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
Cartoon and Cereal collaboration with an avant-garde musician and a "street" rapper. In "Pitchfork", Jordan Sargent referred to "Cartoon and Cereal" as the work of two artists who "have an anti-social streak that runs through their music". "Cartoon and Cereal" is one of Lamar's most popular songs; "Complex" magazine, which listed it as the second best song of 2012, wrote "the best song ['Cartoon and Cereal'] that Kendrick Lamar released this year didn't even make the album ["Good Kid, M.A.A.D City"]". Music critic Niyah Nel reflected: "the 'inner voice' like approach on 'Cartoons & Cereal' made just the right impact to lead fans