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MPSG production specialist Laryssa Stevenson talks about the benefits and risks to a rescue nitrogen application in soybeans during the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers SMART Day event in Melita July 17.
Crops, Local news

Poor nitrogen uptake has soybean growers pondering rescue application

Lack of moisture has also meant lack of nodules and poor nitrogen fixation for some soybean fields, leading some to consider a mid-season fertilizer pass

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More soybean fields are trying to shake off the impact of a dry spring on nitrogen uptake this year. Laryssa Stevenson, western production specialist with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, told a SMART field day here last week that she has heard of more growers struggling with nitrogen deficiency this summer, which she blames
Attendees to the MPSG SMART Day take a look at a shallow-seeded soybean, compared to the swollen hypocotyls of one planted too deep and in compacted soil.
Crops, Oilseeds, Other

How deep is too deep when chasing moisture for soybeans?

A University of Manitoba researcher thinks there should be more attention paid to soybean seeding depth

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Soybean growers may have been tempted to dig deep for seeding this year, but University of Manitoba researcher Kristen MacMillan says the data may not back up that practice. The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers puts ideal seed depth between three-quarters of an inch and an inch and a half below the soil surface. Dry
Soybean growth still faces some challenges, Soy Canada says.
Crops, Other

Federal funding to enable Soy Canada to learn more about growers

Study in 2017 identified market access and protein as two biggest risks to future growth

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Soy Canada has been awarded $197,400 from the Canadian Agriculture Partnership to expand its knowledge of the country’s soybean growers to help plot ways to deal with 11 risks facing the sector identified in a 2017 study. Expanding market access and striking a better balance in the protein produced across the country were pegged in
Soybean acres have grown rapidly in Western Canada in recent years, but there still isn’t a domestic crushing option.
Crops, Oilseeds

Prairie soy sector standing still

The budding soybean industry in Western Canada is suffering from lack of local processing

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Western Canada’s soybean sector is experiencing its chicken-or-egg moment. Production has grown quickly over the past several years, but still nobody has stepped forward to build a soybean crush plant in the region, according to Ron Davidson, executive director of Soy Canada, even though the economics are now in support of it. He told the
Soybeans have long been rolled in Manitoba, but researchers are starting to question if it should be a blanket recommendation.
Crops, Oilseeds

Are you rolling soybeans for the sake of rolling?

Rolling soybeans has some benefits, but also a downside

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To roll or not to roll? For soybean growers, ‘tis the question. It’s become the standard strategy to keep dirt and rocks out of the combine come harvest, but Manitoba Agriculture says it may be time to take a second look at the practice. “We want to reduce earth tag,” Terry Buss, pulse specialist with
soybean on white background
Markets, Oilseeds, Opinion

Don’t panic over lack of Chinese soy demand

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Chinese demand for U.S. soybeans has slowed significantly in the past couple of weeks, worrying some market participants that this is a hint of things to come. But perhaps they have forgotten that sluggish Chinese business is normal this time of year. It is possible that Chinese importers are aggressively avoiding U.S. beans at the

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