wheatgrowing

Noun

wheatgrowing (uncountable)

1. The growing of wheat.
   • 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vast portions of the productively invested wealth of individuals; such (e. g.) as a mechanical invention that superseded railways in England, or a development of trade that rendered English wheatgrowing unprofitable: and economic changes of...
   • 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...