If you’re never sure when your dried beans are finished cooking despite what a recipe says, here is a goof-proof method. Spoon up one of the cooked beans and press it against the roof of your mouth.

If your beans aren’t heirloom, and you don’t know when they were dried, I’d shorten that window of “freshness” to a single year for the best tasting beans. Keeping them in a dark, dry ...

Uncooked bagged beans are an even better deal. A 1-pound bag of dry beans in grocery stores generally will cost just over a buck and yield about 6 cups.

Little white navy beans gained their name because they were a mainstay for sailors — although Michigan’s 19th century lumbermen also ate navy and other dry beans at every meal.

Dried beans are pretty durable but like most foods, they do expire and won't last forever. Here's everything you need know about the shelf life and storage of dried beans.

In Nebraska, NASS rated edible bean conditions as of Aug. 13 8% excellent, 53% good, 31% fair, 7% poor and 1% very poor. Ninety percent of the dry edible beans were blooming and 54% were setting pods.

TMT Farms began growing dry beans in the 1980s. Today, TMT Farms Bean & Seed Co. buys their farm's beans, along with those of other farmers, cleans and packages them and ships them around the world.