rye flour to disappear from U.S. in June or July

[grasswire]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=144442&mesg_id=144473

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Does this mean rye bread hoarding?

What happens to all that corned beef and pastrami?

[grasswire]

2. lettuce wraps, I guess

I don't eat rye bread often, but when you want it, nothing else will do.

[noamnety]

3. Time to start growing it

I was thinking of expanding the garden to include some grains next year ... maybe I should get some starter seeds this year.

[kestrel91316]

4. Just beware of ergot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot

[noamnety]

5. hmmm.

My top two contenders were amaranth (no clue how resistant that is) and oats, which from your link seem to get it less often. Maybe I should stick to them.

I do love rye bread, though - having lived in Germany for a few years, that's an especially hard thing to contemplate giving up.

[kestrel91316]

6. Being a fungus, there are no doubt environmental effects that determine

its prevalence in any given crop. IIRC, cool, rainy weather makes for more fungal problems in grains in general.