Dry dean seasonal summary in Canada

Meghan Moran In 2023, Ontario dry bean acres had dropped below 100,000 acres which was the lowest in a decade. In 2024, acres returned to a more typical level for the province, at around 116,000 acres insured by Agricorp. White beans accounted for about 40% of the dry bean acres, and black beans reached their highest ever acreage in Ontario at nearly 22,000 acres or 19% of the total. There were over 12,000 acres of kidney beans, nearly 10,000 acres of cranberry beans, and adzuki acreage dropped from 25,000 acres in 2023 to just over 18,000 acres in 2024. Dry bean planting started at the typical planting window. Some acres were planted in late May but the majority were planted in the first half of June. Dry beans prefer temperatures of 15°C or above, so the frost in late May and cool nights in June caused some injury or slow emergence and growth. Some regions had a lot of rain in late June, which posed a challenge for fields that still needed to be planted as well as beans that ...