Harvesting beans

Broad beans like most pulse crops are harvested with a conventional harvester at "Boonderoo" we use a John Deere 9770 STS header. This machine can be used for harvesting coarse grains (wheat, barley etc) and oilseeds (canola, monola etc).

Harvester set up will be different depending on what sort of pulse crop you are harvesting. However one important setup aspect to remember will be to ensure that the crop is not damaged during the harvesting process. As quite a few pulse crops are used for the human consumption market the visual appearance of the grain is very important.

Bean harvest underway

Harvesting of beans has now commenced at "Boonderoo Pastoral Company". Looking forward to following these in my Nuffield travels and see what part of the world they end up on a plate.

Will keep you updated along the processing line to see how they are going and what happens to them once they leave the farm gate.