Spring linseed advice please.
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Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
It likes a good pH 
I doubt it’s moved on a great deal in 10years. It can do well occasionally, but seemed to get more of a miss than a hit for us.
ollie989898
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Grow it cheap. Direct drill, sort the weeds and hope its a good summer for it. Same with beans, always found they were so variable you needed to keep them cheap or became a fools errand.
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- Lincolnshire
Drill more than they say. Wait until warm. Fert in seedbed. Keep it cheap. Spray off with roundup. Burn the straw.
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- S E Glos
Glyphosate works a bit slow on it so probably needs to be applied pre-emergence or sooner 
I think early post-em is probably the optimal timing for glyphosate on linseed, timed right it can save no end of hassle later in the season!Glyphosate works a bit slow on it so probably needs to be applied pre-emergence or sooner
It likes a good pH
pH 8+ is not good! That's not from enthusiastic lime sales either.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
8+?? When did David say that?!
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- East meath/dublin
Linseed ??? Only thing i would want to know is how much sub are the paying ???
Brings me back to the glory days of the early ninties when it was money for nothing Other than that i wouldnt really be bothered . A very hit or miss crop which in the absence of fss usually only makes money for one party and it wont be the grower .
Brings me back to the glory days of the early ninties when it was money for nothing
Other than that i wouldnt really be bothered . A very hit or miss crop which in the absence of fss usually only makes money for one party and it wont be the grower .
Fish
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- North yorkshire
Spring Linseed 
,don't go there, bad idea, disaster waiting to happen, on a long list of poor choices it comes right at the very bottom.
Leave it to the professionals
As said ^, dd drill, grow it cheap (that goes for every break crop including osr), spray off, chop straw, dd wheat, bish, bash, bosh, what could be easier ?
,don't go there, bad idea, disaster waiting to happen, on a long list of poor choices it comes right at the very bottom.Leave it to the professionals
As said ^, dd drill, grow it cheap (that goes for every break crop including osr), spray off, chop straw, dd wheat, bish, bash, bosh, what could be easier ?
Days of thunder
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Work out your margin of what you hope for then invest that on the futures market at a price you think is low and then sell when you think it has reached the price you want. Less of a gamble than growing it. Or alternatively decide how much you are going to spend on growing it put that money on red or black at casino 50/50 odds probably less risk. Good luck.
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- Lincolnshire
Alternatively plant one half of the field and give me the money you would spend on the other half of the field. In October, I'll give you the money back less 5% handling fee. Then post here which was the better deal.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Blimey David, they’re not very inspiring are they!!?
Don’t take any of their advice.........
....none of their ideas sound hopeful for lime sales!!
Don’t take any of their advice.........
....none of their ideas sound hopeful for lime sales!!
There are growers with better experiences of linseed. As above, high seed rates into a warm fine seedbed. 30 kg N on the seedbed and another 50-70 kg at green bud. Avoid yellow varieties as they are hard to thresh and late to harvest. Avoid metsulfuron herbicides as they cost you yield and stunt the crop. Have plenty of combining capacity for when it is ready. You can cut it green - a hot dry windy day in September is more important than a fully dead plant. @Daniel has grown good crops.
Some of it may be on the sandy stuff you did last autumn.
That's more like the practical stuff I was hoping for, thanks Brisel.
I'm sure I have read on here that when the pods rattle well it will go, green or not?
Trouble is I still remember the 30yr old horror stories about combining it once, then again to thrash the straw a fortnight (or three months) later..
In a word, yes, that's when it's fit to cut. There's a good (if dated) grower's guide by Premium Crops that is worth reading.
I won't deny that broad leafed weed control is harder now, without bromoxynil (expires September 2021). Amidosulfuron, clopyralid, bentazone post em. Callisto pre em but you usually have to follow it up.
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