Linseed

[Flintstone]

In fairness to Jeff, he might have offered to buy me a beer or two since he saw the article, but that was only after he’d seen it for the first time. Claydon had zero input to the article.

I do genuinely find it to be an excellent piece of kit. Without it, I’d need to employ people, and that’s certainly not what I want to be doing on only 1,000 acres.

 

[Daniel]

It's a very versatile drill, we often use ours after beet or potato harvesters as well as direct into stubble.

Have you thought about going to the twin disc and tine kit for even lower disturbance?

 

[ollie989898]

In fairness to Jeff, he might have offered to buy me a beer or two since he saw the article, but that was only after he’d seen it for the first time. Claydon had zero input to the article.

I do genuinely find it to be an excellent piece of kit. Without it, I’d need to employ people, and that’s certainly not what I want to be doing on only 1,000 acres.

Very similar sentiment to a farmer I had a conversation with. He had gone the claydon way and had very much adopted the mindset that if the autumn came in too wet to make it work, he would leave it well alone and sow spring crops instead. Only him and one full time guy I think on his acreage, but having the flexibility in the system meant he could go contracting with his drill and offer other farms a service that helped them begin to adopt the system. I had a client who used his drilling service a lot. He also owned a trailed cultivator of sorts but it was not used much and was long since paid for so he'd kept it. Last time I spoke to him he was evaluating other drills and a wider claydon with the intention of taking on a sizeable chunk of contract land as well so they had found the system was paying off in a multitude of ways.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

ours is looking like crop of the year here this time

Have you cut any yet @Clive ??

 

[Clive]

Have you cut any yet @Clive ??

no - 10 days away yet

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

no - 10 days away yet

What’s your target moisture when cutting the crop?

 

[Rust]

Need it closer to 9% before we get going. Just shoved Gertie in for a trial.

 

[Manny]

Has anyone cut any yet? Hows it yielding? I'm hoping to get into mine later today if I can find time to drive the combine.

 

[Manny]

Does linseed weigh similar to rape by volume? I'm trying to work out how well this is yielding

 

[Timbo1080]

Does linseed weigh similar to rape by volume? I'm trying to work out how well this is yieldingView attachment 907664

Ours has a spec weight of between 65-75kg/hl. If that’s any help. Can’t remember what Rape Spec Weight is. That looks like a lovely crop.

 

[D14]

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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Off topic question but if you were to use that store for drying does the heat/air find the easiest route and blow out where there’s no crop? Rather than blowing into the crop where the flow would be restricted. And I’m referring to ‘any’ type of crop not linseed.

 

[Manny]

Ours has a spec weight of between 65-75kg/hl. If that’s any help. Can’t remember what Rape Spec Weight is. That looks like a lovely crop.

It cut better than anything else i have had to cut this year, that's the first 16ac cut out of 45ac. If it weighs like rape it pushing 1.25t/ac at 7.8% moisture. It felt pretty heavy as the t7.235 new the trailer that holds 14t of rape was on the back coming back up the bank to the point of needing 4wd. It got fun towards the end of day light with the sun set and dust

 

[teslacoils]

Looks a good thick crop.

Question is.....

.....are you baling the straw?

 

[Manny]

Yes the straw will be baled as i have a couple of buyers for it.

 

[Manny]

Another field done

Very green low down underneath show that its had no roundup. Yielding well.

 

[Flintstone]

Manny

don’t big it up too much. We don’t want others to realise that it’s totally different to spring linseed!!

 

[Flintstone]

Off topic question but if you were to use that store for drying does the heat/air find the easiest route and blow out where there’s no crop? Rather than blowing into the crop where the flow would be restricted. And I’m referring to ‘any’ type of crop not linseed.

good question.
Yes, the air does take the easiest route, and if I’m drying, I make sure it’s evenly spread. However, the linseed came in at 8% moisture, so I kind of just whacked it in there and loaded it out the next week.

 

[Manny]

Manny

don’t big it up too much. We don’t want others to realise that it’s totally different to spring linseed!!

This is spring linseed!

 

[Manny]

well I've shown the good bits now the bad and ugly at the same time. last field to cut, all 9ac on a steep bank that 2 weeks ago was far to wet to spray off on narrow wheels. Pictures don't do the bank justice but steep enough to block the straw hood on the way down the third time. It's got some muck weed in it but otherwise still yielding well. Just a shame the sun vanished about an hour to soon.

First picture looking down hill just before the walkers blocked, and the second looking back up from the wet bottom. The storms we had two or three weeks ago have knocked a lot of seed heads off and a lot of the green under all the pictures I have posted is linseed about 4 inches tall. God knows what it would of yielded if it had all been left to cut. Just 4ac left until harvest is done for another year.

 

[matthewizod]

Still got linseed to cut, is there much of market for the straw?