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    Western Canadian Pea Produc tion

    Anyone been hearing some early harvested pea yields/potential yields for remaining crop. Benson & Quinn/GMS come out with their UGG elevator based survey of just over 2 MMT for western Canada. Most others seem to be in the 2.6 to 2.8 MMT range (2.9 last year). Yields are way down in all cases given the 16 % increase in 2001 pea acreage versus 2000 (3.6 mln acres this year versus 3.1 last.

    A crop of under 2.5 mln acres will have major implications given what likely will be good fall movement on edible peas prior to the availability of new crop Indian and Australian pulse crops. There is also likely some European feed pea business being done but the major change in the coming year will be the need to put a lot more feed peas in rations as an energy source in the face of a tight feed grain situation.

    Others thoughts.

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    Charlie,

    I think the UGG survey is a lot closer to the truth.

    In north central Alberta we figured that yeild averages will be 30% below normal.

    Weed control has turned out to be a huge issue because many people missed the late flush of weeds, now things look awful in many feilds.

    Hope the prices will make up for the lower yeilds and extra weed problems next year!

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