Richardsons

[cottonpicken]

Wierd story,take it at face value.

Dumping a load at at the local pionerr and noticed a
bag of lentils on the desk and asked about grades and
qualities bla,bla,bla guy said" rumour is we are going
to start taking this stuff".

I had a hard time lifting my jaw off the floor.

[gregpet]

They are the leader for yellow pea prices around the yorkton area.

[food4u]

Viterra was pushing strong in our area last spring with red lentil contracts. Two cents less thah anyone else plus NO act of god clause.Never heard if they had any takers.

[gustgd]

Definitely true.

buddy went to grading school last week, I think they are talking two delivery points this year and depending on uptake, who knows?

Make sure you watch what screens they are checking dockage over. CGC says #9 tell them no delivery unless it's an 8
Only works if the grade is 2 or better. If your fighting over grade might have to shop around.

Davidson is a delivery point for Viterra this year.

Same deal with grading these guys all are going on two hours training.

[furrowtickler]

Oh great, vitera in the lentil game. Maybe they can tank that market as good as they did the pea market. Anyone remember the end of Jan and what happened to pea prices? - Vitera dumped a hauge amount into the market at almost $2/bus below trade to get rid of the volume tied up in their system.

[mbratrud]

Both Richardsons and Viterra did several trains last year as test projects. Might even give them a little credit for sparking the market up a bit in late December.

I have mixed feeling I think the competition will be good with so few large players in the Lentil Market. I just hope they dont "sewer the market" for the sake of volume.

BIGGEST BENEFIT Nice to dump your Lentils in the pit and leave with a check! Something Saskcan used to do. None of this waiting a week for a grade and dockage and couple weeks after that for a cheque. Definatly going to change the pulse industry.

[cottonpicken]

Mb-whats the local lentil story,heard any grades?

[mbratrud]

Mostly 2 or better so far, some 3s due to sprouting. Lots that havent been graded yet. Not going to be pretty if current forecast is correct. I think there has to be half the lentils out still in this area. You have any thoughts on that?

[cottonpicken]

Just finally got going on some and yield and grade
where better than i thought.Lots out there for sure.

Back to canola for now i guess.

[mbratrud]

how has your canola been yielding?