If the South had had both cotton and wheat, the Civil War might have seen strong foreign intervention.
Many refugees fled to Iran from Afghanistan, and Iran provided a port for shipping American wheat into the war zone.
On General Douglas MacArthur's team in Japan at the end of the second world war a wheat expert named Cecil Salmon collected 16 varieties of wheat including one called "Norin 10", which grew just two feet tall, instead of the usual four.
Jones, Leee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia"; Charles L. Dufour, "Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat"; John D. Winters, "The Civil War in Louisiana".
I was also pleased to learn that Zane Grey's "The Desert of Wheat," a First World War adventure story, is now available on Kindle.
But during World War II, wheat prices soared, causing many farmers to return to the same destructive practices that had led to the Dust Bowl in the first place.
The yoga, the meditation, the dietary changes (the usual wars on wheat, gluten, dairy and sugar, as well as more esoteric odds and ends).
The real cold war is in wheat gene taxonomies (Russia uses a different classification system to the US).
The Supreme Court disagreed, but at least it was consistent, since it had ruled during World War II that a wheat farmer could not use this argument to escape federal war efforts to regulate wheat production (Wickard v. Filburn).
Meanwhile in 1943 his war cabinet was stockpiling wheat for after the war to feed Europeans but, according to the historian Madhusree Mukerjee, ignored the famine that had spread across north-west Bengal: "170,000 tons of Australian wheat bypassed starving India," Mukerjee argues, "destined not for consumption but for storage".
