Insights and Stories on Flax

Yields vary, harvests near complete

Oct. 2, 2023 at 12:05 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty Glacier FarmMedia staff As harvesting operations in the Prairies neared their close, many organic growers in the eastern part of the region were satisfied with crop conditions and yields while prospects were more uncertain in the west. Ken Richmond, a farmer from St. Andrews, Man. and procurement […]

Organic price quotes: Late September

Oct. 2, 2023 at 12:00 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

Scoular boosts flax processing capacity near Regina

Sep. 28, 2023 at 11:01 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Flax production lowest since 1967, StatCan predicts

Sep. 15, 2023 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Organic price quotes: Late August

Sep. 5, 2023 at 4:54 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

Organic price quotes: Late July

Jul. 31, 2023 at 4:20 pm CDT

RELATED: Weather, rising conventional prices affecting organics

By OrganicBiz

Weather, rising conventional prices affecting organics

Jul. 31, 2023 at 4:20 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty Glacier FarmMedia staff Varied amounts of rainfall across the Prairies and the rising prices of conventional crops during the month of July were detrimental to organic markets in the region. After a spring which had decent moisture and little weed pressure, Kelly Cornelius, a grain procurement specialist […]

By OrganicBiz

Flax production to drop with fewer acres, dry conditions

Jul. 18, 2023 at 6:03 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As with other crops on the Canadian Prairies, flax has been struggling with the hot and dry conditions across the region. That said, Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada at Yorkton, Sask. noted there’s very little doubt when it comes to flax prices increasing during the course of […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Organic price quotes: Late June

Jun. 29, 2023 at 3:34 pm CDT

Related: Organic pricing limited as trade waits on new crop

By OrganicBiz

Latest StatCan stocks report ‘least important of them all’

May. 9, 2023 at 7:45 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — For MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville, there was little in the latest Statistics Canada (StatCan) grain stocks report that would budge the markets. “When I look at the run of StatCan reports that we get through the year, whether they’re acreage, production or ending stocks, this report in […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm