DONALD - Sep 4/01 - STAT -- Australian pulse area ended up lower than expected as drought like conditions during seeding kept growers from taking a chance with those crops, suggests the latest crop report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 4/01 - STAT -- Australia remains optimistic about the potential size of this year's pulse harvest, with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) leaving the projected size of this year's harvest basically unchanged at 2.135 million metric tons (MT) despite a 6% decrease in seeded area estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 4/01 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's field pea and lentil harvest are entering their final stages at the start of a week which is expected to be characterized by a 30% to 60% chance of showers each day across the province. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 5/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here tendered for 1,000 metric tons (MT) of Great Northern beans for shipment to Albania in November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PARIS - Sep 6/01 - STAT -- Sales of French field peas to domestic feed mills and export buyers ended the 2000-01 season at levels not seen since the middle of the 1980s. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 6/01 - STAT -- Specialty crop exports through the port of Thunder Bay got off to a slow start during August, with only 14,818 metric tons (MT) of lentils moving through the port. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 6/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 24,960 metric tons (MT) of pulses for shipment as food aid in October. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Sep 7/01 - STAT -- Production problems facing dry edible bean processors and growers in Michigan were punctuated by the decision by Governor John Engler's request that 73 counties in the state be declared disasters by the USDA so they become eligible for U.S. government assistance. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER- Sep 7/01 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets ended a holiday shortened trading week with a generally firmer tone. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER- Sep 7/01 - STAT -- Canadian canaryseed continued to register a strong performance during the past week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER- Sep 7/01 - STAT -- Unusually slow export sales demand weighed on North American lentil markets as the region’s harvest became essentially complete. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER- Sep 7/01 - STAT -- International field pea markets ended the week under mixed trading conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 10/01 - STAT -- This year's dry edible bean harvest is picking up steam in the United States, with between 8% and 32% of the harvest complete in those states reporting progress. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 10/01 - STAT -- Sunflower seed crops in the United States remain in good conditions, with reports from state agencies revealing this year's harvest is now underway in Texas and Kansas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 11/01 - STAT -- The international political and economic scene may have been fundamentally changed by today's cowardly attacks on the United States which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people when both towers of the U.S. TradeCenter collapsed in New York City. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 11/01 - STAT -- Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food did its part to try to lift market values by slashing its projected yield for field peas to just 1,127 pounds per harvested acre from the 1,332 pound yield forecast for the province by Statistics Canada three weeks ago. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 11/01 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's harvest entered its final stages this week, with 82% of all crops sown in the province in the bin, while the pea and lentil harvest is virtually complete. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 11/01 - STAT -- Production estimates developed by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food reveal this year's crops in the province were devastated by drought, with production of all grains and oilseeds plunging 22% below the recent 10-year average to 19,479,000 metric tons (MT). . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Sep 13/01 - STAT -- Ending stocks of the major specialty crops grown in Canada ended the marketing year remarkably close to the expectations of the industry and predictions by STAT Market Research. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 13/01 - STAT -- Osama Bin Laden was officially named the prime suspect behind this week's sneak attack on the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- The season ending stocks for Canadian specialty crops are starting to attract sideways glances from industry participants as individuals get a chance to pull back the numbers and look inside the calculations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- North American field pea markets ended the week buffeted by mixed news in commodity markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- North American and international birdseed ingredient markets continue to be supported by strong canaryseed values in western Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- Dry edible bean markets were remarkably silent during the past week as American processors and exporters showed no interest in conducting business. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- Specialty crop markets were virtually silent much of the past week. Traders in Islamic, Arabic, African, Asian, and European nations were immobilized by the horrific images of two planes being deliberately crashed intothe World Trade Center. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office announced a PL-480 food aid tender invitation for 3,710 MT of pulses for shipment during the last half of November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 14/01 - STAT -- Chickpea markets finished the week under mixed conditions, with markets seeming to have difficulty finding a clear sense of direction. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 17/01 - STAT -- The dry edible bean harvest in the United States is almost one-third complete, suggesting processors now have available to them around 300,000 metric tons (MT) of new crop dry edible beans. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 17/01 - STAT -- Sunflower harvest activity is inching forward in the United States this year, with progress not far off the recent five-year average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 17/01 - STAT -- Saskatchewan's specialty crop harvest is entering its final stages, judging from the latest crop progress report released by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 18/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here requested offers on 4,820 MT of pulses for shipment in November. . . . 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 15,590 MT, compared to 13,510 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 36,360 MT, compared to 24,650 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 2001-02 shipping season to 51,950 MT. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PRETORIA - Sep 20/1 - STAT -- Dry edible bean seedings is expected to decline 14.7% during South Africa's coming summer planting season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 20/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office confirmed the purchase of 3,360 metric tons (MT) of beans, peas and lentils for shipment as food aid during October. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- Countries surrounding Afghanistan are girding themselves for the consequences of military strikes, expected to take place on account of the unwillingness and/or inability of the Taleban authority to force Osama bin Laden and his troops to surrender to the United States government. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 1,000 MT of Great Northern beans for shipment to Albania in November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- International dry edible bean markets finished the week on a mixed note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- Supplies of new crop birdseed ingredients continued to improve during the week as North American harvest activity advanced. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- North American lentil markets finished the week's trading mainly unchanged. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- International chickpea markets finished the week's trading unchanged to easier, with several exporters complaining about the lack of liquidity on international markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 21/01 - STAT -- International field pea markets were unchanged to slightly firmer during a week which saw grower selling remain close to the needs of the market. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 24/01 - STAT -- American safflower lines are being adapted for Australian conditions under a research agreement between Seedtec and the University of Melbourne and new varieties should be available to growers within three to four years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DONALD - Sep 25/01 - STAT -- Lupin production in the state of Western Australia could reach only 650,000 metric tons (MT) this year if an analysis of the impact of drought on yields in the state proves accurate. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 24/01 - STAT -- Wet weather interfered with harvest progress across much of the United States week, according to reports from individual states. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 24/01 - STAT -- This year's dry edible bean harvest is closing in the halfway point in the United States, despite cool and wet weather from the eastern half of North Dakota across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Sep 24/01 - STAT -- Cold and wet weather conditions in several regions of Saskatchewan during the past week are frustrating efforts to bring this year's harvest to a close in the province and raised concern about damage to unharvested crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 25/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 1,810 metric tons (MT) of buckwheat groats. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Sep 26/01 - STAT -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation office here confirmed the purchase of 4,310 metric tons (MT) of lentils, green peas, pinto and black beans for shipment as food aid the last half of November. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- The state of Michigan issued its last report on commercial stocks of dry edible bean in the state today. At the request of the Michigan Bean Commission and the Michigan Bean Shippers Association the report, an industry fixture since 1983, will be discontinued. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- Solid declines in minor oilseed stocks were recorded in the United States as of the August 31 close of the 200-01 marketing year, according to the latest stocks in all positions data compiled by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- Dry edible bean markets finished weekly trading on a generally firmer note amid improved international demand and continued concerns about the status of crops in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- Birdseed ingredient markets finished the week under mixed conditions. While values for canaryseed and millet were unchanged, bid levels for sunflower seeds were generally softer. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- International lentil markets finished the week's trading with a mixed price performance, despite a general improvement in trading liquidity. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 28/01 - STAT -- Canadian field pea markets ended the week's trading with a strong performance, allowing prices for most classes of merchandise to advance. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Sep 30/01 - STAT -- A resumption in export demand allowed desi and kabuli chickpeas to finish last week's trading on a firmer note. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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