Nutek

I thought it was a cube.

scrubbedexpat099

Long time ago and it seems 625, initially very few people would have had TV's that could receive it, I think? of BBC2 and colour so that was 67, so a year or 2 later probably before we got it.

robin1234

Crop rotation is still common practice. It has been since the introduction of agriculture in prehistoric times.

Field behind my flat in Norfolk, for instance, has had the following in it over the last few years;
peas
potatoes
oil seed rape
sugar beet
grass
barley
wheat
(and probably some others I’m forgetting)

Same with most of the others in the vicinity. Oh, and there’s always a small part of the field given over to maize, for the pheasants, I believe.

SanDiegogirl

Where in Norfolk are you?

Sister lives in Thorpe St Andrew just outside Norwich

I've spend many happy hours in the county....

robin1234

Aylsham. It’s a great centre for both walking and cycling. Yeah, I know Thorpe St Andrew. Two or three nice pubs there, and a really interesting church.

I should add, I love San Diego too! I love the museums there. (And the weather.)

scrubbedexpat097

Oil Seed Rape. Looks so pretty but oh so terrible if you have allergies!!

mikelincs

And, when the flowers disappear, then you get thousands of pollen beetles, little black ones, invading everywhere, especially if you wear yellow or white.

Pulaski

I don't think I have ever seen it grown in the US (in the SE), or at least very rarely, and not for several years.

BTW in the US it is known as "canola", not AFAIK generally as "rape" or "rapeseed".

scrubbedexpat091

Ever wonder where Canola got it's name?

https://www.canolacouncil.org/oil-an...hat-is-canola/

To be labelled as Canola it must also meet these standards.

"Seeds of the genus Brassica (Brassica napus, Brassica rapa or Brassica juncea) from which the oil shall contain less than 2% erucic acid in its fatty acid profile and the solid component shall contain less than 30 micromoles of any one or any mixture of 3-butenyl glucosinolate, 4-pentenyl glucosinolate, 2-hydroxy-3 butenyl glucosinolate, and 2-hydroxy- 4-pentenyl glucosinolate per gram of air-dry, oil-free solid."

Pulaski

Not as much as I wondered about "rape".

robin1234

I never realized that! Basically, Canadian oil (oil = oleum in Latin.)

caretaker

I used to be that Saskatchewan was known principally for wheat and barley ("Canada's Breadbasket") but now we grow an awful lot of canola (and the global market is huge), and we dominate in production of mustard. Specialty mustard crops are grown in Saskatchewan, shipped to France, and turned into finished product.

scrubbedexpat091

BC Cherries are popular in China (well they were, not sure if this tit for tat Canada and China are doing affected the market or not) but when I worked at YVR for a few short weeks during cherry season, so many cherries loaded onto flights bound for China, more containers of Cherries than you could ever imagine, container after container loaded onto the planes, during season there probably isn't 1 China flight without massive amounts of cherries in the belly.

Cherries sound like a total pain to grow, no wonder they cost so much.

and they need to be dried by helicopter when it gets too wet, fragile things they are. This video if from inside the chopper, and looks like it's in the US, but they do the same thing in BC. I wouldn't mind being a pumpkin farmer, well a small scale one, if I had the land, I love growing pumpkins, and then sell them for Halloween, this years crop of pumpkins showing up in stores looks good, nice big and orange, last year they were in rough shape.

Pulaski

Man killed from liquorice OD.

Apparently he had recently switched from the red "fruit flavoured" twists (which is understandable, because they taste terrible), to liquorice, but he was eating so much that the amount of lycyrrhizic acid, (the active ingredient in liquorice - who even knew that liqorice even has an "active ingredient"? ) that he was ingesting, killed him.

Shard

Sorry, red licorice tastes terrible ?!?! Are you mad ?!