effects on nutrition and other human health considerations
I wasn't even daring think that far! :)
Rust is an increasing problem with wheat, in Europe too. Crop rotation is certainly the right thing to do (it is anyway), but I fear the rust problem on the high-performance wheat varieties is here to stay, it has now spread too fast and far. They may have to go back to more robust but lower-yielding varieties.
If that means we stop subsidising our wheat for export that destroys the agriculture of poorer nations, that's not such a tragedy.
I fear the rust problem on the high-performance wheat varieties is here to stay, it has now spread too fast and far. They may have to go back to more robust but lower-yielding varieties.
whoa!
Any idea of what cultivars are being affected?
anyone else hear anything else like this? ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
the idea of short stem varieties is that more plant energy goes into the seed head and less into growing and sustaining a long stalk.
No idea about the other stuff keep to the Fen Causeway
This is a classic example of more chemicals to solve a problem created by chemicals.
I don't know (ie am ignorant of) a connection between short-stemmed wheat cultivars and gluten intolerance.
