Editing Turnip (section)

== Relevance in human use ==
In England around 1700, [[Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend#"Turnip" Townshend|Charles "Turnip" Townshend]] promoted the use of turnips in a four-year [[crop rotation|crop-rotation]] system that enabled year-round livestock feeding.<ref name="ashton">{{cite book
| last = Ashton
| first = T S
| author-link = T. S. Ashton
| title = The Industrial Revolution
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| series = A Galaxy Book
| edition = Third printing, 1965
| year = 1948
| location = New York
| page = 21
}}</ref>

In Scottish and some other English dialects, the word ''turnip'' can also refer to [[Rutabaga|rutabagas]] (North American English), also known as swedes in England, a variety of ''Brassica napus'', which is a hybrid between the turnip, ''Brassica rapa'', and the cabbage. Turnips are generally smaller with white flesh, while rutabagas are larger with yellow flesh. Scottish English sometimes distinguishes turnips as ''white turnips'', and sometimes distinguishes rutabagas as ''neeps''.

In the Austrian region of [[Wildschönau]], farmers produce a kind of [[schnaps]] called [[Krautinger]] from a variation of Brassica rapa ssp. Rapa, since they were granted permission to do so under Empress [[Maria Theresia]] in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://info.bml.gv.at/themen/lebensmittel/trad-lebensmittel/getraenke/krautinger.html| title=Wildschönauer Krautinger}}</ref> It is notorious for its distinct taste and smell.