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BEAN
Trial Data: Round Podded Bush
Romano Bush Round
Podded Wax
Round Podded
Prevail
offers growers a high-yielding bean adapted to a
wide range of growing areas. This main season
variety for the shipper market also demonstrates
excellent stress tolerance. It consistently delivers
straight, dark green pods set high in an upright
plant, resulting in a higher percentage of
marketable beans with better eating quality than the
competition.
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Inspiration
produces pods that are longer, slimmer, and darker
than the competition, making it the preferred choice
for the marketplace. This classy, high quality bean
also features exceptional eating quality. Growers
will benefit from its excellent heat tolerance and
field holding ability for a clean pick during
mechanical harvest. A main season variety, it has
demonstrated some tolerance to whitefly and late
season midwest virus complex.
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Nash has performed well in
Georgia and regions in the North. This high-yielding Fresh
market bean features smooth, straight, 5.75-inch
pods. It also provides good stress and heat
tolerance with a concentrated set. |
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Renegade sets a new standard for dark beans with
extremely dark-colored pods that meet customer
expectations. Designed for the Western US and export
markets in
Mexico, Renegade features an upright plant that may be
machine or hand harvested.
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Dusky meets the needs of main season, fresh garden
bean growers from Florida
through Canada. Ideal for today’s Fresh market operations, this
bean features an upright plant and a clean machine
pick. It provides high field yields and moves
quickly and easily through packing shed processes. |
Jade is a bush bean adapted to most bean growing
areas in the Western US and
Mexico
. This variety produces long, straight pods with the
distinctive dark green color, tender texture, and
sweet flavor consumers demand. Its upright bush
holds the pods above the ground and protects your
investment by reducing the likelihood of curling and
tip rot. |
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Masai is a gourmet-style bean for the US. This variety offers a dark green, petite, whole
bean with uniform pods for the fresh and processor
markets. Its tender, flavorful pods hold their
quality longer. Masai grows on a very upright bush
and can be counted on for a constant yield.
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Stayton is an extra-fine bean for the Processing and
specialty Fresh markets. The upright plant holds the
pods well off of the ground and offers excellent pod
finesse. In addition, the pods are 2 to 3 sieve with
uniform color. Stayton provides excellent seed
quality and strong emergence in cool soils.
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Carson
delivers high yielding, wax specialty beans with
uniform yellow color. This bean produces a slim
shape and has delivered a high percentage of refined
4 sieve pods in trials. Carson
also features an excellent disease package that
includes high resistance to bean common mosaic virus
and intermediate resistance to bacterial brown spot. |
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Pierroton is a small sieve bean for the gourmet,
fresh, and processor whole bean markets. It features
a medium dark pod color. This variety is also
concentrated set and an erect plant that stands well
for mechanical harvest. Growers should supply ample
fertility and soil moisture to encourage plant
growth and maximize yield.
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Good seed quality in all productions to date. Has performed well in winter trials. Fresh market round podded variety with medium light pods. Pods hold their smoothness providing a wide harvest window. Performs well in winter trials.
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| ROUND
PODDED BUSH BEAN |
| Variety |
Description |
PVP
Status |
Approx.
Days to Maturity |
Heat
Units
(F°) |
Approx.
Length
(in.) |
Avg.
Sieve
Size |
Pod
Color |
Disease
Resistance |
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Dusky |
Dusky is a Fresh market, main season
variety that provides high yields in a concentrated
set with a strong disease package. |
G |
56 |
1159° |
6" |
3.5-4 |
Dark green. |
HR: BCMV; Cl
IR: Psp; Pss |
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Embassy |
Embassy offers Fresh market growers
very dark green pods on an upright plant and
excellent heat tolerance. |
A |
54 |
1083° |
5.5" |
4-5 |
Dark green. |
HR: BCMV IR: Pss |
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Inspiration |
Very dark green main season bean with very good field holding ability and tolerance to whitefly and late season midwest virus complex. |
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56 |
1250 |
5.5" |
3.5 |
Green. |
HR: BCMV IR: BCTV |
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Jade |
Jade’s long, straight pods which
grow in a less concentrated set allow for multiple
picks and maximum yield. |
G |
60 |
1264° |
6.5" |
3-4 |
Dark green. |
HR: BCMV IR: BCTV; Ua |
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León |
Good seed quality in all productions to date. Leon
has performed well in winter trials. Fresh market round podded variety with medium light pods. Pods hold their smoothness providing a wide harvest window. |
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55 |
1098 |
5.51" |
4 |
Green |
HR: BCMV |
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Masai |
Masai is a top performer for quality
and yield in the extra fine class and produces
uniform pods on an upright bush. |
G |
55 |
1198° |
4" |
2-3 |
Green. |
HR: BCMV IR: BCTV; Pss |
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Nash |
Nash bean is a high yielding, stress
tolerant main season variety with superior pod
style. |
C |
54 |
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5.75" |
3.5-4 |
Green. |
HR: BCMV |
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Pierroton |
Pierroton is a small sieve bean for the gourmet,
Fresh, and processor whole bean markets. |
C |
57 |
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4.5" |
2-3 |
Medium dark
green |
HR: BCMV; Cl(1); Psp(1,2) |
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Prevail |
High yield of straight, dark green pods are characteristics of this variety as well it offers excellent stress tolerance and consistant performance. |
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54 |
1150 |
5.5 |
3.5-4 |
Green. |
HR: BCMV IR: BCTV |
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Renegade |
Renegade features very dark green
pods on an upright plant and is well suited for
machine or hand harvest. |
A |
56 |
1131° |
5.5" |
4 |
Very dark green. |
HR: BCMV IR: BCTV |
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Stayton |
Stayton delivers extra fine pods
with uniform color and an excellent appearance for
the Fresh or Processing markets. |
A |
55 |
1098° |
5" |
2-3 |
Dark green. |
HR: BCMV IR: Pss |
| ROMANO
BUSH BEAN |
| Variety |
Description |
PVP
Status |
Approx.
Days to Maturity |
Heat
Units
(F°) |
Approx.
Length
(in.) |
Avg.
Sieve
Size |
Pod
Color |
Disease
Resistance |
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Roma II |
Roma II is a Romano bush bean with a
slow-to-develop seed that extends the harvest window
and features a reduced fiber that enhances eating
quality. |
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56 |
1227° |
5.5" |
flat |
Light green.
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| ROUND
PODDED POLE BEAN |
| Variety |
Description |
PVP
Status |
Approx.
Days to Maturity |
Heat
Units
(F°) |
Approx.
Length
(in.) |
Avg.
Sieve
Size |
Pod
Color |
Disease
Resistance |
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Kentucky Blue |
The 1991 AAS Winner, Kentucky Blue
offers an outstanding Blue Lake flavor and an
easy-to-grow, Kentucky Wonder-type plant. |
G |
60 |
1264° |
8" |
4 |
Medium Dark green. |
HR: BCMV
IR: Ua |
| WAX
ROUND PODDED BUSH BEAN |
| Variety |
Description |
PVP
Status |
Approx.
Days to Maturity |
Heat
Units
(F°) |
Approx.
Length
(in.) |
Avg.
Sieve
Size |
Pod
Color |
Disease
Resistance |
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Carson |
Carson is a specialty wax bean in
the mid-fine class. It is widely adaptable, and
produces stable yields with a uniform, yellow color. |
A |
56 |
1148° |
5.25" |
4 |
Yellow. |
HR: BCMV IR: Pss
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