CDC Dorado - Yellow or Golden Flax
CDC Dorado flax is a new yellow flax / golden flax variety
  • Yellow / Golden flax - unique market opportunities
  • FP2432 yellow flax became CDC Dorado flax
  • Season length medium to short
    • ​Flowers early and seems to be done flowering 7 days before other brown flax varieties we have grown
  • Large seed size at 6g/1000 average
  • Good to Medium resistance to lodging
    • ​Short stature
  • Yield potential has been excellent and on par with top brown varieties 
  • High oil content at 45.2 %
  • High Iodine content value at 204.2
  • Very high linoienic acid content 64% (ALA content)
  • Very high meal protein at 43.7%
  • Yield from 7 acres of breeder seed on irrigation in 2017 with very low seeding rates due to limited seed supply was close to 50 bu per ac and in 2020 we have over 60 bu per ac average on irrigation
Golden / Yellow - CDC Dorado Flax - Early, stands, High ALA oil content​
​​Brown - CDC Rowland - New, long season large seed size with top yield