To the south, rape fields are predominant while at the northern end, cattle are grazed year round.
Rapeseed flowers which a local farming family planted in the rice field around the station blooms in spring.
In practice, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation will mostly be achieved by blending bioethanol, biomethanol, biodiesel and biogas (derived from sources such as palm oil, oilseed rape, cereals, sugar cane, sugar beet, and reprocessed vegetable oil) with fossil fuels.
In 2002, West Farm (on the Little Bytham road) had trials for GM Rapeseed planted by Aventis.
Canola, the edible cooking oil from rapeseed (Brassica campestris)
In 1689 he established a mill for the preparation of rapeseed oil at Sheepscar; in which, as well as in his other mercantile concerns, he had little, or rather no, success.
The butcher, having no currency on him, bartered a measure of turnip-seed with the peasant, offering should the peasant return to him with the measure of rapeseed he would exchange a Brabant thaler for each seed.