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Ok,who has grown it,winter linseed that is.whats it like,easy to grow etc,any or many downfalls.got a flier come in this months arable farming.woukd be a decent break crop.
Nick...
Nick...
really really appealing right up until the moment it touches the combine knife.
If it was that easy to grow with very few downfalls people would be growing it all over the country...Ok, who has grown it,winter linseed that is.whats it like,easy to grow etc,any or many downfalls. got a flier come in this months arable farming. would be a decent break crop.
Nick...
There’s loads of threads on it with every angle covered.
34.5t off 40acres over weighbridge.How did yours do?
34.5t off 40acres over weighbridge.
why grow winter when spring yields the same or more, costa less to grow and gives a spring crop / grass weed opportunity in the rotation ?
Flax flea beetlewhy grow winter when spring yields the same or more, costa less to grow and gives a spring crop / grass weed opportunity in the rotation ?
Flax flea beetle
I grew 135 acres this year.
Easiest crop to grow and harvest, despite people thinking it’s like spring linseed. Totally different.
CSFB don’t eat it.
Drilled early September.
Harvested mid July.
Much cheaper to grow than OSR.
Pigeons didn’t touch mine, nor did slugs.
Really easy to cut.
Yielded .97 tonnes per acre.
Gross margin equivalent for OSR would have needed a rape yield of 1.59 tonnes, and I just can’t grow rape that yields like that any more.
I had 200 acres of linseed seed delivered today for drilling in four weeks time.
Harvested at 7.9% moisture.
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why grow winter when spring yields the same or more, costa less to grow and gives a spring crop / grass weed opportunity in the rotation ?
Grew quite a bit of spring linseed and ended up losing crops to itnever had an issuer with them here
early harvest date sounds nice though !
What’s the line in the two top left fields then?@Daniel - not much, no. But I did get some frosts in early May that messed up some of the flowering. Thankfully it flowers in phases, so it was a proportional loss, not a complete disaster. My estimate is that those frosts hit it by about 10% yield though.
This was early flowering. Interesting how much autumn Centurion Max hit the right hand side of the field with the airstrip in it. You can see the delayed crop to a line.
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