If the rain stops now, his cereal crop could fail.

It became more difficult to raise barley, the primary cereal crop, and livestock required additional fodder to survive longer and colder winters.

Paid as a share of the harvest, the amount due varied between one sixth and one twelfth, and typically one eighth of the cereal crop.

Despite these challenges, cereal crop production often exceeds other areas of the province.

Members of this genus are pathogens on all major cereal crop species except rice, and some cause large economic losses.