November 25, 2025
Pulse market analyst Marlene Boersch of Mercantile Consulting Venture talks us through the promise and problems of the Canadian harvest, Indian and Chinese tariffs, and a downward trend in pulse and commodity prices.
“It's been a pretty interesting production year. Acres were good, but what was interesting to me is that we had middle-of-the-road crop assessments all the way along the cycle. Rainfall was fairly good, but also uneven, so the middle-of-the-road assessments made sense, but then at the very tail end of the cycle, they all moved up by a very significant percentage.
And yet nobody seems to be talking about how there is a big disparity between the provincial agency yield assessments – from Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan – and the assessments from StatsCan. I don't think we’ve quite reconciled that disparity yet. In early December, we will get the final StatsCan numbers, which might be somewhere in between.
Most people are surprised at the end volumes that we had because it was much more uniform than any of the regional yield crop assessments suggested earlier in the year.”
READ THE FULL ARTICLEBoersch believes Canadian red lentil production will be between 1.7-1.8 MMT.
Green lentils make up much of the expected carryout, with over 1.6 MMT produced across large, medium, and small greens.
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