PROPERTY & RIGHTS • FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Twenty-five percent. That's how much smaller the U.S. winter wheat crop just got — a quarter of last year's harvest, gone. The last time American farmers grew this little winter wheat, John F. Kennedy was in the White House. Sixty-four harvests ago. Drought scorched the Plains. Kansas, the nation's wheat king, is bringing in a million fewer acres. Indiana, Nebraska, parts of the Dakotas hit all-time lows. Your bread, your pasta, your kid's cereal box — they all start in those fields. And those fields just produced the smallest crop since 1962.
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To find a smaller U.S. winter wheat harvest, you have to go back to the year before the Beatles played Ed Sullivan.
