Cereal Crops and A Bale Out
Wheat is the world's most important crop and apart from bread it has many hundreds of other uses. Growing wheat in Britain is easy as the climate and soil are well suited. After beef and sheep farms which are the two most common types of farming in England the production of cereal is the next biggest with wheat being the most popular by volume. The origins of wheat go back many thousands of years to the early examples of production in Mesopotamia. Like so many other things it is to this region of the near Middle East that the first example of bread-making is discovered. Wheat is one of the earliest examples of exported goods from the UK and precedes the Roman times. Even today a large percentage of production is exported. Wheat is used in bread, biscuits and countless other processed foodstuffs that include many items on the supermarket shelves. The seed consists of three parts and whole grain bread uses all of them. They consist of an outer husk called the bran and two other part...