Lentils bring the following benefits to cereal rotations:

• An alternative pulse, increasing the yields of following cereal crops and allowing an extended phase of cropping.
• Decrease many cereal diseases-grass free lentil crops help control root diseases CCN and Take-all.
• Control weeds-grass selective herbicides can be used on lentils to control self-sown cereals and competitive grass weeds difficult to control in cereal crops, e.g. Brome grass and Barley grass.
• Can be crop topped to prevent herbicide resistant weeds from setting seed.
• Available soil nitrogen is maintained or improved.
• Spread management due to their divergent growth and development allow sowing, spraying and harvest windows to be widened.
• Well adapted to no till, standing stubble systems aimed at improving soil sustainability.

Depressed cereal growth following cereal the previous year.

Good cereal growth following a pulse the previous year.