“You produce wheat and that gets you a better income ... was once a patchwork of poppy fields, a quilt-like pattern of them easily visible from the air. Considered Afghanistan’s breadbasket ...

BLERANCOURT, France—The countryside of Picardy is dotted with poppies. They grow on the edges of the wheat, sugar beet and potato fields, under the fences of cow pastures, and on the shoulders o ...

Poppy seeds, long dormant on the battlefields in Belgium and France, bloomed unexpectedly alongside the crosses and inspired ...

Grasshoppers Preying on Dry Wheat Fields Yes, grasshoppers. Intense swarms of grasshoppers are even showing up on this National Weather Service graphic, an issue Angvick hasn’t seen this extreme ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician.

Less-profitable wheat crops have supplanted poppies in fields - and many farmers saying they are suffering financially. We travelled to provinces including Nangarhar, Kandahar and Helmand ...