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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:26:51 -0500 (EST)
The other food safety issue is with how they are prepared (or not) prior to
consumption. The vast majority of fresh produce is eaten fresh, ie, you
don't cook a salad to 180F before eating it. So any bugs on it (macro bugs
or microorganisms) are intact and alive at time of consumption. But dried
beans are categorically cooked prior to consumption, unless there's a new
fashionable recipe for rock-hard raw pintos out there. Since it's
cooked immediately prior to consumption, the food safety concerns are a lot
different than other veggie material, even grown side-by-side. That might
explain why you haven't found much written material on food safety of dry
beans. It's not even really on the radar as a threat.
Richard - I read your comments about the need to harvest large quantities
efficiently, and having a good way to clean them, before making a profitable go
at it. We are already mulling the idea of (don't laugh) buying an All-Crop
harvester because we want to do small grains. To date that seems one of
the more cost-effective pieces of machinery for that purpose, given our field
sizes, tractors and crop mix. Adding dried beans to the All-Crop's to-do
list would seem to spread around the implement cost even further, while opening
up a new product market for us. Do you concur? We wouldn't be going
with such an old machine except for two things - first, we can count the number
of newer combines in this county on one hand, and they don't leave home (ie,
they are not available for contract harvesting jobs). And second, we
already know we want to harvest field peas and sunflowers for our own livestock
fodder purposes, both of which are typically beyond the capacity of a standard
combine. Would the All Crop meet your definition of "efficient harvesting"
equipment? Anyone else with AllCrop experience, I'd love to hear from you
before we spend money.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 1/10/2012 7:06:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
wshoemak AT illinois.edu writes:
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[Market-farming] marketing dry beans,
mamica5, 01/10/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans,
Richard Stewart, 01/10/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans, Shoemaker, William H, 01/10/2012
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- Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans, KAKerby, 01/10/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans, rstewart AT zoomtown.com, 01/10/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] marketing dry beans,
Richard Stewart, 01/10/2012
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