Canola, Bees, Honey
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Canola yields a lucrative honey crop. Is there a downside, or is everything golden?

In July, much of the Canadian prairie is an endless sea of yellow flowers, broken only by roads every mile or two and the occasional clump of trees. By now, those fields are probably browning and farmers are likely busy harvesting their mature crop. Every two to four years, the field will be seeded again in the Spring, bloom through July, and be harvested at the end of the Summer, with crops like wheat or soybean planted in the intervening years. And the cycle of canola farming goes on.

Canola is a variety of rapeseed that was developed by scientists, Dr Keith


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