“When you take the North Dakota, Minnesota, southern Manitoba growing region, half of the North American dry bean crop is produced in that area,” said John Bartsch, a trader with Kelley Bean Company, who also grows beans on an eastern North Dakota farm. The state produces about a third of all the dry beans beans grown in the U.S, making the region a bean powerhouse. North Dakota leads the nation in overall production of dry beans, a broad category of many bean varieties, including pinto beans, lima beans, black beans and navy beans. Kidney beans are just one of several varieties of beans classified as “dry edible beans.” Trade uncertainty casts shadow on bean-growing leaders Sometimes bean buyers from other countries will even visit the farms where the product they buy is grown. “They want to know where the field is, and what we've used for any kind of chemicals and what seed we used, they want to know all the details,” said Dombeck. That means Dombeck needs to provide detailed records about the crop. Unlike most corn and soybean crops, dry beans are identity preserved. Relationships are important to maintain those export markets. About 60 percent of the beans he’ll harvest are used in the U.S., and the rest are exported, said Dombeck: "Domestically, they're going down to Faribault, Minn., for canning there, and for foreign export, most of them go to the E.U.
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