There are a lot of plant crops that are used to make oils. Soybeans, oil palm, rape, and sunflower account for 70% of the world production of plant oil. Soybeans are the biggest crop. We have sunflower fields northwest of Toronto. And there is quite a bit of Canola. It is a type of rapeseed created by plant breeding in Canada in the 1970s. Canola is likely contentious as it was bred to be resistant to herbicides.
Canola made the news last week for other reasons. People were taking to the yellow fields for selfies, and of course, did damage to the crops.
If you google "canola fields selfie" the first picture is the news footage and the rest look like stock footage. There are canola fields around the world. Canada, Australia, U.S. China, and Europe.
I guess there are those for and against "canola tourism." Some of the pictures have titles such as "Show us your canola selfie" - that's a twitter contest by the canola growers in 2020. There's a Canola field trip to Western Australia in 2020 video. Just below it is an Australian news article about trampling the canola fields.
Here is an autumn picture that I expect is a canola crop.
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