more fun with lentils

[ado089]

Now the ones that aren't rotting are sprouting

[MBgrower]

Thats sad.

[farmaholic]

I hope those only came from the sprayer trails where they we're pushed against the ground! !!

Otherwise, I honestly just shock my head in disbelief. What next.

[hobbyfrmr]

Are those your intercropped orgimmick lentils, or regular lentils?

[ado089]

Conventional, nowhere near a sprayer track. A lot of them didn't even have any color yet.

These are the organic ones. (sorry just the stem)

[sumdumguy]

How much rain did you have last week? I've seen lentils sprout in the pod some very wet years - they are likely feed lentils.

[fjlip]

Too much RAIN ...TAKES grain! Oh crap!

[farmaholic]

Sumdumguy.....I think we live kinda close to each other. East of Regina there are some fields that look bad from the road. Dead spots that podded but died before they could fill and whole fields that are a fairly good mix of my previous description and some half assed healthy stuff. Nonetheless. ....there is going to be some long faces when the combines hit the fields. I would think reds would be a bit more forgiving than any greens when it comes to damage. Whole market versus splits.....reds versus greens. I think this could turn into a graders, buyers and sellers nightmare. The only good thing about this shitty looking lentil crop is I never planted any. But surely there.has to be the odd pocket where they'll be half decent. The areas that tradionally grew lentils but had a never ending monsoon and non traditional areas that probably shouldn't be planting them may be in trouble.

This is a big deal because there was such a huge increase in seeded lentil acres.

Anyone who will have good ones in the bin after harvest, gaurd your "gold"!

[biglentil]

No noticeable visual difference btw crop sprayed twice with fungi vs. nothing. All ugly with disease, strange enough a grassy slough that we burned off and seeded looks decent. Disease lives in the soil foliars are a bandaid.

That sucks Ado maybe u can roast em sell em as a sprouted lentil snack.

[ColevilleH2S]

...gaurd your "gold"!

I don't know if even the good ones (if there will be such a thing) are going to be in high demand anyways. It sounds like the Indian monsoon season is above normal this year which usually drives up pulse yields over there. And somewhere I read a prediction of 19 million acres are expected to be planted this year. That kind of puts our 5 million acres of Lentils into perspective.