I just picked up a couple of 50 pound bags of 2024 crop beans from The Beanery in Delta. There’s nothing like fresh pinto beans, they have a better taste and cook much faster than older beans.
Fun Fact: The dry pack beans you buy in a grocery store are likely two years or older. As beans...
It’s an unknowable number. A bunch would be my best guess. If you understood how few dry bean breeding programs there were in the late 70’s, 80’s, and how much genetics were shared…
Close, I was part of CSU’s bean breeding program for 30 years, I performed seed increases for F2’s and above as well as managing the Foundation Seed program. I was based at Fruita Research Center in Fruita, Colorado. If you eat pinto beans it’s likely they have my fingerprints on them.
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