AUSTRALIA’S pulse harvest is gathering pace, with northern crops on track to deliver average or better yields for chickpeas and faba beans, and lentil harvesting just getting starting in the south amid mixed conditions. Markets for all three pulses remain depressed due to heady competition from Canada on lentils, and limited interest from India on chickpeas and Egypt on faba beans respectively. He said good yields from a healthy crop were expected, but prices and markets were flat. “When Australia and Canada have big crops, it’s a fight to the bottom.”Faba beansNew-crop faba beans are trading at around $370/t delivered Wimmera packer. Most of the south’s new-crop faba beans will come from higher-rainfall areas, namely the Western District of Vic, and SA’s South East.