What proportion of the wheat grown in the U.S. is currently white wheat?
A. According to the USDA, white wheat accounts for at most 10-15% of America’s total wheat crop.1 But this proportion has been changing rapidly. Production bushels of hard white wheat are estimated to have more than quadrupled between 2002 and 2004, rising from 13,021,903 bushels to 56,554,260.2 In Australia, the vast majority of the wheat produced is white wheat.
