When was wheat cultivated

Wheat is grown on more land area than any other commercial food. It is also the most traded crop, much greater than all trade of the other crops combined. Wheat grain is used for many purposes but mainly for foods. It is used for making flour for different kinds of bread , for biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, noodles, and for fermentation to make beer, some other alcoholic beverages, and for making of biofuel.

Wheat is also used as a livestock feed, and its straw is used as a construction material. Earliest archeological findings of domesticated wheat found in the Karacadag mountain region of what is today southeastern Turkey and are dating some 12, years ago.

The earliest collected wheat of the wild kind was wild emmer at the Ohalo II site in the southern Levant which were 23, years old. Threshing: Loosening the edible part of the grain from the protective coating around it. Winnowing: Separating the coating from the edible grain. Toggle navigation. Photo courtesy of Prairie Californian. Vocabulary: Grain Drill: a device that sows the seeds for crops by metering out the individual seeds, positioning them in the soil, and covering them to a certain average depth.

Milled: To grind or crush something such as a wheat plant Reaping: Cutting of the crop Threshing: Loosening the edible part of the grain from the protective coating around it Winnowing: Separating the coating from the edible grain. Visit Main Site Donate.

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