Ug99 is not another Neil Diamond cover band*

And you thought food prices were high now?

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in March that Iran had detected a new highly pathogenic strain of wheat stem rust called Ug99.

The fungal disease could spread to other wheat producing states in the Near East and western Asia that provide one-quarter of the world’s wheat.

*I know UB40 isn't a cover band.  But their most popular song--at least in the U.S., and really, where else does music matter?**--was a cover of Neil Diamond's Red, Red Wine.  "Red, Red Wine you make me fell so fine, you keep me happy, all of the time"...then there's something about a monkey.

**I'm joking international readers. 

Comments

[David]

They were pretty much a cover band.

[Bob Murphy]

I sometimes don't agree with the policy positions taken on this blog, but I am now forever grateful that I can drop my grudging respect for UB40. I had no idea Neil Diamond wrote this.