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Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikelets and making it much easier to harvest.
Viterra Limited is a Canadian grain handling business, that began as the nation's largest grain handler, with its historic formative roots in prairie grain-handling cooperatives, among them the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. [1] Viterra Inc grew into a global agri-business with operations in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and China ...
ContiGroup Companies, Inc (CGC) was founded by Simon Fribourg in Arlon, Belgium, in 1813 as a grain-trading firm. Formerly known as Continental Grain, ContiGroup has expanded into a multinational corporation with offices and facilities in 10 countries while employing more than 13,500 people worldwide.
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The domestication of barley probably occurred around 10,000 years ago in the Israel and Jordan region of the Fertile Crescent. [2] Barley grains have been found at a number of archaeological sites in this area and the wild barleys here are more molecularly similar to the cultivated gene pool than are any other wild populations.
Wild barley was harvested in Southwest Asia as long as 50,000 years ago at Kebara Cave, and 23,000 years ago at Ohalo II. [14] At Gilgal I , a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in Israel dated to c. 11,700–10,550 years ago , archaeologists discovered a large granary containing thousands of wild barley grains, providing direct evidence for the ...
The bomb shelter and surrounding 5.85 acres were sold July 12 to South Rock Road LLC for $899,000. According to neighbor Marty Rhoat, speculation about the bunker has grown in the surrounding ...
'Azure', a six-row, blue-aleurone malting barley released in 1982, it was high-yielding with strong straw, but was susceptible to loose smut.'Beacon', a six-row malting barley with rough awns, short rachilla hairs and colorless aleurone, it was released in 1973, and was the first North Dakota State University barley that had resistance to loose smut.