[AT] Hey Ralph!

[charlie hill]

Flax must hold very well in the field.  Of course you don't have
the humidity we have here but we don't have the winds and snow you have.
It just seems to me like the snow would knock it flat on the ground.
There's no doubt in my mind you know how to handle it.  I'm just curious
about how farming happens in different places.

Good luck with it.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 10:27 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!

On 11/20/2015 8:18 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ralph,  is there any chance that just after the freeze up you can get in
> the field and harvest it before it gets snow covered?  I don't know a 
> thing
> about Flax and don't understand farming up your way at all.  I just know
> that a crop left in the field until spring here better be winter wheat!
> Anything
> else will be on the ground, molded and sprouting.
>
> Good luck with it.
>
> Charlie
It is possible Charlie and certainly no problem driving on the frozen
ground these days . But the thought of starting
combines/tractors/trucks in this 0 degree temperature is not appealing
at all. I've left flax swath out once years ago
and it combines fine in the spring but the deer damage is the biggest
problem. If the grain shows a trace of deer crap
it is rejected. A feed mill bought mine back in 02 but it is not worth
half what good clean flax is.

Ralph in Sask.
>

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