W Linseed Struggling

[Adeptandy]

For those who have experience of the crop, call it quits and replace, or keep it ?
Looking like pigeons have hammered it, a small area in the corner is a lot taller
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[teslacoils]

There's a big block on the cliff near me that looks absolute junk. Not sure if the cost, or the winds given how exposed, or some chem damage. Looked good but now it's looking pants.

 

[Adeptandy]

There's a big block on the cliff near me that looks absolute junk. Not sure if the cost, or the winds given how exposed, or some chem damage. Looked good but now it's looking pants.

This looked good until the pigeons got hungry, they’ve even had it in the volunteer oats

 

[Bob lincs]

A neighbour of ours has a few fields, I keep looking at them thinking they are soon going to start moving but they haven’t changed for weeks . It’s not a pigeon problem they just don’t seem to be growing .

 

[homefarm]

We tried it and pigeons got a taste for it as rape got going in the spring. Kept it grazed till winter barley was ready, if you cannot keep the pigeon off, we tried but failed days are getting longer pigeon eat whenever it is light, I would put s barley in.

 

[Adeptandy]

We tried it and pigeons got a taste for it as rape got going in the spring. Kept it grazed till winter barley was ready, if you cannot keep the pigeon off, we tried but failed days are getting longer pigeon eat whenever it is light, I would put s barley in.

Merlin s oats sitting in the shed if needed

 

[homefarm]

Just to help you make your mind up. Due to the unevenness of the crop after spraying off with roundup some off the stems were still quite green and wrapped in the combine chopper nearly causing a fire.

Smouldering ember dropping on the ground not a crop we will try again.

 

[Adeptandy]

Just to help you make your mind up. Due to the unevenness of the crop after spraying off with roundup some off the stems were still quite green and wrapped in the combine chopper nearly causing a fire.

Smouldering ember dropping on the ground not a crop we will try again.

No unevenness here apart from approx 5m2 they’ve had the lot

 

[Flat 10]

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For those who have experience of the crop, call it quits and replace, or keep it ?
Looking like pigeons have hammered it, a small area in the corner is a lot taller
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what herbs and fert has it had? Ours was good harvest 20, terrible harvest 21. Pigeons were never that bad, it was cold and herb damage that mullered it last year.

 

[Daniel]

On the plus side though, Premium Crops will have had their profit margin out of the seed.

 

[Adeptandy]

On the plus side though, Premium Crops will have had their profit margin out of the seed.

Robin Appel in this case

 

[Adeptandy]

what herbs and fert has it had? Ours was good harvest 20, terrible harvest 21. Pigeons were never that bad, it was cold and herb damage that mullered it last year.

C max for grass weeds, but was already like that before it had that and 250kg/ha of actyva s ( NPK & S )

 

[Flat 10]

I’d leave it if c max did a job on grass weeds and you think that you can easily control blws. ie without using ally. And keep the pigeons off!!

 

[robbie]

On the plus side though, Premium Crops will have had their profit margin out of the seed.

Is the no scope to use fss????

 

[moretimeforgolf]

Pigeons!
No osr close by so the pigeons have resorted to the linseed. I’ve got some areas like the photo above but the majority has got away and is about to flower. Had Callisto pre em, Crawler late November, Ally a month ago. Will try to home save seed if we choose to grow it this autumn .

 

[Daniel]

Robin Appel in this case

I retract my potentially libellous claim!

Is the no scope to use fss????

It grows alright after the combine! Don’t see why not?

It was just too hit and miss for us. Though if the price has tracked rape upwards it might be worth another go?!

 

[Flat 10]

Pigeons!
No osr close by so the pigeons have resorted to the linseed. I’ve got some areas like the photo above but the majority has got away and is about to flower. Had Callisto pre em, Crawler late November, Ally a month ago. Will try to home save seed if we choose to grow it this autumn .

Bromoxil (sp.) is a massive loss. I don’t like Ally on linseed at all. No crawler going forward either. Depressing. Can’t decide if I prefer winter or spring linseed or if I’m an idiot for growing either!!!! It’s definitely harder with fewer chems though. Eagle is more crop safe but has a poor weed spectrum.

 

[Hindsight]

Is the no scope to use fss????

Yes. I go to a farm where 50 hectares sown with seed off the heap. Is next to the A52 if nyone want to see the effect of a few pigeons nagging at Linseed. 50 hectare field with 30 hectares 40 cm tall and looking excellent, and 20 hectares similar to the OP photo. All had same treatments. Just pigeons and proximity to the A52 (pigeon deterrence) the difference. SO as not a bloody mess at harvest has had a Eagle Ally mix for weed control. Decided giving it another kicking (if it does actually give it a kicking?) was better than trying to combine a mayweed mess in July. A few fields locally look similar. Doesn't seem to have much of a go. I witnessed it in the 90s. Come back into fashion. Probably disappear again. I will be dead and gone next time it comes round again.

 

[robbie]

Bromoxil (sp.) is a massive loss. I don’t like Ally on linseed at all. No crawler going forward either. Depressing. Can’t decide if I prefer winter or spring linseed or if I’m an idiot for growing either!!!! It’s definitely harder with fewer chems though. Eagle is more crop safe but has a poor weed spectrum.

Option 3!

 

[7610 super q]

Endless cold winds and frost every night can't be helping........