What is White Wheat, and how much is grown in the United States?

Question

What is White Wheat, and how much is grown in the United States?

Answer 1

Hard white wheat is similar to hard red winter wheat. The plants are alike and both have hard grain endosperm for making bread and other products, but the color of the seed coat (bran) is different. Bran color is determined by one, two, or three major genes that do not affect other plant traits. The first hard red winter wheats had three genes for red bran, but many modern varieties of hard red winter wheat have only one or two of these genes. Hard white wheat has no major genes for bran color.

     Hard white wheat is a relative new-comer that tends to produce a lighter colored, more spongy loaf of bread and because of this, it is gaining quick popularity among home bread makers.  Production is not high in the US as yet but it is rapidly growing.

http://www.hardwhitewheat.unl.edu/

Answer 2

See the pdf:

http://www.homebaking.org/PDF/Steppingup...

Also:

http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/gra...

See also http://www.ers.usda.gov

Difficult to find production numbers

Answer 3

White wheat is a variety of soft wheat which is generally used to make cookies since its breading quality is poor.

Answer 4

There's winter wheat, and spring wheat..grown at different lattitudes in the U.S. bread basket and some are used for pasta others for baking.  Sometimes the whole grain is used, or it is processed into white flour..which means the germ (the brown part that covers the grain) has been removoed.  White is more a result of processing rather than the planting, genetics or other.

Answer 5

White wheat is a variety of soft winter wheat which has a very low protein.  It is grown predominately in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.  It is mostly export wheat that is shipped to Asia.  It moves from farms in barges down the Colombia-Snake River system to the Colombia River District in Portland, where it is loaded into grain vessels headed to the orient for processing.  White wheat is used for flat breads, noodles, and other products needing soft low gluten wheats.  It can be used for cake flour due to the light low gluten content.  It is generally the smallest crop of the wheats Soft Red Winter, Hard Red Winter, Hard Red Spring, Durum Wheat and White Winter Wheat not sure what the bushel outputs are this year you can check on the USDA sites for accurate numbers look for CROP REPORTS.  It used to trade on the futures exchange in the Minneapolis--the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.  It had a unique delivery mechanism that has been adopted by other exchanges now.  They used Shipping Certificates rather than Warehouse Receipts.  It was a "delivered price."  The guy who came up with this system was a clear genius!!!  Wonder what he is doing now.  Hope this helps.