480 tenders bring actual and potential purchases of pulses for shipment as food aid during the Sep-May shipping season to 155,830 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 22/07 - STAT -- Visible supplies of field peas in Canada's licensed elevator system totalled 243,700 metric tons (MT) during the latest week under review by the Canadian Grain Commission for the 2006-07 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- Plant breeders at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have developed a hybrid pigeonpea (red gram). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- India's Commerce and Industry Minister, Shri Kamal Nath, has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to look into the circumstances surrounding last year's decision to ban pulse exports and any potential "wrongdoing that might have been committed by some exporters." . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- Dry edible bean markets were nominally unchanged under relatively light trading conditions during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- International field pea markets continue to strengthen in the face of tightening supplies from North American shippers and Australia's short crop. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- Chickpea markets were little changed in light trade during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- Birdseed ingredient markets finished the week little changed to firmer in seasonally light trade. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- Feed pea markets in Europe continued to strengthen during the past week against expectations of a tighter supply situation in 2007-08. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 23/07 - SNS -- International lentil markets finished the week's trading on a generally firm tone under seasonally quiet trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 25/07 - SNS -- Pulse production levels in Thailand are expected to continue increasing on account of attractive farm gate prices and ongoing encouragement to seed pulses as a second crop to help fertilize rice fields. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 27/07 - SNS -- Pulse production levels in South Africa are ending up significantly lower than initially expected, pointing to a solid increase in import demand for the coming year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 28/07 - SNS -- Pulse traders in India believe the winter or rabi season chickpea harvest will be up 500,000 to one million metric tons (MT) smaller than expected because poor growing conditions in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 28/07 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) reports field exports in February totalled 124,400 metric tons (MT) through licensed terminal facilities, which are required to report to it all grain movement. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Special Crop Bid Summary - Mar 2007 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS --Dry edible bean growers in the United States intend to plant 1.50 million acres in 2007, down 8% from both last year and 2005, according to the USDA's seeding intentions estimates for 2007. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS --Chickpea seedings in the United States will not follow the expected pattern in Canada, according to the USDA's seeding intentions estimates for 2007. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Sunflower growers in the United States expect to plant a total of 1.80 million acres in 2007, down 8% from last year and down 34% from 2005, according to the USDA's seeding intentions estimates for 2007. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS --Interest in trowing lentils this year fell more sharply in the U.S. midwest than in the traditional production areas, according to the USDA's seeding intentions estimates for 2007. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Field peas are not being affected as much by strong potential returns for major grains and oilseeds as initially expected, according to the USDA's seeding intentions estimates for 2007. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Bean Production Estimates By State . . . Subscribers Only

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- The U.S. has the potential to produce 1.028 million metric tons (MT) of dry edible beans this year, based on the intention of growers in that country to seed 1.504 million acres of all classes of beans. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Sunflower stocks in all positions on March 1, 2007 totaled 1.09 billion pounds, down 33% from March 1, 2006, according to the USDA's March 1 stocks in all positions estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Land dedicated to pulses will decline this year if growers follow through on seeding intentions reported to the USDA in March. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 30/07 - STAT -- Visible supplies of field peas in Canada's licensed elevator system totalled 226,700 metric tons (MT) during the latest week under review by the Canadian Grain Commission for the 2006-07 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Few changes were noted on North American birdseed ingredient markets during the past week, with markets remaining generally worried about how much of these crops will be sown this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- North American chickpea markets finished the week little changed, with markets now wondering about how much land will end up in the crop this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Field pea markets remained firm under relatively steady trading conditions during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- International dry edible bean markets were generally firmer in light trading interest during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- Feed peas found it increasingly difficult to compete against other ingredients in the face of a strong market reaction to Friday's USDA seeding intentions report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Mar 30/07 - SNS -- North American lentils continue to firm during the past week against tightening stocks in both Canada and the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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