Mar 17, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
AUSTRALIA exported 92,287 tonnes of chickpeas and 149,266t of lentils in January, according to the latest export data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The chickpea figure is up 49 percent from the 62,078t shipped in December to reflect increased new-crop...
Mar 4, 2023 | Agricultural news, Featured
I’m headed back to India next week. Although I’ve spent a lot of time there over the years—doing everything from checking out toilets to visiting a village that’s home to the one poorest, most underserved castes in India—I haven’t been back since before the pandemic....
Feb 23, 2023 | Featured, Industry news
A SOLID bulk export program for lentils has lifted prices for southern Australia’s major pulse in the past month as offshore demand for faba beans languishes. Chickpea business is swapping from bulk to containers amid ongoing economic difficulties for Australia’s...
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...
