But North Dakota is better known as a top wheat producing state.
VOA: special.2010.02.09
There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of statewheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.
Filburn, from 1942, the Court said that the federal government could regulate the amount of wheat grown on a farm, even if none of the wheat was sold across state lines, or even if no wheat was sold at all.
The government of Indira Gandhi dithered for months before the main Sikh political party, the moderate Akali Dal, threatened to disrupt grain supplies from the wheat-rich state.