Pulse Forward 14 | USA's big bet on beans

PULSES & BEYOND CHUCK PENNER LEFTFIELD

point where they'll stop selling if prices go below that so that tends to provide a floor. Now, we'll wait to see what the Australian crop is like in South Australia and Western Victoria; there are some vulnerable conditions there, we'll see. And then dialing forward, we'll see bigger Russian and Kazakh crops as well too. They have some harvest challenges right now but I think overall there are some significant increases although I’m not sure of the breakdown between red and green. That's a little bit of an added supply to the situation but I don't know if I would classify it as a glut. I would just say comfortable supplies, flat prices: that’s the most likely scenario. How is the Indian Minimum Support Price (MSP) impacting prices for Canadian lentils? Prices in India have been pretty lackluster. The MSP has kind of held the market up

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