Southwestern Kansas Wheat Field
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Southwestern Kansas Wheat Field
Artist
Catherine Sherman
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Photograph - Photography Digitally Enhanced
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"Southwestern Kansas Wheat Field" by Catherine Sherman.
Blue and gold are the colors of Kansas when the wheat fields are ready to harvest. In the distance, you can see another "crop" -- an oil pump.
Kansas is the largest wheat producer in the United States with North Dakota a close second. Wheat is grown in 42 U.S. states.
U.S. farmers grow nearly 2.4 billion bushels of wheat on 63 million acres of land. (Source: USDA) About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically. Wheat was first planted in the United States in 1777 as a hobby crop, but now wheat is the primary grain used in U.S. grain products. About three-quarters of all U.S. grain products are made from wheat flour.
Wheat is a member of the grass family that produces a dry one-seeded fruit commonly called a kernel. More than 17,000 years ago, humans gathered the seeds of plants and ate them.
Featured in "ABC Group - S is for Sky" (05/09/2017)
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April 11th, 2015
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