Winter linseed

whindy

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Wrote off my winter linseed off weeks ago.
Not a live looking plant in sight.
Went back to day with tank ful of roundup first time in the field for weeks to find this!
It has risen again. Will give it another week to see if there is enough across the whole field .
 

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Attila Winterlin. Planted 20th September, looked a tad sorry for itself during February but motoring now. Just 30kgs/ha of N applied.
We don't grow linseed regularly but always get the best wheat bar non after it so will see how it goes View attachment 952655
Looks very good
do you have dificulty keeping it up right or does it keep recovering when it gets knocked down
i can be a lot braver with early drilling if you have no proper problems we must be 2 weeks behind you
will go for first week September
 

Devon James

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Devon
Looks very good
do you have dificulty keeping it up right or does it keep recovering when it gets knocked down
i can be a lot braver with early drilling if you have no proper problems we must be 2 weeks behind you
will go for first week September
It hasn't gone down, yet! Must be a good amount of residual N from the poor wheat crop that got droughted out last year.
Went in well. Hasn't looked poor until those Feb frosts but it soon bounced back
Maybe another 60 kgs of N in a week or two
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
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Fen Edge
Winter linseed eaten by pigeons, hammered by cold and herbicide but making a comeback I think.
 

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martian

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N Herts
Winter linseed is miss sold!!!
It should be able to survive 3 minor snow events over 3 weeks and 4 days of -3 frosts. Ours was looking good until then.
So to claim it is winter hardly is a complete lie !!! And the company's selling the seed probably have a case to answer to the trading standards!!!
It should not be compared to any other crops that may fail .
Exactly the same here, had 70 acres that looked fabulous going into winter, nearly all wiped out by frost. How Premium Crops sleep at night I don't know.
 
Probably fairly easily, knowing that growers are taking the risk short term but this does not bode well for the crop's future in the Midlands and North unless you're on low lying land near the coast.
Or get snow to cover it up

having a good notill stubble that hold the snow will help
lower lying areas in februarry were to warm lost their snow before the coldest week
 

Daniel

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Exactly the same here, had 70 acres that looked fabulous going into winter, nearly all wiped out by frost. How Premium Crops sleep at night I don't know.

Quite easily, given that all their crops, Canary Seed, Winter Linseed etc rake in the cash for them on seed price.

Do they still have that lad in the office who rings up and delivers the salesman's patter?
 

Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
I'll be drilling it, purely due to having last years seed still in the shed because the new to me drill was late getting here :banghead:
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
There is some nearby that I have carefully been watching, my impression is that it isn't much of a cleaning crop on ground with a weed seed burden, tbh.
 

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