This truly is a PILE of wheat. The Durum wheat in this case was running around 50 bushels to the acre! Pretty good! The bins were already full so the wheat had to be temporarily stored in a pile on the ground. This pile consists of 38 semi loads!! It is approximately 40,000 bushels. That's my mom standing beside the pile in the bottom picture to give you some perspective.
To all my Dutch friends, the farmers in this case are very very hard workers and though they proudly Canadian they are also extremely proud of their Dutch heritage.
Some facts: Durum (Latin for hard) is the best wheat for making pasta because of it's hardness. When most wheat is milled, the heart of the wheat kernel breaks down into a fine, powdery flour, but durum is hard enough to hold together. The result is a granular product called semolina. Durum kernels are amber-coloured, giving pasta its yellow hue.
22 Comments
ihor khoynyak 03 Aug 2010
You did it!Dave Dodrill 28 Jul 2007
Great Macro! Great colorsSteve Farr 07 Apr 2006
Wow! Great photos, Diana! The second photo really makes you appreciate the first one(if that makes any sense!) Take care!!Fiona Hooper 08 Oct 2005
I love the focus on the foreground, with the background receding so well. Great!Joke Schotting 08 Oct 2005
Great photo,Diana!!Sara Deutsch 07 Oct 2005
I like how you united both perspectives.William Boyer 06 Oct 2005
now you know, I trained the birds with wheat. LOLstephanie atlee 06 Oct 2005
cool close up...amazingJan Christensen 05 Oct 2005
Neat shots! Nothing like this in the city!Aris Stathakis 05 Oct 2005
that's amazing! great photo!Marilyn Servais 05 Oct 2005
nice shot Diana that nourishes us !!:)Karina Ishkhanova 04 Oct 2005
What a beautiful image - I wish I could reach out to it, grab handful, close my eyes and feel how it trickles between my fingers. I use to love doing that when I was a child.Barbara Beck-Azar 04 Oct 2005
wheat so essential to our exisitence.. so beautifully captured in your photo, close and far... what a wonderful story to go along too~ Thank you for this glimpse into your world...Loredana 04 Oct 2005
WOW Unreal :)Anna Lo Bello 04 Oct 2005
Awesome mountain of wheat, beautiful close-up!Reba McDonald 04 Oct 2005
So you do have mountains on the Prairies.Analua 04 Oct 2005
Great image Diana!!!Patty Day 04 Oct 2005
Very pretty color! I like the photo, great job!thea walstra 04 Oct 2005
Awesome Diana!Nelly van Nieuwenhuijzen 04 Oct 2005
beautifull photo, here in Holland you never see this kind of mountains... Last year we had 11.000 kg of a ha. (my husband is still a Dutch farmer..)joan warburton 04 Oct 2005
What a great photo! Wonderful composition!Emily Reed 04 Oct 2005
Cool image.