Wheat (or barley) Some type of cereal field
Wheat or barley Some variety of cereal growing next to Hauptstrasse between Stilli and Villigen. This field is close to the broccoli or raps/canola field in my post from April 12th. The greenhouse visible at the top of the field is part of the Schwarz agribusiness that I've mentioned a couple of times (1, 2).
Addendum: A couple of readers suggested that this looks more like barley than wheat. I'm putting the following links (which I had initially just put in the comments section) to illustrations and description of wheat and barley at the Cereal Diseases Laboratory website, so that you all can weigh in:
Barley (die Gerste)
Wheat (der Weizen)
and an additional crop to consider:
Rye (der Roggen)
More on this tomorrow. By the way, the bristle on the ears (the seed-bearing head or spike of a cereal plant) is called awn.
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13 comments:
Spectacular photo. The line in the middle is perfectly straight.
These must be young wheat plants, right? The only ones I've seen are all dried and yellow.
Green and blue, a nice wedding (I do like your yesterday post!)
I think it's barley. Barley has long "hairs" (as you can see) but wheat just has the grain head and almost no "hair". By hair, I mean those spiky bristles above the grain head. ;-)
Ming: This one I did "free-hand". Sometimes I don't get a straight shot, in those cases I straighten the photo in iPhoto or Photoshop.
Alice: I love the blue-green combination.
Chuckeroon: I had to do some Googling for a response to your comment. I've found a couple of botanical illustrations (links follow) that indicate that wheat can have awns (the hairs) and that the awns on barley are "stiff and straight". What do you say?
Barley
Wheat
I never saw wheat quite like this stand. I have seldom seen barley as it isn't grown around here these days but I do see wheat and because of that I am guessing the field is of barley as the heads have the fan-like growth of hairs. I forget what those are actually called.
We used to have a lot of oats grown by farmers too but the days of farmers keeping animals that eat oats is long since past and other than beer and cereal I don't know what oats are grown for in America these days.
I eat oats every morning for breakfast in the form of cooked oats or in dry cereal called, Cheerios.
WOW what a beautiful landscape! Those colors are dynamite!
I'm sticking with barley. It's still early dyas, but by the time it gets ripe the barley will still have its awns but the wheat will have lost them. Notice that the hairs/awns are more prolific in the model drawing-as in the photo.
Abe knows his stuff. Also, being Switz it's (in my opinion) more likely barley for brewing or cattle or bread. Germans don't "do" wheat bread.
I'm now eager for a second opinion to set up against/or for me. Having once marketed seed treatment for wheat and barley I'm keen to find out whether or not I've lost my powers of identification.
Whatever it is, the landscape is lush!
The landscape looks so lush. Very beautiful, green and blue.
Awww, shucks. But having been a Germanist for 53 yrs I am unmoved. I know my first sound shift from my second and can take you round Grimm's wheel....and I love Roggen Brot and know what it looks like. Actually you can make an interesting little lecture on grains. Treat me nicely and with more respect (..;-)...) and I'll tell all about how the Romans treated seeds.
Actually I'll let you off the hook. I meant to type "Germanics" - I know thta upsets the Italians - but that's their problem. They can always nip down the pass near Maloja and pick up sack of WHEAT in Italy.
Much love....I owe it to you after this outburst. Thanks for your support and frequent attention to my blog ;-)
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