According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake
is no longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything
about this?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
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You might want to take this with a grain of salt.

Not long ago, the "other" vegetable oil producers (primarily the
corn oil folks, I think) launched a large dis-information
campaign about rapeseed (Brassica species, called canola) oil in
this country because of the inroads less-expensive (and mostly
imported) canola oil was making into the corn oil market. It got
quite nasty, with rumors flying about the alleged carcinogenic
and even mutagenic properties of canola oil -- all nonsense!

I just did a quick-and-dirty search and found nothing about
Brassica/rapeseed/canola meal imports being restricted.

There's a fairly large agricultural business in growing rapeseed
in the US and Canada now, anyway. Why import it? There must be
ample sources of domestic rapeseed meal.

I also looked at the fertilizer value of rapeseed, and it's
nothing to write home about, anyway. ;-) Organic farmers
occasionally find a use for it as a green manure cover crop, as
it -- when plowed in -- improved tilth and a LITTLE nitrogen.
But there are much better green manure crops.

So I at least wouldn't bust a gut trying to find the stuff.
Grind up almost any seed grain, make a cake out of it and I
suspect you'd get about the same nutrient value.

I know . . . it's TRADITION!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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