What are those yellow flowers across English fields?

While travelling from London to Bath this weekend, we've spotted loads of fields with yellow flowers which formed a stunning landscape. Now we are just wondering... What are those flowers and what are they used to?

What are those yellow flowers across English fields?
This is rape seed, brassica napus in Latin.





It is used mainly for vegetable oils and animal feed, but also for organic fuels such as biodiesel, which is a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel generated diesel because it is biodegradable and non toxic.





The view from my bedroom window as a kid and teenager was a checker board of yellow fields of rape and green grass meadows with cotton-wool puff-ball sheep and lambs.





Oh idyllic, beautiful, pastoral England


You're a feast for the senses


When you are painted


With the palette of Spring.





Ooops, sorry, got carried away. Don't try to look up the poem to see who wrote it by the way, I just made it up now!
Reply:It's oilseed rape which is used to make oil, surprisingly enough! It's the bane of beekeepers as bees love it, and it gives the honey an oily, distinctive taste.
Reply:What fields like this....check out the link.


Yes our country side is beautiful, especially early for the time of year, but yes as answered above, they are rape seed fields.
Reply:rape seed oil very good for you , but don`t mistake them for daff`s.
Reply:Hi this is called 'Rape' it is left until it turns black and then cut and the oil is used to make vegetable oil and other sorts of oils. It looks great but not good if you suffer from hayfever! It is a cheap crop to grow with good success rates and farmers get reasonable return and is in demand so we see much more of this now than years ago.
Reply:They absolutely make me sneeze!! They are caled rape seed and they set ff my hayfever :-(
Reply:I think you are talking about oilseed rape or reap..


Its pretty gives people a lot of allergies..


and its an oil for cooking but have a look at the site for yourself..
Reply:It's called rape seed, and its used to make oil.
Reply:Rape seed and it's a bugger for hayfever sufferers
Reply:Rapeseed. Also all over Cambridgeshire. There are prettier sights - bluebell meadows, etc., but they don't generate as much money.
Reply:It sounds like rape. Rapeseed is very widely cultivated throughout the world for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel