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| I'm rather surprised there is that much wheat grown in that relatively humid climate. Wheat was big in central Iowa up until the 1890s, now there's no market in 200 miles. Its simply not grown or traded here. Berilla wants only hard winter or durham wheat and last I read ISU Extension said there were no varieties suitable for Iowa. So they have their own RR siding a mile and a half long on the UP main line.
I figured wheat growing left this area because of high humidity most summers so encouraged fungal growth that it was impractical and so wheat moved to drier climates west and northwest from here. I'm sure in the 19th century they didn't know vomitoxin even if it was present, and they didn't have dryers so the buyers had to take and use the wheat at whatever moisture it was delivered at. Am I missing other things that would have cause wheat growing to leave the area?
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I've about had it with wheat
