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[lsanderson]

Lentil farmers take it in the shorts. Guess I never knew lentils grew in North Dakota, and I grew up there, on a farm too. Must be one of those valley crops that they rotate with sugar beets. I probably wouldn't know I was tramping down lentils if I was walking in the field. I always ustta be a perceptive child -- I could readily tell corn, flax and grain apart. Of course, we only planted corn in the garden, so that simplified it a whole lot. My father was always rather unimpressed that we couldn't determine what kind of grain (wheat, rye, barley, oats) it was from a car speeding past a field or walking in the field. My accuracy was reasonably impressive: if it looked like grass it was grain; if
it looked like giant grass, it was corn; and if it didn't look like grass, it was flax. Of course, sometimes idiots would plant alfalfa or clover, but I blamed that on their bad farming practices rather than put it in my bad guess column. Besides, as if I really wanted to know which grain was growing as I drove past. I gave up on guessing crops before sunflowers moved into the area.
Just too many variables throwing another non-grass into the mix, don't ya know.