Organic Heirloom Turkey Red Wheat Berries

Organic Heirloom Turkey Hard Red Winter Wheat Berries – 40 lb bags These are whole unmilled organic wheat berries. Performs similarly to and can be use in place of modern Hard Red Winter wheat. Turkey Red Wheat, once the dominant variety of hard red winter wheat planted throughout the central U.S., is back in production. “Turkey” variety hard red winter wheat was introduced to Kansas in 1873, carried by Mennonite immigrants from Crimea in the Ukraine, fleeing Russian forced military service. In the mid-1880s, grainsman Bernard Warkentin imported some 10,000 bushels of Turkey seed from the Ukraine, the first commercially available to the general public. That 10,000 bushels (600,000 pounds) would plant some 150 square miles (10,000 acres). By the beginning of the twentieth century, hard red winter wheat, virtually all of it Turkey, was planted on some five million acres in Kansas alone. In the meantime, it had become the primary wheat variety throughout the plains from the Texas panhandl