- Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of the UK.
- Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East.
- According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.
- Wheat was introduced by the first English colonists and quickly became the main cash crop of farmers who sold it to urban populations and exporters.
- The country now producing the largest amount of the crop in the world is China.
- Every continent except Antarctica grows the crop to some extent.
- In 1777, wheat was first planted as a hobby crop.
