Tag Archives: flax

Flax straw used to be viewed as an unwanted waste product by producers with seemingly only two possible outcomes-burn it or let it sit in the field. One company is seeing not only dollar signs in ever...

Saskatchewan-based company Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) was recently approved by the provincial government for a new investor tax credit through the Saskatchewan Technology Startup Incentive Program (ST...

As Saskatchewan flax acres have declined in recent years, this has had a negative impact on revenue for the flax commission. SaskFlax Board Chair Gregory Sundquist said the loss of revenue and the dep...

Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan have used the Canadian Light Source to study a common agriculture byproduct to treat wastewater contaminated by antibiotics and other pharmaceutical che...

Regina-based Prairie Clean Energy has completed a successful trade mission to Japan. Prairie Clean Energy is developing a waste flax straw pelleting plant. CEO Mark Cooper says the flax straw pellets ...

Prairie Clean Energy has announced go-ahead for a million dollar flax processing plant for Regina. CEO Mark Cooper says the company will be open for business this fall, buying waste flax straw and tur...

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has opened a huge opportunity for Canadian biomass production. Mark Cooper is CEO of Prairie Clean Energy in Regina. He has just returned from the ARGUS world biomass ...

  A new flax processing plant has opened east of Regina at a cost approaching 10 million dollars. Scoular Canada vice president of processing, Jeff Vipond says the new flax facility is adjacent t...

Coronach-Bengough RCMP are investigating the destruction of about 100 flax bales by fire. Police say the bales were stacked in a field just north of Kayville on the east side of highway 334. The bales...

The Canadian Grain Commission is asking farmers who harvested canola and flax this spring to send a sample for research. Over 2-million acres of crop were left overwinter in Saskatchewan and farmers h...