WHEAT

 

Wheat is the highest produced crop in Australia. It is a staple food and is used to make flour, bread, biscuits, cakes, pasta, noodles, couscous, alcohol and biofuel. It is also used in the fermentation of beer and as a feed for cattle. This grain is in fact so popular that almost twenty million tonnes are produced each year over the thirty thousand wheat farms in Australia. Australia was the seventh highest producer of wheat in the world in 2005, producing 24 million metric tonnes.