GRAFTON, N.D. - Though it's too soon to be sure, a combination of excellent yields, poor yields and impossible-to-harvest acres across eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota appears to have ...

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 ...

GRAFTON, N.D.-Heavy summer rains have led to significant crop losses for edible bean farmers in both North Dakota and Minnesota, many of whom may lose even more before harvest's end.Tom Kennelly, a ...

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 ...

With most of the small grains harvested in the greater Red River Valley, farmers are turning their attention to row crops, as potatoes and sugar beets begin to be dug and lifted. Bud Vance, agronomist ...

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 ...

An official with an area dry edible bean grower association says he's neither surprised nor dismayed by a projected decline in dry bean acres this year. "We expected less," says Tim Courneya, ...

Other dry beans in our garden are Tarbais, Black Turtle, Great Northern, Red Kidney, Hildago, Fremont, Mayflower, Borlotti and Lazy Housewife. The latter four varieties of beans are ones given to me ...

Readers of this column could argue that the writer is full of beans. Well, it is true. I am not only full of beans but so is our pantry. These are dried shell beans which I’ve been harvesting over the ...

Growing fava beans is like four crops in one: flavorful fresh pods, both fresh and dry beans, and –surprise! – delicious greens to eat fresh or add to cooked dishes.

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 ...

Average to below-average yields are expected in Idaho’s dry bean crop come harvest, expected to start the week of Aug. 10 in the southwestern part of the state. Idaho dry bean growers planted about 65 ...