Struggles Within Wheat Farming By Grace Cloughton There are an abundant amount of struggles within wheat farming. Some of the strugglesinclude mother nature, input and output prices, equipment costs, technology, the government’soutrageous laws, land values, and farmers’ mental health. In the following paragraphs I willoutline and discuss some of the struggles above within the wheat…

Grown for over 10,000 years, wheat is one of the world’s most important crops. Today, US farmers grow over 37 million acres of wheat a year. Wheat is grown much differently than it was when my father was growing up. When he was growing up, he remembers that some of the practices they used on…