Wheat Trivia

• Wheat is grown in 42 states in the United States. 

• More foods are made with wheat than any other cereal grain.

• One bushel of wheat yields enough flour for 70 one-pound loaves of white bread.

• Kansas ranks first among the states in wheat produced and wheat milled into flour.

• A 1½ pound loaf of commercial bread contains 24 slices.

• Wheat is the only grain with sufficient gluten content to make a raised or leavened loaf of bread.

• A modern combine can harvest 1,000 bushels of wheat per hour.

• One bushel of wheat contains approximately 1 million individual kernels. 

• Between 60 and 63 million acres of wheat are harvested each year in the United States. If all the acres were side by side, the wheat fields would cover more than 100,000 square miles - an area 10 times the size of the state of Vermont, twice as big as all the New England states, or one-third the size of the state of Texas.

• Winter wheat not only resists freezing temperatures during winter, it needs the cold. Without exposure to low winter temperatures, the plants would just continue to produce leaves rather than producing seeds (wheat kernels).