Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | Flax is one of our best cash crops in central ND. I used to hate working with it when we cut the straw. Takes a good sharp knife system to cut flax straw either swathing or direct cutting. If the straw or combine parts are slightly damp, it wraps on every rotating part. swaths blow away easily in wind.
Unless you have a very new combine with a fine cut chopper, the flax straw comes out of the combine like wadded up bale string. needs to be baled or burned to get it out of the way of next seasons crop.
All the problems ended when we got a stripper header to strip flax. No straw goes through the combine so there is nothing to wrap on parts, or to be disposed of after harvest. The tall standing straw holds snow for more moisture in our dry country and JD 750 drills seed through standing flax straw no problem. usually yields 20-30 BPA in our area.
Edited by Jon Hagen 9/5/2009 00:44
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