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Article: Flax-seed oil demand grows
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- The Press
- Article date:
- September 7, 2000
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Organic farmer David Musgrave has a winner on his hands with flax-
seed oil, but he can't get enough farmers to grow the seed.
From doing everything himself five years ago, he now employs nine
full-time people and three or four part-timers in oil production on
the family farm at Waihi Bush near Geraldine. About 30,000 litres
were produced last year.
Flax-seed oil does not come from New Zealand flax as some people
think, but from linen flax which produces linseed oil.
"Only the cricket playing nations call it linseed oil, the rest
call it flax-seed oil," he says.
But the high-grade oil produced here is far removed from the
stuff used to season willow. It tastes good, and is high in blood- ...