It also is low in glucosinolates at less than 30 micromoles per gram in the oil-free meal. The meal remaining after oil extraction is used as a protein supplement feed by the livestock industry. Rapeseed production was first reported in Europe in the 1600s. By 1986, canola was on grocers' shelves in the United States. While canola oil use was zero before 1986, it had increased to the equivalent of oil production from 2 million acres by 1994.
Harvest takes place at about the same time as hard red winter wheat in the spring.
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