Flax crop report – September 21 2018 France (105.300 ha) To date about 95% of the flax was gathered, in good conditions. The remaining areas are situated in Seine-et-Marne. The retting of straws is not optimal because of the lack of water. The straw tonnage is estimated to 6,5MT/hectare in average [...]
Flax Crop report August 31 2018 France To date about 40% of the flax straws were gathered in good conditions. In the region of Eure and in Cambrai area a few hundred hectares flew away because of the late bad weather. It won’t be possible to gather those straws. There was [...]
Flax crop report – SHORT NEWS August 24 2018 The retting of flax is going on in all areas. The straws are being turned and the lightest ones were already gathered, most of the time partly retted. The situation is usual at this time of the year. The crop is expected to [...]
Flax crop report – July 23 2018 France - Belgium - The Netherlands The pulling operations are coming to an end. To date there are no more than 10 to 15% waiting to be pulled out and the operations should be over by the end of the week. Some flax [...]
Flax crop report – July 3 2018 France The latest sown flax are now blossoming. The current strong heat is expected to continue in the coming days. It may affect the plants that haven’t reached maturity yet. Thunderstorms are forecast in Calvados, Seine Maritime and Somme. If they come [...]
Flax Crop report June 15 2018 France There were no major damages due to the last storms. Heavy rains and hail occurred but they were local. A few fields laid down and some of them were hit by hail, in particular in Ile-de-France (Montreuil area). The crop is going on rather well, [...]
Flax Crop Report – June 1st 2018 France – Belgium – the Netherlands The heavy rains that occurred in the last few days benefited the flax plants. There was from 20 to 60 mm of water according to the areas. There are big discrepancies from a field to another or from an [...]
Flax crop report – April 23 2018 France Normandie & Seine-Maritime : there was heavy rainfall in these areas. The farmers started to do the sowings 8 days ago and they are almost finished (90%). Aisne : thanks to better weather conditions the sowings started earlier and the flax has started to come [...]
Flax Crop Report – March 30 2018 France – Belgium – the Netherlands Usually at the end of March many fields are already sown in France, mainly in the southern flax producing areas (Eure and Calvados). For the North of France, Belgium and the Netherlands the sowings are not as late [...]
Flax Crop Report – October 4 2016 France – Belgium – the Netherlands The gathering of flax is over since September 28 in the three countries. The retting of the last gathered straws is quite good compared to the others. Their color is more uniform, except for those of Southern Eure [...]
