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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35131751

Try to imagine if some similar blight took out rice or spuds?
never heard of the potato famine??
The death of grass .baby
Unfortunately this is what happens when you put all your eggs into one basket. As for the potato blight, I'm sure I can recall a program from a few years ago (may have been a Countryfile or something similar) where they did a report about a couple running a farm in Northumberland who grow all different cultivars of seed potatos on their hill farm because the blight cannot survive above a certain elevation above sea level. This farm is then acting as a reservoir of healthy plants in case there is another large scale blight problem.