Crop desiccation is used as a pre-harvest herbicide and harvest aid on cereal crops including wheat and oats and on oil seed rape. As a systemic herbicide it is not a true desiccant as it can take weeks rather than days for the crop to die back after application. In the UK, it began to be applied to wheat crops in the 1980s to control perennial weeds such as common couch which was very effective and meant that sowing of the next crop could occur sooner. Use as a harvest aid in the UK increased after the introduction of strobilurin fungicides which
Krave (cereal) Krave (cereal) Krave is a chocolate cereal made by the Kellogg Company. The concept of chocolate filled cereal was introduced by Telma in Israel. Their product was launched in 1994 and called Kariot (כריות), which in Hebrew means pillows. Kellogg launched their version of it in the UK in 2010, marketed under the slogan "Taste Unleashed", later "Here Choccy Choccy" or "It's Time To Melt". The advertisements feature the cereal pieces hunting blocks of chocolate. The cereals are sold in France under the name Trésor and in Germany Tresor. It was introduced in the United States in 2012. In September