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| The biggest challenge from my experience is to get the beans harvested with minimal damage and yet have clean beans.
They reject any loads over 13% and they have a low tolerance for green beans so you really have to time your harvest dates. They don't pay a premium for any splits and they test for cracked seed coats. Thus you have to slow your machine down to the point where you are just knocking them out of the pods with minimal damage. I try to keep the machine full with everything turning as slow as possible. This is a recipe for a slugged combine if you run any green stuff into the machine. Also can't harvest if there is a touch of dew or any moisture from weeds etc. if you harvest with a dew, the moisture touches the beans and then the dust sticks to the beans. They will be rejected as "dirty" beans.
If everything works right they're the prettiest looking beans. Trust me, you have to earn any premium you get.
Seed cost is less. Yields can be lower but tough to do a side by side comparison. Weed control is important but not a big departure from growing RR beans. If you grow any RR corn, you still need a grass herbicide other than RU and RU doesn't control all broadleaves. Thus you end up with conventional herbicides doing a lot of the work even with RR beans. The cheaper seed pays for more residual herbicide.
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