In this case the court ruled that limits on wheat production were constitutional, even when enforced upon a local farmer.
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The Court agreed that his wheat production, along with the production of other individual wheat farmers, could affect the national wheat supply.
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Likewise, the United Nations just revised its forecast for global wheat production.
This would be to trigger the same regulatory power over wheat production.
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Potatoes became popular in the north of England, as people there specialised in livestock farming and domestic industry, while farmers in the south (where the soil was more suitable) concentrated on wheat production.
Filburn, a hapless Ohio farmer was ordered to destroy his wheat crop, which he grew on his own property to feed his own chickens, because it violated a federal law designed to limit wheat production and drive up prices.
To put that in perspective, India's wheat wastage each year is almost equal to Australia's entire production of wheat.
Corn, wheat and rice production are all experiencing long-term upward trends.
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Because the production of wheat, taken in aggregate, did affect interstate commerce, the regulation was permissible.
In France and Italy, the heatwave cut wheat yields and fodder production by one-third.
No country currently permits the commercial production of modified wheat, although agribusiness companies have developed strains that have been field tested.
Global production of corn, wheat and rice have all more than doubled since 1970 as global warming occurred.
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The World Bank cites, among other factors, Saudi Arabia importing wheat, a result of its cuts in production to conserve water.
Outside of the cities, farm-related growth jumped 13% as production of goods such as beef and wheat started getting back to normal.
Mr. Taylor, for instance, will have to postpone planting some soybeans this spring until after the wheat is harvested, and that delay could cut into production.
Looking ahead to the 2013 harvest, he said farmers had managed to get only three-quarters of the planned wheat planted this year, so the UK was already 25% down on potential production.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
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