We are Alberta Pulse Growers.
Based in Leduc, Alberta Pulse Growers Commission is a not-for-profit organization that supports over 5,400 Alberta farmers who grow pulses, including dried peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils, soybeans and faba beans. Through a refundable levy based on 0.75 per cent of the cash sale on pulse crops sold in the province, Alberta Pulse Growers conducts research, administrative, marketing, advocacy and extension activities on behalf of our members.
With five zones, nine staff, and a farmer-elected Board of 12 Directors, Alberta Pulse Growers promotes the benefits of including pulses in a sustainable crop rotation and in a healthy diet through research and marketing initiatives, all in an effort to increase the sustainability and profitability of pulse production in Alberta.
Pulses are good — for you and for Alberta farms — and we work hard to make sure you think so too.
Click here for board and staff contact information.
Not sure of your zone? Click here to view a zone map by county.
Alberta Pulse Growers Marketing Plan Regulation & Bylaws
View the Alberta Pulse Growers Marketing Plan Regulation current as of April 24, 2024 here.
View Alberta Pulse Growers Bylaws approved on April 24, 2024 here.
Vision
Pulses on every farm, on every plate.
Mission
Lead through innovation and collaboration to add value for Alberta’s pulse farmers.
Values
These values guide the organization in its pursuit of the mission and vision. These values are the expectation that the organization will operate under.
Clear and concise: each value represents how APG will address issues, opportunities and formulate decisions moving forward and they address how everyone in the organization will operate; Directors, Advisors and Staff.
APG values were reviewed through the strategic planning process and have been adopted as follows.
- Accountability
- Optimism
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
Strategic Focus
Grow
- Environmental Sustainability
- Grower Support
- Research
Move
- Market Access & Transportation
- Farm Viability
- Advocacy
Use
- Market Development
- Value Added
- Education
Associate Organizations
Alberta Pulse Growers has a big job, and we couldn’t do it without help from our partners and associate organizations.
- Agricultural Funding Consortium
- Agri-Environmental Partnership of Alberta
- AgSafe Alberta
- Crop Sector Working Group
- Classroom Agriculture Program
- CrossRoads Crop Conference
- Grain Growers of Canada
- Prairie Grain Development Committee
- Prairie Pesticide Minor Use Consortium
- Pulse Canada
- Soy Canada
- Team Alberta
- Western Grains Research Foundation