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Your source for independent, up-to-date information on soybean and pulse crop agronomy and research. 

The Bean Report is a digital newsletter distributed bi-weekly throughout the growing season.

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Pulse Beat delivers cutting-edge research, production information and news to our farmer members.

Pulse Beat magazine is published twice per year in December and April.

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The Dry Bean Bulletin is a newsletter distributed twice per year to dry bean farmers and industry members.

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  • Show Them What You Got!

    2026 Harvest Sample Program- Canadian Grain Commission The Harvest Sample Program is a voluntary program that benefits Canadian grain producers and the entire grain value chain. If you received a kit and submitted a sample last year, you do not need to sign up again this year. You will receive this year’s kit just before…

    Read more: Show Them What You Got!

  • On-Farm Network Update for Aug. 19, 2026

    The On-Farm Network (OFN) has finally begun harvesting field scale on-farm research trials. This year harvest started a little later than usual but that’s the kind of year it’s been. The first trial harvested was a double versus single pea inoculation trial and it came off on Aug, 13 in the RM of Woodlands. The…

    Read more: On-Farm Network Update for Aug. 19, 2026

  • “Wow, these look better, than we expected”

    Elementa Foods research agronomist Nicolas Nuñez Indart, who travelled from Argentina, along with Terry Buss MSPG Production Agronomist – East and Sean Linstead of Elementa Foods have a look at the yellow lupin variety Solid Gold in MPSG’s regional variety trials at MCDC on August 5. Elementa Foods will be working towards getting a yellow…

    Read more: “Wow, these look better, than we expected”
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Crop Production Guidelines

These production guidelines were created to provide farmers and agronomists with an overview of soybean and pulse production throughout the growing season.

Highlighted at Ag Days in 2025, find our new production guidelines for faba beans, lupins, narrow-row dry beans below!

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Regional Variety Testing Program

Pulse and soybean varieties have been evaluated for nearly 30 years across Manitoba. Learn more about the variety testing program and find links to variety entry forms for these trials.

Learn more about the Regional Variety Testing Program