Statistics Canada Acreage Forecast

[cottonpicken]

Wheres the lentil numbers?

[charliep]

You have to look at Saskatchewan provincial numbers. Alberta and Manitoba produce only amounts/Statcan doesn't publish on the early rounds.

Statcan said 2.3 mln acres seeded to lentils in Saskatchewan, up from 1.6 in 2008. As indicated previously, yield potential and stage of growth are the issues now. Will have to rely on you guys to comment on those issues.

[dave4441]

Charlie-how many acres in AB. Hearing ranges from 100,000 to 350,000. Any guess?

[stubblejumper]

heard about a guy west of kindersley who reseeded 10,000 acres of canola to durum

[charliep]

Actually not sure what has been seeded in Alberta. Checked
Statistics Canada out for last year and see Alberta is not included for
an individual survey results. Interesting that Statscan does a
breakdown of special crops by type in the last report (2008 below).

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/22-002-x/2008008/t046-eng.pdf

Will have to check the current ARD specialty crop report for 2008.

[charliep]

Will post the 2007 Alberta specialty crop report to indicated acres. No information 2007 and 2008 is a work in progress. Alberta lentil acres have varied between 10,000 and 32,000 acres over the past 10 years.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sdd12490#3