2020 Pulse Market Outlook

Mar 02, 2020

Chuck Penner with LeftField Commodity Research gave a pulse market outlook to producers in Swift Current, SK last week.

Canada had a larger pea crop last year and saw strong demand with China buying two million tonnes in 2019.

He notes that we had moderate ending stocks for 2019-20 and new crop pea bids are kind of mediocre.

“So, they're not going to inspire a whole lot of interest from farmers so my best guess is probably kind of flat acres. And that could actually help prices longer term because you know if you have average yields, and we continue to have strong demand, especially from China. We’ll see supplies tighten up a little bit more.”

Penner says for lentils, India has been buying sizeable volumes again even with the tariffs, but the real advantage has been Turkey’s interest in red lentils.

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Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.