Farmers are netting $14.50 freight on board pretty much everywhere with $15 per bushel available delivered Winkler, Manitoba. One caveat -- quality matters. Flax is generally a forgiving seed, but ...

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol.

Flax that didn't have a hope of entering the food market a year ago is being accepted this year. Really low-quality flax is moving into birdfood markets. Yellow flax demand, if anything, is easing off ...