Category: Our Daily Bread

That kernel of wheat isn’t actually a seed or a berry, at least not to a botanist. The rest of us can call it what we like.

Synthetic wheat; it isn’t natural, but it is a very good thing.

Credit where credit’s due: The Father of the Green Revolution had an unacknowledged father himself.

Today’s Red Fife would not qualify as an official Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat, but that doesn’t matter. People want Red Fife because it is Red Fife, not just any old high-quality Canadian wheat.

“In order to improve cultivated plants it is necessary to have the ‘building material’ required … And to use their most valuable qualities for hybridisation.”