Garth Patterson ...The Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Association ... says there's a great deal of optimism among pulse crop growers in Saskatchewan.

He says the industry is into almost unprecedented territory with farmer bids on peas up to 10 dollars a bushell ... with red and green lentil prices in the high 20s and low 30s in some cases.

But Patterson says the industry is still facing transportation problems.

He says we're starting to work on that from a the national level collectively with other shippers adding because most of our pulse products go over seas, Canadian Pulses end up in about 150 different countires, we are