Evaluation of farming legumes in United States of America

Present research was conducted to do an evaluation of pulse growing in the United States of America that the country is a good model of pulse production besides powerful agricultural economy and to try finding issues and supporting to increase in the pulse production for better economic development in Turkey that has high potential. Survey questions were gathered between 2011 and 2015 in 10 States of USA under 32 items by reporting the answers of totally 300 farmers. Results showed that, the managed areas are relatively bigger and number of employers is not much because of using new technologies. Growers have close collaborations with universities. Certified seed using is rare while rotation, crop insurance, inoculation of bacteria and soil analyze is applied extensively. Pulse growers are suffering from insect, anthracnose and rust. Farmers usually have on-farm storage and they can sell products easily. Main aspects of farmers are disease-insect control, fertilization, yield stability and weed control, respectively. Consequently, there is need to lower inputs and well planned production for permanence in prices, government supports, using modern growing techniques integrated with industry beside expansion of production-deliver chain, increasing the utilization diversify as fresh or dry, standardization and better relations between customers and suppliers by consider human welfare, economic development and sustainability in agriculture.