Canada: Coloured bean production down, whites are up

Canadian production at 401,000 tonnes using the crop insurance numbers, a slight drop from last year’s 424,000 tonnes. Production of coloured beans is estimated to be down 14 percent from last year, while white bean production would be up 28 percent, he told delegates attending the 2025 Pulse and Special Crops Convention. He is forecasting 400,000 tonnes of exports, which would be close to last year’s record of 410,000 tonnes. Ending stocks would be a mere 28,000 tonnes. Farmers in the United States planted 1.06 million acres of the three main classes of beans, with blacks down 22 per cent, pintos down 18 per cent and navies up 22 per cent. Total bean production in that country is forecast at 1.4 million tonnes based on an average yield of 2203 pounds per acre. That would be down slightly from last year but well above the 10-year average. Penner believes pinto supplies will be burdensome in the U.S. Mexico is coming off three dismal years of production. Acreage this year is the ...