Linseed

[nick...]

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...

 

[Neddy flanders]

really really appealing right up until the moment it touches the combine knife.

 

[Jerry]

really really appealing right up until the moment it touches the combine knife.

think @Daniel grew it this year

 

[Shutesy]

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...

If it was that easy to grow with very few downfalls people would be growing it all over the country...

 

[Daniel]

It cut fine, it yielded about 500kgs/ac.....

Was a bit over a tonne/ac last year.

 

[Jo28]

We thought it might be okay so had a go, grew it just once. Yielded less than spring linseed with blackgrass issues and we don't have a huge blackgrass issue. Biggest problem apart from the yield was cost of the seed. Didn't do too much better than break even in the end. If they could get it to yield half a tonne an acre more and reduced the price of seed it might be worth a go.

 

[Flat 10]

There’s loads of threads on it with every angle covered.

 

[Daniel]

There’s loads of threads on it with every angle covered.

How did yours do?

 

[Flat 10]

How did yours do?

34.5t off 40acres over weighbridge.

 

[Clive]

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 ?

 

[Daniel]

34.5t off 40acres over weighbridge.

Pretty good for the year, well done!

 

[teslacoils]

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 ?

The big perk is the harvest date.

 

[Flat 10]

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 beetle

 

[Clive]

Flax flea beetle

never had an issuer with them here


early harvest date sounds nice though !

 

[Flintstone]

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.

 

[Daniel]

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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Did you get rain at flowering? Ours looked ok but just didn't yield.

 

[Daniel]

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 ?

The spring linseed grown near here was a write-off, pigeons and lack of moisture.

 

[Flat 10]

never had an issuer with them here


early harvest date sounds nice though !

Grew quite a bit of spring linseed and ended up losing crops to it

 

[Flintstone]

@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.

 

[JD6920s]

@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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What’s the line in the two top left fields then?