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To: NVDave

Thanks for the correction. I was going off of what I was told by several farmers, without verifying it independently.

Interestingly, however, I haven’t heard of any rapeseed grown, in recent history, up in Canada, at least not in my neck of the woods.


19 posted on 09/24/2007 2:09:50 PM PDT by mirado ('...)
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To: mirado

It is still called “rape” between farmers, because when we’re talking farmer-to-farmer, we know what we’re talking about.

When non-farmers are about, we’ll use the latin family name, “brassica.”

It is partly PC-ism, but saying “Wow, I got a bumper crop of rape!” in mixed, non-farming company causes a whole lot of people to whip their heads around, and that’s the fault of the non-farmers.

Rape (and other brassicas) are grown for more than just their seed, btw — some brassicas make excellent quick-growing graze for cattle, with excellent feed value.


32 posted on 09/24/2007 4:14:29 PM PDT by NVDave
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