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E. Kansas | I'm sure he knows you're passionate about farming, and that you want to always do your very best with it.
However, restricting you from growing corn could give some problems later on, if the right type of disease/etc eventually shows up there with continuous beans, but you can't rotate crops.
I think it would be worth your time to have periodic discussions with him about the potential need to rotate crops for a year or so. Keeping that dialog going with him will give him more time to think about it possibly becoming a necessity. Let him know how you are changing chemicals, bean varieties, etc from year to year to do the best you can with continuous beans, so that if you would absolutely have to rotate from beans, he would know you've tried to uphold his request for continuous beans, and he might be more agreeable to crop rotation if needed.
He might agree to some cover crops. Maybe even grow some kind of cover crop there for a full season for seed, but not sure what works in your area or what your local market would be for cover crop seed, so you can still make some money on the crop. There might be some possibilities.
Good luck. Sounds like the rent is right!
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Continuous soybeans?
