more fun with lentils

[ado089]

1.6" in three weeks that started with 90 seconds of pea sized hail. Any pod touching the ground is diseased, rotten or sprouting. Big bushy lentils are a curse. I have some dirty wild oat patches and they even pulled them down. I might seed some lentils with my organic rig next year(10" with sweeps) . The broadcast lentils don't seem to fall over like 1"x12".

[sumdumguy]

We drove west of Moose jaw tonight. The reds are hurt bad but a field of Lairds we checked were half brown and shelling while lots were green and still filling. But one thing for sure, the seeds were 20% marked with disease and the crop is all laying down in pure mud. Trying to straight cut will be a challenge unless it drys out by some miracle. And almost all the fields look like ours - big time weedy, thistle all through the field. Yikes, it looks like the first fields of lentils in our area (1968 or so) when we didn't even have Sencor. Gonna be interesting. Farmaholic, I think you should have planted 1000 acres or so, just so you could gripe with us. 😝

[ajl]

The upside of 5.8 million acres of lentils is that it reduced unnecessary production of surplus wheat and canola that would have resulted in $4 wheat and $7 canola. Given that SF3 and others are all switching to wheat/canola for next year that is what to look forward to for 17. The other factor is that there likely was not a market for 5.8 million so crop insurance at not bad levels for a lot of the lentils was likely as good a result as was going to happen anyways. Hopefully everyone bought max crop insurance.

[furrowtickler]

I wounder if anyone will get a dime out of GARS ?? There had better be some payouts for guys with GARS in lentil country

[sumdumguy]

The satellite looks dangerous - hope the Regina Block saves us!

[iceman]

I wounder if anyone will get a dime out of GARS ?? There had better be some payouts for guys with GARS in lentil country

I wonder if anyone has ever got a dime outta gars? Guys had wreaks last year and got zero. It sounds like a good thing but at the end of the day it's still a insurance company

Iceman out

[Oliver88]

I wounder if anyone will get a dime out of GARS ?? There had better be some payouts for guys with GARS in lentil country

The issue with GARS is that it is NOT crop specific so the other crops would be factored in first.
I am not sure what level of coverage is offered....

SCIC is crop specific so their customers will obviously have payouts if one crop is a wreck. (Totally different insurance programs.)

[ajl]

The problem with GARS is that they took on next to no risk at all in exchange for a very large premium counting on mathematically challenged farmers to be clients. Now after about 3 yrs everyone is wise to this so they disappear.

[sumdumguy]

Would love to post the picture but don't know how, but French Lentils took 9/10 last night, still hanging on to the weeds. French don't bleach and take a lot of punishment. Definitely not a big crop. 1/2 seeded before Mothers Day - half after. The first ones are less diseased and standing but the last 1/2 pathetic laying in mud now. Pods pretty good on first half, not so good on the rest, but all being held up by scattering of thistle, tanzy mustard and something that looks like a Christmas tree. The rest of our lentils got 3/10 and less last night.