Lentils

[BreadWinner]

I stopped and checked out one of my neighbours many lentil fields 3000ac of them. Its going to be a big dissapointment for many. Lots of plant but no pods just a few flowers. I sure hope he has crop insurance because its going to be a big fat 0 out in allot of these fields. Our area hasnt even had allot of rain. East central sask.

[Rareearth]

Well that's probably a good thread its self, for discussion purposes and simplicity, how many flowers or pods should a lentil plant have?

- in a perfect world, based on 1 acre
- seed at 1 bu per acre
- assume each flower make 1 pod
- assume 1 seeds per pod ( average per plant, some pods have 2 smaller seeds)
- 10% flower loss or bad pollination, ( heat, wind, rain, hail, etc)
-assume 5% loos plant stand, salinity, root rots, bad germination, flood, tractor tracks, etc
- assume 1% loss to insects, wireorms, cutworms, aphids, grasshoppers, berthas

- assume again 25 flowers per plant, and each flower hamlets 1 pod and has 1 seed
- that's 25 x 1 bu acre = 25 bu acre
- 25 bu acre of perfect crop minus 16%(4 bu acre) = 21 bushels per acre

21 bu x60 lbs bu =1260 lbs acre