Difference between Winter Wheat and Spring Wheat !
On the basis of the season of sowing wheat is of two types: winter wheat and spring wheat.
Winter wheat is usually grown in regions of the middle latitudes where winters are mild and cool but without severe frost. About 80 per cent of the world’s wheat is winter wheat.
Spring wheat is grown in the colder north of the Canadian Prairies, where winter temperature may drop to 16°C to below freezing point and seeds can only be sown after the severe winter is over.
Commercially, wheat is divided into hard and soft. Both winter and spring wheat may be either hard or soft. The hard wheat has low moisture content and best suited for bread making. While soft wheat, with its higher moisture content is more suited for making cakes, biscuits and pastries.
Wheat varieties may be grouped into five broad categories, according to hardness, softness and time of sowing.
(i) Hard Red Spring Wheat
(ii) Hard Red Winter Wheat
(iii) Soft Red Winter Wheat
(iv) Soft White Wheat
(v) Durum Wheat