Everyone Laughed At His 'Fall-Planted' Wheat — Until The Spring Harvest Changed America скачать в хорошем качестве

Everyone Laughed At His 'Fall-Planted' Wheat — Until The Spring Harvest Changed America

Everyone Laughed At His 'Fall-Planted' Wheat — Until The Spring Harvest Changed America In 1874, Mennonite immigrant Bernhard Warkentin arrived in Kansas carrying trunks and kitchen crocks filled with a strange wheat variety called "Turkey Red" from the Russian steppes. American farmers had already failed repeatedly trying to grow conventional spring wheat on the drought-prone, brutal Great Plains. When Warkentin insisted on planting this unfamiliar winter wheat—seeding in fall when everyone else insisted crops must be planted in spring—local farmers dismissed it as "foreign foolishness." Within a decade, Turkey Red had transformed Kansas into the breadbasket of America, and the descendants of that original grain now account for nearly 20% of all American wheat production.