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| We grow Pintos and Great Northerns in this area and you use either a rod weeder with a draper windrower made for beans or like I do a 6 or 8 row bean cutting knife (22 inch rows here) My bean head for the combine has a special pickup attachment that gently picks the rows off the ground (like the pickup on a baler) whole plant pods and all runs through the combine. Not much loss that way. When dry beans are ready to combine the pods don't take much to shatter open. I have always wonder about direct harvest but the plants are real close to the ground and lay down some when they dry. You have to run your rotor or cylinder real slow for beans. Doesn't take much to thresh them or split them for that matter. I have an old gleaner and run the cylinder slow which is 200 to 300 rpm and lots of air. | |
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Whats the best way to Harvest Navy Beans???
