Jim in Sask - 1/5/2026 16:49
Ndfarmer26 - 1/5/2026 14:41
Jim in Sask - 1/4/2026 15:06
Normal practice around here a few years back was to drop the straw in rows behind the combine, then push it into piles and burn. There are flax bunchers being made but I just used an old pull-type swather with the reel removed, some plywood to cover the swath opening and push up the straw until full, back up and the pile drops off. Some guys use their front end loader or dozer blade. The straw burns like gas.
Flax straw will wrap like crazy, it needs to be good and dry or it'll wrap the header auger, and any beater like the rock trap beater on an IH or the feeder house beaters like a Massey 760 combine.
A common comment around here is, "Friends don't let
friends grow flax." :-)
Hmmm. Unfortunately I don’t have a swather or a head for one. I’m wondering if a buncher is my best option.
Bunchers are the best way to pile flax straw. They're quite simple and every so often one will show up on farm auctions. Probably most common in southern Saskatchewan, it would tow behind a half ton easily.
Hmm. Well I’ll keep an eye out for one! I did hear that stripper headers do work if a guy would want to seed right into the ground the next year without doing anything. Have you heard of anyone trying that? I wouldn’t wanna buy one. Maybe rent or lease one from a dealer if anything. Thank you really appreciate it!
Flax pre/post emerge herbicides and residue management
