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Below is a link to the Crop Calendars for Wheat. These calendars show growing periods for wheat in most of the countries around the world where wheat is grown. The calendars are based on long term averages of when wheat is usually planted and harvested; in any particular year this may vary by a number of weeks depending on weather conditions.

Where wheat is irrigated the growing period is much more predictable and is also spread over a longer period of time because the date of planting is less crucial to the development of the crop; in this case wheat harvesting can last for as much as three months while two months is more usual for rain-fed crops.

You may find it useful to view the crop calendars in conjunction with the vegetation greenness and rainfall charts that are available in the climate guides.

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Most of the world's wheat comes from the Northern Hemisphere winter wheat crop which is planted in the autumn and harvested the following summer. In countries where winters are particularly severe winter wheat does not survive, so a spring crop is planted which is usually harvested in the last month of summer or early in autumn. The situation is similar in the Southern Hemisphere though production is tiny by comparison.

Wheat is grown across the whole of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, through North Africa, Northern India and in North East China. It is also cultivated extensively in the United States Mid West and southern central Canada. In the Southern Hemisphere it is grown in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Wheat Harvest in the United States		Wheat Hula Valley, Israel

Wheat also grows in many tropical countries such as in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. The four largest wheat producing countries in the world are China, India, the United States and the Russian Federation.


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