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 lupin variety registered for Canada.
2026 Yellow Lupin in Carberry
The lupin plots dealt with a cold spring, wind damage, intense storms, and standing water. The north range of the demonstration plots had the most standing water and therefor some thinner stands. The south range in the foreground of the above picture shows peas on the left, the yellow lupins Solid Gold in the centre, and sweet white lupins to the right. The Elementa staff were delighted to see the yellow lupins here growing very nicely and having a very nice dark green colour compared to other lupin types. All lupin plots received an in crop herbicide application of Sencor.
Nicolas explains the size and location of lupin nodules.
The Elementa staff commented that this is the nicest the yellow lupins have looked in the past 4 years. Lots of pods on this plant. The purplish colour on the pods is likely just a bit of sun scald.
You may notice only 2 or 3 seeds per pod. Yellow lupins typically have twice the protein and half the yield of narrow leaf lupins.
It is almost mid August and we are still seeing flowering and some pods have circular lesions, and other varieties have twisting stems. Wendy asks questions and Nicolas explains what we are seeing in the video below. (please note some of the captions in the video are not correct)
During the 2026 Protein Symposium held in Winnipeg, one of the poster sessions highlighted yellow lupins.
Yellow lupin seed is bred to be speckled on purpose, so that it can be distinguished from other lupins. The flour has very little off or after taste.
According to 2025 data, Solid Gold yellow lupins in Manitoba have averaged 102 days to maturity and had no lodging issues. 2025 saw low yield at the Roblin site, but decent and comparable yields at Carberry and Melita. This could be due to the more favorable (lower) soil pH values.
There is a whole host of attributes that the lupin seed samples from Manitoba were laboratory tested for. Yellow lupins did show higher protein levels in Manitoba in 2025 than all types of lupins from Europe.
If lupins are peaking your interest as a possible option that could fit into your crop rotation, Lupin Platform will be offering contracts for approximately 1,000 acres of commercial sweet white production in Manitoba for the 2027 growing season. (looking for 40- 80 acre fields). If your field has a pH of below 7.2, is a fairly clean field when it comes to weed pressure and your pulse rotation has been lengthened due to Aphanomyces concerns in peas, this sweet white lupin opportunity may be a fit for you. Contact Tristan Choi, Lupin Platform 1-825-993-1236 for more information.
Sweet white lupins in Carberry 2026 variety trials, August 5.