Cereal: Quick Facts

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Golden wheat stalks in a field, shown in close-up with rolling hills and a blue sky in the background.

Rows of tall corn plants fill rolling fields in Schuyler, Nebraska, creating a pattern of green and golden lines across the landscape.

Black and white botanical illustrations of four grain plants: millet (Panicum miliaceum), oats (Avena sativa), barley (Hordeum distichon), and sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), each labeled with its common and scientific name.

A woman stands in a millet field near Maradi, Nigeria, pouring grains from a large gourd to remove the husks, with green crops and blue sky in the background.

Winnowing grain by the traditional method of tossing it in the wind, Ethiopia.

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