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
Erewhon Organic Cereal Erewhon Organic Cereal Erewhon Organic Cereal (pronounced AIR-wahn) is a food brand specializing in pure ingredients and simply processed, organic whole foods that support digestive health. It was one of the first companies to introduce and market macrobiotic, organic whole foods in the United States. Its name is derived from the 1872 novel of the same name by Samuel Butler. In the satirical novel, "Erewhon" (an anagram of “nowhere”) is a utopia in which individuals are responsible for their own health. Since the early 1950s, Aveline Kushi and Michio Kushi had been introducing modern macrobiotics into the United States from