Editing Winter wheat (section)

== Cultivation ==
Winter wheat is grown as a [[cash crop]] or a [[cover crop]]. Optimal growing conditions for winter wheat include high-drainage soil with medium texture. Mid-quality soil nutrient content is best for winter wheat, with an appropriate supply of [[nitrogen]] being critical for the wheat to be able to establish itself in time before winter dormancy. In addition, a firm [[seedbed]] helps protect the wheat over the winter period.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2007 |year= |others=Andy Clark, Communications Director |title=Winter Wheat |url=http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably-3rd-Edition/Text-Version/Nonlegume-Cover-Crops/Winter-Wheat |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510094336/https://www.sare.org/resources/managing-cover-crops-profitably-3rd-edition/ |archive-date=2024-05-10 |archive-format=PDF |website=Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)}}</ref> In the United States, about 40% of the total wheat production is of a strain known as hard red winter wheat, with soft red winter wheat contributing another 15% of the annual wheat crop. There are also winter varieties of white wheat.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sauer |first1=Christine |last2=Hutchins |first2=Claire |title=Five Classes of U.S. wheat |url=https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail?chartId=107340 |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=10 January 2025 |date=September 13, 2023}}</ref> Soft red winter wheat is also grown in the Canadian province of [[Ontario]], along with white winter wheat.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wrigley |editor1-first=Colin |editor2-last=Corke |editor2-first=Harold |editor3-last=Seetharaman |editor3-first=Koushik |editor4-last=Faubion |editor4-first=Jon |title=Encyclopedia of Food Grains |date=2016 |publisher=Academic Press |volume=1 |isbn=978-0-12-803537-5 |page=181 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Food_Grains/ce7tBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hard+red+winter+wheat%22&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>