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A soybean crop near St. Adolphe, south of Winnipeg, in September 2023. Manitoba is estimated to have planted 1.426 million acres to soy in 2024, down from 1.595 million in 2023.
Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

Prairie soybean crops stand to benefit in changing climate

Conditions that have curbed soy acres in the West were more market-related than meteorological

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Soybeans have been at the vanguard of longer-season crops moving into the Prairie region. The soybean area in Western Canada has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. Manitoba’s soybean acreage increased from zero to over one million acres in the first decade of the 2000s. Manitoba’s soybean acreage continued to increase in the past […] Read more
Root diseases do their worst between germination and early flowering, leading to poor emergence and stunted, yellowed seedlings.
Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

Phytophthora’s Prairie evolution

For Manitoba the ‘honeymoon’ is ending as soy diseases such as phytophthora root rot arrive

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Glacier FarmMedia — The worst phytophthora infection that Laura Schmidt of Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers has ever seen was in the province’s west, just south of Souris. “Probably 25 per cent of the field was impacted,” the production specialist told attendees at a Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization field day near Melita, Man. “One in […] Read more
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Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

Editor’s Rant: Seeds, saved

Against a changing climate, this is how we adapt

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Before we all get much farther into this book, it needs to be said: Folks, we’re not trying to bright-side climate change here. It’s far beyond dispute that Earth’s climate is changing — in part due to natural factors over time such as changes in the sun’s radiation and the occasional volcano, but mainly due […] Read more
volunteer canola in soybeans
Canola, Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

How to keep last year’s canola out of your beans

If any good herbicide options are off the table, canola will compete well against soybeans

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Glacier FarmMedia — Fighting off volunteer canola in your soybean crop begins with added effort to keep your non-volunteer canola from escaping the back of the combine the year before. While there’s already been a lot of work done on the matters of volunteer canola issues and canola harvest loss, recent research from the University […] Read more
pile of soybeans
Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

Possibilities prevail for the Prairie soy sector

Choices include the introduction of gene-editing and opportunities in the food market

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Glacier FarmMedia — Canada has a small but growing soybean industry that faces some forks in the road. Soy Canada executive director Brian Innes tells growers from across the country that they should relish the options that lie before them. “Where do we want to go from here? The choice is ours,” he said repeatedly, […] Read more
The latest model-based production estimates from Statistics Canada shows downward revisions in both canola and wheat production from the August report. Photo: Thinkstock
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StatCan revises canola production lower

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Hot and dry weather saw crop conditions decline across much of Western Canada over the past month, with the latest model-based production estimates from Statistics Canada showing downward revisions in both canola and wheat production from the August report.

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