|
| Take a pod between your fingers & squeeze. If they are dry the pod will pop open easily. Next take a bean between your teeth & bite down. if it's hard & snaps the bean is dry, if it's soft it's not ready. Finally, crinkle a plant with your hands, if it snaps the plant is dry enough to harvest.
Seems with the advent of rr beans green stems & leaves are a common problem early in harvest. I have cut beans when the stem still had a large percentage of the leaves on but the pods were dry & the beans tested under 10% moisture :~(
Ideally, I would rather cut beans at 15% than at 11 or 12%. the added water will more than offset the cost of drying & shrink. As for putting green pods & beans in the bin, as long as there's not a bunch & you can get them spread out & not piled in one place they will store. Usually when you unload the bin you won't see any green pods or beans.
You should run air on beans in a metal bin no matter the moisture when they go in. beans will go thru a "sweat" and without air you can run into problems. Beans in a wooden bin won't sweat like they do in a metal bin. | |
|
When to harvest soybeans.
