Pulse Forward 14 | USA's big bet on beans

FOOD FORWARD PULSES & BEYOND CHUCK PENNER LEFTFIELD

terms. I don’t think we’ll see supplies expand to the point of being heavy though, it’s more like a recovery back to comfortable levels. How have green lentil prices influenced markets this year? We used to operate much more in silos where what happened in Canada was a very large driver of price and I keep telling our Canadian clients that the size of the Canadian crop no longer determines global prices - and that doesn't just apply to lentils! When Canadian farmers see good prices, so do Russian and Kazakh farmers and Australian farmers and they all certainly responded to that. Last year’s green lentil market hit record prices in Canada. Those prices have dropped very sharply and now seem to be leveling off a little bit. I don't know necessarily how it’s going to transition in the next few months but we do watch seasonal prices quite

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