8 sentences with 'wheat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wheat and other words derived from it.
• « They then planted crops of wheat, rye, barley and oats, harvesting small yields that barely sustained the population. »
• « British textile mills consumed American cotton voraciously, and the devastation of the Napoleonic wars made Europe dependent on other American agricultural products, such as wheat. »
• « This drove up both the price of American agricultural products and the value of land on which commodities such as cotton, wheat, corn and tobacco were grown. »
• « In 1818, to worsen the economic situation, prices for American agricultural products began to fall in both the United States and Europe; overproduction of commodities such as wheat and cotton coincided with the recovery of European agriculture, which reduced demand for American crops. »
• « Fortunately for Americans whose wealth depended on the exploitation of slave labour, the falling price of tobacco had caused landowners in the Upper South to reduce their production of the crop and use more of their land to grow wheat, which was much more profitable. »
• « The transition in the Upper South to the staple crop of wheat, which did not require large numbers of slaves to produce, also spurred manumissions. »