What is this crop?

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  1. Rzepak – canola (yes, the one you can make oil from)

  2. Looks like the neighbour city of my city of origin – I’m from Rypin, kuj-pom and the plates of the guy behind are Brodnica plates which is located 25km away

    The nostalgy hits hard 🥲

  3. Its Rzepak, I asked this same question 3 weeks ago to my local friend Michal. I come from an agricultural region of the US and this lead to a nice long crops and harvesting conversation.

  4. Everyone’s saying Rzepak, but it also could be [Gorczyca (Sinapis)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinapis).

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    >Cultivated as field crops after grain harvest. In addition to providing the soil with organic matter, plays a very important role as a phytosanitary plant because it reduces the likelihood of many dangerous diseases and pests taking hold, that pose a threat to grain plants.

    It’s supposed to be sown by the end of march, or first week of april, ~~so it should be blooming right now~~

    I grew up in the countryside, but I was never able to tell the difference between the two from afar.

  5. Weird, there’s no one having a photo session in the rzepak field

  6. Didn’t Poland ban GMOs? If so, how is it they are growing rapeseed?

    Erucic acid (in rape) causes heart problems in large quantities, hence the need for genetic modification and special processing. 😬

  7. Accirding to Etymonline, rapeseed comes ‘from Old French *rape* and directly from Latin *rapa*, *rapum* “turnip,” which is cognate with Greek *hrapys* “rape,” Old Church Slavonic *repa*, Lithuanian *ropė*, Middle Dutch *roeve*, Old High German *ruoba*, German *Rübe* “rape, turnip,” perhaps a common borrowing from a non-IE word (de Vaan).’

    That’s really interesting, because in Polish:

    * rapeseed = rzepak;
    * turnip = rzepa.

    (And they both belong to the Brassica genus, so they are species of… cabbage.)

  8. Canola – Rzepak we often use an canola oil to gry things for an example

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