1. CANADIAN DRY BEAN
CROP REPORT
JULY 2015
PRESENTED BY: KEVEN SAWCHUK

2. Contracting and planting summary
Grower interest lost steam late winter / early spring
More Black beans less Pinto and White
Spring estimate 310,000 acres vs 327,000 actual
Limited seed stocks on preferred types
Western areas on time / Eastern rain delayed
Stats-Can numbers for dry bean only
Garbanzo not included
Faba not included

3. Garbanzo beans 2014 acres down 10% - 2015 acres down 25 %
slow exports during past 20 months
Grown in drought affected areas
Biggest decline in Kabuli types
Large carry of 6-8mm sizes
125,000 acres x 14cwt yield = 1,750,000cwt
carry out 1,100,000cwt
total supply 2,850,000cwt

4. Crop conditions – Dry beans

5. Crop conditions
Western prairies – hot and dry with early drought impacting many crops.
Irrigated beans all in good condition yield +
Manitoba conditions very good
Small areas of excess moisture yield +
Ontario extreme wet during June
Reductions for Navy / Cran
Yield estimates lower

6. Ontario / Quebec – planted acres + 5%
VARIETY ACRES YIELD EST.
NAVY , cwt
BLACK ,000
CRAN ,000 ** includes Quebec
DRK / LRK 22,000
OTHER ,000
TOTAL , ,622,000cwt

7. Manitoba – planted acres ( - 5%)
VARIETY ACRES YIELD EST.
PINTO , cwt
NAVY ,000
BLACK ,000
CRANS ,000
LRK / DRK 17,000
PINK ,000
SMALL RED ,000
GNB ,000
TOTAL , ,376,000cwt

8. Alberta / Sask. – planted acres (-8%)
VARIETY ACRES YIELD EST.
PINTO ,000 ** Includes Saskatchewan
GNB ,000
SMALL RED , cwt
BLACK ,000
OTHER ,000
TOTAL , ,311,000cwt

9. Questions ?