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Wheat

A cereal used in a large number of products, especially food. Wheat is contained in bread, cake, beer, pasta and even some fuels. Wheat is a major commodity and its contracts are traded on exchanges.

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I know where you can get some seed wheat if you want to try puttin' it in this fall.

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I guess dad's try at cornering wheat was about the most profitable thing that ever happened--to the other fellows.

Daddy and grandpa are busy in there cornering wheat.'

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High levels of polyphenol oxidase in the grain make US hard white wheats undesirable and place them at a disadvantage relative to wheats from Australia in the Asian markets, where they don't want to see gray noodles hung up to dry and sell.

Eliminate gray discoloration in wheat products

Ancient wheat varieties are currently grown on smaller acreages in the United States than common and durum wheats.

Wonderful wheat: why this ancient staple is still good for you. Learn which factors determine best uses, nutrition and flavor

Soft red winter wheat has the same kernel color as the hard red wheats but is softer in texture and lower in protein.

Properly stored wheat will last a long time

According to Emma Jackson, HGCA's British Cereals Export manager, delegates were shown that bread wheat grown in the UK was suited to making most types of bread and that soft wheat was very successful when used for low volume breads and for blending with stronger wheats.

British wheat rises to world bread taste test

Her CIMMYT colleagues, however, have developed what they call synthetic bread wheats, which demonstrate that genetic crop diversity can be restored or even amplified.

The ultimate crop insurance: a new treaty strives to save 10,000 years of plant breeding

Soft wheats are used to make pastries, cookies, crackers, and flat or hearth breads, such as pita bread.

Let them eat cake: you can have your cake and eat bread, too!

Before 10000 B.P., the primitive wheats were insignificant grasses not the fine plants we know today, but they crossed with another wild grass and the resulting hybrid (presumably due to genetic chance) was also fertile.

Spelt, emmer, and wheat

Durum prices vary more from year to year than prices of other wheats. "To help even out the price swings," says Hareland, "we're trying to find another niche for durum besides pasta."

Baking Sure New Wheats Measure Up

Two slices of most whole wheats contain four grams of flber.

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