farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Have a footpath though ours that looks just like thatOff the footpath walker?
well it would expect our beans are not looking half as good 
There,s no profit in beans
- Thread starter betternextyear
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well it would expect our beans are not looking half as good No I wasnāt. Farmer hadnāt left the footpath clear, cracking crop, too good?Off the footpath walker?
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
If land has not had beans on for 10 years or more beans will do well
but next time you grow them they will not be as good
never put beans in closer than 6 years
if land ha ha grass with clover or legume mix beans will not do very well
but next time you grow them they will not be as good
never put beans in closer than 6 years
if land ha ha grass with clover or legume mix beans will not do very well
Probably the best drill for beans .i highly rate them for beans .
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
How many bean crops in the last 10 years
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Beans always seem a āWish-youā crop to me.
You either wish you had more or that you never grew them!
Even in a reasonable or high yielding year, the price of them is rarely high enough to give a decent margin.
They really ought to be priced somewhere around mid-way between the price of Wheat and Rape.
Amazing though that before CSFB became a problem with Rape, in most years Beans and Rape yielded about the same.
You either wish you had more or that you never grew them!
Even in a reasonable or high yielding year, the price of them is rarely high enough to give a decent margin.
They really ought to be priced somewhere around mid-way between the price of Wheat and Rape.
Amazing though that before CSFB became a problem with Rape, in most years Beans and Rape yielded about the same.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Before the Eu protien crop payments beans were Ā£ 50 under rape price
and produced a better margin than rape
probably the 3rd. Not good. Generally we grow pretty good beans although pleased we didnt get any in last year as every crop i saw was absolutely terrible.
One or two more crops in tight rotation like that and you won't need to worry about growing bean there again for 20+ years.
(Or at least if you plant them you won't need a trailer for harvesting them!)
I doubt I will this year. Unfortunately despite my protestations the decision was vetoed. They have become charlock now. Remember what I saw last week!
You can't help some people! I hope you're not on a profit share with them.
What a disaster that would be......
BenCaseyPGTStudent
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I'm a postgraduate student currently researching the motivations of UK farmers to include legumes into their cropland.
I'm looking for arable farmers to complete a 10-15 minute survey. All completed entries will be entered into a Ā£25 Hodmedod's gift voucher prize-draw, with the potential to win another Ā£25 voucher if you participate in an interview!
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Cheers,
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Hows everyone's beans doing,had a walk through some of mine,never grown them before,seems a lot of bio mass but not many pods.
The light land which were drill at a lower seed rate(panicked about running out of seed) have podded up better.
The light land which were drill at a lower seed rate(panicked about running out of seed) have podded up better.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Got the T shirt on that one. Fusarium foot rot.
We are now 15 years into a 20 year legume break.
I agree with a min 1 year in 6, preferable 1 in 8.
ollie989898
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There are still flowers there, that is a good crop and you need to be patient. You are right they don't like being too thick but then thinner crops invite weed ingress. You've done a nice job there.
I don't know the answer to beans and why they yield as they do, I sort of convinced myself it wasn't my bad agronomy nor the dodgy soils around here but instead blamed the weather. The trick of it is growing them cheap. The moment you started putting the more expensive herbicides or fungicides on they kick the job in the teeth. Direct drilling them helped keep the economics on the right side of the line, too. Never understood the whole ploughing them in thing, only a masochist would surely want to drive over a field left rough like that come harvest.
- Location
- N.Lincs
They're what a customer of mine used to call, "All bag and no dinner."
Dad used to say, "When they first emerge you only want enough plants so you can walk a pair of 'osses through 'em without them treading on any."
I had 40 acre like that this year, trouble was the rains after the dry spell in the spring woke the BG up, they're now turning brown after a good dose of GlyphoThey're what a customer of mine used to call, "All bag and no dinner."
Dad used to say, "When they first emerge you only want enough plants so you can walk a pair of 'osses through 'em without them treading on any."