ISLAMABAD - Oct 3/00 - STAT -- Some stories never seem to die and such is the case with vetch. The commodity again strode into the spotlight on local martkets as the Pakistani government said it is cracking down on unscrupulous traders who sell vetchas dal masoor. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Oct 3/00 - STAT -- India's kharif or monsoon season pulse harvest is believed to be 700,000 MT higher than last year, but remains 500,000 MT short of the quantity needed to meet the country's food requirements until rabi season merchandise starts appearing on local markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 3/00 - STAT -- Excellent weather conditions allowed Saskatchewan's chickpea harvest progress to nearly double from 34% to 62% complete as the week got underway, while this year's field pea and lentil harvests were essentially completed.Growers in Saskatchewan now have 99% of this year's field pea cropbin and balance swathed. For lentils, 98% are harvested and 1% swathed, while 97% of this year's mustard seed crop is in the bin and 1% in swath. The birdseed harvest is moving along we . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 3/00 - STAT -- Samples submitted by growers for grading by Saskatoon-based CGF Brokerage and Consulting continue to indicate this year's western Canada's field pea and chickpea harvests contain a large percentage of high quality product. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 3/00 - STAT -- Grading patterns for western Canadian lentils ended the second month of the marketing year just as it started, with the majority of large and small green lentils grading No 2, while most red and medium green lentils grade No 1. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 4/00 - STAT -- Michigan's harvest limped forward during the the past week, advancing from 21% to 39% complete, far behind harvest progress reported in other key dry edible bean producing regions in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Oct 4/00 - STAT -- Pulse shipments from Burma reached 22,582 MT during August under slkuggish trading conditions on account of relaxed demand from India. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 5/00 - STAT -- Dry edible beans are among the commodities which will be distributed to Georgia, a former member of the USSR, through International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC). . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Oct 5/00 - STAT -- The 1999-00 marketing campaign ended with elevators in Michigan holding record high stocks of navy and other dry edible bean classes. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Oct 5/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchases of 3,800 MT of pinto beans, green and yellow field peas for shipment as under terms of PL-480 food aid invitiation number 100. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- Canada should harvest a record 2.8 million MT field pea crop this year, according to Statistics Canada mid-harvest crop production estimate. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- The United Nations is tendered for 1,816 MT of whole red lentils for shipment to the Middle East, a tender Canadian government officials could be bought directly from Canada after the last one was covered with Canadian product by the Turkish sellers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- Canada's pulse crops will pulverize previous production records as the field pea harvest pushes past 2.8 million MT and lentils approach the million ton mark. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets ended the week's trading in mixed conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- North American millet and canaryseed markets ended trading in front of the Canadian three-day Thanksgiving weekend on a firm note in relatively limited activity. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets ended the week on a mixed note, with markets for top grade product advancing at the expense of those for offgrade product. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 6/00 - STAT -- Field pea markets for both human and animal feed consumption ended the week slightly firmer against steady demand for Canadian origin merchandise. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Oct 9/00 - STAT -- The European Commission plans to give 3,000 MT of pulses as part of a new 46,300 MT food aid allocation for Africa. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- A parasitic wasp may be the key to combatting some insect infestations in dry edible beans and birdseed ingredients, believe USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean harvest activity entered its final stages in most parts of the growing region this week, with this year's harvest drawing to a generally quicker than average conclusion. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- Sunflower seed growrs in the United States reported relatively good progress last week harvesting this year's sunflower seed crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- The Canadian Wheat Board is working hard to assure western Canadian specialty crop and other open market grain and oilseed shippers that it will not abuse its dominant position in the fall railcar allocation game. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- Chickpea growers in Saskatchewan reached the last fifth of this year's harvest, having taken 81% of this year's crop off their fields by the start of the week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking offers for canned and packaged beans for use in domestic food distribution programs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- The proportion of No 1 lentils in this years harvest started to slip last week, judging from the range of samples submitted to CGF Brokerage and Consulting for grading. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- Field pea grading results remain on the high side, with over 65% of whole yellow and nearly 58% of all whole green samples examined by CGF Brokerage and Consulting making the No 1 grade. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 10/00 - STAT -- Early harvested kabuli chickpeas are sizing well in Saskatchewan, according to data compiled by CGF Brokerage and Consulting from samples growers have submitted to the private company for grading. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 11/00 - STAT -- The annual subsidy sign-up rush is getting underway in the United Sattes this week, with the USDA saying growers can start lining up October 16 to take part in this year's U.S. $500 million 2000 Oilseeds Program. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ANKARA - Oct 11/00 - STAT -- Recent problems obtaining permits from Turkey's agriculture department are running counter to the bigger trend toward trade liberalization in Turkey as the country shifts away from seeking self-sufficiency in all agricultural goods. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/00 - STAT -- The USDA lowered the projected size of this year's dry edible bean harvest 1% from its August estimate, pushing the crop down to 25,603,000 cwt or 1.16 million MT for a massive 23% plunge from last year's harvest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/00 - STAT -- The USDA's first sunflower production forecast for 2000 is 3.71 billion pounds of both confection and oil-type product, down 14% from the 1999 combine harvest and 30% below 1998. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/00 - STAT -- Inferring production estimates by variety from the latest USDA dry edible bean production by state suggest that with the exception of chickpeas or gabanzo beans, output of all classes of beans is down slightly from last year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/00 - STAT -- Reductions in estimated dry edible yields in individual states seem and this year's general reduction in dry edible bean production levels in the United States are having a dramatic impact on supply fundamentals for several classes in the coming season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 13/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets were completing the transition into new crop trading levels during a week which saw the harvest coming to an end in most producing areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 13/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets in North America ended the week mixed against relatively quiet trading interest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 13/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets recorded another mixed performance against relatively light consumer buying demand on export and domestic markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 13/00 - STAT -- International chickpea markets ended the week in mixed trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Oct 14/00 - STAT -- Lupin exporters are taking a different view of year over year increases in soybean meal values than those primarily involved with field peas, seeing the advance as an opportunity to boost asking prices. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KARACHI - Oct 16/00 - STAT -- Pakistan's government has again warned companies traind gin pulses there is a total ban on the sale of vetch in human consumption markets in the country. All companies were told they could not sell, distribute or move their stocks. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 16/00 - STAT -- This year's dry edible bean harvest is all but complete across most of the growing area in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 16/00 - STAT -- This year's sunflower seed harvest is making relkativekly good progress across the U.S. growing area, though progress reported by individual states reveals a mixed picture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- Chickpea harvest activity in Saskatchean is finally drawing to a close, with growers only left with the final 5% of this year's seeded area to try to bring in from fields. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- The near absence of precipitation across much of Queensland during September is causing some concern to chickpea markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- This year's sunflower seed harvest in the United States advanced to 55% complete to start the week, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- There were no dramatic changes in the latest compilation of season to date grading results for Canadian lentils looked at by CGF Brokerage and Consulting. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- Field pea grading results for samples submitted by western Canadian growers to CGF Brokerage and Consulting continue to show week to week volatility, though the percentage of offgrade product examined by the company isstarting to increase. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 17/00 - STAT -- Initial grading results for Canadian chickpeas remain surprisingly good, judging from samples growers have sent to CGF Brokerage and Consulting for grading so far this season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 18/00 - STAT -- Canadian field pea ending stocks should set a new record by the close of the coming marketing year is becoming a generally accepted belief for that country's processors and exporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 18/00 - STAT -- Agriculture Canada expects Canadian dry edible bean production is forecast to decrease . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 18/00 - STAT -- Canadian chickpea production and supplies are blasting through the roof, while this year's lengthy and troublesome growing season make it hard for market analysts at Agriculture Canada to know for sure if their projected190,000 MT in export sales can be met. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 18/00 - STAT -- Canadian sunflower seed production is expected to drop 10% to around 110,000 MT on account of lower harvested area, believes Agriculture Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Oct 18/00 - STAT -- Burmese pulse exports maintained their recent slide, plunging from over 22,000 MT in August to just19,566 MT in September. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 18/00 - STAT - The U.S. Senate approved a bill which will partially eases the trade embargo that country placed on Cuba in the 1960s. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 19/00 - STAT -- The USDA tendered for canned and consumer pack dry edible beans for shipment after January to domestic aid programs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Oct 19/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here tendered for 2,350 MT of pulses for shiopment as food aid during December. . . . 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 13,740 MT, compared to 21,080 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 26,770 MT, compared to 24,040 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 40,510 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- There is general agreement western Canada is the region in North Americans with the greatest growth potential for dry edible bean production, with a major expansion in seeded area expected once shorter season varieties now under development are generally available. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- World dry bean production has been trending upwards during the 1990s reaching 19.37 million MT in 1999-2000, according to data compiled by Agriuculture Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- Dry beans are the fourth largest special crop produced in Canada, after dry peas, lentils, and chick peas, according to Agriculture Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- The National Dry Bean Council has adopted a more bullish view of this year's Mexican dry edible bean production than the Mexican government, judging from results of a recent trip report by council members. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KARACHI - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- The Trading Corporation of Pakistan is tendering for 25,000 MT of black gram for arrival before the start of Ramadan in order to avoid any shortages of the pulse from developing in the country during that period. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets ended the week unchanged to easier despite a bullish report from the U.S. National Dry Bean Council about this year’s Mexican harvest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredients came under general pressure as product available from growers inched ahead of the needs of processors and exporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- A noticeable decline in consumer buying interest left North American markets unchanged to slightly lower in relatively uneventful trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- Steady enquiry from the Indian subcontinent and other Pacific Rim destinations allowed international field pea markets to close the week on a firming note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ALEXANDRIA - Oct 20/00 - STAT -- The Snack Food Association is encouraging its members in the United States and elsewhere to get involved in a media promotion aimed at convincing people to give away savory snacks instead of candy on halloween. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 23/00 - STAT -- The sunflower seed harvest in the United States continues to make good progress. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LAHORE - Oct 25/00 - STAT -- Mexico's ambassador to Pakistan believes the two country's should sign a duty-free agreement to expand trade and help improve access to the U.S. market for Pakistani origin merchandise. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 25/00 - STAT -- Canadian lentil grades continue to present a mixed view of quality, with large and small green mostly falling into the No 2 grade fraction, while the highest percentage of medium green and red lentils are ending up in the top grade. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 25/00 - STAT -- The grading pattern seem on field pea samples submitted to CGF Brokerage and Consulting for grading so far this season remaining intact last week, with Saskatchewan growers showing the company mainly food quality merchandise. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 25/00 - STAT -- CGF Brokerage and Consulting reported a dramatic increase in the volume of chickpeas submitted to it by growers for grading. It looked at a total 2,912 MT of product or a fifth of all chickpeas examined since the startof the marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CALGARY - Oct 25/00 -- STAT -- The Canadian Pacific Railway has decided it will handle car allocations under a program called MaxTrax starting November 5, or week 15 tof Canada's 2000-01 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ISLAMABAD - Oct 26/00 - STAT -- Efforts to boost domestic production of lentils are picking up steam in Pakistan, with Punjab's Agriculture Department Punjab taking a leadership role in efforts to pulse production levels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 26/00 - STAT -- The Canadian Grain Commission announced minor changes to that country's pea bean or navy bean grading standards. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- Canadian field pea exports during the first quarter of the 2000-01 marketing year may have reached a record 700,000 MT, believe market analysts with Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LAHORE - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- Pakistani government officials continue to hammer away at companies which may be holding vetch in that country, directing local authorities to take all necessary steps to stop the product from being sold to consumers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- France is looking at its largest year to year decline in field pea production levels as a steep reduction in planted area was accompanied by a major drop in average yields. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- Limited international trading activity was reported during the week, leaving markets generally unchanged to easier. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- International birdseed ingredient markets continued to present a mixed picture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- Reports of severe increased problems by processors and exporters meeting shipping schedules dominated thinking in several sectors of the lentil market. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Oct 27/00 - STAT -- Impatience with slowing international demand allowed chickpea markets to end the week lower for most origins. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TWIN FALLS - Oct 28/00 - STAT -- Most dry edible bean processors in the larger producing states are looking at no better than average yields for most classes of beans grown this years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ISLAMABAD - Oct 29/00 - STAT -- Despite below average precipitation levels the last three months, the Pakistan government is pushing for a expansion in total pulse production in the northern province of Punjab. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 30/00 - STAT -- Last week ended with rainfall slowing or stopping sunflower harvest activity across most of the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 30/00 - STAT -- There was solid increase in the volume of chickpeas Saskatchewan growers were interested in bringing to markets during the past week, as evidenced by their request for grades on 3,325 MT of product by CGF Brokerage andConsulting. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 30/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan lentil growers continue to present a broad mix of qualities to markets, but the latest week revealed a tendency toward showing higher grade merchandise to potential buyers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Oct 30/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan field pea growers continue to submit their better quality merchandise to CGF Brokerage and Consulting for grading. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Oct 31/00 - STAT -- Trials are underway in Western Auystralia which could see lupins more widely adopted for use as a feed stock in commercial fish farms. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 31/00 - STAT -- Monthly advances in average grower bid porices for dry edible beans grown in the United States ran out of steam in October. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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