Flax....prices

[farmaholic]

From Stats Canada...

2018 production is only 66% of the three Western Province's 5 year average.

...but in 2018 we are only 12% lower than 2017 production.

Manitoba...has basically quit growing it, it wouldn't have produced enough to fill a cargo ship, they only produced 24,700 tonnes. (why **** with flax when soybeans are a good alternative/option)

Has the European market ever fully recovered from the Triffid fiasco?

$12.50 local terminal bids, some special crops buyers $13+. And then there wss yellow flax, a meager "premium" over brown.

Seems nobody wants the hassle anymore.

[mustardman]

China is Usually a big customer,
Hopefully the Arrest doesn’t screw up Flax demand from China

[jazz]

From Stats Canada...

2018 production is only 66% of the three Western Province's 5 year average.

...but in 2018 we are only 12% lower than 2017 production.

Manitoba...has basically quit growing it, it wouldn't have produced enough to fill a cargo ship, they only produced 24,700 tonnes. (why **** with flax when soybeans are a good alternative/option)

Has the European market ever fully recovered from the Triffid fiasco?

$12.50 local terminal bids, some special crops buyers $13+. And then there wss yellow flax, a meager "premium" over brown.

Seems nobody wants the hassle anymore.

I still grow it pretty faithfully but have had problems with it too. Emergence issues sometimes, solo residual and the straw, always the straw is a pain. Had cleavers in one year that were a big problem. Black sea region seems to be filly the production we used to grow but nice money and no seed costs. A 30 bu flax crop can net as much as canola.

[bucket]

From Stats Canada...

2018 production is only 66% of the three Western Province's 5 year average.

...but in 2018 we are only 12% lower than 2017 production.

Manitoba...has basically quit growing it, it wouldn't have produced enough to fill a cargo ship, they only produced 24,700 tonnes. (why **** with flax when soybeans are a good alternative/option)

Has the European market ever fully recovered from the Triffid fiasco?

$12.50 local terminal bids, some special crops buyers $13+. And then there wss yellow flax, a meager "premium" over brown.

Seems nobody wants the hassle anymore.

Well you could be paying a royalty on yellow flax and reconstituted flax...that should help your returns.....

[bucket]

China is Usually a big customer,
Hopefully the Arrest doesn’t screw up Flax demand from China

Pretty much guaranteed it will...and western Canadian farmers will be the collateral damage to Trudeau's stupidity...

[MBgrower]

as Bucket mentioned in another thread, the triffid issue cost us our flax market forever. FSU owns it now. Thank you seed producers of canada.