Linseed straw

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
What about the power stations? Will it have a higher calorific value?

To be fair, I've never seen anything other than cereal straw going into Brigg.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Pushed up into a heap and burnt many years ago when I worked in Oxfordshire.

Takes some starting but you'd struggle to stop it!

I wouldn't chop it as have seen and heard of horror stories of it wrapping.
 

britt

Member
BASE UK Member
It's good bedding for sheep, they eat a lot of it. It needs to be alternated with cereal straw though otherwise it takes so getting out if it gets to any depth.
It's good for straw burners too if you know anyone local with one.
Some combines chop it ok if the blades are sharp, others don't want to know.
Neighbor burnt his in the row last year, but very smoky compared to heaping it.
 

Northdowns Martin

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Arable Farmer
Location
Snodland kent
Chopping nicely what I’m harvesting at present. Only area of concern was some that had gone past it’s best and stems had started to ret. lots of fluffy fibres floating about which get sucked into engine air filter.
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Power stations don’t take it normally, bungs up the shredders into the firebox, and burns too hot, messes up the emissions.

Most people here chop it if they can, or bale it and use it for beet clamps as takes years to rot.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
12 hours notice for 500 acres of straw?

Would you want it shifted within the same time frame?


Happy to chop it, was just on the off chance

and I could get it baled and off the field within 24hrs yes, no problem if there was a buyer
 
It would be fine to go in as a first layer for stock, not the most pleasant or absorbent material in the world but some years even regular straw is a bit like that.

Makes good game cover/shelter if placed right. Keep it a year and then torch the bales. Could probably be used to make temporary calf accomodation.
 

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