AgBioResearch Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center

Dry Bean Resources and Reports

• Picture Tour: Bean Growth Stages

  Images of plowing, crop emerges, growth, flowering, and bean pods

• Picture Tour: Bean Harvest Operations

  Images of pulling beans, windrowing, direct cut, and transport,

• Picture Tour: Bean Herbicide Injury

  Images of D-Banvel, lasso-dual, eptam, basagram, atrazine, roundup, and pursuit.

• Picture Tour: Bean Insect Damage

  Images of leaf hoppers, plant bugs, bean beetles, and maggots

• Picture Tour: Dry Bean Diseases

  Images of blight, root rot, white mold, common mosaic virus, leaf spot, rust, and anthracnose.

• 2006 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2006 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 2007 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2007 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 2008 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2008 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 2009 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2009 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 2017 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2017 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 2018 Dry Bean Variety Characteristics

  2018 Dry bean data and characteristics from the Michigan Dry Edible Bean Production Research Advisory Board.

• 100 Years of Bean Breeding at Michigan State University: A Chronology

  James D. Kelly, PhD., Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University summarizes the milestones achieved in bean breeding during the 20th century.

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  Bean Breeding and Genetics

  To develop improved dry bean varieties in several commercial classes to serve the bean growers, bean seed producers, and bean industry of Michigan

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  Dry Beans

  Known worldwide for high quality and consistency, Michigan dry beans are an important commodity. MSU Extension provides expert research and educational opportunities to assist growers in producing a highly valuable, marketable crop.

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  Bean Improvement Cooperative

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  Michigan Bean Commission