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D-small-grains Dictionary

Small Grains

Wheat, barley, oats, sorghum and millet

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Plain meaning
Wheat, barley, oats, sorghum and millet
How to use it
Choose the small grain by season and buyer: wheat and barley in winter under irrigation, sorghum and millet in summer on dryland.
South African benchmark
South Africa imports a large share of its wheat (Article 5).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M2-U6, C9 Lesson 9.1
Calculate it
T-M2-03 Yield-to-Income Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A020, LIB-A137, LIB-P-Wheat, LIB-P-Wheat-IP
See also
Malting barley, Mahangu, Winter crop
Small Grains and Sorghum: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedSmall Grains and Sorghum: how the business runsSold bytonnes (t) per hectare1Plant2Grow3Harvest4Store5Sell to miller, brewer or boardZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Small Grains and Sorghum Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M2 Small Grains and Sorghum.