“Linseed offers a combination of low input costs and strong market opportunities. With pressure on profit margins, tighter rotations and a growing focus on improving soil health, spring linseed ...

The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to provide more linen clothing as an alternative to fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers. This story is part of the ...

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 ...

Cleveland was once a garment industry leader, trailing only New York as a preeminent center for clothing production. The Great Depression helped scuttle the local marketplace, beginning a decline that ...

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 ...

Jan Topp's farm has the blues, and she couldn't be happier. Topp is growing about 1,000 acres of flax on her eastern North Dakota farm this year. That's five times the amount of blue-colored flax ...