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
Pebbles cereal Pebbles cereal Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Foods in 1971 featuring characters from the animated series "The Flintstones" as spokestoons. Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a sugar content of 9 grams per serving for Fruity Pebbles and 10 grams per serving for Cocoa Pebbles. It is the oldest surviving cereal brand that is based on characters from a TV series or movie. Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles Cereal were reintroductions of a