Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops
This comes up on HN like quarterly, so for anyone else who is always confused when it does:<p>Both swathing and desiccation are primarily practices in the far north - Canada, the UK, and the Dakotas in the US.<p>Neither practice is necessary or common for grain production in eg the Midwest or Central Plains in the US: the growing season is long enough for wheat to ripen and dry before harvest, and so it does.<p>So if you&#x27;re in the US, there&#x27;s like an 80% chance that your flour was not produced in the way the article describes.