How do we prepare for drought- wall to wall lentils?

[silverback]

Was it a cold or warm winter there?

[TOM4CWB]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17091256

G.B. drought story with a map at the bottom.

[sumdumguy]

Tom, everything thing else does not do well if it
stays dry. If wheat doesnt tiller, and heat at
blooming and filling knocks the yield to s--t.
From our experience the only crop that came
through in the 80s was laird lentils. Course if you
havent been in lentils crop insurance will be low
for them.

Wheat and Canola take a lot of fertilizer, lentils
dont.

[hedgehog]

silverback, it has been no winter at all, almost no snow, not much frost except a spell last fortnight.
total reverse of last winter.
cant sell hay , straw or snowploughs

[bigzee]

Best thing to do is make lots of chemfallow if you think its going to be a drought. That way there will be less acres going in which will lead to higher prices for us that have optimisim.

[TOM4CWB]

Bigzee,

We haven't been able to sell hot air yet especially in a drought!

Putting a crop in the ground... is like breathing...

[wd9]

Best time to have a drought is in the
winter

[sumdumguy]

Talk of drought is sure fueling foreign interest in
grain.