western australia

broadacre farming

Canola crops can be seen from space

@JudyEv (362728)

Rockingham, Australia

September 10, 2025 6:22pm CST

In our travels over the last three or four days, we saw extensive paddocks of canola. Canola was first introduced into Australia from Canada in the 1960s. It was first called rapeseed but Mr Wiki tells me that canola is “a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food.” Broadacre farming is the go in some of the country we drove through and fences are poor or non-existent. However, the bright yellow canola crops stretch far and wide. The colour is truly golden when the sun is shining on the crops. A news report today says that the yellow crops can be seen in satellite photos. My photo is from a previous trip. It’s better than the one I took a few days ago.

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Dr Souvik Chatterji

@sathviksouvik (21442)

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11 Sep

excellent photo. Are the crops used to produce food oil?

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

Yes. I guess it's exported. I need to learn a bit more about where it goes.

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@LadyDuck (483300)

• Italy

11 Sep

The oil produced by this crop is still called rapeseed oil in Switzerland. I love those yellow fields, this is a great photo.

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@LadyDuck (483300)

• Italy

11 Sep

@JudyEv - I am pretty sure you do manufacture your won canola oil.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

Thanks. I'm glad you like the photo. I must do some research and find out if we manufacture our own canola oil. I certainly hope we do.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

@LadyDuck Yes, I'm sure we do.

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@kareng (79526)

• United States

11 Sep

Very pretty golden blooms!!

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

In places it was a sea of gold just about right to the horizon.

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@kareng (79526)

• United States

11 Sep

@JudyEv That sounds beautiful for sure!

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@DaddyEvil (159506)

• United States

11 Sep

That is a beautiful photo!

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

In the sun, the golden colour is dazzling.

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@DaddyEvil (159506)

• United States

11 Sep

@JudyEv Whoa! I'd love to see that, just once!

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@paigea (36219)

• Canada

12 Sep

Is it blooming now? I'm thinking it's not spring yet there

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

We've just moved into spring and yes, many of the crops were in full bloom. Some have a way to go yet.

@Kusumakrishna (541)

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11 Sep

Wow..so beautiful. Canola we get it through imports.they are White mustard I think

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

I wonder if Australia exports it to your country.

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@Kusumakrishna (541)

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11 Sep

@JudyEv Yes ,Our country don't have sufficient production of canola. Hence it imports from other countries

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@allknowing (153451)

• India

11 Sep

Host of golden Canola Stole words from William Wordsworth - 'Host of golden daffodils'

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

Yes, I remember that poem.

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@RebeccasFarm (95944)

• Arvada, Colorado

11 Sep

Really? Now that is fascinating Judy. So bright they are.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

They are dazzling when the sun is on them.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (38398)

• Toccoa, Georgia

11 Sep

That's amazing they can be seen from space.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

I was really surprised too although the fields are very bright, especially when the sun is on them.

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@wolfgirl569 (122250)

• Marion, Ohio

11 Sep

It's bright enough to stand out

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

It's almost dazzling if the sun is shining on it.

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@RasmaSandra (88881)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

11 Sep

Imagine that for a year or so I worked as a translator for a rapseed company in Latvia,

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

Imagine that indeed!

I prefer the name 'canola' to 'rapeseed'.

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@noni1959 (10556)

• United States

11 Sep

This is a lovely photo! When I lived in Oregon, I would travel from my tiny town to another close by and drive by a huge field of Canola. I have a photo somewhere of it. Just gorgeous.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

In the sunlight, it is really dazzling.

@Shiva49 (27516)

• Singapore

11 Sep

I heard canola oil is one of the healthiest cooking oil available. I hope it is rewarding to the farmers too.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Sep

It must be rewarding as there must be thousands of acres of it being grown.

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@LindaOHio (200515)

• United States

11 Sep

Lovely! I wonder where else the canola is grown.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

Ours first came from Canada so i guess it's grown there and probably in the Ukraine.

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@snowy22315 (195927)

• United States

11 Sep

So very yellow!

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

It is and so bright when the sun is on it.

@Juliaacv (54856)

• Canada

11 Sep

Driving by a field of canola is a bright and beautiful experience. Little is known about the origin of the canola oil to many, but you, as I have seen the fields of it. The flowers are so bright that I wonder if they glow in the dark.

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@JudyEv (362728)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Sep

It is certainly spectactular when the sun is shining on it.

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