Is flax hard on the land???

[rhoff]

Jagfarms we have had lentils on flax stubble and
it always turned out to be a disaster with
volunteer flax. Even with clearfield lentils we had
way too much flax. You would be better off
seeding pretty much any crop other than lentils
on flax stubble.

[Tom4Wildrose]

rhoff,

I agree ESPECIALLY since they didn't preharvest glyphosate kill the weeds for next year.

Clearfield Lentils are a tease... cause they need really clean land or AFTER Aug 1 they look like a disaster area being overgrown by every weed going.

I thought the Sencor system kept conventional lentils much cleaner becuse we always sprayed them twice... the broadleaf weeds didn't go near as wild.

No competiton... the flax will grow.

Jag... are you SURE your flax has absolutely NO gm event in it?

If it is a CDC variety... READ your last Secan letter.... GET NEW BREEDER SEED this year! Everything else is contaminated we are told.

[Hopperbin]

Not sure what you use for a combine but I had a 2188 IH when I did chop flax. I was straight cutting and used a home made stationary blade set up on the chopper which used swather blades welded on in place of the stationary blades of the time. Probably could improve any combine with these swather blades welded on in place of the stationary knives. IH chopper typically does not chop great. Not sure I agree with needing more dollars per bushel for flax as your seed costs are 10 dollars per acre instead of up to 50 for Canola. I never put phosphate on flax either, it does not respond to phosphate in our area. N should be less than cereal or canola.
Glyphosate does not kill flax in the fall but should be used to kill weeds.

[Jagfarms]

Last year I had FP 2214 flax seeded for seed
production grown from breeder seed for
pedigreed seed production.

They named the Variety this year and it is called
Prairie Sapphire. I had it tested and it vame
back no GM detected.

If I grow flax again it will be for pedigree seed
production grown on Virgin flax Land.

Growing canola on flax stubble I know the
roundup will work for weed control but if any
flax would grow it would be hard to seperate ad
they are close to the same size.
Could this be a problem?

I am going to put some lentils on canola stubble
in 2012. It may not look to good but the canola
will clean out easy with our cleaner.

[Jagfarms]

Last year I had FP 2214 flax seeded for seed
production grown from breeder seed for
pedigreed seed production.

They named the Variety this year and it is called
Prairie Sapphire. I had it tested and it vame
back no GM detected.

If I grow flax again it will be for pedigree seed
production grown on Virgin flax Land.

Growing canola on flax stubble I know the
roundup will work for weed control but if any
flax would grow it would be hard to seperate ad
they are close to the same size.
Could this be a problem?

I am going to put some lentils on canola stubble
in 2012. It may not look to good but the canola
will clean out easy with our cleaner.

[Jagfarms]

Last year I had FP 2214 flax seeded for seed
production grown from breeder seed for
pedigreed seed production.

They named the Variety this year and it is called
Prairie Sapphire. I had it tested and it vame
back no GM detected.

If I grow flax again it will be for pedigree seed
production grown on Virgin flax Land.

Growing canola on flax stubble I know the
roundup will work for weed control but if any
flax would grow it would be hard to seperate ad
they are close to the same size.
Could this be a problem?

I am going to put some lentils on canola stubble
in 2012. It may not look to good but the canola
will clean out easy with our cleaner.

[Jagfarms]

Last year I had FP 2214 flax seeded for seed
production grown from breeder seed for
pedigreed seed production.

They named the Variety this year and it is called
Prairie Sapphire. I had it tested and it vame
back no GM detected.

If I grow flax again it will be for pedigree seed
production grown on Virgin flax Land.

Growing canola on flax stubble I know the
roundup will work for weed control but if any
flax would grow it would be hard to seperate ad
they are close to the same size.
Could this be a problem?

I am going to put some lentils on canola stubble
in 2012. It may not look to good but the canola
will clean out easy with our cleaner.

[Hopperbin]

I mentioned the glypho will not have much affect on the flax in the fall, in the sping it works very well to controle the volunteers.

[Jagfarms]

Hard to type on my samusung galaxy and it is
hard to see. I should proof read before I post.

I am ready to throw this phone away.
I wonder if I phone is much better?