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
Cereal Killaz 100 London radio show, playing a mixed set of original material and remixes. In addition to original material, Cereal Killaz has produced remixes for dance artists including Mephisto Odyssey, Rektchordz, Stormtrooperz, Metachemical, and Likwid Inzpiration In 2007, zarbizarre & Kostek parted ways, and zarbizarre continued carrying on the name with original productions and remixes after returning to the Washington, DC area, releasing new singles on Scrape Recordings. Cereal Killaz as a DJ act performs a mixing style called Harmonic mixing, which is a style of DJing that matches the key of a song as well as the beats to create