The pinto beans are ready for harvest. The leaves have dried and fallen off leaving only the pods.
Early, early Terry headed out to put the bean puller on the tractor and get into the field.
It was cool enough he had to put on a jacket. It’s important to go early…long before the sun heats up the earth like an old-fashioned flatiron.
The pinto bean plants need to be cold,so when the tractor goes through the pods stay on the vines, and the pinto beans stay in the shell.
The process is in steps–first the pinto beans are pulled
Laying the beans in neat rows to dry.
Then the bright morning warmed up, gilding everything. It was time to stop.
One field down, one more to go.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
So glad the weather is cooperating. Sounds like timing is everything.
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It is…we hope for NO rain for two weeks at least!
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I’d always wondered how beans were harvested. They don’t grow them here….too short a season I imagine.
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It’s good to see the pinto bean harvest getting off to a great start.
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So far so good…now if the rain will stay way for two weeks ……………
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We’ll put our collective prayers together to keep the rain at bay. (Your husband looks like a kid. Farming: elixir of youth.)
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You wouldn’t know he was 72 would you. Thank you…it would be so nice to not have rain!
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Hooray for the pinto bean harvest!
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So many things a farmer has to know…
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Mine don’t look anything like that! In fact they are trying to take over the peace rose.
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Yum! Your pintos are the best! I’ll try to keep the rain on this side of the divide, cuz we always needed rain 🙂
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i hope weather cooperates…
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We were looking at bean fields in Idaho as we drove home earlier this week and Bill wondered how they were harvested for dried beans … I told him I bet I knew where to look. Of course he thought I meant Mr Google — but I just knew you’d be writing about it soon — and here you are! I showed him the post and we both thank you for satisfying our curiosity. So interesting! Sending good thoughts for the weather to stay right.
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Hope you have a good harvest! Is it all on time? or is it a bit early?
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All on time! 🙂
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What about those rows .. As far as the eye can see! Such busy people 😄
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