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wheat

[weet, hweet] / wit, ʰwit /
NOUN
grain
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What’s also true is that 21st century markets can be affected by speculators’ attention, much as wheat crops can be affected by the attention of locust swarms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The war is hitting Midwest farmers just as they enter the planting season for crops such as wheat, corn and soybean, and need to apply vast quantities of fertilizer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Soft commodities, including corn and wheat, are showing renewed strength as investors rotate into these previously lagging areas.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Under the deal, eight years in the making, almost all EU tariffs will be lifted on Australian agricultural products such as wine, fruit and vegetables, olive oil, seafood, most dairy products and wheat and barley.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Then I slipped into sleep to the distant sound of steam engines threshing Dakota wheat.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck