Wheat

Wheat is a product of a Farm. It is used to make different products in a Food Industry.
==History==
From the 6th century on, bed ploughs slowly came into use in central European agriculture. They were made from iron and were dragged by oxen. From the 12th century on, farmers bred giant horses to replace cattle whenever ploughing, harrowing or pulling of heavy cereal loads had to be done. People had used hook and arc sickles to mow grass since Antiquity. They had serrated blades so working with them was difficult enough. Scythes were only invented as late as the 9th century, and the 12th century saw the appearance of a curved sickle with a smooth blade for easier cutting.  The conventional system of rotation agriculture was gradually replaced by three-acre cultivation. At the height of the Middle Ages, people were able to harvest cereals twice a year, thanks to the new manures they were using. As the European population had grown by 20% between 1150 and 1200, higher yields were needed. At that time the wheat harvest was as much as five times the seed sown, and in France it reached eleven times the seed sown.
==Did You Know That?==
Wheat is the most popular cultivated plant in the world. Farmers are continuously switching to wheat and reducing the amount of land allotted to cattle.. The annual world harvest of the crop amounts to millions of tons. Wheat is one of the world's oldest cereals and counts as a member of the grass family. A major part of the food industry would be paralysed without wheat deliveries.
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