Winter linseed drilling

[They see me rolling]

We’ve got a bit of moisture now and possibly some more tomorrow.
I felt that if it was a bit larger it would tolerate the planned Crawler application.

This is a good point. I was only thinking of balancing getting a good grass weed chit before drilling and plant height for winter. With you being south, I would have guessed you had enough time if you went 20th to allow for both. This would give you use of a good range of herbicide actives. However, it is obviously your own choice and there are no hard and fast rules.

 

[warksfarmer]

Spring linseed is as bad as you won’t of cut it yet! End of September job and you pray for sunshine.

 

[snarling bee]

There are certain crops I try to avoid. Linseed, Peas, Beans, OSR, Barley and Oats are on the list.

 

[moretimeforgolf]

This is a good point. I was only thinking of balancing getting a good grass weed chit before drilling and plant height for winter. With you being south, I would have guessed you had enough time if you went 20th to allow for both. This would give you use of a good range of herbicide actives. However, it is obviously your own choice and there are no hard and fast rules.

It might end up being the 20th anyway. Let this drop of rain soak in and germinate a few more weeds

 

[Two Tone]

Please can you enlighten us , as if it will not stripper head their is a serious problem with the crop.

I planted Winter Linseed with a Weaving GD end August, this and last year. Easy and very cheap to grow apart from seed. FSS this year.
As for harvesting, no problem with a convention header, despite the fact that some went flat. Vari-feed helps to stop it wrapping on the auger.
DO NOT touch it with the header reel. Use lifters and the stem fibre will hold the stem into the ground so the lifters can pick it up easily.
Ours did between 0.8 and a ton.
Straw was baled and sold to go to a power station.

We don’t use Crawler. Maybe a bit of Fusilade Max in early Autumn. Defo Centurian Max Oct/Nov.
1 fungicide in the Spring and 2 litres of Roundup, just to ease harvesting a bit.
80 - 90Kgs N maximum.

Job’s a good’n.

 

[idle git]

Spring linseed is as bad as you won’t of cut it yet! End of September job and you pray for sunshine.

cut ours last tues/ wed.

lovely hot day ,,,,,,, travelled at 10 kph if you wanted to but i was happier at 8 kph

6% moisture

 

[Pilatus]

I think it was too dead, it just pulled out the ground, it should have been done when slightly green I think, so it was my fault and not the actual crop. We did strip some spring linseed for someone which I think went okay but it did wrap up in the header a few times. Another neighbour has spent 3 days in a 14 hectare field with 2 combines trying to cut spring linseed.

A few years ago I was sent to combine some linseed and it would NOT stripper head at all well.
It made me look an incompetent operator as I had stripper head many ha’s of linseed with no trouble at all.
In the end I put it down to the variety and the crop being laid/flopped over, most unusual for linseed.
That said stripper headers are a very useful item to have if you can afford one. I would have thought if a contractor could get hold of a good s/h one that there would be quite a demand for one as very few about.

 

[average farmer]

cut ours last tues/ wed.

lovely hot day ,,,,,,, travelled at 10 kph if you wanted to but i was happier at 8 kph

6% moisture

Same here, only problem was the yield. I'll be lucky to get any seed left over when a artic load has gone off of 45 acres

 

[Pilatus]

I planted Winter Linseed with a Weaving GD end August, this and last year. Easy and very cheap to grow apart from seed. FSS this year.
As for harvesting, no problem with a convention header, despite the fact that some went flat. Vari-feed helps to stop it wrapping on the auger.
DO NOT touch it with the header reel. Use lifters and the stem fibre will hold the stem into the ground so the lifters can pick it up easily.
Ours did between 0.8 and a ton.
Straw was baled and sold to go to a power station.

We don’t use Crawler. Maybe a bit of Fusilade Max in early Autumn. Defo Centurian Max Oct/Nov.
1 fungicide in the Spring and 2 litres of Roundup, just to ease harvesting a bit.
80 - 90Kgs N maximum.

Job’s a good’n.

The trouble is in farming,one very rarely gets two years the same on the trot as @Flintstone has implied.
If it were that easy one could actually make easy money from farming ,but as we all know it just does not happen
In farming we are all living for next years harvest , wherever you farm on the planet,as it can only be better than this year’s!!! ( We don’t think about it being even worse!!!!!!!!)

 

[Two Tone]

The trouble is in farming,one very rarely gets two years the same on the trot as @Flintstone has implied.
If it were that easy one could actually make easy money from farming ,but as we all know it just does not happen
In farming we are all living for next years harvest , wherever you farm on the planet,as it can only be better than this year’s!!! ( We don’t think about it being even worse!!!!!!!!)

True.
However, current prices are £480/tonne+.
Most this year haven’t had a good year with Linseed, especially in Eastern Europe. So there is a shortage causing these high prices.
Even here in the UK, yields haven’t been average.
By your argument, this might suggest next year should be better.
But I suspect, based on this year, many will drop the crop.

Makes you wonder then, doesn’t it?