Park River, N.D., farmer Mark Hylden has been growing flax for nearly 40 years. He's strongly committed to the crop, which three generations of his family have raised. It's unclear if other flax ...

Flax - one of the world's oldest and most versatile crops - has a new role: Providing potential health benefits to the people who eat it. "It's really a remarkable plant," said Kelley Fitzpatrick, ...

Researchers with North Dakota State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are working to see if a particular variety of Lewis flax has the potential to be a useful crop. The perennial flax ...

Photos courtesy of Reimers Seed Co., Carrington, N.D. Linseed oil is an important ingredient in oil-based paint. But oil-based paint, once common, now is far less popular than latex-based paint, said ...

On a smattering of farms across the United States, but especially in the rainy stretches of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes region, an increasing share of land is being devoted to flax. The ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Flax prices, like those for every other prairie crop, have already come down hard. Prices had been about $15 per bushel a year ago. Supplies were tight and demand was firm. The ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Canadian exporters will try to cleanse their flax shipments of genetically modified organisms by requiring farmers to use certified seed, in an effort to reopen ...

POLOTSK, 8 November (BelTA) – It is necessary to double the export and sales of flax goods over a five-year period. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement as he delivered a speech ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada has not shipped any of its new flax crop to its top market, the European Union, because of concerns about genetically modified (GMO) material, the Flax Council of ...