KANSAS CITY - Aug 2/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here increased the volume of pulses covered by outstanding PL-480 food aid tenders by 5,250 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 3/00 - STAT -- The latest monthly export trade data issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed shipments of chickpeas during the current marketing year are running roughly 95,000 MT ahead of last season's totals. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 3/00 - STAT -- Working with private aid organizations, the USDA pledged further it would buy more dry edible beans and buckwheat for shipment to the regions of the former Soviet Union. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SUN VALLEY - Aug 3/00 - STAT -- A major increase in dry edible bean ending stocks is in the cards for processors, growers and exporters in the United States, judging from numbers release at this year's 5th annual U.S. Dry Bean Convention here. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 4/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets managed a minor improvement in average prices under generally quiet trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 4/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets were generally easier in North American during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 4/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets were again dominated by strong demand for red lentils for shipment to Turkey and Egypt. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 4/00 - STAT -- International field peas markets ended the week unchanged in light trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PARIS - Aug 8/00 - STAT -- French field pea exports are on track to reach or exceed a targetted 1.06 million MT during the 1999-00 marketing year, judging from the latest sales statistics compiled by the Union Nationale Interprofessionnelle des Plantes Riches en Proteines. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Aug 8/00 - STAT -- Specialty crop exporters managed to end the 1999-00 marketing year with a relatively strong finish at Thunder Bay, with clearances during the four months of the marketing year jumping 43% ahead of last year. Unfortunately, this was not good enough push clearances past last season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Aug 8/00 - STAT -- The Australian Barley Board will make final distributions on its 1999 pools for pulses, according to Gary Spiel, general manager of marketing and operations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 10/00 - STAT -- Preliminary yield estimates released by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food revealed crops in the province are responding to excellent moisture conditions by producing more seed, suggesting the province will harvest an aboveaverage grain and oilseed crop this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Aug 10-/00 - STAT -- Low incidences of aschochyta blight and rust are being reported on chickpea and fababean fields in New South Wales and parts of Queensland, reflecting dry growing conditions in the region. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- The USDA outlined dry edible bean seedings in the United States by class and state in its latest crop report, projecting this year's harvest would total 1.168 million MT from 1.58 million harvested acres. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- The latest USDA crop report forecasts this year's dry edible bean harvest will plunge 22.4% from last year to 1.168 million MT. Even so, the number is well ahead of the recent trade prediction the U.S. crop would end up around 1.119 million MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CLEVELAND - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- Major annual increases in world demand for amino acids are expected through 2004, with the market expanding around 5.6% annually, according to a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industrial market research firm. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- The United States is looking at harvesting its smallest dry edible bean crop since 1993, when production dipped to 993,967 MT. Though exceeding that year's total by 175,000 MT, this year's crop is still expected to sink 23% below last year's harvest and 15% below the 1998 result. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- There was little immediate reaction from dry edible bean markets to the latest USDA crop production estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets ended the week under mixed trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- Spot markets for North American lentils completed their transition into new crop pricing levels during the past week, reflecting harvest activity in Saskatchewan and the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 11/00 - STAT -- Some participants in Canadian chickpea markets were sent into shock by the latest yield estimates released by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Aug 14/00 - STAT -- Private exporters are pushing for full and open access to India's nigerseed crop, complaining that even though the current policy lets them sell the commodity to birdseed buyers they must pay punishing levies to for the right. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Aug 14/00 - STAT -- Farmers in Rajasthan are worried a slow down in monsoon rainfall activity will make it hard for the 1.734 million hectares of pulses they planted this year to have average yields. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TOKYO - Aug 14/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean markets in Tokyo opened the week in a bearish mood, influenced by good crop prospects in the country's main azuki bean production areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MEXICO CITY - Aug 14/00 - STAT -- Protesting farmers occupying government building in Mexico City forced government to delay today's scheduled auction of duty free dry edible permits. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 14/00 - STAT -- Canadian feed peas have been a bargain for North American livestock producers and compound feed manufacturers most of the 1999-00 marketing year, averaging just U.S. $101.60 a ton compared to $165 for soybean meal. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Aug 15/00 - STAT -- Rising concern about regions of dryness and their potential impact on kharif season pulse harvests is having no impact on spot markets for pulses, which continue to closely follow international tendencies. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 15/00 - STAT -- Few dry edible bean producing regions in the United States appear to be experiencing good growing conditions this year, with the result most of the developing crop is rated fair to good, but with over half falling in the fair or worse category. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 15/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean crops in the United States may have a rough time meeting initial production estimates from the USDA, without a change in current crop conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 15/00 - STAT -- As was the case at this time last year, unsettled weather continues caused lodging and disease problems for Saskatchewan crops, according to the provincial agriculture department's weekly crop report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 17/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here tendered for 2,250 MT of peas and lentils for shipment to Russia in September. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 18/00 - STAT -- The SDA's Commodity Credt Coproation office here confirmed the purchase of 2,170 MT of peas and lentils under Invitation No. 080B. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 18/00 - STAT -- North American buckwheat markets received important, bullish news with the latest SDA PL-480 food aid tender invitation issued by the Commodity Credit Corporation office here. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 22/00 - STAT -- Harvest activity in Saskatchewan is off to a slow start, with progress in most crops lagging behind their recent five-year averages, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food's weekly crop report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 22/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean crop conditions showed no significant improvement during the past week, despite better weather conditions in some important growing areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 22/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here is closing its 1999-00 fiscal year with a tender for 9,010 MT of pulses for shipment as food aid during October. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- STAT -- The total quantity of dry edible beans covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tender this season now totals 10,480 MT, compared to 13,100 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- STAT -- The quantity of peas and lentils covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tender this season now totals 10,090 MT, compared to 11,410 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- STAT -- The latest USDA PL-480 tenders bring actual and potential purchases of pulses for shipment as food aid during the 2000-01 shipping season to 20,570 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 22/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Coporation office here added another 2,000 MT of lentils and 900 MT of green peas to the quantities covered by tenders issued today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LAREDO - Aug 23/00 - STAT -- Anyone visiting Laredo, Texas quickly notices it is the busiest port of entry for commercial trade along the more-than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LAREDO - Aug 23/00 - STAT -- Bottlenecks at the border and inadequate infrastructure are, in effect, a tax on trade, raising the cost of doing business with Mexico through delays and through degradation of fresh products, argues USDA Economic ResearchService economist Bill Coyle. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ISLAMABAD - Aug 24/00 - STAT -- One of Pakistan's important agricultural production regions is now confirmed to have suffered crop losses on account of severe drought through 1999 and the first half of this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- It does not come as a surprise that Statistics Canada expects Canada to harvest a record field pea crop this year. That the crop is estimated at 2.94 million MT is unexpected, as it puts the crop 100,000 MT higher than earlier projections. . . . Continue or visitors click here

AUSTIN - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- The alleged discovery of a massive oil field in Morocco could generate unexpected benefits for pulse exporters in Canada and elsewhere as such a find would transform the country's economy from agrarian to a wealthier, oilbased one. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets ended the week on a positive note in front of next week's import permit auction in Mexico. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- With Canada looking at another record pulse crop harvest, there is rising concern over the timing of annual sales in the face of what seems like overwhelmingly bearish news. This issue has gained importance as the volume of pulses and other crops grown outside traditional crop production contracts increases. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- Few changes in international lentil values were recorded during a week which saw solid harvest progress in western Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- Chickpeas remain the dominant product in the field pea and chickpea fraction of specialty crop markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets ended the week under mixed trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 25/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Coporation office here reduced the quantity of buckwheat groats covered by PL-480 food aid tender 080E from 7,170 MT to 2,680 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Aug 28/00 - STAT -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) and Pulse Canada are taking strong leadership roles in trying to develop common, international standards for identification and testing of such pulse crops as peas, beans, lentils andchickpeas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 28/00 - STAT -- Pulse growers in Saskatchewan made excellent progress harvesting this year's crops during the past week, with the result roughly half this year's potential crop is already in the bin. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Aug 29/00 - STAT -- India's pulse markets opended the week under mixed conditions, with imported product steady to lower, while prices for some locally grown crops improved against reports of weather damage. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 29/00 - STAT -- The condition of sunflower crops improved in North Dakota the past week, according to the latest crop progress report from state agriculture officials, as the crop increased 32% points in ray-flowers- dried-and-droppedstage. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 29/00 - STAT -- The latest crop reports from individual states reveal a general improvement in the status of this year's dry edible bean crops, even those in Michigan continue to suffer. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Aug 29/00 - STAT -- New crop kabuli type chickpea bids posted a massive increase in western Canada, with the best bid available leaping from CDN $32 to $37.60 cwt for farmers dressed 9mm merchandise delivered processing plants. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MEXICO CITY - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- The auction for the balance of the dry edible bean import licenses to be issued during the 2000 calendar year went without a hitch here yesterday, with importers paying 1.15 peso per kilogram or roughly U.S. $5.65 cwtfor the permits. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Coporation office issued an unexpected PL-480 food aid tender for 5,390 MT of pulses, with 55% of the total covering green and yeillow peas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MOSCOW, ID - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- Sales of whole and split peas to North American domestic food packagers and manufacturers are down sharply for pulse processors in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, judging from data compiled by the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council . . . Continue or visitors click here

PARIS - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- France completed what must be considered one of its most successful export seasons, shipping just under 1.1 million MT of product and breaking into markets dominated by Canadian and Australian shippers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- The latest USDA PL-480 tenders bring actual and potential purchases of pulses for shipment as food aid during the 2000-01 shipping season to 28,860 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Aug 30/00 - STAT -- Minimum support prices for most kharif or monsoon season crops were increased up to US$24 MT by India's Union government. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/00 - STAT -- The downward trend in average monthly grower bid prices recorded this year by the USDA reversed itself during August, as the average bid for all types of beans grown in the United States rose 40 cents to U.S. $15.50 cwt. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/00 - STAT -- The United States and Global Jewish Assistance and Relief Network (GJARN) signed an agreement this month to ship 35,220 MT of buckwheat groats, rice, peas, lentils, wheat flour, nonfat dry milk, and vegetable oil to Russia. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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