Wheat for Pigs and Pizza
Rapeseed being harvested on the farm Gunnarsholt, South Iceland. Click on the photo for a better view. Photo/Árni Sæberg
These days, Iceland’s grain farmers are in the process of threshing grain, Morgunblaðið reports. Grain growers in Laxárdalur, east of the village Flúðir, South Iceland, started threshing wheat last weekend, taking advantage of dry weather conditions. Yesterday, they were busy threshing rapeseed.
Björgvin Þór Harðarson states that the harvest is good, although not quite as good as last year. Most of the wheat grown in Laxárdalur is used as hog feed. Some of the wheat, though, is reserved for pizzas sold by Pizzavagninn and for bread crumbs used on pork schnitzel at the meat processing plant Korngrís in Árnes, operated by the pig farm Laxárdalur.
