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No
Smut Here
 A team of
researchers helped open the door to China for U.S. wheat exports. For
years, the Chinese feared that the plant disease, smut, might be
imported with U.S. wheat, thus ruining China’s domestic crop just as
blight had wiped out Ireland’s potatoes. Researchers from Montana
State, Utah State, Oregon State, Wyoming and Idaho
convinced the Chinese that smut did not represent a threat to its
winter wheat regions, and China began accepting wheat from the western
states. In Montana alone, wheat exports to China have ranged from 1.5
million to 10 million metric tons per year
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