Like, picture a lady standing in a field with her dress flapping nobly in the wind, and maybe she's holding a basket of wheat and squinting into the distance, and she's like, Oh man, when is he gonna return, because I've borne so much already?
In early January, the Financial Times reported the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's food price index, "a basket tracking the wholesale cost of wheat, corn, rice, oilseeds, dairy products, sugar and meats" had jumped to a record high.
Improbably large marrows will jostle with baskets of fruit, loaves of bread and sheaves of wheat; brownies, scouts and guides will parade, and clergy will try to say something sensible about harvest festival, a curiously popular service despite the fact that people's connection with food today is mostly with supermarkets and fast-food restaurants rather than the land that provides it.
Climate change is causing wheat rust to move north, potentially threatening crops in the wheat basket of Ukraine and Russia, while making wheat more difficult to grow in Africa's rising temperatures.
We were optimistic from the moment the aromatic Liuzzi Italian extra-virgin olive oil was poured in individual saucers, served along with a basket of wholesome whole wheat bread.
Syria, once the bread basket of the Roman Empire, has been a net importer of wheat for 30 years.
That the United States, with its vast expanse of fertile plains reaching from sea, past the Rockies, to sea, with its efficient inland waterways transport system, with its competent and professional farming community, has become, as the world's largest grower and exporter of corn, the largest exporter of wheat and the second largest exporter of soybeans, in other words, the world's food basket.
Heads of wheat and unprocessed wheat grains (Triticum species).
America has plenty of wheat to spare.
