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NEWS RELEASE                                 Dry Edible Peas & Lentils
                                                         July 12, 2005

                         Dry Edible Pea & Lentil Acreage

North Dakota

Dry Edible Peas: Planted acreage in North Dakota is estimated at 530,000
acres, up from 310,000 acres last year and 160,000 acres in 2003, according
to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, North Dakota Field
Office. This is the highest dry edible pea acreage estimate for North
Dakota on record. Dry edible pea acreage estimates were added to the
program in 1998 when 100,000 acres were planted.

Lentils: Planted acreage is estimated at 130,000 acres, up from 100,000
acres last year and 55,000 acres in 2003. This is also the highest acreage
on record since 1998 when lentil acreage was first estimated at 22,000
acres.

United States

Dry Edible Peas: Planted acreage of dry edible peas in Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Oregon and Washington is estimated at 804,000 acres, up 52
percent from last year. Harvested area is forecast at 772,000 acres, also
up 52 percent from 2004.

Lentils: Planted acreage of lentils in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and
Washington is estimated at 450,000 acres, up 30 percent from 2004.
Harvested acreage is estimated at 430,000, up 31 percent from last year.


                     Dry Edible Pea and Lentil Acreage
                                 Planted          Harvested
                                                         Indicated
 Class                       2004      2005      2004      2005
                                   - - - 1,000 Acres - - -

                                       Dry Edible Peas 1/
 North Dakota               310.0     530.0     296.0      510.0
 Idaho                       57.0      55.0      55.0       53.0
 Montana                     68.0     135.0      63.0      125.0
 Oregon                       7.0       4.0       6.8        4.0
 Washington                  88.0      80.0      87.0       80.0
 United States              530.0     804.0     507.8      772.0

                                           Lentils
 North Dakota               100.0     130.0      94.0      127.0
 Idaho                       72.0      65.0      70.0       63.0
 Montana                     78.0     170.0      72.0      155.0
 Washington                  95.0      85.0      93.0       85.0
 United States              345.0     450.0     329.0      430.0
 1/ Excludes both wrinkled seed peas and Austrian winter peas.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
  David Knopf, Director
  USDA, NASS, North Dakota Field Office
  NDSU, IACC Bldg., Room 448
  P.O. Box 3166
  Fargo, ND 58108-3166
  Telephone: (701) 239-5306
  E-Mail: nass-nd@nass.usda.gov
  Internet: http://www.nass.usda.gov/nd/