Winter linseed

[whindy]

I am considering growing 30 ac of winter linseed. Had or dose any one grow it? Will it live up to the merchant's hipe. Planning drilling on a black grass field.

 

[Brisel]

Why grow an uncompetitive crop on blackgrass land??????????????????

@Daniel

 

[Daniel]

It's ok, it wont live up to the merchants hype but I'd be surprised if any of their crops do, but it will leave you with some lovely soil to establish a wheat crop into as the root system is fantastic. Early to combine, we'll be dessicating ours next week.

Black grass I'm not sure, we don't have too much of it, but it's a fairly open crop and is established in early September so it has all the time in the world to try and get round whatever chemicals you can apply.

 

[tw15]

I am considering growing 30 ac of winter linseed. Had or dose any one grow it? Will it live up to the merchant's hipe. Planning drilling on a black grass field.

You might be better just not cropping and going for multiple flushes of blackgrass. Getting a good reduction on blackgrass might just be as beneficial in monetary terms long term as what the linseed will make .

 

[whindy]

Why grow an uncompetitive crop on blackgrass land??????????????????

@Daniel

That was a thought I had but would it be easy to kill with graminiside?

 

[Brisel]

The same graminicides you have in other broad leafed crops... Centurion Max etc though you can use Crawler but it knocks the crop back. Why not go for spring linseed and clean the ground up in the autumn? The yield difference isn't that great anyway.

 

[whindy]

You might be better just not cropping and going for multiple flushes of blackgrass. Getting a good reduction on blackgrass might just be as beneficial in monetary terms long term as what the linseed will make .

The field in question I have had a good kill and rouged the rest out , well all I could see any way ,
Was looking at. Options. May put 6 row in or spring barley.

 

[Jo28]

We grew 30 acres for the first time last year. We rogue all our fields every year apart from osr so would like to think we are reasonably clean. However I had to spray off patches with glyphosate last year so would not recommend it at all for bg control. Also we dropped it as it was by far our poorest gross margin. Yielded no more than spring linseed in fact less for us but cost more to grow. It was however easy to combine at the end of July. The cost if seed really kills the job.