Flax on canola ground

[checking]

Put a thousand acres of flax on 200 acres each of various stubbles including canola, peas, winter wheat, barley, and oats this spring.

Best yield on canola, followed by peas, then oats, winter wheat, and the tail dragger barley.

[tweety]

Flax is best after canola.

You heard it here first!

[TOM4CWB]

My Wheat Stubble seeded to flax... has more problems with greenery now... than the Canola stubble seeded to flax.

The seed bed is blacker with less trash... flax came up better in zero till this year... on Canola stubble than on wheat stubble.

Have not harvested the flax yet.Just getting mature now... a week away perhaps.

[Guest]

well , there is no doubt , canola stubble hurts flax , ours did struggle until about July , then took off . it is painful to watch . two years in a rows. the only reason we did it is because we are trying to get some quarters into half sections

[tweety]

And that is completely understandable.

Would have been neat to have taken tissue samples and measure the P, Cu, and Zinc uptake comparatively

[Guest]

yea would have been a good job for flax council ! wonder where those check off $ go? better not be funding that RR flax bullshit !
tweety you have obviously spent a lot of time on rotations , in your opinion what is best stubble to seed flax on ?

[tweety]

Well i agree with all the many years of that rotational work Guy Lafonde did with flax after the rotation study. Also with the MSC masters thesis work of Ms Williams, flkax council, every oilseed specialist and many others who agree that barley/peas/legume first. Then wheat, then oats, then and only if you have to as the mycorrhizal fungi are toast, canola, and by far the absolute worst is flax on flax.

The only trick with peas/faba etc is if you use odyssey, then flax is out.

Others may disagree, but if you do, could you post your research.

[biglentil]

my best this year was on canola stubble

[tweety]

That's awesome.

[Guest]

any idea what it would be like behind canary ?

[farmaholic]

Wouldn't the possibility of volunteer canary in the flax pose problems? Inseparable?

[farming101]

That would be a tough separation for anything but a color sorter.