#wheat

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. ↗

— John Bright

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