Once again, the dominant canola varieties in Manitoba are InVigor hybrids.
Three InVigor varieties, 5440, L130 and L252, grabbed 44 percent of the 3.1 million canola acres planted in the province this year, according to the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) seeded acreage variety report, released yesterday.
The InVigor hybrids took the top three spots in the variety acreage report, increasing their acreage share from 2013 when they garnered 38.9 percent of the market.
InVigor 5440 and L130 were one and two in the province last year, followed by a Nexera variety.
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The story was similar for the second largest acreage crop in Manitoba, red spring wheat, as the usual varieties have a stranglehold on the market.
Carberry, Harvest and Glenn took the top three spots in 2014. Growers planted those varieties on 62.1 percent of the 2.2 million spring wheat acres in Manitoba, based on data reported to MASC. In 2013, Carberry, Harvest and Glenn also grabbed 62.1 percent of the spring wheat acres.
A new Agriculture Canada variety, Cardale, was in fourth spot, capturing 9.1 percent of spring wheat acres. Cardale, developed at the Agriculture Canada Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg, has resistance to stem rust and leaf rust and moderate resistance to fusarium head blight, which is often a problem in Manitoba.
Cardale bumped Kane from the top four. Kane’s share of the Manitoba market dropped from 6.5 percent in 2013 to 2.7 percent this year.
The soybean story is more complex. No single variety or company is dominating the marketplace. Soybean growers planted a Dekalb variety, 24-10RY, on 9.9 percent of Manitoba’s 1.3 million soybeans acres. A Thunder Seed early maturing variety, Thunder32004R2Y, captured 6.6 percent of the market. The other soybean varieties, within the top 10, captured three to six percent of the total acres.
Manitoba’s soybean market is now more diversified and competitive compared to 2013, when the top five varieties were planted on 40 percent of the acres.
Variety market share in Manitoba, for 2014:
Spring wheat (2.17 million acres)
Carberry – 35.1 percent
Harvest – 14.9
Glenn – 12.1
Canola (3.04 million acres)
InVigor 5440 – 20.2 percent
InVigor L130 – 14.4
InVigor L252 – 9.4
Soybeans (1.3 million acres)
24-10RY – 9.9 percent
Thunder 32004R2Y – 6.6 percent
900Y61 – 6.1 percent
Winter Wheat (389,000 acres)
Flourish – 55.4 percent
CDC Falcon – 30.5
CDC Buteo – 6.2
Oats (341,000 acres)
Souris – 39.6 percent
Summit – 19.1
Furlong – 9.0
(Source: Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation, based on reported acreage)
