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Dodge Co, Wi | They run 4-6 row straight stripper heads up here, so 15" beans isn't a problem for harvesting. Up here it seems most guys run glyphosate as a burndown, followed by dual/pursuit and sometimes treflan, seems to do the job for us. Beans don't have the problem with thistle buds/dandelion buds so much as the peas do since they can shape sort them out. No-till would be the way to go to help reduce the mould risk like mentioned above, specifically after wheat, after beans or peas I'd definitely be into some tillage. Now on innoculation, if you've had navies on there in the last 3 years I'd be not so inclined to innoculate, but if it's virgin ground or not seen phaseolus spp. in the last 3-4 yrs it can't hurt. Are you CPIrrigated or dryland btw? Also, planting in July, I'd be a little concerned about rust perhaps, pending if they're wax or green snaps... I know that on the wax beans it's a bad problem up here on the later planted beans. WRT cultivating, as long as you don't hill them you should be fine, hilled up snaps/limas is not good for the yield as the stripper heads on bean/pea machines will ride up on them and allow beans to fall out of the tines' grasp.
Edited by Lenders 5/29/2007 17:14
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herbicide before snap beans
