This educational film was produced by Centron Educational Films, which produced classroom and corporate films from the 1940s through the early 1990s. It discusses wheat production starting from the preparation of the soil and ending at the final product sold in supermarkets. It was released on October 12th, 1973, and was produced with advisory from E. L. Mader, Ph.D., a professor of farm crops at Kansas State University’s agronomy department.

Title banner “Wheat: From Field to Flour” (00:37). A grain terminal storing up to 40 million bushels of wheat (00:54). Wheat fields (01:04). An illustrated map showing areas and countries responsible for large amounts of wheat production (01:19). Wheat grains poured into piles (01:33). Bags of wheat flour being unloaded at a supermarket (01:40). Many kinds of supermarket items containing wheat (01:44). A plate of cooked spaghetti (02:03). A stone-oven bakery (02:15). Scriptures from mankind’s earliest civilization, indicating the importance of wheat (02:25). Modern wheat fields are harvested with specialized machinery (02:32). A map portraying the seasons of wheat planting and harvesting adjusted by weather conditions (02:40). The soil is plowed by farmers to prepare the soil before the planting begins (03:07). A drilling machine is loaded with seeds to be used for planting wheat on the newly prepared soil (03:41). Wheat breaking through the surface of the fields (04:12). Farmers’ livestock can graze of the green wheat without damaging the crop (04:21). Wheat crops can also survive through snow (04:31). In springtime, the wheat grows more rapidly (04:40). Wheat being planted during spring in more northern parts of the United States with different weather conditions (04:46). The wheat stems evolve from looking like tall grass to form a wheat head (04:53). The crops turn beige as the wheat ripens (05:17). The wheat heads are rubbed between hands to remove the kernels from the stems (05:28). This harvesting process of sped up by a large-scale farming machine called a combine (05:42). The combine storage bin is unloaded into trucks (06:25) or the combine can unload the grains directly into trucks during harvest (06:35). The harvesting continues into the night (06:38). The farmer sleeps inside the taxi of the combine, as the wheat dries from the morning dew (07:01). Two farmers are inspecting the dryness of the crops (07:21). The harvesting continues (07:21). Six identical wheat cutters hired by farmers to speed up the harvesting process (07:31). The cutters drive north after finishing the harvest season in the south of the United States (07:49). In Canada the wheat ripens as late as the end of summer (07:56). Storing bins for the newly harvested crops (08:02). Trucks are weighed as they arrive to wheat elevators for stockpiling, and again after being unloaded (08:15). A worker quality testing a sample of wheat (08:22). A powerful hydraulic lift carrying the wheat from the trucks into the grain elevators (08:34). The wheat grains are sold by the elevators, and are loaded into railroad cars, large trucks, or ships (08:57). A flour mill (09:23). The production of whole wheat flour (09:29). The flour product is sold by the bag in supermarkets or used for baking whole wheat bread (09:40). The process of separating the kernels into different products, hereunder bran, middling or shorts, and white flour (09:52). flour from the mills is packaged at a factory (10:22). A child reads product labels in a supermarket, to see if it contains wheat (10:30).

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