Winter Linseed

Winter Linseed

Watch our latest Winter linseed video

- Premium Crop's MD, Andrew Probert discusses contract options for harvest 2021.

(Click HERE to also see our agronomy video for the 2020/21 season)

Winter Linseed is sown in September after Rape and has an early, hassle-free harvest in mid July/early August, well before your Wheat harvest. Harvesting Winter Linseed in long summer days is straightforward.

Winter Linseed is Winter hardy – experience has shown that the crop is at least as robust as  Winter Oats and Beans. 

Modern Winter Linseed varieties have good resistance to lodging, which ensures an easy harvest and helps to maintain yields. Winter Linseed has a yield potential of up to 3.75 tonnes/hectare and properly managed crops should achieve 2.5 – 3.0 tonnes/hectare.

Winter Linseed has a wide range of herbicide options, including Avadex, Centurion-Max, Crawler, Callisto, Eagle, Bromoxynil, Jubilee, plus many others, to control a wide range of grass and broad leaf weeds.

Why Grow Winter linseed?

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With many growers questioning the viability of Rape due to cabbage stem flea beetle, Winter linseed is the ideal alternative to Winter Beans or Oats. Beans and Oats are no longer cheap to grow and do not have the margin potential of Winter linseed. Increases in herbicide cost, as well as less reliability in controlling weeds such as volunteer Rape, Charlock and Grass weeds make these crops more risky.

  • It solves many of the problems associated with excessive over cropping of Rape
  • Reduces build-up of Rape as a weed
  • Allows excellent control of Runch, Charlock and Cranesbill
  • Halts declining Rape yields from club root and virus infections
  • It is not a target for cabbage stem flea beetle as it is not a brassica
  • Presents no slug problems in subsequent Wheat crops
  • Rabbits and Deer do not find Winter Linseed attractive to graze. Some test grazing will take place but no large scale feeding

Rape is widely grown because it is harvested early, allowing early establishment of following Wheat crops with optimum timeliness and soil conditions. Winter linseed also provides these benefits, but without the slug risk associated with Rape.

Winter Linseed

 

Learn more:

  • Linseed naturally contains the highest level of Omega 3 of any seeds
  • Varieties are screened for Omega 3 content
  • Utilising the Omega 3 in Linseed for animal feed is now a huge market in Europe
  • Visit the Bleu-Blanc-Coeur website to discover more about how improving aniimal health can improve human health too.

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