A Michigan dry bean grower says he’s more than halfway finished with dry bean harvest which is ahead of normal.

Thumb area farmer Mike Richmond tells Brownfield he was a little scared at the beginning of the planting season starting with the driest conditions he can remember for dry beans.  But at the end of June, adequate rains brought the yield.

“We basically had our crops spoon-fed all the way till flowering and podding even though it was pretty scary spring,” he says.

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