Wheat in Farmstead World — crop in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
Wheat is a cereal grass grown for its grain, which is ground into flour and baked into bread, pasta and pastry.
It is sown as winter or spring wheat and classed as hard or soft: hard wheats have the protein for bread, soft wheats suit cakes and biscuits.
Farm facts about wheat
Wheat was first cultivated in the Fertile Crescent around 9,600 BC, making it one of humanity's oldest crops. (en.wikipedia.org)
Wheat grows on more of Earth's farmland than any other food crop, and worldwide wheat trade is larger than all other crops combined. (en.wikipedia.org)
Flatbread is older than farming: people made a bread-like food from ground wild einkorn wheat around 12,400 BC, nearly 3,000 years before wheat was domesticated. (en.wikipedia.org)
Modern wheat cannot survive in the wild — its ripe seeds stay attached to the ear instead of scattering, so the plant depends on humans to sow it. (en.wikipedia.org)
Bread wheat is a triple hybrid: it carries six sets of chromosomes from three different ancestral grasses, and the final cross happened in early farmers' fields. (en.wikipedia.org)
The earliest wheat with enough gluten for yeasted, risen bread comes from a granary at Assiros in northern Greece, dated to about 1350 BC. (en.wikipedia.org)