England’s ‘green and pleasant land’ is dappled with brilliant yellow rapeseed fields. The crop (also called rape, oilseed rape, and canola) is known for its characteristic bright-yellow flower and is cultivated for its oil-rich seed. Rapeseed is one of the highest yield oils - its dark black seeds are 45% oil - and the other 55% is high protein animal feed. It’s one of the world’s major oil crops, and of the 70 million tonnes produced annually, 2.2 million tonnes are produced in the UK. Rapeseed is one of the most common break crops in the country. Break crops are generally a pulse or oilseed crop grown instead of cereals. Introducing a break crop typically improves productivity and economic value. As a high input, high output break crop, oilseed rape has become increasingly important over the last decade for intensive arable farmers. It can provide good income and goes well in a crop rotation with wheat, which is often the most profitable cereal.