Ode to Wheat

This is taken in the wheat field by our house, summer 2010

• Farmer's receive about 4 cents of the cost of a loaf of bread sold at retail.

• A single bushel of wheat (about 1 million kernels) will make 73 loaves of bread, 53 boxes of cereal or 72 pounds of tortillas.

• An acre of wheat can produce enough wheat to furnish a family with bread for nearly 10 years.

• It takes a combine nine seconds to harvest enough wheat to make 70 loaves of bread.

• The United States uses over 3 million bushels of wheat each day.

• Wheat was first planted in the United States in 1777 as a hobby crop.

 (Wheat Marketing Center and Idaho Wheat Commission Statistics, as seen in Capitol Press).