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
Honeycomb (cereal) clubhouse called the Honeycomb Hideout in which the visitor had arrived, initially hostile, and exclaimed a need for a "big" taste. Then, the kids had introduced the visitor to the cereal, winning over the visitor, examining the size of the cereal bits with a tape measure and singing the jingle: During the 1980s, the cereal offered the Honeycomb Hideout Club for children, distributing badges, membership cards and clubhouse toy incentives on specially marked box tops. The jingle was spoofed on the "Futurama" episode entitled "The Sting" in 2003. Honeycomb Kid sought what he called "The Honeycomb Secret." Honeycomb Kid had