I see pintos as one having considerable carryout. He estimates North American pinto production to come in at about 12 million bags of product for the 2000-2001 crop. Carryout at the end of the year will amount to five million bags, up from 3.5 million in 1999. The picture is a little better for navy beans. Production will be 6.5 million bags with carryout of 2.5 million bags, down half a million bags from last year's carryout.
Black beans are the other major category of beans grown in North America.
He expects 1.7 million bags of black beans to come out of the major growing states and provinces in the 2000-01 crop year. Carryout will be about the same as the previous year, two million bags. But black beans don't have the reliable annual demand that pintos and navies generate. Right now Argentina has an oversupply of black beans that are still being shipped into Brazil. Canadian growers have to hope for a crop production shortfall in Mexico and South America.