It takes about 550 grams of flour plus water, salt and yeast to make the dough for a loaf like this. Whole meal flour is what you get when you grind up whole grains of wheat and take nothing out. read more
To make white flour, you lose about 25 per cent of the original grain, mostly the nutrient-rich brown layer and the vital wheat germ. So, we need about 550 grams of wheat for our loaf. If we need 550 grams of wheat to make a loaf of bread, therefore we can make about 1,818 loaves in a tonne. read more
For wheat, one bushel equals 60 pounds of wheat or approximately one million wheat kernels. A common semi-truck grain hopper can hold approximately 1,000 bushels of wheat – or 60,000 pounds of wheat in a single load. read more