Wheat is basic to diets everywhere with the exception of certain regions of the Orient. The story of wheat is as old as civilisation itself and its use extends well beyond the earliest period of recorded history.
When early civilisations found that they could cultivate the wild grain, they soon discovered how to grind wheat into flour and bake the flour into bread.
Wheat plants vary in size from two to seven feet. Their roots may reach as much as eight feet into the soil.
More than one-fifth of the world’s cropland is devoted to wheat and is the staple food of millions of people. The United States is one of the world’s biggest exporters of wheat along with Canada, Argentina, Australia and France. Most of the wheat carried by Irish ships originates in the United States.
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