If you took a poll, I’m willing to bet you’d find that the majority of Montanans are not aware of an agricultural niche in which our state leads the country. Ready? Big Sky Country is the No. 1 American producer of chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans) and lentils. Many of us probably don’t know that, because Montana’s ag producers ship nearly all of them overseas.  I’ll admit it: I didn’t eat either when I was growing up in Montana. To me, chickpeas were the beige spheres in the salad bar that I never put on my salad. Never. Maybe a lentil snuck its way into some kind of soup I once slur...

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