The Wheat is the main representative of the grain crops that is used for the making of bread. At first it was cultivated in the region of The Fertile Crescent in the Middle East but later on it was spread all over the world. Yearly around 2.5 million acres are dibbled with wheat. In 2013 the production of wheat reached 700 million tones in world scale which puts it in third place among the grain crops after maize and rice.

The wheat is one of the main sources of plant albumin in the food because it is known for its higher levels of proteins compared to the maize, rice and other similar crops. It is believed that around 70% of the world population eats wheat bread.

The part of the wheat that it is used for the making of bread is its grains. After they have been grinded in the mills the product that comes out is wheat flour that is used for preparing different types of bread, biscuits, spaghetti, couscous and a number of other dough products. The wheat flour is also used for the making of alcoholic beverages and even biodiesel. The wheat is also used in the production of animal feed and sometimes the hay is used as a construction material for covering the agricultural buildings.

The Grainstore Company has a great experience in trading and processing wheat and it can provide transportation services to its customers by their choice. We can offer the both types of wheat – bread wheat and wheat for animal feed, as for the wheat used for forage there are international basic requirements for hectoliter, humidity, impurities, infections and diseases. The bread wheat can be divided in different groups by the levels of protein, gluten and the falling number which is used as an indicator of the gasification with bread.