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


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Editor’s Rant: Seeds, saved

Against a changing climate, this is how we adapt

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

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Pipeline offers promise

Some of the country’s leading canola seed companies discuss what comes next — and what’s driving those decisions

A wise man once said the times change and if you don’t change with them you get left behind. While he likely wasn’t talking about canola, the industry’s ability to change with the times has been a key factor in its continued success in this country. It’s been estimated Canada’s canola value chain generates around […] Read more


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Editor’s Rant: Bumper sticklers

Crop forecasting is a thankless job, but necessary

They were good calls at the time. Just a few weeks ago a clutch of farm writers from across Canada converged on Glacier FarmMedia’s Ag in Motion show west of Saskatoon. Some of those writers, myself included, drove past quite a lot of handsome crops en route. In some stretches, the usually blue watery mirages […] Read more

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Pulse Weekly: Lentils starting to feel harvest pressure

Lentil combining in southeast and southwest Saskatchewan were 10 per cent complete as of Aug. 5, according to that province’s crop report. Harvesting of the pulse was six per cent done in the west-central region, while most of Saskatchewan’s lentil crop was still standing. Over in Alberta, the combining of pulses was expected to get underway this week.



Cabbage seedpod weevil.

The march of the cabbage seedpod weevil

Cooler, wetter spring could favour the pests this year

The cool, damp spring the Prairies are experiencing could lead to a bad year for cabbage seedpod weevils, which is bad news for canola growers. “They seem to like it a little bit cooler, rather than very hot, and can suffer with great heat and very dry conditions,” Saskatchewan Agriculture entomologist James Tansey says. “That […] Read more