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Under the Wilson administration during World War I, the U.S. Food Administration, under the direction of Herbert Hoover, set a basic price of $2.20 per bushel. The end of the war led to "the closing of the bonanza export markets and the fall of sky-high farm prices", and wheat prices fell from more than $2.20 per bushel in 1919 to $1.01 in 1921 ...
[citation needed] The higher gluten and protein properties of these hard wheats offered better bread-making qualities than the soft wheat varieties. [9] U.S. commercial millers initially significantly discounted the hard wheats because the white endosperm that customers preferred could be more easily sifted from the soft wheats. [10]
A soft white spring wheat. Neepawa, 1969. Similar to Manitou. Developed by Agriculture Canada. Earlier maturing and higher yielding than Thatcher. Pitic 62, 1969. Yaktana 54 × (Norin 10 × Brever). Developed in Mexico. It was the first utility wheat to be licensed in Canada. Glenlea, 1972, (Pembina2 × Bage) × CB200.
A: Plant; B ripe ear of corn; 1 spikelet before flowering; 2 the same, flowering and spread, enlarged; 3 flowers with glumes; 4 stamens 5 pollen; 6 and 7 ovaries with juice scales; 8 and 9 parts of the scar; 10 fruit husks; 11, 12, 13 seeds, natural size and enlarged; 14 the same cut up, enlarged.
The Grain Merchants: An Illustrated History of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Afton Historical Society Press in collaboration with the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. ISBN 1-890434-74-4. Minter, Adam (August 2006). "Gimme Grain!". The Rake. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007; Minneapolis Public Library (2001).
Soft commodities, or softs, [1] [2] are commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean, fruit and livestock. [3] The term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined; the latter (such as oil, copper and gold) are known as hard commodities. [4] [3] Soft commodities play a major part in the futures market.
Whole-wheat white flour is white flour that contains the endososperm, bran, and germ [8] Enriched flour is white flour with nutrients added to compensate for the removal of the bran and germ; Bleached flour is a white flour treated with flour bleaching agents to whiten it (freshly milled flour is yellowish) and give it more gluten-producing ...
In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily Commodity price index that became available to the public in 1940. By 1952, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a Spot Market Price Index that measured the price movements of "22 sensitive basic commodities whose markets are presumed to be among the first to be influenced by changes in economic conditions.