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 departure of executive director Wayne Thompson had forced them to make some tough decisions. Sundquist says SaskFlax had already announced it has […]
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 chemicals. The study found flax shives that have been treated with heat and steam adsorb the medication carbamazepine from wastewater. Flax shives are the material left after fibre […]
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 will sell as a biomass fuel for power generation. He says Japan is a key market and he met with several major trading companies. […]
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 turning it into biomass pellets. Cooper says the facility will produce 60 thousand tons of pellets per year. The pellets will be […]
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 conference in England. He was an exhibitor. Prairie Clean energy is three years into a plan to process flax straw (and wood) for […]
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 to a pulse crop cleaning plant at Richardson. Vipond says the milled flax is used for food ingredients and pet food and […]
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 were destroyed by fire between December 10th and 16th and the blaze is considered suspicious. Police are asking for any […]
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 have been busy harvesting in recent weeks. The oilseeds manager at the Grain Commission research lab in Winnipeg, Veronique Barthet, wants farmers to […]
