Flax in crop rotations

[bucket]

And then people wonder why they end up with contaminated seed or you hear of stories like thecanola L150.

Seed growers that can find recommended farming practices on the internet and still want to farm with not recommended practices.

Jag - you must be one of those that throw in a little dockage because you are allowed to.

They best cleaner you have on a farm is a sprayer. If you can't clean the field with the sprayer you have increased your costs.

[Jagfarms]

We are short on Cereal stubble this year. We
had mostlty lentils seeded.

I am not sure why the seed grower grew flax on
Canola stubble.

Last year we had some RR Canola seeded on a
half section that rent and it is full of wild oats.
That is the reason we seeded it there to try to
clean up the wild oats.
I have had canary seed on this half before and it
can not compete against the wild oats as there
are not many options for wild oats in Canary.
we have been going with buctral m and 1/2 rate
pursuit but would not want to do that 2 or 3
times.

what ever i seed on this half section i have to be
able to go in and spray in crop 2 to 3 times for
wild oats. I thought it may be easier to control
wild oats in flax.

I have had good luck with Lentils and Canola on
this 1/2 as it is easy to see and control the
second and 3rd flushes of wild oats.


Has any one had any luck seeding flax on lentil
or pea stubble where pursuit was used?

We have been following our lentils with Canary
seed, Durum and Canola and been having good
luck with all 3.

[mustardman]

Sask Flax council recommends Not growing on Canola stb because of toxicity from canola.
Flax will pull more nutrients per bushel out of ground than Canola.

I was wondering about the lentil-pursuit hangover as well.
What variety of flax, Bethune or ?

[riders2010]

Why slam someone for asking a question? In our area some have seeded flax after canola, and have had 30 bushel crops, they have also had 15 bushel crops but as usual the weather is the biggest factor above all those listed above.
It will depend on your soil, if you have lots of available phos then the canola issue is not so much.

Some of the old timers used to seed flax on land that was a bit hard pan so to speak and they claimed it mellowed the soil for years after. As far as weeds when we seeded it we used flaxmax and had an excellent clean field.

Guys that seeded it this year claim it is running 30 where not flooded and 0 to 15 where it was flooded and some of that is on canola previous. They are looking for something to do with the straw as in bales etc. Do the feedlots use that straw I wonder? or to heat homes etc?

With the cost of seeding canola and the risk involved I am thinking of seeding some next year, would need an early variety the bethune is a good grower but seems to take for ever on a colder fall to mature, any other good varieties earlier?

[HappyFarmer]

Have a guys in our area that spays 1/2 rate pursuit on his flax every year and has been doing so for 12 year.
Wouldn't worry about pursuit residual after peas.

[riders2010]

Jag, did you say pursuit on canary mixed with buctril? Never heard of that before. I talked to a guy earlier in the year that claimed there is a new wild oat spray for canary but memory is too short to think of what the name was.
Pursuit on flax? never heard of that either. Wow I must be really livin in the boonies. lol So do guys seed flax on pea stubble sprayed with full rate of pursuit?

[Jagfarms]

Riders 2010
I had a brain fart i ment to say buctral m with a
1/2 rate puma.

[riders2010]

Some guys do puma here too, but have had mixed results. Some times with the wrong conditions it burns the canary and little heads result but then again so does avenge sometimes. Avadex seems to be the thing many are using but requires more time operations etc.

[HappyFarmer]

Not a lot of peas in our area so i can't comment on it, but as long as you have good organic matter and a decent amount of rain and heat throughout the summer, i wouldn't be worried about pursuit not braking down in the soil.

By the way pursuit is NOT registered on flax. My neighbor who has been doing it for years said that he saw them try it @ the crop diagnostics center in Carman one year, said it looked like it worked good and ever since he as been doing it and it works well.

[wd9]

And Europe worries about GMO
"contamination" LOL!