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 ...

FURTHER to references 1,2 already made with regard to the prevention of seed–borne diseases in the flax crop, it may now be stated that the seed disinfectant RD.7846 prepared by Messrs. Imperial ...

A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University, Japan has become the first to successfully purify and identify an attractant for crop-infecting root-knot nematodes from flax seeds. Their ...

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 -- Flax markets are strong. Prices have held their own all winter, even while most crops sagged under the pressure of transportation constraints. Even now $16 per bushel delivered ...

Chia seeds are seeds of the chia plant, which is native to Guatemala and Mexico. Chia seeds are packed with fiber, have a mildly nutty flavor, and expand when soaked. Flax seeds, on the other hand, ...

Crop scientists, molecular and computational biologists from two leading St. Petersburg Universities and Federal Centre for Bast Fiber Crops teamed up to sequence and assemble genome of Fusarium ...

A disparate group met in an Illinois field on a windy spring morning to study a crop some call stinkweed. Botanists, businessmen, farmers and federal lawmakers, they all gathered to peer at the ...

A specialist niche crop company unveiled its spring cropping offers at the CropTec event, including a record spring linseed contract of up to £600/t as well as premium market opportunities for naked ...