W Linseed Struggling

[moretimeforgolf]

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.

Herbicide hasn’t harmed the crop particularly. I’ve got enough Crawler in stock for 30ha next year if choose to grow it. The following year is another matter! I can’t get on with spring linseed so not sure where to go next … grass ley anyone??

 

[They see me rolling]

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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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I would keep it, the small bright green tillers at the base are new growth recovering from grazing. You just need rain to let it get hold of the fertiliser and it will get going and be really militant with the pigeons to shift them on.

 

[They see me rolling]

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.

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.

I'm afraid the rules have tightened on EAMUs and have not improved since Brexit. If anything they are worse. The problem is no cereal herbicides can be approved on a crop classed as an oilseed e.g. linseed. Only an EAMU can be approved for linseed if the on-label is approved on another oilseed crop e.g. OSR. The likes of Chekker can never be got back on EAMU with the new rules and Belkar (arylex) destroys linseed. This is why the chemistry is so limited.

 

[Two Tone]

FSS works well with Winter Linseed.
I’ve had a hell of a job trying to stop mine from growing too fast!
We had to put Teb on to slow it down and stop it flowering in March.

I’d not be too worried about @Adeptandy ’s Linseed in his picture. It will catch up and is worth sticking with.
I had a lot worse last year and although yield wasn’t as good as the rest, it did come back.

If you can FSS, it is a relatively cheap crop to grow, especially compared to OSR and without the CSFB problems.
Seems to like being DD’d in late August.

 

[They see me rolling]

FSS works well with Winter Linseed.
I’ve had a hell of a job trying to stop mine from growing too fast!
We had to put Teb on to slow it down and stop it flowering in March.

I’d not be too worried about @Adeptandy ’s Linseed in his picture. It will catch up and is worth sticking with.
I had a lot worse last year and although yield wasn’t as good as the rest, it did come back.

If you can FSS, it is a relatively cheap crop to grow, especially compared to OSR and without the CSFB problems.
Seems to like being DD’d in late August.

I would have said you were struggling to control it personally because it is drilled too early. I think early-mid September would be easier to control, but obviously that is just my opinion and it is your farm at the end of the day.

 

[teslacoils]

The sad looking stuff near me has bulked out a little. The worst looks to be pigeon damage.

 

[ollie989898]

Such a shame, used to see good fields of spring linseed in my old neck of the woods, direct drilled. Used to grow ok. Anything to avoid spring OSR.

 

[ajd132]

We set fire to our combine 9 times in the space of 100m trying to cut winter linseed last year. A neighbour with a straw Walker did it in the end.

 

[Two Tone]

I would have said you were struggling to control it personally because it is drilled too early. I think early-mid September would be easier to control, but obviously that is just my opinion and it is your farm at the end of the day.

You could be right. The reason why I go as early as the end of August is because the adage of drilling 2 weeks earlier in the Autumn if Direct drilling.

IMO, the reason why it has been so forward is I drilled at a high seed-rate and it was a relatively nice Winter as regards growing conditions.