Category: Production

Souris Regional Variety Trials – Narrow Row Dry Beans Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 Late August is a good time to see maturity differences between dry bean varieties. MPSG’s regional variety site, at Souris, struggled with excessive moisture and lower plant counts in the narrow row dry bean trials this year. We can still learn about…

Take the Dry Bean Desiccation and Harvest Guide – Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers with you, to the field. It can be the laminated hard copy in your hand or the digital copy downloaded from the MPSG website on your phone. The pictures and descriptions can be extremely helpful when making timing decisions. Evaluating what…

As we sit here and write this article it would seem that frost should be farthest from our minds. The forecast is predicting highs in the mid 20’s and lows in the mid teens, above seasonal for this time of year. Oh but how quickly that can change! This is Manitoba after all and it’s…

The R6 growth stage (pods containing green seed that fill the pods to capacity at one of the four uppermost nodes of the main stem) is an important turning point in the soybean growing season. Most importantly, economic thresholds for soybean aphids and two-spotted spider mites skyrocket. It’s highly unlikely that controlling these pests at…

Number of plants per unit area (plant population), multiplied by the number of pods per plant, times the number of seeds per pod, and finally the individual seed size (thousand-seed weight). Seven to nine plants per square food provides the starting point for higher yields. Lower plant populations can also achieve high yields, but seed…

Jamie Larsen, research scientist and dry bean vreeder for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Harrow Research and Development Centre, noticed potato leaf hoopers in the plots at Morden. He mentioned that due to our warming climate, potato leaf hoppers are being found in places they hadn’t been seen before. In Ontario, the economic threshold…