Drying in windrows. Plants that are too wet have a tendency to plug machinery up. You may have come across this mowing a lawn. Anyhow, now many of the beans are dry.
That means it's time to combine them! A bean combine is a similar machine to the combine that cuts pretty much everything else. There are a few notable differences, though. Beans are fragile and so in order to keep them from breaking, a lot of the machinery is different. You'll see a belt instead of an auger offload the beans for instance. (Some have a nifty bin that tips over and just pours the beans out.)
Another is the header. This is a pickup header, and as you might have presumed, it picks stuff up. More specifically it picks up plant material. In this case bean plant material, but you knew that already...
The beans then go on the trucks. From there the process works like any other harvest; They will go to a facility for storage, or strait onto the market to be enjoyed by people. (Maybe even you!)
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