20 miles west of Indianapolis Indiana | broketenant - 2/26/2026 18:00
The thing with beans is small time operations can farm a decent amount of acres, you prob need bins so you aren't selling off the combine but seems like you can normally get some basis in your favor along with a little bit of futures. maybe only one planter. Its an intersting topic and I appreciate you guys sharing
In an area where profitability of each was equal, I’d consider B-B-C rotation for logistics and cost control.
Probably have to work hard to minimize disease in the beans though.
I have a friend who farms part time and works off farm full time. His idea though was to be lots of corn because he could shell corn at all hours, but not cut beans all hours. He have some oversized equipment for his acres so the extra work for corn on corn wasn’t as big of an issue for him and he had storage and drying for a large portion of the corn crop too so that helped him keep moving along.
Many many different situations make for more things to make since for some that don’t for others. Dans reason does offer something to think about for sure. In the spring and summer I’d love it, but the fall is where I’d not like it moving ALL that corn or cutting ALL those beans late in the season on shortened days
Edited by GrainTrader 2/26/2026 18:12
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