JD S680i settings for Linseed

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
You won't get a good sample when wet

We cut regardless, dry it, then feed through combine in the yard if sample needs improvement
Massive faff though. And makes your cheaply grown crop a lot less cheap! Had a fair bit this year and all cut at sub 9% bank holiday weekend. I think earlier drilling = earlier harvest.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Had another nibble this afternoon in warm sunshine with a nice breeze. 16.5% moisture after last night's rain & still wouldn't go through the fecking combine! Last year I grow this shite. :banghead::banghead::banghead:
 

B'o'B

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Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
Yep it’s looking like a swine of a year for later drilled linseed.
If humidity doesn’t get below 60% then linseed doesn’t thrash very well whatever combine you use.
Every day that the humidity has dropped below 60% for us it has been after a rainy night so our linseed has never been in good condition for harvesting. I may have a go tomorrow but I’m not overly hopeful that it will go that well. Hey ho
 

JD6920s

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Shropshire
Are these harvesting problems just with spring linseed or winter too?
I ask as has a flyer from premium crops the other day, pretty much saying how easy winter linseed was to grow and give an early and easy harvest!
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
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Midlands
Are these harvesting problems just with spring linseed or winter too?
I ask as has a flyer from premium crops the other day, pretty much saying how easy winter linseed was to grow and give an early and easy harvest!

There's a few growers of winter linseed in TFF. Drilling is early September & harvest is late July/early August so finding good weather is less of a problem.

The stuff I'm growing is sold by Premium Crops as early harvesting and "Easy Cut" - Bulls**t! Mine was sown 13th April and was sprayed off 28th August with diquat so you'd think it would be ready by now. As above, I'm going to have to be patient and wait for decent weather. There's none in the forecast and winter is coming. :banghead:
 

JD6920s

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Shropshire
There's a few growers of winter linseed in TFF. Drilling is early September & harvest is late July/early August so finding good weather is less of a problem.

The stuff I'm growing is sold by Premium Crops as early harvesting and "Easy Cut" - Bulls**t! Mine was sown 13th April and was sprayed off 28th August with diquat so you'd think it would be ready by now. As above, I'm going to have to be patient and wait for decent weather. There's none in the forecast and winter is coming. :banghead:

Oh dear, I assume you grow the spring variety to aid blackgrass control.
Would it be too late to sow winter linseed now, and would it be worth a go, never grown it before?
Just looking for another break crop to go into a predominately wheat rape rotation that has 25% overwinter cover crop and spring barley, don't really want another spring crop, especially a late harvest one, we tried s beans the year that the three crop rule came in, got them ok and not too late at 19%, but I don't want to end up late one year making a mess and undoing all the good work we have done with our Claydon over the last 6 years
 

franklin

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Neighbours winter linseed was cut early August. But weed control is nowhere near as good as in the spring no matter what they say. I'd say it needs drilling pretty soon if its going to be a goer - needs to be big enough to take the crawler pre-winter.

Mine was sown 13th April and was sprayed off 28th August with diquat so you'd think it would be ready by now. As above, I'm going to have to be patient and wait for decent weather. There's none in the forecast and winter is coming. :banghead:

Mine is ready. Roundupped and regloned. Dead. But soil like chocolate pudding. Will be ploughed and followed with spring oats as normal.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Oh dear, I assume you grow the spring variety to aid blackgrass control.
Would it be too late to sow winter linseed now, and would it be worth a go, never grown it before?
Just looking for another break crop to go into a predominately wheat rape rotation that has 25% overwinter cover crop and spring barley, don't really want another spring crop, especially a late harvest one, we tried s beans the year that the three crop rule came in, got them ok and not too late at 19%, but I don't want to end up late one year making a mess and undoing all the good work we have done with our Claydon over the last 6 years

I gorw the spring variety because it does have good weed control opportunities (no blackgrass here to speak of but brome, wild oats and plenty of broad leafed weeds). We've also seen lots more red list bird species in there & get several nests of lapwings fledge successfully too. I've had better wheat after spring linseed than after osr. The preceeding crop was turnips so the later sowing suited my grazier.

I'm not convinced spring linseed really suits the Claydon though the twin tine kit might help the row spacing. Beans seem to suit the drill better. I'll post up my gross margins for both spring beans & spring linseed once I've got everything in the shed.

I have no plans to grow winter linseed - higher costs not necessarily offset by a higher yield & all the downsides of a winter crop. Grass weeds, winter kill, lodging risk, harvest clash early season though drilling fits in with the gap between the end of cover crop sowing & wheat. I never say never & the thought of growing winter linseed and harvesting it in early August is not entirely unpleasant as long as I can get it before my spring barley is ripe.

Edit; The best person to ask about winter and spring linseed with a Claydon drill is @Daniel
 
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kingfisher

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Location
East Anglia
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Finally dry enough to make a start, 9% moisture, sample not to bad, but can't go fast enough to keep combine full, 50 acres cut in 5 hours, another 50 to finish tomorrow if we miss the rain we are forecast over night.
 

Case290

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
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easy to cut spring Linseed don’t let any one tell you that. Soon as the real touches it will wrap, but it needs flicking in 50% of the time to feed. Retractable Fingers out the middle part of the auger apart from 2.
 

down n'dirty

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Location
South Wales
Have grown both winter and spring for a number of years now but winter always seems to disappoint yield wise despite standing well generally and being easy to cut. Cut spring last week and has yielded better than the winter at about ton/acre. Have taken auger fingers out in past but didn’t need to do so this year -if it didn’t wrap on the reel,it usually doesn’t wrap on the auger. Sharp knife and sunshine are the two most important ingredients-don’t leave too long after spraying off as stems can ret making them more difficult to cut.
 

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