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Lentils can pay big dividends

26/08/2008 3:30:00 AM
WITH prices for lentils hovering at about $1000 a tonne, the relatively risky pulse crop may pay big dividends this season.

Yorke Peninsula farmer Mark Schilling has been growing lentils for more than two decades. He runs a 2000-hectare property at Kadina, cropping a rotation of wheat, barley and then a pulse - either chickpeas or lentils.

Mark is also Northern Yorke Processing managing director. The company which contracts, stores and packs grain.

This year he has planted 400ha of lentils, and his varieties include the new green lentil Boomer and red varieties Northfield and Nugget.

* Extract from a full crop report in Stock Journal, August 28 issue.

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Mark Schilling, Kadina
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