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By Sean Pratt Lentil prices are falling in India as domestically grown product hits the market, says an analyst. The price of average quality lentils in markets in Madhya Pradesh, the largest lentil growing state, is around 5,450 rupees per 100 kilograms. That is...

Liz Wells, April 14, 2023 AUSTRALIA exported 84,879 tonnes of chickpeas and 223,581t of lentils in February, according to the latest export data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The chickpea figure is down 20 percent from the 106,183t shipped in January, but...

By Sean Pratt The United States is not going to help address what some believe is a looming global kabuli chickpea shortage. U.S. farmers plan to seed 340,500 acres of the crop, a four percent drop from the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of...

By Sean Pratt Published: March 23, 2023 There should be good demand for lentils in Canada’s top market this year, but also fierce competition, says a broker. Vivek Agrawal, director of JLV Agro, a commodity brokerage firm based in Pune, India, thinks India will import...

Liz Wells, March 21, 2023 RESEARCHERS, agronomists and value adders from across Australia and beyond are gathered in Toowoomba this week for the fourth Australian Pulse Conference, and the first ever to be held in Queensland. In his opening address this morning,...

Liz Wells, March 20, 2023 PRICES for faba beans, lentils, mungbeans and even chickpeas have risen in the past month, thanks to improved supply chains and healthy demand. The month has also seen an increased ability of counterparties in destinations including Pakistan...

Lentils shipments dropped 9pc for the month from 163,196t shipped in December, again due to the lateness of harvest.

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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).

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Waterlogging has written off an estimated 75pc of this grower’s lentil crop in the Victorian Mallee as wet weather continues.

AUSTRALIA exported 44,962 tonnes of chickpeas and 105,112t of lentils in July, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The chickpea figure is more than double the 21,276t shipped in June, while lentil exports are up 43 per cent...

Canola stocks are below ‘pipeline levels’

Growth in green pea production has been phenomenal, said Pritesh Nandu, partner of the Himatlal Hirji & Co., a pulse wholesaler in Navi Mumbai, India.

MELFORT, Sask. — Producers made the most of the hot dry weather by combining as much as possible before rainstorms rolled through the province on the weekend. Harvest progress is now sitting at five per cent, just behind the five-year average of eight per cent. There...