Farmers now anxiously resowing the parched pampas are expected to plant wheat over as little acreage as was sown in 1903, when pioneers were still expanding the frontier, says Mr Weskamp.

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The new approach uses four or five weaker defences, for example reducing the area of the wheat plant that Ug99 destroys, or slowing down the spread of the fungus.

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He encouraged farmers to plant five acres of wheat to supply flour to the local hotel, but he and some friends soon realized that the best value-added idea for the wheat was in a bottle of spirits.

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Who decides what a reasonable wage is, and where God stands in the choice between leaving a field under wheat and building a computer plant on it?

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The plant had inadvertently put regular mix, which contained wheat pretzels, into a wheat-free bag.

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The report describes wheat as the world's most important plant-derived protein and calorie source.

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And some farmers who have been given wheat as food aid have not felt the need to plant their own.

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Ehrlich says there was a scheduling error at the plant, which was making two different kinds of snack mix--regular and wheat-free.

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It's signed contracts with Idaho farmers to buy hundreds of thousands of tons of wheat and barley straw, and hopes to break ground on the first plant, possibly in Idaho, next year.

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You plant your crops, you wait for them to grow, you feed your animals, the wheat sways in the wind.

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