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What of wheat, anyway?
Wheat is grown on more land area worldwide than any other crop. It is a close third to rice and corn in total world production and it supplies about 20 per cent of the food calories for people around the world. One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of flour: enough for approximately 70 one-pound loaves of white bread. The first evidence of wheat was discovered in an ancient civilization in what is now Iraq, dating back to at least 6700 BC. Other archeological findings show that bread wheat was grown in the Nile Valley about 5,000 BC. (In fact, pyramid workers were paid in wheat.) Wheat made its way to England around the twelfth century and to the New World with Christopher Columbus. The first recorded growing of wheat in North American was in Massachusetts in 1602. On that note, it might be time to make a sandwich.
Food Fact brought to you by Farm Credit Canada.
Sources:
http://www.wholegrainsbureau.ca/ about_wg/history_of_wg.html
http://www.cyberspaceag.com/ kansascrops/wheat/wheathistory.htm
http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/farming/stockcrop/wheat/wheathist.html
http://www.agron.iastate.edu/ courses/agron212 /Readings/Oat_wheat_history.htm
