Unlike swarming locusts, periodical cicadas descend upon deciduous trees in the eastern United States for a period of about four or six weeks, on specific years.

Is marketing wheatgrass as a health-food product a cynical ploy to move more wheat seed? Or is the leaf, and not the kernel of wheat, the part of the plant we should all be consuming for a long happy life?

It's a tense time for mink farmers like the Papes.