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5 unusual facts about wheat


El Molino, La Guajira

Capichin friars named the village "Población de San Lucas de El Molino" because of a Wheat Mill (grinding) which was later demolished.

Lorenzo, Texas

Wheat, soybeans, milo, and various other crops are also produced in the Lorenzo area.

Skiu-Kaya

Wheat and vegetables are cultivated by villagers, who also harvest wild seabuckthorn berries.

Tilden, Wisconsin


     John Myers has a farm on the N.E. quarter of Section 22 containing about 7.00(?) Acres(?) and has rais a good crop of Oats Wheat Barley Potatoes and Buckwheat this Season.

Wheat pools in Canada

Paper Wheat, a documentary play and film about the formation of Canada's wheat pools


1970–71 Ashes series

Farmers donated barley, wheat, oats, timber, sheep and cattle to be sold for the fund, one town built and sold a house and the racehorse La Loire made $18,000 in a raffle.

2012 LFL Canada season

Six days later, on February 28, the LFL announced that Saskatoon, Saskatchewan would join Regina as LFL Canada's second team in the Wheat Province.

Ada'a

Legumes and sugar cane are important cash crops; Ada'a produces the most teff, wheat and legumes in Misraq Shewa.

Appin, New South Wales

Appin was for decades a major wheat-growing, and dairy-farming area, but wheat rust, and new railways reaching other primary producing areas of the State, reduced its importance.

Ardrossan, South Australia

The town was largely initiated by wheat farmers and wheat transporters in the late 19th century who needed infrastructure to ship their produce across the Gulf St Vincent to Port Adelaide.

Belwania

Instead of these two products rice, wheat, pulse, maize, mustard, grains etc. are also being produced by the farmers.

Berridale, New South Wales

On 28 March 1942, a USAAF P-40E fighter made an emergency landing at "Wheat Hill" station, after becoming lost in fog during a flight from Canberra.

Brooklyn Underground Film Festival

The first festival included a large wheat paste mural by the artist known as Swoon.

Caissie Levy

She later opened the Broadway production reprising her role as Molly Jensen along with Richard Fleeshman, her co-star in the West End production as Sam Wheat.

Čakovečki mlinovi

The company's main plants are located in Čakovec, Donji Kraljevec, Oroslavje and Konjščina, all located in the north of the country, and its main wheat suppliers are farmers from the Međimurje County region.

Cecil Salmon

He worked for the Agricultural Research Service and during his time in Japan, Salmon collected wheat samples and found a dwarf strain which came to be called Norin 10 and which later triggered the Green Revolution.

Cephus cinctus

It is known as a chronic pest in Northern Great Plains of the USA and also an important pest of wheat in the Canadian Prairies.

Chinese pancake

Laobing (烙饼), an unleavened flatbread made from wheat flour

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia, commonly known as the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, is a cooperative of wheat growers in Western Australia.

Cuchuco

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.

Gabrielle Howard

Between 1905 and 1924, the Howards carried out research on crops such as cotton and wheat at their experiment station at Pusa, and ran a fruit experiment station at Quetta from 1912 until 1919.

Girl in White

Girl in White (also known as Young Girl Standing Against a Background of Wheat and Woman in a Cornfield) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, during the last months of his life.

Gord Kluzak

Gord Kluzak grew up on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, and attended high school in Wilcox, Saskatchewan at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame.

Habitat fragmentation

In the wheat belt of central western New South Wales, Australia, 90% of the native vegetation has been cleared and over 99% of the tall grass prairie of North America has been cleared, resulting in extreme habitat fragmentation.

Henry Perky

The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts and then in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company.

Kevin Cheveldayoff

Longtime Manitoba Moose general manager Craig Heisinger, a friend of Cheveldayoff's from their days with the Wheat Kings, was named as his assistant.

Korokke

Korokke is made by mixing cooked chopped meat, seafood, or vegetables with mashed potato or white sauce, rolling it in wheat flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, then deep frying this until brown on the outside.

Lady Carcas

Charlemagne and his men, believing that the city was full of food even to the point of wasting pigs fed with wheat, raised the siege.

Les Krims

In The Incredible Case Of The Stack O'Wheat Murders (1972), Krims both parodies forensic photography, and points to it as a remarkable archive of incredible and moving images (the various, successful CSI television series attests to his prescience).

Living Christ One Ear of Wheat Church

The founder of the Living Christ One Ear of Wheat Church, Matsubara Kazuhito, first came into contact with Christianity through the Mino Mission while a junior high student.

Marot

Mostly people are farmers in the area and the major crops are wheat, cotton, mustard and sugar cane.

Michail Melas

He studied law in Paris and became involved with commerce at an early age, importing Russian wheat to London and Marseilles.

Migas

They are usually made with leftover bread, either wheat bread traditionally associated with the Alentejo region in Southern Portugal, or corn bread as used in Beira.

Nadec

Other crops such as wheat, clover, shami corn and Rhodes grass are grown on thousands of acres of land across four major projects in Haradh, Wadi Al-Dawasser, Hail and Al Jouf.

Nazareno Strampelli

The Mentana variety was exported and cropped in Sonora, Mexico, and became the source of a new generation of high-yielding, small size wheat varieties.

Northern Wheatear

Its English name has nothing to do with wheat or ears, but is an altered (perhaps bowdlerised) form of white-arse, which refers to its prominent white rump.

Powder Day

A similar custom takes place in Alozaina, in which hundreds of people celebrate the “hariná”, in remembrance of the times when their ancestors covered young women with wheat flour from the mills to show their love.

Quality Protein Maize

It was developed by Dr. Surinder Vasal and Dr. Evangelina Villegas at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in the late 1990s.

Richard Dennis

Dennis profited, as he bought successively new weekly and monthly highs in the trending inflationary markets of the 1970s, an era of repeated crop failures and the "Great Russian Grain Robbery" of 1972, when agents of the Soviet Union secretly purchased 30% of the U.S. wheat crop in the space of a few weeks.

Ronan's Escape

The film set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia, provides a candid insight into the life of Ronan, a 14 year old boy who gets bullied at school and decides to make his escape.

Roy Heferen

Heferen became a wheat farmer after buying land on the Boggabilla-Camurra Railway line at Croppa Creek near Moree.

Sour soup

Ciorbă, borş, terms from Moldova for sour soups or fermented wheat bran, essential ingredient to cook ciorbă.

SS Monte Nevoso

In early October 1932 Monte Nevoso left the port of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina with a cargo of 8600 tons of Wheat, Maize and Linseeds, bound for Europe.

The Gentle Crackdown II

For the benefit of his son's future, Sheung's father Tse Chong-Tin (Ha Yu) has not only invited the intelligent Tai Tsung-Man (Wayne Lai) to be Sheung's assistant, but also found him four special bodyguards playfully named Chuk (Congee), Fun (Rice Noodle), Mein (Wheat Noodle), and Fan (Rice).

Trevor Flugge

He was appointed a consultant to AWB after the vote and travelled to Baghdad later that year, with AWB chairman Andrew Lindberg, to rescue an AWB wheat export deal with Saddam Hussein's regime.

U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative

The Initiative's goal is to develop as quickly as possible effective control measures that minimize the threat of Fusarium head blight (scab), including the reduction of mycotoxins, to the producers, processors, and consumers of wheat and barley.

Upma

A huge number of variations of Upma are made with whole or refined ground wheat and rice of varied grain size, vermicelli, Durum wheat semolina or pearl sago.

Walgoolan, Western Australia

The town was a thriving community wit five schools, tennis courts, a cricket club, Country Women's Association and Wheat Growers Union.

Wheat Thins

A more recent commercial aired during Super Bowl XLVI featuring Brian and Stewie from cartoon series Family Guy, in which Stewie puts emphasis on the "H" in "Wheat", saying "Hwheat Thins."

William H. Wheat

Wheat was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 16, 1944.

Wuliangye

It specializes in manufacturing baijiu, and is best known for Wuliangye, made from five organic grains: Proso millet, corn, glutinous rice, long grain rice and wheat.


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