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| Where you live, picking rocks smaller than a softball is a fools errand IMO. Frost will just bring more up the following year.
I grew up in Maryland, far south of NY and learned that lesson well. All through my teens and early 20's we picked every year on the produce farm I worked on.
Here where I live now, we roll EVERY acre of beans.
We usually roll right after the planter or after the 3rd trifoliate.
This year we will try rolling some before I go in with the planter to see how we get along.
"Here" rolling beans is a no brainer. I harvested WELL over 1,000 acres of beans last fall and broke ONE guard and only 7 sickle sections.
Before we would roll, it was about 30-50 broken sickle sections a year and about a dozen broken guards. Factor in the roughly hour of lost down time a day fixing them and rolling is an easy question to answer. | |
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rocks and beans
