Variety performance data from Sevita’s 2023 on-farm plots across Canada is now available.
Sevita has updated performance data on its free, online plot comparison tool that allows growers to evaluate results from across Canada.
The company said in a release the online tool will help growers with their seed buying decisions for the 2024 growing season. Featuring many years of agronomic data from on-farm plots, public, and private research trials, the web-based tool lets Canadian growers see how different varieties perform in their region, relative to other products on the market.
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Growers can select plots by location on a map or by variety to compare head-to-head by both yield and revenue potential.
Growers can enter in their town into the map function and find up to six years of plot results within 50 – 200 kilometers, including trial results from this past growing season. They can also take it a step further and filter the results based on their specific growing conditions and preferences, such as soil type or traits of interest – including food-grade, Enlist E3, XtendFlex, and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend.
The company said what’s special about the tool is its comprehensive ability to evaluate varieties against each other. Varieties can be compared by characteristics like maturity, trait, performance in certain soil types, and more.
“What’s unique about this tool is that you can compare products that have appeared in the same plots. For example, variety A vs variety B when they appeared in the same locations across Canada,” John Van Herk, agronomy manager for Sevita, said in the release. “Other plot tools take total scores without considering the specific plot conditions. You could be comparing a variety in a plot that got hit with a hailstorm to a variety grown in pristine conditions, and it just isn’t accurate. This tool compares varieties that were in the same field, in the same year.”
Growers receive a premium for non-GM, food-grade soybeans, and this plot tool has a function to consider this premium. By entering a live, local cash price, the company said growers can compare non-GM performance to traited varieties to understand the elevated profit potential of food-grade soybeans.
Website visitors also have the opportunity to input their contact information and general details to receive a curated plot report specific to their region and interests within 48 hours, including data from Sevita’s private research trials.
“Visiting plots during growing season is not always possible and most growers make purchasing decisions in the winter, this tool helps put more information right at growers’ fingertips when they need it most,” Van Herk says. “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.”
Sevita has launched three new food-grade and six new traited varieties for the 2024 growing season.
Visit sevita.com/plots for more information. Sevita said it will be uploading more plot results as they are available.
