After a long break, farmers are ‘walking beans’ again

Some farmers in central Illinois turned to hand hoeing of soybean fields to get rid of weeds that herbicides don’t kill, says DTN’s Pam Smith. “Twenty years ago, walking beans was a summer ritual for teens.” The hot and dirty job died out a couple of decades ago with the arrival of soybean varieties genetically engineered to… » Read More

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