They do around 25 to 40 bu per acre depending on factors such as heat during flowering which affects pod set, water, planting date, etc. Dry beans are so low to the ground that you either knife them or rod them to remove them from the ground. Most rigs anymore are rod weed style that have a pick-up that drapers them into a row on the side. That then puts around 8 rows next to another 8 rows on the pass back up the field. I have old equipment so I knife them 6 rows at a time which during the process puts every 2 rows together as you go through the field. For some reason the next step is to rod them which is to pick them up out of the ground and then rake them together which would end up with 12 rows in a windrow. The cutting rig I use for some reason lifts them while it cuts and then pulls 2 rows together.(1948 M with a M-448 cultivator/cutter set-up) I didn't need to rod them and I experimented with raking and direct pickup without raking. I didn't have the dirt problem which I was expecting. I have a corn soy special which has the perforated pan in the shoe and return elevator to clean dirt out and not much was being produced. When I dumped into the trailer they where nice clean beans. Very happy with how that turned out. My combine pick-up width can do 4 cut rows at a time which is 8 rows of beans. It worked pretty well from what I can tell. I don't know if the extra 4 rows of beans from raking would help during the combine threshing to lessen damage to the beans by keeping the cylinder loaded better but I think it did pretty good with just the 8 rows. This was a test year for me to try them out. I'm going to do more acres next year and refine what I learned this year. And you have to handle pintos with lots of dew on to not shell the pods until it's time to run them down with the combine. Overall I had fun learning and look forward doing them next year. So for me it's a 2 step process..cut and combine. I will be looking for some type of pick-up/windrower to pull behind my M while cutting so I can windrow 6 rows down and 6 rows back while cutting.
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