Ref difficulty in growing wheat..... Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:16:25 +0000 From: mike hilton <jmh963@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [LDR] Sale of Part of Bacon Quarter / Wheat or Tobacco? I attended a Seminar a number of years ago where a speaker on migration spoke about the wheat in the midwest. The wheat in the midwest may have been an entirely different crop from that on the eastern shore. Many soil and weather differences. The sod in the mid west was very difficult to penetrate, thus the term sod busters. The beer industry developed in the midwest because the German's brought in "Black Wheat" which grew well in the mid west. I hope I have remembered all of this correctly. You may want to check with Extension Offices in each state for verification. Of course wheat harvesting changed dramatically after Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper in the late 1800s, which is out of your time frame. Nancy, Augusta, GA