— Jeff Gordinier The Economist: Though the great drought has focused attention on scorched corn and wheat, it is the soybean crop — with its long pollination time — that still hangs in the balance.
Though it contains whole-grain oats and whole-grain wheat, it also has two types of sugar as some of its highest ingredients and, in addition, has added corn syrup and honey.
"It was not wheat, it was barley," he said.
This income was pitifully low in terms of the amount of wheat it could buy.
Twice the size of modern-day wheat, it is high in protein and minerals.
With the addition of advanced implements, improved seeds and fertilizer, you can double the amount of wheat it yields.
That flag, that wheat — it looked like it belonged at a Whole Foods checkout line in some weird parallel dimension.
Slightly dense and redolent of yeast and fresh-baked wheat, it comes in long, flattish loaves that are scored like dinner rolls for easy tearing.
Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, and no country in the region (except for Syria) produces more than a small fraction of the wheat it consumes.
The difference in White Lily flour begins with the kind of wheat it is made from, soft red winter wheat, a low-protein, low-gluten variety.
For Shredded Wheat, it cut a huge logo into a wheat field on a British farm supplying grain to the cereal maker.
