Canola

One surprising crop that adds to the yellow wattle landscape of Australia is the canola (rapeseed). Although the third most common crop here, and by any means, of unequaled culture beauty, canola has been cultivated only in the past 30-35 years in parts of South Australia (where I took the picture) and Western Australia. The canola (Canadian Oil, Low Acid) oil is one of the healthiest ones, even if the benefits may be cancelled by the rest of the Aussie diet, predominantly consisting in meat products. Of course, canola belongs to the controversial category of gene-modified plants, so it is not very welcome in Australia. This third most common crop serves more to improve the quality of the soil by rotating cultures rather than to fill up the oil jugs.