A Perfect Partner for Double-Crop Opportunities

Oct 12, 2022

Looking for ways to maximize your farm’s profit potential? Consider planting high oleic soybeans in a double-crop system. Here are just a few of the many advantages waiting for you.

Premium opportunity – Domestic demand for high oleic soybeans is growing rapidly and farmers can earn premiums ranging from $0.90 to $1.25 per bushel, depending on where you market your soybeans.

Regional advantage – If you farm in areas where double-cropping is practical, you have an advantage over regions where only one planting is possible, particularly in Delmarva.

Maximize profit potential/acre – Why not make your land work harder for you? A double-crop system provides a unique opportunity to enhance your profitability on a per acre basis.

Wheat as a cover crop – Wheat offers a great opportunity to grow a cash crop that doubles as a cover crop. There are numerous soil health benefits to cover crops, and soybeans following wheat is a terrific option.

Ideal follow-up crop to cereals – With cereal harvests typically done by late summer — depending on weather conditions — you still have ample time to raise a crop.

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Six hundred Canadian farms grow grain for Warburton's under custom contract — and that partnership exists because of Canadian plant breeding. Now the man responsible for maintaining it is sounding the alarm.

Adam Dyck is the program manager for Warburton's Canada, a company that produces over two million loaves of bread a day for more than 20,000 retail locations across the UK. He's watched Canadian wheat deliver thirty years of yield gains and quality advancements that make it worth sourcing at scale — and shipping across the Atlantic. But he's also watching the investment conditions that produced those gains come under pressure. Dyck makes the case for a new funding mechanism that brings both public and private dollars into wheat breeding before Canada's competitive window starts to close.