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Shiitake mushrooms are being
explored as a profitable crop for
farmers with woodlots.
production. "It's still at a stage where
we have bugs to work out, taking this
wild weed and now trying to grow a
whole field of it." One of the
problems is that there are plenty of
chemicals to kill evening primrose
growing among other plants, but
nothing to protect evening primrose
from other plants. That's important
because evening primrose must be
something like 97 to 98 per cent pure
at harvest. "The field has to be
absolutely weed free, and that's a
problem," Scheifele says.
There are no commercial varieties
yet. The seeds are just selections of
seed out of the wild from around the
province. "There has been some
selection for high oil and high GLA
quality but there has been no real
breeding done yet so we're still
working with very wild strains."
There is some breeding now being
done at Delhi and by the Indian
Agricultural Program, he says, but
the development is at the stage most
common farm crops were at hundreds
of years ago.
The plant is naturally a biannual,
meaning it grows one year and
produces seeds the next. Currently
most evening primrose is started
indoors in a greenhouse and