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 ...

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, ...

PASCO, Wash. — The waves of flowers in Kevin Heinen’s Appar blue flax field today are not the same that were there yesterday. They won’t be the same tomorrow, either. “It’s what we call an ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Today, only about 7,000 acres in South Dakota are planted with flax seed. This is a large change from the mid-1980s when South Dakota produced close to 100,000 acres of flax and was ...

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 ...