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A season that continues beyond harvest

Canola Crop Calendar

Follow the biological crop season, then continue with stored grain, crushing, oil and meal, packaging, kitchens, and recovery.

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01Crop systems02Field season03Harvest04Value chain

Before field work

Planning and rotation

What happens

Field history, crop sequence, residue, weeds, diseases, insects, soil conditions, moisture, seed identity, equipment, labour, and marketing plans meet before field work begins.

Oil-chain meaning

Decisions made before seeding establish the biological and operational setting for crop production, harvested grain, delivery, and the eventual processing stream.

Why it reaches the kitchen

Rotation is far upstream of cooking, but it explains why canola oil begins within a multi-year farm and food system rather than at the grocery shelf.

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Across the year

The crop changes form, location, and responsibility.

The season does not end when the combine leaves.

Standing plants become harvested seed; seed becomes stored grain; grain moves into crushing; crude oil and meal become separate product streams; and finished products enter food, feed, fuel, and technical systems.

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Seedprocessing pathway

Continue from receiving and preparation through pressing, extraction, refining, meal, packaging, and products.