Message from MPSG

With over 85% of Canada’s pulses going to export markets, Canadian pulse producers know that maintaining market access is critical to protecting their investments and growing our industry. Growers have a key role to play in keeping the doors to pulse export markets open.

Since 2013, Manitoba has consistently ranked as Canada’s second most significant soybean-producing province — and soybeans are solidly entrenched as the third most valuable field crop.

Growers deal with risks all year long, but managing those risks can be top of mind during planting. With all that money and energy that they are investing, growers want to know that they will be able to manage the risk of weather, markets and everything else that can impact your bottom line between the time that crop goes in the ground and when it leaves the farm.

Should we urge young farmers to pursue an education in agriculture? Or, does that thinking need to better reflect a changing ag sector? If the answer was clear to me before, it certainly isn’t now.

There’s uncertainty in the marketplace. The commodities market seems feral, wild, unpredictable.

Roquette will start contracting Canada #2 yellow peas in the 2020 crop year. Learn more about their 2019 traceability and sample collection program.