most wheat is grown in the us at kansas.
most wheat is grown in the us at kansas.
where is most wheat grown in the us?
kansas
by far, the most significant agricultural crop in the state is wheat. eastern kansas is part of the grain belt, an area of major grain production in the central united states. approximately 40% of all winter wheat grown in the us is grown in kansas. roughly 95% of the wheat grown in the state is hard red winter wheat. during 2016, farmers of conventionally grown wheat farmed 8.2 million acres and harvested an average of 57 bushels of wheat per acre.
kansas
in "wickard v. filburn" (1942), in the context of world war ii, the court ruled that federal regulations of wheat production could constitutionally be applied to wheat grown for "home consumption" on a farmthat is, wheat grown to be fed to farm animals or otherwise consumed on the farm. the rationale was that a farmer's growing "his own wheat" can have a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce, because if all farmers were to exceed their production quotas, a significant amount of wheat would either not be sold on the market or would be bought from other producers. hence, in the aggregate, if farmers were allowed to consume their own wheat, it would affect the interstate market in wheat.
tenth amendment to the united states constitution