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Excellent Lentil Harvest Progress

PANAMA - Aug 26/17 - SNS -- This year's harvest continued to make excellent progress during the past week, with the result processors and exporters have more than enough product on hand to meet opening season shipping commitments.

Importers are impressed with the new crop green lentil samples they era getting from Canada, but some still assert they will only buy on a lot sample approved basis because of concerns over the strictness of grading standards.

For their part, some processors and exporters worry that lentils that were bought as No 2 Canada in the closing weeks of the 2016-17 marketing year will be downgraded to No 3 Canada as the Canadian Grain Commission sees with more new crop samples.

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