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Scientists warn of wheat disease

Poorer countries face starvation if a disease called Ug-99 hits wheat yields hard enough to push up prices.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7293326.stm

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This is very serious since wheat is a main ingredient in so many things. I am glad my family has been heading wheat free for the last two years. It does how ever mean the other flours I use are going to increase in price due to demand increases I am sure. Just hope is does not spread to the other grain type crops.

Might be time for people to plant more of their own veggies and fruits. Pasta can be made from rice and it also tastes better. We have gene spliced grains so badly and I think this is part of the result of that.

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You could very well be right there Krakyn. We have too many companies who are hording seeds that they want you to plant. I think there is a thread here someplace about it. Now we are seeing diseases that are specifically geared to these mutated crops. This world need to go back to seeds that were more natural.

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This is a great concern for me. Some of these are signs that we are heading towards a time in which paper money will have no value and the only thing of importance or worth is how much GOOD food you have to eat.

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I think paper money will still be around it will just be backed with food instead of gold like it is currently. Yes this is a big scare to everyone. With me being in a farming state this can hit us very hard. Makes me want to plant my own garden this year.

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We are in the time of great changes and I think one change is people will look to their roots for knowledge to reseed the land or go all science and eat completely artifically grown foods. They have been able to grow pork from pork cells but no pig...I read that in Popular science.

We need to educate our young in both and that way they may do very well. I have been debating to buy my dads house about one acre just enough to grow veggatable fro a family of four for a year and a pig. Might just be worth it.

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I have a friend who lives on a farm so I am able to get my meat fresh. He has both pigs and cows a few chickens. I think there are wild turkeys not far out of town. SO I can get plenty of meat. I just need to plant a small garden to get some of my own veggies or expand my basement underground and make a year round garden using florescent lights and some hydroplonics

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I would love to live on a farm! The sad thing is... with these kinds of diseases you are in jeopardy regardless to whether you have your own farm or not. I believe one of the keys is to have a good storage after production and harvest rather than depend on recent crops or plantations.