Australia: Chickpeas slow, lentils improve

to new-crop marketing. On lentils, prospects have improved greatly for South Australian and Victorian lentils thanks to recent rain, but yields will depend on a kind finish to the growing season. On faba beans, northern NSW and southern Qld crops have above-average yield prospects, but average yields seem more realistic in the south, where limited subsoil moisture remains an issue. Speaking at the Australian Grains Industry Conference’s Australian market review session on July 30, Louis Dreyfus Company pulse trader Simone Dax said a kind finish could see Australia break new ground in terms of its two major pulse crops. “As a pulse trader, it’d be nice to think that possibly for the first time we’d have 1.5Mt of chickpeas and 1.5Mt of lentils to trade around,” Ms Dax said. All prices are in Australian dollars per tonne unless otherwise stated. New-crop chickpeas for November-December delivery to Brisbane port are trading in limited volume at $755-$760 per tonne, up slightly on last ...