Canola July 17

rusty6 · Jul 18, 2015

The canola bloom is starting to fade here so I took a few pictures yesterday . Dry all through June but we are making up for it now with another nearly 2 inches rain last night.

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fixerupper · Jul 18, 2015

Yellow field, old car and an interesting cloud pattern. Are you sure you didn't copy a picture from 1955? LOL. When I was in Saskatchewan a few years ago I drove by a few blue tinted fields of flax. I liked the smell of it. At that time a few guys were beginning to swath their canola. I drove a combine in canola only once and it was for one round. What impressed me was the huge size of the swath going into the combine and a relatively small amount of sticks going out the back. We hauled two of those combines home to Iowa for our fall harvest and in the first hundred feet or so of bean stubble these green leafy 'weeds' started coming up a week or so after the combines went through in the farmer's field. He was all excited about us bringing weeds on his farm, and he was justified in feeling that way, but it was only canola and he had never seen canola. Here in Iowa the old timers call it Rape.

rusty6 · Jul 18, 2015

Yes, I put a big fat 21 foot swath of canola through the CIH rotary and it comes out the back as mostly dust on a hot day.
Used to be called rape seed here too but they changed it back in the seventies.
Flax is just blooming this past week and I'm hoping to get some better pictures than this one.

fixerupper · Jul 18, 2015

What does Canola stand for. I have it in my mind it's Canadian Oil Association or something like that.

SweetFeet · Jul 18, 2015

Rusty6

That's a really beautiful shot.

01gentdc · Jul 18, 2015

that is a 1954 Ford custom or maybe 53 .there is a hundred acres of canola here in Harrison county southern ind,, shoulda been off a month ago , but it rained every day

rusty6 · Jul 19, 2015

(quoted from post at 21:42:40 07/18/15) that is a 1954 Ford custom or maybe 53 .there is a hundred acres of canola here in Harrison county southern ind,, shoulda been off a month ago , but it rained every day

You are close but no, it is actually a 1952 Mercury that my dad bought used in 1959. Got the flathead under the hood and Mercomatic transmission.

john in la · Jul 19, 2015

I think Canola comes from Canada and ola for oil.
It distinguishes the eatable plant from the non-eatable plant.

Sure would be confusing if they called them both rapeseed oil.

Kickinbull · Jul 19, 2015

Interesting Rape vs Canola. My grandpa used to say if you are gonna raise hogs plant some Rape seed, the hogs love it.

Stan - Florida · Jul 19, 2015

Not sure if the signs are still there, but entering Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada you see large signs proclaiming Tisdale to be the "Land of Rape and Honey".

Lots of Canola raised there and it is a huge honey producing area as well.

fixerupper · Jul 19, 2015

Kickinbull, back in the seventies I seeded a three acre hog pasture to rape and ran the sows out there. A neighbor claimed the sows would get sores on their legs but I didn't see any sores on them. The experience was a one time event.

JimB2 · Jul 19, 2015

See Wiki at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola

DLMKA · Jul 19, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:39:22 07/19/15) Not sure if the signs are still there, but entering Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada you see large signs proclaiming Tisdale to be the "Land of Rape and Honey".

Lots of Canola raised there and it is a huge honey producing area as well.

Makes lots of honey but crystallizes in the jar real fast.

Texasmark1 · Jul 19, 2015

Naw, Logo is wrong and too many characters in the name on the hood. Bet it's a 54 Mercury.....count the carachters.

Texasmark1 · Jul 19, 2015

OK. Got close. My mother bought a '51 Ford 2 door Custom new with the Ford-O-Matic also. First year out and never had a minutes
problem with that transmission, even with a teen aged son.

Thomas(AB) · Jul 19, 2015

signs were still there as of July 14th......

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