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  • Canola in Oklahoma story seen in January 2013 issue of Oklahoma Living Magazine
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  • Jake Banister (left) and Reuben Taylor (right) work to repair a broken header on a combine.  The header was damaged navigating terraces on a canola field near El Reno, Oklahoma.  Custom harvesters are able to use much of their wheat harvesting equipment for canola harvesting.
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  • A field of yellow canola in central Oklahoma.  Canola has become a rotation crop to improve the yield and health of wheat crops.  Farmers call it and "oil seed" crop versus a "grain crop".
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  • A field of yellow canola in central Oklahoma.  Canola has become a rotation crop to improve the yield and health of wheat crops.  Farmers call it and "oil seed" crop versus a "grain crop".
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  • Custom harvester Justin Spielman from Newkirk, Oklahoma combines a field of canola near El Reno
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  • Custom harvester Justin Spielman from Newkirk, Oklahoma combines a field of canola near El Reno as the sun sets on the horizon.
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  • Custom harvester Justin Spielman from Newkirk, Oklahoma combines a field of canola near El Reno and offloads the grain into a waiting grain trailer
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  • A field of canola grows near a grain silo north of Mangum, Oklahoma
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  • Custom harvester Justin Spielman from Newkirk, Oklahoma combines a field of canola near El Reno, Oklahoma.
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  • Custom harvester Justin Spielman from Newkirk, Oklahoma combines a field of canola near El Reno as night falls.
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  • A worker at PCOM monitors the equipment used to heat and press the canola seed to extract the canola oil. Up to 42% of the canola seed can be extracted to canola oil.
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  • PCOM ships canola oil out in railcars and trucks to processors around the USA and Mexico.  Some of the canola oil is bottled for consumer use, some bottled for restaurants, and most of the remaining oil is used in the food processing industry. Canola oil is sometimes used as a biodiesel ingredient, but the recent surge in prices has meant most canola oil is used for the food industry.
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  • Once the canola seed has been run through the first crush and the virgin canola oil has been extracted, it is heated, compressed, turned into small pellets and then run through an extraction process to remove the remaining oil.  The byproduct is used for cattle feed.
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  • Gene Nuens with Producers Cooperative Oil Mill in downtown OKC stands in front of Canola seed that is awaiting processing at the mill. PCOM uses these same sheds to store cotton seed during the cotton harvest.
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  • PCOM spent $10 in 2007 upgrading their OKC plant to enable canola processing.
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  • The PCOM location in downtown Oklahoma City was initially built in 1898.  In 1944 they began crushing cottonseed and in 2008 they first began crushing canola seed. It has been a landmark building and is easily recognizable from I-40.
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  • wheat field in Oklahoma panhandle that has grass and weeds growing in it.  When farmers take wheat crop to elevator with this kind of weeds, they get docked by the elevator. Farmers can plant canola, which is resistant to roundup herbicide, to clean up these wheat fields and reduce dockage in future crops.
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