Premium Crops will launch a new winter linseed contract at Cereals with values over £500/t. According to seeds and marketing director Nigel Padbury, with typical yields at 2.5–3.5t/ha and a price of £550/t it puts it well within range of an average rapeseed crop on a gross return basis, and ahead of input savings such as nitrogen. “We’re basing contracts on paying £500/t, but that’s the minimum,” says Nigel. “It could be another 10% above that. And unlike drilling a wheat crop and hoping the price is okay at harvest, a contract gives you certainty from the start, not an…