This month’s Variety Specs feature highlights seven bean varieties submitted to us from seed breeders and distributors.
These varieties offer impressive resistance packages to the most common diseases afflicting beans, excellent yield potential, and even better flavor.
Next month we’ll be featuring sweet corn, so stay tuned.
Amarillo
- Company: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- Length: 4 to 5 inches
- Sieve size: Mostly 1, some 2
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Days to maturity: 51 to 54
- Yield potential: Good
- Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted for all of U.S.
- Other attributes: Thin, fancy, straight yellow pods with white seeds; good flavor
Bison
- Company: Siegers Seed Co.
- Length: 5.5 inches
- Sieve size: 20% 3 sieve, 80% 4 sieve
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance to bean common mosaic virus
- Days to maturity: 57
- Other attributes: Bison is a main-season bean with very dark-green pods, white seed, and a sturdy and compact bush
Bowie
- Company: Harris Seeds, Rispens Seeds
- Length: 5.5 inches
- Sieve size: 60% 4 sieve, 30% 3 sieve, 10% 5 sieve
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: bean common mosaic virus, bean curly top virus, halo blight, bacterial bean spot. Intermediate resistance: common blight
- Days to maturity: 56
- Yield potential: Excellent
- Region(s) best suited for production: Northeast, Great Lakes, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic
- Other attributes: Dark-green pod color, upright plant habit, uniform
Harrisseeds.com
Rispensseeds.com
Momentum
- Company: Syngenta
- Length: 5.8 inches
- Sieve size: 3.5 to 4 sieve
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance to bean common mosaic virus
- Days to maturity: 56
- Region(s) best suited for production: Performs well from South Florida to New York
- Other attributes: Consistent performance; stress tolerant; widely adapted, concentrated sets; very upright bush
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Sybaris
- Company: Rupp Seeds
- Length: 5.5 inches
- Sieve size: 4 sieve
- Fresh market or processing: Both
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: Common bean mosaic virus, rust
- Days to maturity: 55
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest, Northeast
- Other attributes: High-quality, shiny fruit continuing through upper regions of the plant
Terminator
- Company: Abbott & Cobb
- Length: 5.5 to 6 inches
- Sieve size: Medium-large
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: Resistance: bean common mosaic virus, bean curly top virus. Tolerance: common blight, races of bean rust
- Days to maturity: 55
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast
- Other attributes: Very fresh-looking pods, strong plant, great holding ability, mid-season variety
Wyatt
- Company: Stokes Seeds
- Length: 5.7 inches
- Sieve size: 4 sieve
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh
- Disease resistance/Tolerance: Tolerant to bean common mosaic virus, halo blight, bacterial brown spot, bean curly top virus, and common blight
- Days to maturity: 54
- Yield potential: Consistent yields
- Region(s) best suited for production: Widespread, especially Northeast, Midwest, and Canada
- Other attributes: Upright plant