Purpose of Ontario Dry Bean Preliminary Yield Trials

• To provide Ontario growers with local data on the performance of new dry bean varieties selected from public and private bean     breeders throughout North America • To identify superior dry bean varieties early on in their development • To develop novel market classes comparisons for narrow and wide row production systems

Trials Types

Narrow Row Trials (15 inch/38 cm): Locations - Auburn and Kippen/Exeter ON Market Classes - mostly navy and black with limited comparisons to small red, pinto, otebo and food-type soybean Wide Row Trials (30 inch/76 cm): Locations - Kippen/Exeter and Woodstock ON Market Classes - mostly cranberry and kidney (light red, dark red and white) with limited comparisons to otebo, pinto, black, navy and small red

Need More Information?

Mr. Chris L. Gillard, University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus 120 Main Street East, Ridgetown Ontario Canada N0P 2C0 Telephone: (519) 674 1500 ext. 63632Email: Ontario Bean Growers Ontario Pulse Crop Committee

Disclaimer

All of the data presented in this site was generated from the Ontario Dry Bean Preliminary Yield Trials. Direct comparisons between varieties should only be made within a single trial. Direct comparisons between row widths, locations and years may not be accurate.

Collaborators

AmeriSeed (ADM), Decatur Illinois Archer Daniels Midland Seedwest, Decatur Illinois Basin Seed Company, Nampa Idaho Cooks Div. of Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd., Hensall Ontario Cooperative Elevator Co. (Provita Seeds), Pigeon Michigan Cornell University, Cornell New York Gen-Tec Seeds Ltd., Twin Falls Idaho Hensall District Co-operative, Hensall Ontario Hyland Seeds Ltd. (DowAgro Sciences), Blenheim Ontario

Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan Monsanto (Seminis Seeds), Nampa Idaho North Dakota State University, Fargo North Dakota Ontario Bean Growers, Stratford Ontario Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Guelph Ontario R.T. Bolton and Sons, Dublin Ontario SeCan Association, Kanata Ontario University of Guelph/AAFC, Guelph Ontario

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Mr. Steve Willis for his dedication in organizing and implementing the Preliminary Yield Trials in Ontario, since their beginning in 2006. In addition, we acknowledge the Ontario growers that have cooperated by providing a trial site and the Ontario Bean Growers for funding these trials.