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How Pulse Crops Have Been Affected by the Weather

First off today we get an update on pulse crops on the prairies. Some areas have been quite dry, while others have been extremely wet. Chuck Penner with LeftField Commodity Research takes a look at acreage and what that might mean to the markets.

Interview with Chuck Penner (3:08 minutes) (1.43 Mb)

Chuck Penner is with LeftField Commodity Research.

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Source: Agriculture and Rural Development


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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.