Jan 30, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
Liz Wells, January 30, 2023 CHICKPEA area in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland could fall even further this year as lacklustre export prices deter growers from the pulse, which in the past decade has become the preferred crop to grow in rotation with...
Jan 11, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
SOUTHERN Australia’s lentil harvest has advanced rapidly in the past month and better-than-expected yields are putting supply-side pressure on prices. Faba beans are finding little love in the export market but are in solid demand from domestic stockfeed millers,...
Dec 23, 2022 | Featured, Industry news
A SLOW start to the southern harvest and variable quality to date is keeping traded volume to a minimum, while in the north, attention is turning towards planting of new-crop mungbeans. Overall quality of lentils appears to be improving as harvest gathers pace, while...
Nov 17, 2022 | Featured, Industry news
UNCERTAINTY about the timing of southern Australia’s pulse harvest is keeping volume trade to a minimum, with growers wary about overcommitting on volume and quality, and traders following suit. While Queensland’s chickpea harvest is well advanced, harvest of pulses...
Nov 7, 2022 | Featured, Industry news
AUSTRALIA exported 71,469 tonnes of chickpeas and 67,800t of lentils in September, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Pakistan was the biggest market by far for chickpeas, taking 57,928t for September, well ahead of Nepal on...
Oct 24, 2022 | Featured, Industry news
Even as excess rains continue to hurt the kharif crops across key growing regions, the Government is looking to build stocks of imported pulses mainly tur (pigeon pea) and urad (black matpe) to augment supplies and for potential intervention in the market going ahead....
