2025 Pulse & Soybean Regional Variety Trial Locations

Apr 17, 2025

Each year, regional variety trials are conducted for soybean, dry bean, field pea, faba bean and lupin crops at locations across Manitoba. Dry beans are tested at both wide-row (>24 inches) and narrow-row (<12 inches) spacings to provide information for both production systems. IDC soybean trials are conducted at a site outside of Winnipeg for new soybean varieties in Manitoba. These varieties are tested for 3 years to determine their IDC rating and grouping.

In recent years the dry bean landscape has been changing with acres expanding westward and northward into areas that are new for this crop. With this change, two new narrow-row dry bean sites are being added in 2025, at Hamiota and Dauphin, to provide data for these expanding growing areas.

Faba beans are being expanded to Souris and Beausejour. Lupins are being expanded to Arborg.

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Video: Dicamba Returns for Georgia Farmers: What the New EPA Ruling Means for Cotton Growers

After being unavailable in 2024 due to registration issues, dicamba products are returning for Georgia farmers this growing season — but under strict new conditions.

In this report from Tifton, Extension Weed Specialist Stanley Culpepper explains the updated EPA ruling, including new application limits, mandatory training requirements, and the need for a restricted use pesticide license. Among the key changes: a cap of two ½-pound applications per year and the required use of an approved volatility reduction agent with every application.

For Georgia cotton producers, the ruling is significant. According to Taylor Sills with the Georgia Cotton Commission, the vast majority of cotton planted in the state carries the dicamba-tolerant trait — meaning farmers had been paying for technology they couldn’t use.

While environmental groups have expressed concerns over spray drift, Georgia growers have reduced off-target pesticide movement by more than 91% over the past decade. Still, this two-year registration period will come with increased scrutiny, making stewardship and compliance more important than ever.