Yankee Imperial Pea

This variety came to SSE from the late Robert Lobitz (MN LO R) who acquired it from the USDA collection (PI 550114). The USDA received this bean in 1983 from the bean collection of the late Burt Berrier of Canon City, Colorado. At the time of Berrier's passing in 1978, he had been collecting beans for about 30 years, often receiving them from the farmers he met in his job as a sales and service man for farm machinery. SSE Accession # 104889