Question: In our family garden we have grown many types of beans. For the first time this year we’re growing beans that can be dried for long-term storage. We would appreciate any information you can ...

Bush beans are small and compact plants that produce large harvests for the space they need in a vegetable garden. Where pole beans require support for their climbing vines, bush beans grow to only a ...

There doesn’t appear to be much middle ground in the 2023 dry edible bean growing season. Weather conditions in bean states have been either too wet or too dry, with few areas getting just the right ...

Generally, dry bean harvest is completed by the end of September. Precipitation events over the last several weeks have slowed harvest and brought it to a standstill. Typically, dry beans are undercut ...

As the options to raise taller dry bean varieties have increased, so has the interest in straight combining the crops. Not only have some veteran dry bean farmers switched to the straight combining ...

Oh beans! Dry beans, that is. What's a dry bean? It's any bean that is allowed to develop to full maturity. It could be the same beans initially planted for harvest as tender green beans; however, for ...

The dry edible bean harvest in Box Butte County wrapped up last month. Some direct harvest beans were the last to leave the fields on Oct. 20, including Alliance Farmer Tim Hashman’s, plot outside of ...