No till spring beans

[alomy75]

I’d argue a deep tine (as in subsoiler/flatlift) on any ground in spring will just smear. For them to work properly and shatter they need dry soil at depth which usually only occurs between 3 and 6pm on September the 20th before the Autumn monsoon starts

Apart from sand and black organic land

 

[Adeptandy]

Apart from sand and black organic land

The black just moves around the sub soiler

 

[alomy75]

The black just moves around the sub soiler

Yeah I must admit I’ve never seen anyone do it but it wouldn’t smear so for completeness I felt compelled to include it. I was doing some soil testing once on some black fenland so for sh*ts and gigs thought I’d see how far I could get my soil probe in. Sunk it to the handlebars with very little effort (1.5m). Took 2 of us considerable effort to get it out though rum old stuff

 

[Adeptandy]

Yeah I must admit I’ve never seen anyone do it but it wouldn’t smear so for completeness I felt compelled to include it. I was doing some soil testing once on some black fenland so for sh*ts and gigs thought I’d see how far I could get my soil probe in. Sunk it to the handlebars with very little effort (1.5m). Took 2 of us considerable effort to get it out though rum old stuff

Easy working, low wear, but not often big crop land for combinables

 

[SilliamWhale]

It's the opposite with me, gave up on spring beans after 3 goes. Each one worse than the last. Trying winter's now instead.

Is it because I'm an amazing farmer?

 

[yellow belly]

Some years beans do well some years not up to 5 tonne plus per ha 1 tonne in bad
some fields good for beans some not

no rime or reason

A good layer of straw or strong over winter cover may help this also needs no broard leaved weed herbicide
muck in the rotation helps

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

Tine drilled spring beans after cover crop did 7.5t/ha over 65ha this year. Went into friable moist soil.

Same management last year but just a tad too moist followed by a drought yielded 6t/ha. Crop was very slow to emerge as tines polished a groove that subsequently cracked open

 

[ollie989898]

Done DD spring beans loads of times. Go when conditions are good. Drill deep. Hope the pre-em works. If it does, provided you get the fungicide part right you should get a pretty cheap crop.

Huge seed with some get up and go makes beans one of the most obvious candidates for DD in my view.