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…
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2024 Scholarship Essay: Addison Perkins
Modern Challenges In Wheat Production By Addison Perkins There are a multitude of challenges facing today’s wheat farmer. Many of the struggles are consistent over generations, but in today’s world seem to hit on a bigger scale. The price of inputs, land being taken out of production for development, the affordability of labor, along with…
