Will the poorer lentil crop lend support to pea prices?

**farmaholic** · Jul 21, 2016, 23:06

Are peas ever a viable substituion option for lentils? I think yellow peas can be substitued for chickpeas in short supply.

I wonder if they will simply eat poorer quality lentils before they consider subsitution with peas.

Hasn't Austrsilia also ramped up production of lentils to cash in on the shortage and high prices?

There may be enough lentils to meet demand but people may not get the quality they want. ...any thoughs?

**bucket** · Jul 22, 2016, 00:34

Tough haul for the graincos coming up.

Grades, volumes etc all over the map.

**wmoebis** · Jul 22, 2016, 06:19

Little off topic here but I wonder if customers have any concerns about end use quality based on variety. Are some varieties more susceptible to some of end use factors than others.

Is there any chance we could get blind sided with varieties and classes like we did with wheat. Where customers complained, then CGC said it was unfounded, then all of a sudden we lose some of our best agronomic classes to a new class that likely will be devalued.

**SASKFARMER3** · Jul 22, 2016, 06:46

The market or grain companies think wish want the crop of peas to be huge I m sorry to say they might be disappointed. With excess acreage there will be lots of peas but some who think they have a huge one coming might be a little disappointed. Lots of pea fields are not as nice after they shut down as some thought in June when flowering. Then with rain and storms and if you have lots of acreage harvest could be real interesting. She's not over till its in the bin but definitely the grain companies are trying like hell to kill all the crop prospects of higher prices with big yield bumper and wow predictions.

**bucket** · Jul 22, 2016, 07:45

They still have the trump card when they can call the railways and ask them to slow down a bit to back it up to take advantage of a plugged system.

**furrowtickler** · Jul 22, 2016, 09:08

Feed lentils won't be hitting the rail - they will be slowly fed out domestically in an animals belly somewhere by truck

**newguy** · Jul 22, 2016, 20:42

did a road trip to manitoba and wondered where all the peas were seeded.?Did a trip to Calgary and was south of Drumheller.Seen lots of great pea crops on that trip. So if I would have did a crop report by driving in only one area I would have been so wrong.But one thing I seen on both trips was soggy lentils.

**sumdumguy** · Jul 23, 2016, 14:51

India and Pakistan like low-grade lentils.

Will the poorer lentil crop lend support to pea prices?