Flax yields were good this year, prompted by abundant moisture and a cooler temperatures, a state official said. Sheri L. Coleman, executive director of Ameriflax in Bismarck, said there has been a ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Michael Deyholos began as a “basic researcher” working with fruit flies. But he wanted “to get into something more useful.” He found it in flax: one of the world’s oldest, most ...

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 is a globally important crop valued for its fiber, industrial uses, and omega-3-rich oil, yet incomplete genomic information has long limited efforts to understand and improve its key traits.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This spring, Erica Runkles spread a new seed in her kitchen garden and lined the crop with a border of shells collected by her late mother. The seeds sprouted, growing tall with light blue flowers, ...

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 ...