There will be one more crop of rapeseed on the farmland before planting begins in September.

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Mackintosh of Glendaveny will supply 10, 500 litres of cold pressed rapeseed oil to a Dubai-based food wholesaler.

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The company's extra virgin rapeseed oil is pressed and bottled on Mr Macintosh's family farm in Glendaveny.

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Foster came up with a system of "driving the building" with renewable vegetable oils, such as rapeseed, for fuel.

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Dow Agro biologists have already accurately inserted genetic material into specific locations in maize and rapeseed genomes using Sangamo's technology.

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The oil palm is an efficient crop, yielding up to ten times more oil per hectare than soyabeans, rapeseed or sunflowers.

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From next week, the company will see its 500ml cold pressed rapeseed oil begin to appear in 20 Sainsbury stores in Scotland.

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Currently biodiesel is made by refining vegetable oils like soy and rapeseed.

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By the same token, if rapeseed is grown using lots of fertiliser made from natural gas, then the resulting biodiesel brings relatively little reduction in emissions or fuel imports.

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Both trends have helped to propel the crop's price to dizzy heights, with the prices of other commodities from which fuel can be made, such as sugar and rapeseed oil.

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