Flax
Flax is an annual oilseed grown for raw seeds and oil as end use products. Flax acreage is limited in Washington state. Dryland flax seed yields in the Pacific Northwest can range from 2000 to 3000 lbs of seed per acre. Flax can offer rotational diversity and benefits to the existing grain-legume crop rotations, and has been used as a companion crop with chickpeas in Canada and the Northwest.
Visit the Oregon State University site for a fact sheet on flax (pdf).
- Hang, A.N. 2009. Preliminary Trial of Flax for Seed Production in Washington (pdf). In 2009 Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress. Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences Tech. Report 09-1, WSU, Pullman, WA.
Visit the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences site to see all the CSS Field Day Abstracts.
- 2015 PNW Oilseed and Direct Seed Cropping Systems Conference
- Oilseed Flax as a Dryland Broadleaf Rotation in the Pacific Northwest (pdf)
Tomas Endicott, Willamette Biomass Processors, Inc., Rickreall, OR - Flax by Tomas Endicott (pdf) Willamette Biomass Processors
- Oilseed Flax as a Dryland Broadleaf Rotation in the Pacific Northwest (pdf)
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