According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake is no longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything about this?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
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According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake
is no longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything
about this?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
Bunabayashi Bonsai On The World Wide Web:
http://www.bunabayashi.com
email:


You might want to take this with a grain of salt.

Not long ago, the "other" vegetable oil producers (primarily the
corn oil folks, I think) launched a large dis-information
campaign about rapeseed (Brassica species, called canola) oil in
this country because of the inroads less-expensive (and mostly
imported) canola oil was making into the corn oil market. It got
quite nasty, with rumors flying about the alleged carcinogenic
and even mutagenic properties of canola oil -- all nonsense!

I just did a quick-and-dirty search and found nothing about
Brassica/rapeseed/canola meal imports being restricted.

There's a fairly large agricultural business in growing rapeseed
in the US and Canada now, anyway. Why import it? There must be
ample sources of domestic rapeseed meal.

I also looked at the fertilizer value of rapeseed, and it's
nothing to write home about, anyway. ;-) Organic farmers
occasionally find a use for it as a green manure cover crop, as
it -- when plowed in -- improved tilth and a LITTLE nitrogen.
But there are much better green manure crops.

So I at least wouldn't bust a gut trying to find the stuff.
Grind up almost any seed grain, make a cake out of it and I
suspect you'd get about the same nutrient value.

I know . . . it's TRADITION!

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Bockman" Subject: [IBC] Rapeseed cake a non-no


According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake is no
longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything about this?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
Bunabayashi Bonsai On The World Wide Web:

Dave,
Time to make your own cubes!
You can make them better and cheaper yourself.
Dale

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] Rapeseed cake a non-no


According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake
is no longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything
about this?
David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
Bunabayashi Bonsai On The World Wide Web:
http://www.bunabayashi.com
email:

Jim Lewis said:
You might want to take this with a grain of salt.

There's a fairly large agricultural business in growing rapeseed
in the US and Canada now, anyway. Why import it? There must be
ample sources of domestic rapeseed meal.

Jim Lewis

Dave,
Have someone read the bag contents to you if in Japanese.
Years ago I used to get cakes from a Japanese importer in NJ and had him
read the bag to me. It was mostly "Rice meal".
Jim,
When I started making my own cakes I looked EVERYWHERE for rapeseed MEAL. It
is impossible to find. Most rapeseed is grown for BIRDSEED I think, so, if
you want the meal you'd have to pick it up under the birdfeeder!
but, Cottonseed meal is fairly easily obtained and fairly cheap and pretty
much the same thing as I recall. Any good nurserty carries it in bags in the
Spring. It is one of the ingredients in my "Poo Balls". ( also kelp meal)
Dale Cochoy

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Oh, I've done the up-to-my-elbows-in-poo route many times. In fact I usually
make up cakes as per William Valavanis' recipe every spring. For ease of
sale I preferred selling the cakes that Joshua Roth sells (now sold), in
that they are uniform in size, totally dehydrated, and packaged nicely.

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] Rapeseed cake a non-no


According to the folks at Joshua Roth, commercial rapeseed cake
is no longer
allowed to be imported into the US. Has anyone read anything
about this?
David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
Bunabayashi Bonsai On The World Wide Web:
http://www.bunabayashi.com
email:

Jim Lewis said:
You might want to take this with a grain of salt.

There's a fairly large agricultural business in growing rapeseed
in the US and Canada now, anyway. Why import it? There must be
ample sources of domestic rapeseed meal.

Jim Lewis

Dave,
Have someone read the bag contents to you if in Japanese.
Years ago I used to get cakes from a Japanese importer in NJ and had him
read the bag to me. It was mostly "Rice meal".
Jim,
When I started making my own cakes I looked EVERYWHERE for rapeseed MEAL. It
is impossible to find. Most rapeseed is grown for BIRDSEED I think, so, if
you want the meal you'd have to pick it up under the birdfeeder!
but, Cottonseed meal is fairly easily obtained and fairly cheap and pretty
much the same thing as I recall. Any good nurserty carries it in bags in the
Spring. It is one of the ingredients in my "Poo Balls". ( also kelp meal)

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