Sevita International has introduced 13 new soybean varieties across Canada for the 2022 growing season and will have another 10 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 nematode resistance.
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.
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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.
The plot comparison tool, as well as more information about the new varieties, is available at sevita.com.
