wheatgrowing

From wheat +‎ growing.

wheatgrowing (uncountable)

1. The growing of wheat.
   • 1887, Henry Sidgwick, The Principles of Political Economy, 2nd edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
     • Book I (Production), chapter VI (The Laws of Production), page 158:

       Improvements may easily be imagined which would annihilate vast portions of the productively invested wealth of individuals; such (e. g.) as a mechanical invention that superseded railways in England, or a development of trade that rendered English wheatgrowing unprofitable: and economic changes of this kind, though smaller in degree, are continually occurring.

     • Book II (Distribution and Exchange), chapter VII (Rent), pages 287–288:

       Thus, while the recent fall in the value of English wheat, in consequence of the development of foreign production and trade, has led to a marked diminution in the area of wheatgrowing land in England, I cannot find that it has led to anything like an equally discernible change in the amount of capital economically applicable to the land that still grows wheat.

   • 1899 November 1, S. C. Voller, “Notes on Rockhampton and Central Districts”, in A[lexander] J[enyns] Boyd, editor, The Queensland Agricultural Journal, […], volume V, Brisbane, Qld.: Edmund Gregory, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, “Agriculture” section, pages 438–439:

     I may be pardoned if I mention here the names of the gentlemen who are doing laudable experimental work in the matter of wheatgrowing in this Western country. […] This gentleman deserves every credit for his effort to prove the possibilities of wheatgrowing.

   • 1963, Alan D[ouglas] Tweedie, Kenneth W[ade] Robinson, “North-Western Slopes and Plains of New South Wales”, in The Regions of Australia, Croydon, Vic.: Longmans, →OCLC, chapter 6 (The South-East Interior Lands), “Divisions of the Sheep-Wheat Belt” section, page 157:

     Wheatgrowing is specially important in the Liverpool Plains, around Tamworth, where good crops are produced both on the red-brown earths and, increasingly, on the heavy black soils for which the area is famous. It is also found on the northern slopes, in the district of which Inverell is the centre. Because this is an area of summer rainfall maximum, wheatgrowing has problems resulting from lack of weed control during the moist summer, from rust diseases and lack of rain during the winter.