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VIDEO: How to use Seed Manitoba to choose your seed variety in 2025

Dennis Lange with Manitoba Agriculture has a method to help growers select their next seed variety

By Greg Berg December 2, 2024

The 2025 edition of Seed Manitoba is here and it’s full of all the cereal, oilseed and pulse varieties that can help Manitoba growers set up a successful growing season in 2025. Among all of its 116 pages, there is a lot of trial and yield comparison data that could be daunting to interpret. In

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Finding sweet spot for soybean seeding

Things to consider this year when planting soybeans

By Don Norman May 31, 2023

Manitoba Agriculture pulse and soybean specialist Dennis Lange says the window for seeding soybeans is getting wider. “In the past, one of our big concerns was planting soybeans too early,” he said. “That was our initial discussion a few years ago.” WHY IT MATTERS: Late May is historically the prime time for planting soybeans, although

Crops, Farmit Manitoba, Pulses

VIDEO: Bean development in Manitoba

Lower temperatures early in the season have slowed growth to some extent

By Greg Berg July 23, 2019

So, how are soybeans and dry beans faring in Manitoba this crop season? At the recent Crop Diagnostic School, Dennis Lange, provincial pulse crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, offers what he’s seeing in terms of crop development in the province, the impact that weather has had for growers so far this year, and what options

Manitoba Agriculture pulse specialist Dennis Lange is suggesting farmers check their soybean fields for mature, green-seeded soybeans and if the percentage is high consider delaying harvest and also consulting with buyers.

Local news, Oilseeds

Advice on green-seeded soybeans

Consider delaying harvest and talk to your buyers, says Dennis Lange

By Allan Dawson September 10, 2018

Grade-lowering levels of green seed is showing up in some of the soybeans being harvested in Manitoba. Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange is advising farmers who haven’t harvested to take samples to see if they have the problem and how bad it is. Those with green seeded soybeans should consider delaying harvest a

Manitoba Agriculture pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange, seen here assessing soybean maturity Sept. 14, 2017 at the Morden Research and Development Centre, estimates soybean crops are maturing about two weeks earlier than last year due to the dry and hot growing conditions most of the summer.

Crops, Local news

Manitoba soybean maturity two weeks earlier than normal

Dry, hot weather has resulted in more salinity in some fields hurting soybean yields

By Allan Dawson September 6, 2018

Dennis Lange started rating various soybean varieties for maturity Aug. 20 and the same day he heard some soybeans were harvested near Roland. “On average I would say we’re about two weeks earlier than normal based on when I normally start maturity ratings in the plots,” Lange, Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse crop specialist, said in an

Crops, Weather

Manitoba soy growers likely face light yields

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries August 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Manitoba soybeans will be ready for harvest well ahead of normal, provincial pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange said, fresh from fields where he was conducting maturity ratings. He said he was out around Morris on Tuesday and some soybean varieties there are already nearing full maturity. Throughout Manitoba, farmers could be taking

Manitoba’s soybean growers are facing protein-related discounts from some buyers.

News, Oilseeds

Discount reports put a new focus on soybean protein

Soybean producers are used to focusing on yield, but the new threat of discounts or rejection has some reconsidering where protein fits in their priorities

By Alexis Stockford April 5, 2018

Calvin Penner suddenly has a new risk to contend with — the possibility his soybeans could be discounted or even outright rejected for low protein levels. Penner, who farms southeast of Elm Creek, says the threat’s a new one and makes him more aware than ever of the clauses contained within the contracts he signs

Crops, Oilseeds

VIDEO: Rating soybean maturity with pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange

By Allan Dawson December 11, 2017

Seed Manitoba 2017, available now at Manitoba Agriculture offices, has a variety of valuable information – such as soybean maturity – to help farmers decide which soybean varieties to grow. Last September, Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange talked with reporter Allan Dawson about how soybean maturity ratings are made.

Community leaders, agriculture representatives and researchers discuss whether a southwestern soybean-processing plant is viable and what it might look like during a Nov. 16 conference at Brandon University.

Crops, Local news

Southwest boosters continue to pitch soy plant

A local development group continues to hope it can draw a global soy processor to southwestern Manitoba

By Alexis Stockford December 4, 2017

The Western Opportunities Leadership Group (WOLG) says Manitoba’s explosive soybean-acre growth makes a processing plant viable. The crop has spread rapidly west and north over the last 10 years, into regions traditionally considered too cold. The potential facility drew industry, university researchers, local farmers and community leaders to Brandon University Nov. 16 for a day-long

Local news, Pulses

Manitoba bean producers faring well following harvest

Weaker Canadian dollar is offsetting the effects of a weakening in the bean market

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm November 15, 2017

After a decent dry bean harvest in Manitoba the market is quieting down as the crop begins to ship to the American and Mexican markets. “We’ve had active movement here right at harvest time… during the next four weeks we’ll see it quiet down over the Christmas period,” said Grant Fehr, market segment manager for

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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