[Crops 101] How to Sow and Harvest Green Beans

Welcome to the Farming Simulator Academy! In this tutorial, we’re focusing on green beans. We show you how to plant and harvest this healthy plant. 

What you need for Green Beans

Let’s take a look at everything you need to plant and harvest green beans. Please note, you need special equipment.

• You need a tractor to attach the following tools and operate them. 
• You need a cultivator to prepare the ground for your next harvest. 
• You need a planter to plant green beans.
• You need a fertilizer spreader, fertilizer, and lime to improve your harvest. 
• You need a roller to condense the soil and increase the yield of your harvest.
• You need a weeder to get rid of the weeds that will soon pop up. Otherwise, the income from your crops will be reduced when you sell it. 
• You need a special harvester to harvest your green beans.
• And you need a trailer to transport and sell the harvested green beans. 

Equipment Selection (recommendation)

We chose the following equipment. Feel free to pick your own, but mind compatibilities and power requirements indicated by icons and specifications at the dealership.

• Tractor: Challenger MT635
• Cultivator: John Deere 980
• Planter: Amazone Precea 4500-2C Super
• Fertilizer Spreader: Bredal K105
• Roller: Väderstad Rexius 1230
• Weeder: Gorenc Puler 600
• Harvester: Oxbo BP 2140e
• Trailer: Farmtech EDK 650

Let’s go to work!

Got everything you need? Then let’s start on your assignment and cultivate some green beans! Note that you can only grow this crop from the start of April until the end of July and harvest from August until November if seasonal growth is enabled. 

Step 1: Applying Lime

Improve your yield by applying lime, but be aware, that this is not always necessary. The field information box will tell you, if your field needs lime. If you bought the Bredal K105 as a fertilizer spreader, you can use this machine for lime as well.

Connect the spreader to your tractor and place it next to the boxes of lime. Press the designated button to refill the machine. Once the machine is filled, head over to your field. Position yourself on one corner and start applying lime. 

Step 2: Cultivating the field

In order to grow green beans, you first have to cultivate your field. Hook your cultivator to your tractor, place the vehicle on one corner of the field, lower it into the ground and just do one row after another until the whole field is done.

Step 3: Planting Green Beans

Connect your planter to your tractor and place the machine next to your seeds. Again, press the designated button to refill the machine. Once you are done, head back to your field and start the same process again: Position yourself at one corner and cover one row after another.

Step 4: Fertilizing

After you are done applying lime, unload any leftover lime at your farm and refill fertilizer. Then, the same procedure starts again

Tip! Repeat the fertilizing process after your plants started growing to increase the fertilization to 100%. The yield will be even higher. With a manure or slurry spreader, you can activate double activation rate to fertilize only once.

Step 5: Rolling

If you want to improve your yield even further, you need to use a roller on your freshly planted seeds. With this step, you condense the soil, and therefore increase its quality and the yield by 2.5 %.

Step 6: Getting rid of weeds

Soon, the first weeds spawn on the field. Take your weeder to get rid of it before they grow past the first stage. In the first stage, you can still use the weeder to remove weeds. After that, you need a hoe or field sprayer, but let’s try to avoid that in favor of our finances. If you play with crop destruction, use a tractor with narrow tires, otherwise a lot of plants get destroyed. Got rid of it? Good, now we wait again, until the crops are fully grown.

Tip! You can speed up a bit until the weeds start to grow.

Step 7: Harvest the crops

As soon as the crops are fully grown, you shouldn’t waste any time, so they don’t start to wither. Head in your special harvester, drive to your field, lower the header and start harvesting!

Once the harvester is full, you need to get your trailer to unload the harvester. To unload, just drive it up to your trailer and unfold the pipe. Press the button to start overloading, and all the harvested long grain rice will be unloaded into your trailer until it’s full.

Step 8: Selling Green Beans

When you are done harvesting, you are able to sell your harvested crops. Look for the best-selling point on the prices screen. Unload the trailer in the designated area. 

Well done!

Congratulations, you finished another lesson and now know how to plant green beans. Stay with the Farming Simulator Academy, and you’ll become a top-notch virtual farmer in no time!