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wheat | American Dictionary

wheat
noun[ U ]
us/hwit, wit/
a plant whose yellow-brown grain is used for making flour, or the grain itself

Examples of wheat

wheat
There is no statistical evidence of a consistent yield trend of rice or wheat with time.
Optimizing time distribution of water supply and fertilizer nitrogen rates in relation to targeted wheat yield.
Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
This should lead to a better understanding of the contributions of wheat improvement to food security and poverty reduction.
Farmers in the area grow a wide range of crops but major crops include wheat, barley, and horse beans.
At most sites wheat was planted in the same paddocks to follow the monitored chickpea crops.
Both hypotheses predict that red wheats will be more sprout resistant than white wheats.
For analysis, the wheat fields and the three successional stages of wildflower areas were considered as four different habitat types.
Moreover, agencies that funded wheat production research had little interest in funding research for a competing crop.
The organic rotation wheat-sweet clover will be more profitable than wheat-fallow in the long term, but will be less profitable than continuous wheat.
The total nutrient contents of wheat plants (uptake) were calculated.
Some producers might come to the conclusion that it was in their best interests not to sign a wheat allotment contract.
The proportions of wheat consumed by different livestock classes were assumed to be consistent over the years of the study.
The coefficients of the dummy variables (excluding wheat), therefore, compare the production frontier of barley, other cereals, pulses, and other crops to that of wheat.
This land produces the bulk of wheat and rice grains required to meet the food security requirements of the country.
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bushel of wheat
One bushelofwheat will, at the outside, produce no more than 15 bushels.
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