Colorado produces more than 100 million pounds of pinto beans each year. Click here for 2014 bean variety trial results.
The CSU Dry Bean Breeding Project uses traditional plant-breeding methods to develop bean cultivars for superior nutrition, disease resistance, increased yield, improved performance and better market value. The project grows crops at the campus research station and evaluates the beans harvested to help provide regional producers with successful cultivars.
Dry bean production is valued at more than 4 million dollars annually. Newly released varieties, with resistance to rust, white mold and other priority diseases, can improve yield in Colorado conservatively by 10 percent.
Insect Management Recommendations, Dry Field Beans, North Dakota State University
Dr. Cosme Guerrero from the University of Sonora recently visited CSU. Hear his views about IPM on beans in the new YouTube video.