VANCOUVER - Sep 1/00 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets ended the week unchanged to slightly easier. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 1/00 - STAT -- International birdseed ingredient markets continue to record a mixed performance in the face of harvest activity across North American and regional supply shortages elsewhere in the world. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 1/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets adopted an easier tone as freshly harvested product available from growers pushed ahead of the immediate needs of processors and exporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 1/00 - STAT -- Faced with the size of this year’s field pea harvest, Canada’s field pea industry allowed values for most classes of field peas to fall out of step with trends in other commodities, especially feed ingredients. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 2/00 - STAT -- India's whole sale pulse markets ended the week on a firm note against light deliveries from growers and worries about the impact of this year's drought on Turkish and Iranian crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 2/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office maintainined its strong interest in buckwheat groats, following up the purchase of 2,680 MT of product with antender for another 4,990 MT for shipment in . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 2/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodituy Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 2,750 MT of lentils, 1,650 MT of whole green peas and 750 MT of yellow peas for shipment during October. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 3/00 - STAT -- Agricultural productivity gains in India are being lost to inadequate storage after harvest and the unwillingness of large sectors of the population to tackle the country's rodent problem. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TWIN FALLS - Sep 3/00 - STAT -- Researchers at the University of Idaho are working on introducing drought resistance into modern dry edible bean varieties in an effort to lower production costs and maintain the competitiveness of the U.S. industry. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 4/00 - STAT -- Australia is looking at a 2,000 MT buckwheat harvest for 2001 from the state of Victoria. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 5/00 - STAT -- The Grain Pool of Western Australia reached a marketing milestone with the recent sale of 100 containers of lupins to Vietnam. The deal pushed annual sales past the million MT mark for the first time in the organization's history. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- Wholesale pulse markets in India entered the mid-week trading period on an easier note against increased arrivals of freshly harvested merchandise from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's chickpea harvest has stalled at 12% complete, up only 1% from the amount of progress recorded one week ago. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 5,150 MT of field peas and lentils for shipment to Russia and for prepositioning between September 16 and October 15. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- Sunflower seed crops are maturing at or ahead of their recent averages, while some harvesting of millet seed was reported in this week's state crop reports. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean crops in the United States started the week in mostly fair to good condition, with harvest activity across the growing region. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- The first month of deliveries of field peas and lentils in Saskatchewan suggest a good quality pea and red lentil crop, whereas this year's green lentil crop is tending towards the No 2 part of the grade spectrum. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 6/00 - STAT -- Several surprising changes were contained in the latest crop production report released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Amazingly, many of the changes appear to put Australia in a better position to capitalize on current world market trends. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 7/00 - STAT -- Mustard and rapeseed futures trading was started by the Sopa Board of Trade earlier this month. While not a raging success, it has encouraged the group to apply for the right to start a channa gram, or chickpea, futures pit. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 7/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 6,280 MT of dry edible beans, 620 MT of green peas and 2,110 MT of lentils under terms of PL-480 food aid tender 090. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- The World Food Program plans an eight month emergency food aid program for those parts of Georgia which suffered the most severe drought this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- Increasingly bullish news from central Europe and the Middle East has combined with deepening worries about the impact a week of wet and cool weather is having on western Canadian chickpea and lentil crops to allow markets to end the opening week of September on a steady to firmer note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- International chickpea markets maintained their recent firm tone, with Mexican origin product leading markets higher. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- Mixed progress with the North American dry edible bean harvest is making it hard for harvest selling to gain the upper hand on the needs of processors and esxporters. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets ended the week on generally firmer ground. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- North American lentil markets reversed their downward tendencies by week’s end in the face of doubts about the quality of the Canadian crop and steady demand. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 8/00 - STAT -- International field pea markets ended the week on a slightly firmer note as western Canadian growers indicated a general unwillingness to sell at current prices. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 9/00 - STAT -- The size of this year's pulse harvest in Andhra Pradesh is in doubt because heavy rains and flash flooding damaged just under 17% of the seeded area. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PROSSER, WA - Sep 10/00 - STAT -- A major effort is underway to expand the classes of dry edible beans available to growers in the United States. More importantly, the new, Latin American varieties are intended mainly for export. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Colored beans are a source of flavinoids, making them just as important a part of heart smart diet as red wine is the only conclusion that can be drawn from recent research efforts by USDA scientists. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean researchers in the United States are working hard to develop new classes of beans which perform well under modern food processing systems.. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Lentil grading information compiled by CGF Bokerage and Consulting reveal a shift in lentil grades toward the No 2 fraction on samples submitting to the company for grading so far this marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- The USDA signed another agreement to provide food aid to Russia, this one covering 2,620 MT of wheat flour, red kidney beans, buckwheat, and vegetable oil through Action Contre La Faim (ACLF). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- At times of low agricultural commodity values, notions the world is running short of food and the concept rising world population absolutely means markets are going do not seem to be true. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Hot and dry weather is pushing this year's sunflower crop toward harvest across much of the United States, though resulting in some deterioration in the condition of plants. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean crop conditions across the United States were nearly as diverse as the classes grown, with crops struggling in Michigan while makign solid progress in other parts of the growing region. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 11/00 - STAT -- Weather conditions across Saskatchewan improved noticeably over the weekend, giving fields a chance to dry in oirder for growers to take advantage of this week's vast improvement in the weather forecast. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PRETORIA -- Sep 11/00 - STAT -- South Africa's final crop production estimate for the 1999-00 dry edible bean harvest was up over earlier numbers, but remains 10.3% below last year's harvest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Sep 12/00 - STAT -- Statistics Canada issued a ground breaking report about on farm and commercial stocks of specialty crops, trying for the first time to generate an official estimate of ending stocks for peas, lentils, sunflower, mustard and canaryseed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 12/00 - STAT -- Total commitments to private voluntary organizations (PVOs) providing food aid to Russia now total 24,100 MT of pulses and 13,600 MT of buckwheat seed and groats. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BANGKOK - Sep 12/00 - STAT -- Burmese government influence over that country's pulse markets is steadily expanding as its tries to increase the quantity of U.S. dollars passing through its hands. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 13/00 - STAT -- A five member Cuban commercial delegation is in the United States this week meeting with the Texas Farm Bureau and the Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 13/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service confirmed the purchase of 8,814 MT of several classes of dry edible beans for use in domestic food assistance programs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 13/00 - STAT -- The opening month of Canada's 2000-01 marketing year was a relatively quiet one for shipments of specialty crops through the port of Thunder Bay. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 14/00 - STAT -- Evidence this year's monsoon or kharif season poulse crops will be much largher than last year is mounting across India. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 14/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Coporation office here issued an invitation for offers of 2,000 MT of dark red kidney beans and green peas for shipment to Russia during the last half of November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 14/00 - STAT -- The UDSDA'c Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 4,990 MT of buckwheat groats for shipment to Russia as food aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 14/00 - STAT -- A lack of offers prevented the USDA's Commodity Credit Coporation offce here from buying all the lentils and peas it sought under terms of the PL-480 food aid tender invitation 090A. The USDA said it did not buy 920 MT lentils, 470 MT yellow split, and 570 MT green peas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- Brown and oriental mustard seed processors originating product in southern Alberta and western Saskatchewan have been alerted by the Canadian Grain Commission to watch for cabbage weevil damage in this year's crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- International chickpea markets ended the week on a generally firmer tone. This was especially true of the kabuli type chickpea. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- North American dry edible bean markets ended the week’s trading in mixed conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- White proso millet seed markets in the United States started boiling again last week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- European demand prospects for lentils and other crops are being influenced by continued strength in North American currencies. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 15/00 - STAT -- The resumption of Canada’s pulse harvest during the week and forecasts of good harvest weather through the middle of the coming week relieved market worries about Canada’s harvest progress. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ISLAMABAD - Sep 16/00 - STAT -- Newspaper reports in Pakistan reveal the government has authorized the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to buy 100,000 MT of black gram from Australia for delivery before Ramadan starts on November 27. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- Agriculture officials in Gujarat are worried the state will face another year of drought, with yields of both the current kharif and next year's rabi season crops falling. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's lentil quality continued to solidify around the No 2 grade fraction, judging from accumulated results from product graded by CGF Brokerage and Consulting. It has examined samples representing 16,297 MT ofproduct since the August 1 start of Canada's 2000-01 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- The quality of this year's field pea harvest in Saskatchewan continues to look good, judging from samples farmers have sent to CGF Brokerage and Consulting to have graded. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- Above average progress continues to be made with this year's sunflower seed harvest in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- Farmers and ranchers in all 56 Montana counties are eligible for emergency farm loans because of losses caused by drought and excessive heat this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- Solid advances in harvest activity were recorded across the United States, despite terrible problems with cool and damp conditions in Michigan and New York. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 18/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here increased the quantity of peas and lentils covered by PL-480 food aid invitation 090C from 4,470 MT to 6,430. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 19/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's specialty crop growers took full advantage of a week of hot and dry weather conditions across much of the province, with the result this year's pea and lentil harvests are entering their final stages. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 19/00 - STAT -- Slow porogress harvesting this year's chickpea crop in Saskatchewan is of deepening concern to markets because over 93% of Canada's 750,000 acre chickpea crop is located in Saskatchewan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Sep 19/00 - STAT -- Critical food shortages will occur in Kenya by the end of the year unless there is an urgent increase in food aid supplies, warns the UN secretary general's special envoy for drought in the horn of Africa and executive director of the World Food Programme, Catherine Bertini. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 19/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here issued a PL-480 food aid tender invitation covering just 3,800 MT of field peas and pinto beans. . . . 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 13,510 MT, compared to 17,100 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 24,650 MT, compared to 17,940 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 38,160 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 19/00 - STAT -- The USDA continues to expand the number of counties is believes are facing an agricultural diaster, adding 50 counties in Nebraska to the list. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 21/00 - STAT -- PL-480 allocations for fiscal 2000 have reached U.S. $707 million and will support the shipment of around 13.5 million MT of commodities under the USDA's Title I-funded Food for Progress, Title II and World Food Program commitments. . . . Continue or visitors click here

THUNDER BAY - Sep 21/00 - STAT -- A devastating strike by 350 grain handlers who work the port here was averted when the union announced it would continue talks with the Lakehead Terminal Elevators Association (LTEA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- The Turkish government has stopped issuing the "Certificates of Control" needed to clear imports of pulses, rice, soy, beer, cheese and other products. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- If Turkey's sudden unwillingness to issue "Certificates of Control" needed to clear imports of a range of agricultural commodities resulted in retaliation by the U.S. government, Turkey's tobacco and olive oil industries could be targets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- Current trade data shows Canadian lentils have dominated pulse trade exports to Turkey starting with the 1997-98 marketing year, replacing confectionary sunflower seed as the most import specialty crop exported from Canada or the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- Some of the products with the largest export sales volumes from the United States to Turkey are on the list of commodities upon which an effective import embargo has been imposed by Turkey's Agriculture Department by its refusal to issue "Certificates of Control" on selected agricultural imports. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- Pulse Canada expressed its anger over Turkey's recent moves to interfere with pulse imports, saying the country clearly intends to keep in place rules which make it "next to impossible" to sell to Turkey. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean markets ended weekly trading mixed against differing demand signals for North American and Latin American origin product. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- International birdseed ingredient markets ended the week’s trading activity on a more relaxed note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- International lentil markets ended the week in disarray against confirmation of what amounts to an embargo against all pulse imports by Turkey’s agriculture department. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 22/00 - STAT -- The week ended with most of Canada’s chickpea crop still in the field after a week of damp and cool conditions kept them from making harvest progress. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 23/00 - STAT -- Western Canada's growing season was declared officially over by Environment Canada after over night temperatures dropped below the freezing mark over virtually the entire prairies. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSDAS CITY - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 7,460 MT of pulses for shipment to Russia as food aid during November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DELHI - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Recent estimates Rajastahn would produce 540,000 MT of pulses during the kharif season are being questioned in a state where government officials are starting to talk about the risk of famine in several parts of the state. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Western Australia (WA) has done a good job developing and maintaining European compound feed industry interest in lupins becase of Australia's ability to guarantee the crop is free of GM-grains. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Slack demand, relatively low prices and dwindling production in the United States has encouraged some dry edible bean industry participants to resurface the idea of a U.S. national check-off or market levy. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Dry edible bean consumption in the United States could reach a record 8.1 pounds per person this year, believes the USDA's Economic Research Service, up from last year's estimated 7.9 pound usage rate and the 7.4 pounds each American consumed in 1998. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- An increase in the quantity of samples representing lots of offgrade lentils resulted in a slight downward shift in season to date lentil grading results reported by CGF Brokerage and Consulting, though most large and small green lentils continue to grade No 2. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Season to date grading results for field peas and chickpeas samples Saskatchewan growers send to CGF Brokerage and Consulting for grading before marketing their product continue to state early harvested merchandise wasof good quality. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- The proportion of damaged beans in this year's harvest in the United States may have been given a slight boost by cold, wet conditions in some strategically important growing areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Sunflower seed growers across the United States are nibbling at the edges of this year's harvest, though good progress can soon be expected as large tracts of the crop rush toward maturity. In northern states, drying down was helped by freezing temperatures over the weekend. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 25/00 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's field pea and lentil harvest should be wrapped up by the end of the week, allowing growers to focus on bringing in this year's chickpea crop as quickly as possible. Slow progress harvesting that crop remainsthe big story in western Canada's specialty crop industry. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 26/00 - STAT -- The USDA boosted the number of counties deemed agricultural disaster areas, adding 35 from North Dakota to the list on account of wind, severe storms, excessive rain, tornadoes, and other severe weather this spring andsummer. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 27/00 - STAT -- The Canadian Grain Commission issued a minor adjustment in the method for assessing dockage levels in kabuli type chickpeas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 28/00 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 2,000 MT of dark red kidney and whole green peas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- Grower markets for dry edible bean continued their recovery in September, with the average price paid to growers advancing 4.3% to U.S. $14.50 cwt for farmers dressed merchandise delivered processing plants. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- A near tripling in year to year mustard seed stocks was recorded by the USDA in its latest stocks report to what should be considered an above average level. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- Total ending stocks for minor oilseeds and confectionary sunflower seed were 22,816 MT higher than last year as steep advances in safflower, mustard and confectionary sunflower seed stocks outpaced this year's drop inoil-type sunflower seeds. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- The U.S. based National Sunflower Association completed its annual annual crop survey of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota during the week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- Some exporters were able to confirm they were issued "Certificates of Control" by Turkey's Agriculture Ministry, allowing importers in that country to clear those shipments through customs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- New crop North American dry edible bean markets remain a work in progress as processors try to get a handle on the proportions of the various qualities of beans which will be available to markets in the coming season.Last year, Canadian quality exceeded that of the United States, allowing shippers in that country to edge out U.S. product in several premium markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets ended the week mostly steady in light relatively trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- Canadian lentil markets ended the week with reports Turkish importers were starting to obtain the documentation needed to clear purchases through their customs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 29/00 - STAT -- The week ended on strong note for kabuli type chickpeas on India's wholesale markets, despite a dull to weaker tone for other pulses traded locally. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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