Yields for 2023 bean crops are trending below five- and 10-year averages.

Bean crops take yield hit

Lack of summer rains lowered early harvest soybean and dry bean yields, judging by the first beans to hit the bin

HARVEST Lack of summer rains lowered early harvest soybean and dry bean yields, judging by the first beans to hit the bin

Acres are up but yields are trending down for soybeans and dry beans across the province this year, according to Manitoba Agriculture pulse specialist Dennis Lange. “The key word this year is variability,” he said. “It all depends on when you got that rain, or if you got that rain. “If you got that rain, generally, harvest

A double rainbow over a Manitoba soybean field. (ImagineGolf/iStock/Getty Images)

Smaller Manitoba soybean crop expected

CNS Canada — Like most crops grown this year, Manitoba’s soybean yields were also highly variable in 2018. While early reports point to smaller production overall, lower-than-average yields won’t translate to higher prices, given prospects for a large U.S. crop. Manitoba soybean yields are “anywhere from 20 to 50” bushels per acre, said Mark Jorgenson


Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)

Manitoba soybean yields disappoint

CNS Canada — With Manitoba farmers starting to bring in their early-maturing soybeans between intermittent rains, they may start to see the toll from the dry summer. Many crop analysts see soybean yields below what farmers have enjoyed for the past couple of years, but they stress that fields are variable and that longer-season varieties

(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Manitoba soybean acres seen rising on record yields

CNS Canada –– Soybean acreage looks set to increase next year in Manitoba due to good yields and prices. The expansion comes despite the fact the province is overdue for a killing frost and U.S. acreage is set to grow. “This year we had just over 1.6 million acres planted. Early projections call for two


Not all Manitoba soybeans are in the bin yet, but once they are it’s expected the provincial average yield will set a new record.

Record provincial soybean yield on horizon

As of Oct. 13 an estimated 70 to 75 per cent of Manitoba soybeans had been harvested

When Manitoba’s soybean harvest is all safely in the bin the average yield is expected to be above the 10-year average and will probably set a record. “Overall, fields have been pretty good this year provincially,” Dennis Lange, Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse specialist, said Oct. 13 in an interview. “We are probably looking maybe at 40

(Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

U.S. soybean production gains outpace rising demand

Washington | Reuters — Record demand for soybeans has paled in comparison to the expected sharp gains in supply, which will leave U.S. farmers and commercial operators with a growing stockpile of the oilseed even as exports and crushings continue to rise. The U.S. Agriculture Department on Monday raised expected demand for U.S. soybeans during