Some Interesting Facts

• Lots of farmers decide to store their grains on-site at their farms. They are called silos.

• Drought, frost, salinity, disease, quality constraints, and inefficient use of nutrients can cost the Australian wheat industry billions in lost production and lost crop value each year.

Wheat breeding programs are progressively delivering improved varieties which can hold up against some of these challenges.

•  The GRDC invested around $13.5m in wheat and barley pre-breeding research in 2011/12. since 2009/10 through to 2012/13 total investments in this research program area total nearly $51.5m.
• Did you know in the year 2000 350 million hectares of farm land was destroyed by natural fire.
• Millet is a tall grass that has been cultivated as food for at least 3,000 years.

• The straws of wheat can be used for Roofing, making hats and making baskets.

             

•  One bushel of wheat contains approximately one million individual kernels.
• Australia exports 80% of the total wheat it produces each year.
• Australia is the worlds 4th largest wheat exporter after The United States, Canada and The European Union.
•  About 1.5 BILLION TONNES of food is wasted every year! That is equivalent to $165 billion!
•  Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another cereal grain is a grain product.
•  A single bushel of wheat weighs approximately 27kg. 
• Aphids-Live on wheat, sucking the sap out of the plant aphids can also pass on yellow dwarf virus to the plant.
• Domestic wheat originated in southwest Asia in what is now known as a the Fertile Crescent.
• Popcorn, in its natural state, is a whole grain food. 
• The Aztecs were the first to pop corn and use it as a decoration. (Yes I'm talking about popcorn because why not)