Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Flax flea beetle
Cabbage stem flea beetle
Cabbage stem flea beetle
DD Linseed/Flax
- Thread starter JAB
- Start date
- Location
- leics/warks border
It is a different beetle, but I thought it worth a try. Rape off the heap is cheap.
The ideal would be to find a companion crop that they prefer to linseed and is killed by the standard herbicides.
The ideal would be to find a companion crop that they prefer to linseed and is killed by the standard herbicides.
- Location
- leics/warks border
No flea beetle problems ?
You are probably earlier than us with your light soils.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Or No one else plants linseed near by
- Location
- North yorkshire
The main reason people don’t grow it is the fact it’s near impossible to combine bloody stuff raps up like barb wire I under stand you need a power flow table for success!!
- Location
- South West
I was told this before we started growing linseed but 2 seasons in and never had a problem luckily. Could just be the older variety’s.
- Location
- leics/warks border
Whoever told you that hasn't a clue what they are talking about !
It can be difficult, but if your combine is in good order (an NH CR won't thrash it properly and rotary Lexions aren't great), the driver knows what they are doing and you have the patience to wait for the correct conditions it's fine.
ollie989898
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You can combine it but you need to be patient. A weedy crop that hasn't gone off properly will grind your teeth down an inch mind.
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Linseed is always hard to harvest, is just another agricultural myth, same as, Monsanto sales men use to drink glyphosate, and slug pellets contain attractants, amongst others.
clbarclay
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- Location
- Worcestershire
Linseed can be a pain to harvest, but as said there can be a lot of details to get right.
Last year I had trouble in the first field where it kept wrapping around the top elevator shaft on one side. On closer inspection there is a small adjustable plate on each side on my combine that is like a scraper on the shaft. I adjusted the scraper on its slots to look vaguely like the other side that wasn't wrapping and it didn't wrap up there again.
Last year I had trouble in the first field where it kept wrapping around the top elevator shaft on one side. On closer inspection there is a small adjustable plate on each side on my combine that is like a scraper on the shaft. I adjusted the scraper on its slots to look vaguely like the other side that wasn't wrapping and it didn't wrap up there again.
its easy to combine when you know how, probably one of the fastest crops to clear here in years we grow it. Rotary combine and not powerflow header
warksfarmer
Member
It'll combine in september on a sunny day without to much hassle but try cutting it to early before its dead and or in average weather conditions and it will drive you mad. Definitely patience is the key.
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
Not grown it before but am contemplating it as possibly the least unattractive spring break! -
Quick question tbough, is it OK on an ordinary drying floor or does it get under the floor/flow out of the door etc etc. Years ago dad grew it and it went into bins, which have long since been condemned, and we've never had it on the floor before.
Thanks
Quick question tbough, is it OK on an ordinary drying floor or does it get under the floor/flow out of the door etc etc. Years ago dad grew it and it went into bins, which have long since been condemned, and we've never had it on the floor before.
Thanks
ollie989898
Member
It is fine on drying floors, ours used to be on drying floors and stirred by augers. It will run out of the smallest hole in the door or floor or trailers so you need to sort these ahead of time. Drop anything in into it and it is gone mind, flows like water.
Right it flows like water. Don’t drop yourself into it. People have drowned in flax.
Avoid. It's nearly impossible to walk the heaps, finds every little hole in the floor/walls/tunnel/doors & won't stack very deep. It also has a high resistance to airflow so can be hard to dry & condition. A batch or continuous flow drier and bins is better if available. Drying on floor is doable - I've had to do this many times. Don't apply much heat.
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
Thanks. Have to say it's looking less attractive every time I look at it, though to be fair no other option looks particularly brilliant!
Huntstreet
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Hi Clive, have you grown spring linseed with 25cm row spacing?
Anyone else got any experience with DD linseed on 25cm rows?