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Originally Posted by bower
Why no Rye?
Board of Agricultural Statistics, NASS/ USDA:
1997 : " Rye was planted on 1.5 million acres in 1996, the lowest acreage on record since 1866. Acreage, except for peaking during the two World Wars, has gradually declined during the past 100 years. A large portion of the rye acreage is used as a winter cover crop, pastured, and then plowed under as green manure. Only 24% of 1996 plantings were harvested for grain. Rye intended for grain is usually planted in the fall and harvested during the late spring or early summer months. Most rye is produced in the northern Plains and southern Plains. With the exception of Georgia,
only minor acreages of rye are grown in the East and South."
https://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usd...ting/uph97.pdf |
I think a lot of it has to do with the so called economic collapse some time ago.
Since then I have seen a ton of stuff leave the shelves to never come back.
Selection has gone way down.
Mostly to make room for high volume prepared junk food.
Yesterday at the store the place looked like they had announced the end of all food to come.
Worth