After a long, weather-delayed finish, the 2025 dry bean harvest is wrapping up across North Dakota and Minnesota. Johnstown Bean Company General Manager Dylan Karley says most of the crop is finally in the bin despite challenging harvest conditions. “Some of the crop that ended up getting left out in the fields through the heavy rain periods in late September through most of October has started to come around and finally, the final one to two percent is coming out. Quality stayed okay. It’s coming off wetter than we would like, but overall, farmers are able to get it in the bin, get it on some air.” Disease pressure was commonplace. White mold is a common issue in dry beans, but other diseases were also seen. “We had a lot of blight, which is a bit abnormal, but you could attribute it to some wind storms that we had come through, perhaps opening up some lesions on the plants, causing some damage.”
