b'WELCOME TO SEED MANITOBA 2024By Anne Kirk locations where they are typically grown. Corn, dry beans, soybeans, Seed Manitoba editor, Manitoba Agriculture faba beans and sunflowers are coordinated through their crop com-W elcome to Seed Manitoba 2024, the variety selection andmodity associations and planted where they deem appropriate. growersguideforManitobaproducers,complimentsHOW CAN SEED MANITOBA HELP ofManitobaAgriculture,ManitobaSeedGrowersWITH VARIETY SELECTION?Association, and the Manitoba Co-operator. Seed Manitoba is a collab- Seed Manitoba provides unbiased replicated data, giving producers, orative effort between industry, government, and producers to pro- seed growers and seed retailers more insight into variety performance vide unbiased, local variety information from sites across Manitoba.throughout the province. Yield data is displayed by location to show The 2023 growing season was warm and dry throughout muchlocal performance as well as summarized across locations and years. of Manitoba. The weather data in the site location table on page 16The on-line variety selection tool at www.seedmb.ca allows com-shows less than normal precipitation and higher than normal tem- parisons over multiple years and locations, helping to compare a new peratures at all sites. While most sites performed well despite the dryvariety to your tried and true variety.conditions, yields are lower than average at some sites due to weather conditions. This is reflective of producers experience as well. CHANGES TO NOTEOur site contractors worked hard to have sites harvested in time forThere are a few changes inSeed Manitoba 2024. The most notable the data to be approved and published in Seed Manitoba. Some yieldis lack of 2023 canola data from trials conducted in Manitoba. The and quality data did not meet our deadlines and will be available in theWestern Canada canola performance trial program ended after the web exclusive section of our website: www.seedmb.ca. 2022 growing season, and provincial trials were not conducted in 2023. Manitoba Canola Growers Association is working on conduct-WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM? ing regional trials in the 2024 growing season. Durum wheat tables Data is from replicated small plot trials in many locations through- have been removed from Seed Manitoba since durum wheat was last outManitobaandcompiledoveryears.Themaindatacollectedtested in 2018. Hemp was not tested in 2023, but hemp trials are is yield and protein. Other agronomic information in the Varietyexpected to return in 2024.Description tables is compiled from data submitted at the time the variety was registered. Some ratings in the table, such as disease resis- Thank you to all contributors toSeed Manitoba. This publication tance, can change as pathogens change and reaction to disease raceswould not be possible without the sponsors, supporters, site contrac-are better understood. tors, the Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team and the commodity groups that donate data. The team behind Seed Manitoba hopes you TESTING LOCATIONS AND SITE YEARS find the information inSeed Manitoba 2024 beneficial as you make Testing locations are chosen by the Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluationvariety decisions in the coming months.Team to represent the production area of each crop type. Crops with wide adaptation, such as barley, fall rye, oat, spring and winter wheat,Any questions or concerns regarding Seed Manitoba can be directed are planted at all sites. Flax, field peas and lentils are only planted atto anne.kirk@gov.mb.ca. PHOTO: ANNE KIRK, MANITOBA AGRICULTURE6SEED MANITOBA 2024SEEDMB.CA'