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Contemporary Romanian agriculture synthesizes socialist theory and national goals through a diversified agricultural system emphasizing grain. Wheat is sown in all but the most unfavorable areas, and measures to reduce crop losses by drought and winterkill are the prime agricultural tasks. State agricultural enterprises play a leading role in the plan for increased, stable wheat harvests. Dragalina, a 7,306 hectare state agricultural enterprise comprised of seven farms and employing 250 full-time and 400 part-time employees, is an example of the Party's successes and failures in wheat. Wheat yields in 1972 were well below the enterprise potential, and the limiting factor was perceived to be quality of labor and incentive. Wheat in Romania reflects the Party's planned modification of traditional spatial patterns, socialist agricultural organization, and priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governmental influence is one of the cultural causal processes affecting the geography of agriculture. In New Zealand where agricultural socialism is well developed, there ate numerous examples of this influence in agriculture, such as the program designed to encourage wheat growing so as to lessen the dependence on overseas imports. A complex system of state control has developed which provides growers with attractive prices and yet, at the same time, protects consumers from inflated price for bread and flour, As a result of the comprehensive governmental control, wheat growing in New Zealand is frequently thought to be largely a response to state incentives. This hypothesis cannot be substantiated, Returns from competing systems of land utilization are influential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the factors influencing the failure of wheat, a crop of dry farming in Nebraska. Record of agricultural experiment farms; Climatic changes; Increase in the use of summer fallow.

Focuses on durum wheat as a critical indicator of the expansion and stability of dry farming in the Soviet Union. Factors contributing to the downward trend in durum production in the 1920's; Agricultural methods implemented to improve the productivity of durum; Annual durum production.

This article presents information related to grain trade of the Mediterranean region. The predominant mountainous relief, thin soils of weathered limestone, the paucity of alluvial valley lands and coastal plains all combined to make the geographical distribution of grainlands a matter of immense importance in early Mediterranean history. Oats and rye were unsuited to Mediterranean tillage owing to insufficient moisture. Local production of wheat was common. It utilized small fertile fields or even mediocre soils, where the seed had to be thinly planted and the harvest was correspondingly meagre. Greece was scantily supplied with wheat land, owing to its small area, rugged relief, narrow alluvial valleys and prevailing infertile soils produced by the weathering of cretaceous limestones and crystalline rocks.