“…is a grain legume crop in the northern Great Plains (Miller, Gan, McConkey, & McDonald, 2003), grown in crop rotations with cereals (spring wheat [ Triticum aestivum L.], barley [ Hordeum vulgare L.], oat [ Avena sativa L.]) and canola ( Brassica napus L.) (Zentner, Wall, Nagy, Smith, & Young, 2002) under dryland no‐tillage (NT) management and biological N fixation. To fit the lentil production area of western Canada (49–52°N), cultivars are early flowering with a lifecycle ranging from 95–120 d (Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, 2018; Tullu, Tar'an, Warkentin, & Vandenberg, 2008), and a harvest index approaching 0.5 (Hanlan, Ball, & Vandenberg, 2006; Zakeri, Bueckert, Schoenau, Vandenberg, & Lafond, 2012). Cultivars are short season by design to fit the frost‐free season at the top of the northern Great Plains, and cultivars adapted to western Canada can be grown in Washington, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and vice versa.…”