soybean crops

New soybean varieties for 2025

Beans with high yields, improved standability, strong defence packages and more are on offer

Farmers in Western Canada have 15 new soybean options to choose from next year. BrettYoung, Corteva, Dekalb, NorthStar Genetics, Proven Seed, SeCan, Syngenta and Thunder Seed are all releasing new soybean varieties for the coming growing season. Note: the following list includes only brand-new releases for 2025. BrettYoung Corteva: Brevant Seeds Corteva: Pioneer Seed P003Z08E […] Read more

Corteva’s next round of soybean product launches will be enhancements on products that are already available.

Changing weather, changing varieties

With growing conditions in flux, adaptability is a consideration for soybean developers

Climate change has had a huge impact on farm operations in Western Canada for some time. Those shifting temperatures and weather patterns are also playing a key role in how future varieties are being developed. Grainews recently spoke with several prominent seed companies about new soybean varieties they have in the development pipeline and the […] Read more


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.

Prairie soybean crops stand to benefit in changing climate

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

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.

Phytophthora’s Prairie evolution

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

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