RANGOON - Jan 3/00 - STAT -- India remained the major destination for Burmese pulse exporters during November, accounting for just over 90% of all shipments. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- India's central government is considering a request to allow exporters to pack pulses in 50 kg or 100 kg bags for export instead of the currently mandated 5 kg bags. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- Forecasting is a tough art, but we thought it would be interesting to start the year 2000 with an effort to peek well into the future. It quickly became clear, Canada's specialty crop industry will continue to expand.The following two tables are the result. The first table reviews the Canadian specialty crop production data since 1996 and presents an outlook for this year's planted area and production, assuming yields return to their recent long term average level . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- After telling Canadian processors and growers they produced more specialty crops last year than they wanted to hear, Statistics Canada delivered a welcome present to start the final year of the 20th century. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- Marketing specialty crops in the coming decade is going to become more complicated for the Canadian industry than has been the case thus far, as the classes of products market niches grows. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets were unchanged to slightly weaker in light trading conditions during the opening week of the new year. Limited bidding by Japanese importers was reported for several types of beans,but with buyers ideas remaining below those of processors, few trades were reported. Attention continues to be focussed on new crop prospects in Argentina. Poor rainfall patterns in parts of the country are resulting in some reductions in corn, soybean a . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets managed a slight improvement to start the new year's trading. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets are starting the new year with a slightly easier tone as the industry continue to struggle with delivery schedules and problems resulting from last fall's shipments. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- Field and chick pea exporters in Canada and Australia were pleased with indications India's rabi season crops may be down from last year. Though seeding is not complete, government officials in the country are alarmed with projections pulse area will fell well below levels they told growers to plant as well as below last year. Problems with the harvest should translate into a slight improvement in demand for chick peas and field peas the first half of the year. This is . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Jan 7/00 - STAT -- Indian pulse imports should remain strong through the balance of the 1999-00 marketing year if predictions the pending rabi crop will not be as large as needed prove correct. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PARIS - Jan 10/99 - STAT -- Sales of French field peas are starting to struggle to keep pace with last year's numbers, an obvious result of this year's massive 575,000 MT drop in production from 1998 levels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 10/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 7,150 MT of pulses under USDA PL-480 food aid invitation No. 010. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Jan 11/00 - STAT -- Australian pulse markets are starting the year 2000 in a somewhat bearish mood, influenced by stiff price competition on international markets and a lull in demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Jan 11/00 - STAT -- A higher yielding variety of black gram was one of several new plant varieties released this year by the Tamilnadu Agricultural University. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MOSCOW - Jan 11/00 - STAT -- There is increased optimism here the United States will soon approve a 500,000 MT food aid package for Russia. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/00 - STAT -- The USDA's silence over millet production ended with the release of estimated production levels for 1999. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/00 - STAT -- Confectionary sunflower seed production levels in the United States posted a solid year to year gain over 1998 advancing 7.3% to 844 million pounds, according to the USDA's final crop production estimates for 1999. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/00 - STAT -- Production of specialty oilseeds faltered in the United States during 1999, with many of the gains recorded the previous year erased by lower yields and seeded areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/00 - STAT -- Stocks of domestically produced mustard seed fell sharply from last year's levels, according to the December 1 stocks in all positions report released by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 14/00 - STAT -- Final crop production numbers for dry edible beans grown in the United States recorded a small increase from December as the USDA found another 19,641 MT of beans in Texas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 14/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets experienced a relatively quiet week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 14/00 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets ended the week generally unchanged despite a solid improvement in end user buying interest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 14/00 - STAT -- New crop seeding prospects in Canada dominated traders' thinking during a generally quiet week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 14/00 - STAT -- Several pieces of important news flowed through markets during a relatively quiet week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Jan 17/00 - STAT -- Western Canadian farmers should strongly consider mustard seed in this year's cropping plans, urges United Grain Growers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BOZEMAN - Jan 17/00 - STAT -- Pulse growers should be careful to test potential planting seed for the presence of plant diseases, with growers in parts of the United States and Canada paying special attantionm to the precense of ascochyta blight . . . Continue or visitors click here

BOZEMAN - Jan 17/00 - STAT -- Jim Bauder, Montana State University Extension Soil and Water Quality Specialist sees a good opportunity for planting mixes which include Japanese millet, buckwheat and other specialty crops to enhance waterfowl and otherwildlife areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 18/00 - STAT -- Efforts to create a device which is capable of analyzing the color of lentils is nearing completion, according to the Canadian Grain Commission and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MOSCOW - Jan 18/00 - STAT -- Opening season optimism amoung U.S. processors that they would succeed in displaying Canadian lentils in some key markets are borne out by trade data for the first two months of the 1999-00 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 18/00 - STAT -- An informal seeding intentions survey conducted during the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers annual convention confirms western Canadian specialty crop growers are keen about seeding more pulses this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Jan 19/00 - STAT -- Agriculture officials in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh claim severe drought conditions has resulted in a massive decline in seeded area for all crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MEXICO CITY - Jan 19/00 - STAT -- The Mexican government will aution duty free import licenses covering 19,001 MT of beans on February 14. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CAPE TOWN - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean production in South Africa stands a good chance of advancing this year as growers in the country increase summer crop seeded area 10.3% to 71,500 hectares or 176,677 acres. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CAPE TOWN - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- South Africa's National Crop Estimates Committee is looking for a major decline in sunflower production from the country's summer harvest for the 1999-00 season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets received limited support from Mexico’s decision to make a third of this year’s duty free import licenses available February 14. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets were mostly sideways in light demand. Some tension appears to be building in Canadian canaryseed markets. New crop trading levels advanced to a U.S. 50 cent cwt premium to spotmarkets for machine dressed product packed in bulk and loaded into trucks or railcars at western Canadian processing plants. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets recorded a mixed performance in relatively active trading conditions. Market attention seemed focussed on Canadian Laird lentils. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 21/00 - STAT -- International field pea and chick pea markets ended the week in a mixed conditions despite rising import demand from the Indian subcontinent. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SAGINAW - Jan 25/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean stocks in commercial storage in Michigan shot up nearly 66% between December 31 of 1998 and the same date in 1999. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 25/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here announced two major tender invitations for pulses, for a total of 5,550 MT of product for shipment in February and March. . . . 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 25,510 MT, compared to 38,560 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 39,330 MT, compared to 44,600 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 1999-00 shipping season to 64,840 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 26/00 - STAT -- The pulse industry in Canada is continually transforming as the country pursues its goal of becoming the dominant export producer for as many classes of pulses as it can produce. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Jan 26/00 - STAT -- The Burmese government has taken extra steps to get . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Jan 26/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean and pulse exports from Burma posted a sluggish pace in December as 12,735 MT of product was shipped. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Jan 26/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan pulses growers are looking hard at prospects for growing black beans in their region, with a group in the north eastern corner of the province looking forward to their second year of crop trials in 2000. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 28/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean markets recorded few changes against generally quiet trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 28/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets maintained a mixed performance as the industry responded to differing fundamentals for the various types available. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 28/00 - STAT -- Field pea markets managed a slight improvement against rising world demand. Exporters continue to report good demand from Cuba, Bangladesh and Pakistan for shipment during the coming quarter. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 28/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets managed a good performance during the past week in the face of seasonally strong consumer demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 31/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean growers in the United States experienced a steep drop in average prices paid, according to the latest prica data compiled by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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