Red Lentils

[jazz]

Legitimate question, is there actually any crop available for an offshore export program?

Seems like everything grown on the continent might stay on it this year. How will china and india feed themselves?

[Grahamp]

They put a tariff on us. I hope they don’t starve, but I do hope they go very very hungry.

[iceman]

They put a tariff on us. I hope they don’t starve, but I do hope they go very very hungry.

Are we gonna see some revolutions before this is over? Generally what happens we people get hungry

[sumdumguy]

The last month aerial applicators checked weather forecasts day and night just to squeeze a few hours of spraying in between wind and heat. Lots of special crop growers especially south of us remembered that the window closes about now for easy lentil harvest. The Regloned lentils are high and dry in aeration today, cooling down. Just sayin!

[burnt]

Does Reglone always shut down regrowth? That plant really wants to live.

One season many moons ago we had a very dry summer and the navy beans shut down early and started to dry up with an early harvest in the sights.

Then the rain came and they started to regrow like mad. Sprayed them with Reglone and it just burned them some and they didn't stop.

Those were pull and windrow days and that was about the only way to stop them.

Mid-80s. I really cannot remember how it turned out, but we did get the crop eventually.

An interesting side note out of that which I do remember - we had pulled part of the field and gave it up to spray everything with desiccant. We hung the end of the boom over the last two windrows of pulled beans as a "test". The operator told me it's a waste of time and product.

Well those two windrow dried up like dew at noon, far faster than the standing plants and gave shiny beans with no stains.

[sumdumguy]

This year, Reglone worked well with the heat. We were surprised to combine in 3 or 4 days. We never stopped and sample is pristine. Maybe just the year.

[jazz]

Does Reglone always shut down regrowth? That plant really wants to live.

Regloned lentils are unlikely to regrow. You can see lots of missed strips with the header in the fall after good rains and they dont restart.

Lentils can take a rain or two. This first shot was very slow coming down and today is sort of drying. I still have most of mine out.

[sumdumguy]

Standing Durum self-desiccated and was testing 14-16 before .8 rain. We are hoping to get going again this afternoon.

[Rareearth]

Its going to be a tough year fo4 every one, exporters and farmers.
I suggest moving from a #2 ob bid to a #3 ob bid an$ get rid of the discounts.

This should apply to other grains as well, durum, canola, etc

Exporters sell on specifications not always CGC , for example bushel weight etc. The terminals mix it all into the same bin.

[shtferbrains]

Do the terminals not use computerized bining and blending?