US farmers are growing more lentils, pea, and chickpeas.

The final 2023 production estimates were released by the US Department of Agriculture last Friday.

Improved yields more than offset a decline in lentil area south of the border. Lentil production was up 1.5 percent, even with a 20 percent decline in area. The average lentil yield in the States was 1,098 pounds per acre.

Pea production was 820-thousna tonnes – up more than 100,000 thousand from 2022 and roughly double the pea crop grown in 2021/22.

Chickpea in the states had an average yield of 1,315 pound per acre. Combine that with a four percent increase in seeded area, there was 214-thousand tonnes of chickpeas.