Weather report/
September 11-18

Canada

• A report from the Canadian Crop Hail Association has shown that small hailstorms are continuing to damage crops in Western Canada throughout the harvest. Peas have been damaged in Alberta and Manitoba, whereas Saskatchewan saw damage to lentils and peas.
• Some areas in Saskatchewan have seen harvest delays due to dry conditions and excess rain, according to The Star Phoenix. Carl Potts of Saskatchewan Pulse Growers has suggested starting the harvest later may be a good sign: "Usually when we start really early," says Potts, "it means there isn't much crop there and things are really, really dry."

India

• Pulse crops have seen damage due to heavy rainfall in Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, according to The Wire.
• The same report shows Rajasthan has received the most surplus rain this monsoon, with 73% surplus – both green mung bean and black matpe are reported damaged.
• The Wire adds that in Telangana, approximately 6,750 acres of pulse crops are believed to be damaged by the heavy rains. 520,000 ha of land have been affected in Karnataka, of which an undetermined amount is lentils.
  
  

Australia

• Both northern and southern Australia saw rainfall this week, with a "highly variable" spread across cropping regions, according to ABARES.
• Southern New South Wales (NSW) saw between 10-50 mm of rain over the last week, an amount deemed "likely to be sufficient to arrest declines" of soil moisture in the region.
• Over the next week, NSW, Queensland, and southern Victoria are predicted to receive between 5-25 mm of rain, whereas NSW, Western Australia, South Australia, and northern Victoria are forecast to receive "little to no rainfall."
  
  

USA

• Dry beans have been "hit hard" by a recent frost in early September, according to In Forum. Tony Richards of the North Harvest Bean Growers Association told the outlet that “tens of thousands of dollars” of crops have been lost.