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) Joel Cox. Honeycomb was famous in the 1980s for their annual mini-license plate giveaway, where a miniature state license plate was free inside a box, with the ability to order the whole set. One year, Post also included plates that said "LUCKY" and the finder of those plates won a BMX bike. The commercial for this showed a girl winning and later riding the BMX bike, which was considered somewhat unusual for the time. Honeycomb (cereal) Honeycomb is a breakfast cereal originated in 1965, by Post Foods. It consists of honey-flavored corn cereal bits in a honeycomb shape. At the