Images Dated 1st August 2010

Summer morning wheat fields on South Dakota prairie, South Dakota, USA

Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a cereal grain, (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) originally from the Levant region of the Near East but now cultivated worldwide. In 2013, world production of wheat was 713 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (1, 016 million tons) and rice (745 million tons). Wheat was the second most-produced cereal in 2009, world production in that year was 682 million tons, after maize (817 million tons), and with rice as a close third (679 million tons)

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