SASKATOON - Jan 3/01 - STAT -- Organic birdseed mixes are now being marketed by the Saskatchewan-based Harvest Sun Seed & Grain Company Ltd., with the company initially targeting buyers in California and other parts of the southwestern United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Jan 4/01 - STAT -- Field pea meal is being looked at as a possible option for fish farms located in the central plains region of North America. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TOKYO - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- Azuki bean futures traded on the Tokyo Grain Exchange closed weekly trading on an improving note on speculation markets will soon see improved demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- High prices and lower than expected levels of disease have made for an excellent year for Western Australia pulse crops, despite gloomy expectations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 13,050 MT of pulses under terms of PL-480 food aid tender invitation 011. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets continued to languish amid seasonally light demand. This was reflected in a slight decrease in the spot market index for U.S. origin dry edible beans from 551 to 546 points. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets were mixed during the first week of the 2001 calendar year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- International lentil markets opened the first week of 2001 with sellers outnumbering buyers for most classes of lentils available from Canada and the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 5/01 - STAT -- Field and chickpea markets started the year with limited activity outside the purchase of massive quantities of yellow and green peas for shipment as food aid in February. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- Millet production in the United States is down sharply from last year, with the USDA pegging production at 166,010 MT or 7.32 million bushels, down 59% from the 1999 harvest of 406,190 MT or 17.9 million bushels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- A small increase in opening season mustard seed stocks in the United States was confirmed by the USDA in separate reports. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- Minor changes in the size of this season's dry edible bean harvest were reported by the USDA in its final crop production report for the 2000 crop. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- The USDA boosted its estimate of the size of the 2000 harvest for field peas and lentils in the United States, though the changes are not likely to have much impact on markets for these products, as growers and processors have become reliant on food aid programs for demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- The 2000 sunflower production totaled 3.59 billion pounds, 17% below the 1999 production and 32% below 1998, with this year's decrease in output shared equally by oil and confectionary sunflower seed varieties. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- Crop production and ending stock data compiled by the USDA point to a massive decline in available stocks of safflower seed for oil processors and birdseed packagers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Jan 11/01 - STAT -- Australian fababean sales to Egypt total at least 150,000 MT for the 2000-01 marketing campaign, suggests recent comments by the Australian Wheat Board. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 12/01 - STAT -- Light trading conditions left North American dry edible bean processors chasing any prospective demand during the week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 12/01 - STAT -- Few changes were noted on birdseed ingredient markets, despite what some market participants perceive as a bullish millet production estimate from the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 12/01 - STAT -- The start of the annual round of western Canadian grower meetings left North American lentil markets poorly attended. Most traders were busy with the annual Saskatchewan Pulse Growers annual meeting in Saskatoon. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 12/01 - STAT -- Field pea markets ended the week with few changes in seasonally light trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ISLAMABAD - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- Chickpea seedings in Pakistan are up 2.46% this season, according to the state agriculture department officials, advancing to 2.049 million acres. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- Grading patterns for lentils during the closing months of the 2000 calendar year continue to reflect below normal percentages of top grade product across all classes of lentils grown in Saskatchewan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- Most field peas continue to fall into the No 1 grade fraction, according to the latest summary of season to date grading results from CGF Brokerage and Consulting. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- The quality of chickpeas submitted for grading by CGF Brokerage and Consulting is surprisingly good, given last dismal growing and harvest weather conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- Western Canadian pulse growers are rapidly reaching to halfway point of the current marketing year, and the quality of this year's harvest is holding up. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 15/01 - STAT -- Continued diversification in the way dry edible beans are consumed in the United States is at the root of continued growth in domestic consumption. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 16/01 - STAT - Demand by India and Pakistan should grow significantly over the coming decade, with the countries potentially facing an average annual discrepancy between production and the needs of the people of around 4.8 million MT in India and nearly 500,000 MT in Pakistan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 16/01 - STAT -- There is a clear opportunity to expand global demand for feeding peas to livestock. But this cannot be accomplished without active grower participation across the marketing chain. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 17/01 - STAT -- One of the problems facing development of the Canadian specialty crop industry is the lack of retained earnings among companies involved in processing and exporting the commodities grown. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PARIS - Jan 18/01 - STAT -- France is now showing the impact of last year's massive decline in field pea output, with monthly export sales recording their worst November of the past decade. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 18/01 - STAT -- Problems with transportation capacity and reliability are among the hurdles which need to be crossed for western Canada's specialty crop industry to grow to its potential. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 16/01 - STAT -- It is obvious there will be overall growth in the amount of pulses sown in western Canada during the coming decade, centered in Saskatchewan. The question raised most often by growers is whether this would break futuremarkets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 19/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here issued a tender for 17,140 MT of pulses for shipment as food aid in March. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- Jan 19/01 - STAT -- The total quantity of dry edible beans covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tender this season now totals 20,440 MT, compared to 25,050 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- Jan 19/01 - STAT -- The quantity of peas and lentils covered by USDA PL-480 food aid tender this season now totals 60,520 MT, compared to 39,330 MT last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY -- Jan 19/01 - 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 80,960 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON -Jan 19/01 - STAT -- Confirmation of what the industry expected, that Saskatchewan's pulse area would advance again this year, is contained in results of an unofficial survey of pulse growers in that province. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 19/01 - STAT -- International colored bean markets underwent a fundamental change during the past week as shortages of good quality Argentine black beans drove that market sharply higher. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 19/01 - STAT -- International birdseed ingredient markets ended the week mostly unchanged in seasonally light trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 19/01 - STAT -- North American lentil markets were unchanged to slightly firmer in seasonally light trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 19/01 - STAT -- Strong export demand continued to support Canadian field pea markets, though at prices an increasing number of growers see as too low. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 22/01 - STAT -- The USDA amended its most recent PL-480 food aid tender to include a request for 1,6000 MT of Great Northern beans for shipment to the Balkans during March. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MINOT - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- Numerous growers and industry participants attending this year's North Dakota Pea and Lentil Growers Association annual meeting here this week left with a strong sense took part in an event which could mark a changing pointfor the future development of the North American field pea industry. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MINNAPOLIS - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- Sunflower is a top performer in net returns per acre in South Dakota according to results presented at a grower meeting hosted by the U.S. based National Sunflower Association in Pierre earlier this week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- Moods among North American dry edible bean processors and growers remained morose. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- North American birdseed ingredient markets ended the week on a slightly firmer note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- North American lentil markets ended the week mixed against light international demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 26/01 - STAT -- Canadian exporters continue to support a bullish ending stocks number for the 2000-01 marketing campaign, but impatience among some shippers is keeping prices under constant pressure. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Jan 27/01 - STAT -- Burma exported 65,361 MT of pulses in November, well ahead of the 40,244 MY shipped in October, according to data compiled by the U.S. agricultural attache here. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- In North American, it is easy to see how Canadian field pea seedings could expand from roughly 9% to 3.3 million acres this year and 3.5 million acres in 2002 or 2003. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- From a fundamental perspective, all the elements are in place to allow Canadian field pea prices rise through the balance of the 2000-01 marketing year, thereby pulling up the floor on international markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- The long term competitive position of the U.S. industry will be helped by plant breeding efforts, while Canadian researchers appear to spent a disproportionate amount of time on oilseeds and cereal grains. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- Short and medium term outlooks for North American field peas, lentils and chickpeas are marked by continued expansion in seeded area, with most of that growth centered in Saskatchewan. For the first time in many years, the United States is also expected to be a focal point for expanding production. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- International chickpea markets continue a remarkable journey as a consistent stream of problems in key production areas offset increased plantings by the world's exporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Jan 30/01 - STAT -- The latest USDA PL-480 food aid tender was amended by the Commodity Credit Corporation office here to allow processors to offer green and/or yellow split peas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Jan 31/01 - STAT -- Statistics Canada first attempt to estimate stocks of some of the most important specialty crops grown in that country generated numbers which did not come as a complete surprise to markets. Though they made it clear Canadian field peas are disappearing at a rapid rate. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 31/01 - STAT -- Preliminary data compiled by the USDA showed grower bids for dry edible beans inched upward in January. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Jan 31/01 - STAT - Increased international demand for vegetable protein for livestock feed combined with a disastrous harvest in Western Australia to pull the Australian Barley Board's lupin pool to a higher than expected close. . . . Continue or visitors click here

RED DEER - Jan 31/01 - STAT -- The Canadian Grain Commission and Hinz Automation Inc. have formally started efforts to market the computerized color assessment and grading system developed by the government agency in recent years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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