Encouraging farmers to plant dry edible beans must be balanced with demand; industry stakeholders work hard to make sure that they stay “right-sized” in the marketplace, NBGA executive director said.

Question: In our family garden we have grown many types of beans. For the first time this year we’re growing beans that can be dried for long-term storage. We would appreciate any information you can ...

In what is almost an annual visit to Nebraska, Timothy Porch, research geneticist at U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service in Puerto Rico, scouted the dry edible bean plots at ...

Editor’s Note: To help you make the most of Vermont’s short but sweet growing season, we asked writer and farmer Laura Sorkin to recommend a few family gardening activities. We hope this series helps ...

Readers of this column could argue that the writer is full of beans. Well, it is true. I am not only full of beans but so is our pantry. These are dried shell beans which I’ve been harvesting over the ...