desi chickpeas

[Jagfarms]

It was a good year for desi chickpeas. We had some seeded and they yeilded pretty good and they were sold right off the combine for 19.5 cents a pound. I wish we would have seeded more of them, they were our most profitable crop this year. We had some Kabulie's as well but the imput costs were much higher and the yeild was much lower but the price is good.

[Jagfarms]

I should have checked my spelling before I posted the last post.

[sawfly]

last spring i was sure desis had some hope and had my spot all picked out. but didnt get seeed lined up etc. etc.
was kinda kicking myself for it , in august had 100%hail where i was gonna plant them.
now i dont feel so bad

[nw9flynn]

Jagfarms,
how many times did you have to spray your desi VS the Kabuli's? Do you have your own high clearance or do you get them custom spayed? What are your cost per chem application? Sorry for all the questions, but I cannot get chickpeas to consistantly pay on my farm. Weather is such a wild card, not only for disease but also for causing green in the sample. What are your returns over your total costs? Any tips when growing them? I gave up in 2001 and increaed red lentil acres.

[Jagfarms]

nw9flynn
We sprayed our desi's 1 time with quadris. We just used our tractor and a flexicoil pull type spayer. We burned it off at seeding time with wheathermax and 1/3 rate pursuit. We used tagteam granular inoculent. They yielded close to 25bu acre on stubble.

we also had xena kabuli's seeded sprayed them 2 times with quadris with our spayer and one time with bravo with a custom applicater high clearence sprayer. We should have sprayed them one more time as they only yielded 15bu/acre.