Any thoughts about winter linseed? Heavyish land

[Farmerbarry71]

Any thoughts on winter linseed? Medium - heavy land . South beds area

 

[teslacoils]

Blackgrass?

 

[DRC]

@Daniel

 

[yellow belly]

got some booked for 2020
better to have an average linseed crop than a poor rape crop
early planting and no flea beetle
bg avadex crawler and centurian

 

[teslacoils]

no flea beetle

I will await the winter linseed flea beetle thread. They have happily tried everything else.

 

[principal skinner]

^^^ This

 

[matthewizod]

Trying 20ha of linseed this time to replace some rape, going in to heavy land with lower black grass pressure. Want one less thing to think about while we try something new

 

[Hobbit]

What are most of you doing regarding selling? Contact or open markets?

 

[matthewizod]

What are most of you doing regarding selling? Contact or open markets?

Growing on contract

 

[Jo28]

got some booked for 2020
better to have an average linseed crop than a poor rape crop
early planting and no flea beetle
bg avadex crawler and centurian

we found our poorest osr had a better gross margin than winter linseed

 

[Farmerbarry71]

we found our poorest osr had a better gross margin than winter linseed

What was the problem with your linseed?

 

[Jo28]

I didn't yield. Grown spring twice and did more than 1t/acre. Grew the winter stuff and it did 0.8t/acre. Seed was a huge cost also. It looked good and combined well in July but didn't produce. It was on grade 2 warp with some heavier and some lighter patches on the field.

 

[yellow belly]

we found our poorest osr had a better gross margin than winter linseed

My poorest rape is zero yield with negative margin
Doing the same and expecting a different outcome is a sign of......

 

[yellow belly]

On contract related to rape price

 

[Jo28]

My poorest rape is zero yield with negative margin
Doing the same and expecting a different outcome is a sign of......

I wouldn't call poor zero yield I would call it a lost crop. Anything would obviously be better than that, that's not to say winter linseed if some saviour because for us it wasn't. It wasn't negative margin but it came awfully close and left more blackgrass.