Dry bean (white)

Soil Type: Bernow fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Glossic Paleudalf. Other soils in the region are more or less sandy. A clay hardpan can exist close to the soil surface.

Location: Lane, Oklahoma.

Fertilizer:                                        Typical residue in spring (lbs/Acre)

Typical soil pH: 5-5.5

Add all fertilizer preplant at rates recommended by soil tests.

Sowing: In mid-April at a rate of 75 to 100 lbs/acre. Row spacing 30 or 36 inches. Sowing depth 1 inch.

Planting window: 15 April to 1 May.

Harvest: When seed moisture content is between 15 and 20%. This will require drying of seed to 13%. Depending on the final destination seed will have to be cleaned, and likely bagged (preferably in paper).

Water: If there is insufficient soil moisture irrigate with 2 inches of water following sowing. In a normal year natural precipitation will carry the plants through to flowering. When 50% of plants flower, at pod set, and when pods begin to fill it is essential that irrigation be applied if normal precipitation is insufficient. At each stage apply 2 inches of water.

Note: Production levels for this crop have not matched those of other production areas.