I seem to have found some Ontario Flax Growers but unfortunately their entire crop was contracted out to the company Gilflax (which itself was ownned by Gilbert Holdings, a multinational). Not even a month after the contract was made, Gilflax went bust and the farmers had no one to sell their succesful crop to. Since they were still technically under contract with Gilflax they weren’t allowed to sell it to someone else, and all of the harvesting machinery, owned by Gilflax was under lock and key (see Farm & Country, Septembger 21 1998 for more details).
I wonder what happened to these farmers?
posted at 12:50 on Sun, 30 Nov, 2003 |
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