NEBRASKA DRY BEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
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The Nebraska Dry Bean Growers Association, located at 4502 Avenue I, Suite 201a, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all dry bean growers in Nebraska. The Association is a lobbying and supportive entity that continues to focus its efforts on assisting producers of dry beans and landowners as well as educating the public about the nutrition and economic value of dry edible beans.

Each August, NDBGA and the University of Nebraska Research and Extension Center co-host the Dry Bean Field Tour, along with help from many loyal sponsors, to inform bean growers of ongoing research in herbicides, insecticides, DNA testing, water resources, equipment, and numerous other topics of interest to those who make their living growing dry edible beans.   
Our annual meeting is held every year during Bean Day, a half-day event with speakers, vendors, and the latest research results from the specialists at PREC, with the help of our generous sponsors and the University of Nebraska.  It's a great time to catch up on news and see old friends since harvest is over and it's not quite time to start thinking about planting!

History

The Association was founded in 1982 after a steering committee of twenty bean growers, in cooperation with processors and the UNL Panhandle Extension Staff, worked together for nine months to organize the Association. By-laws were adopted on November 9th of that same year.  Since November of 2014, the Association has maintained its business office at UNL PREC making our excellent working relationship also very convenient!

Mission

Promotion and education are a large part of the Association's mission.  We take part in various activities: whether it's making jack-o-lantern faces on orange paper plates with glue and black beans, handing out bean recipes, discussing the substitution of bean flour or cooked beans in recipes, or speaking to groups of school children.  Our board of directors is always looking for new ways to promote consumption of dry edible beans.