Sevita International has introduced thirteen new soybean varieties across Canada for the 2022 growing season and will have another ten new varieties available in 2023. Sevita has also launched a new online plot comparison tool that lets growers compare variety performance in on-farm plots across Canada.
The 2022 roll-out of new varieties is the largest single-year deployment in Sevita’s more than 25-year history. The seven new food-grade varieties added for this year were developed by its own proprietary breeding program and complement Sevita’s existing soybean line-up as well as fill geographical gaps or meet special growing condition requirements, such as soybean cyst resistance.
John Van Herk, product development and agronomy manager for Sevita said farmer and export needs and growing conditions were considered when bringing these new varieties to market.
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The company has also added six new traited varieties for the 2022 growing season in both Eastern and Western Canada. The value-added traits include Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® and Enlist E3™ to give growers more flexibility with planting decisions and complement their food-grade bean production.
Online Plot Comparison Tool
Sevita said in a release its new online plot comparison tool will further help growers with their seed-buying decisions. Featuring five years’ worth of agronomic data from on-farm plots, the company said the web-based tool lets Canadian growers see how different varieties perform in their geographic areas, relative to other products on the market. They can select plots by location on a map or by variety to compare varieties head-to-head by both yield and revenue potential.
“Visiting plots during growing season is not always possible and most growers make purchasing decisions in the winter, so this tool will help put more information right at growers’ fingertips when they need it most,” Van Herk said. “It will be especially useful to help growers take a look at the new varieties launched this year and see how they might perform in their areas.”
The plot comparison tool, as well as more information about the new varieties, is available at https://sevita.com/.
